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De langzame moord op de ideeën van Martin Luther King…………….. Ofwel: Dr. Martin Luther Kings lessen willens en wetens verzwegen….

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Het volgende uitstekende artikel van Paul Street handelt over de lessen van Martin Luther King (in de VS vaak aangeduid als MLK) waarover men in de VS en de rest van het westen liever niet spreekt, dit daar in zijn visie o.a. alleen echte gelijkheid kan ontstaan in een vorm van socialisme………

 Het is op 4 april a.s. 50 jaar geleden dat de staat dr. Martin Luther King liet vermoorden….. Vandaar veel aandacht dit jaar voor deze vrijheid en gelijkheidsstrijder. In de VS is 15 januari, de geboortedag van MLK, een vrije dag: ‘Martin Luther King Day’. Een uiterst hypocriet gebeuren als je het Paul Street vraagt, daar men vooral niet spreekt over de ideeën die King had over de ideale maatschappij en de vorm van bestuur die alle burgers ten goede zou komen, niet alleen de witte midden en hoge inkomens. Een wereld waarin arbeiders niet langer uitgebuit worden door en voor de ondernemers en aandeelhouders (en welgestelden in het algemeen).

 Zo is echt socialisme of communisme een oplossing voor veel van de huidige ellende in de wereld. Vergeet niet dat communisme tot nu toe nooit heeft bestaan in onze wereld. Wat betreft socialisme kan je het Chili van Allende, Cuba van Fidel Castro en Venezuela onder Chavez en Maduro aanwijzen als voorbeelden (ook al was en is dit nog niet zoals het zou moeten zijn, echter wel zo goed dat de arme bevolking een veel beter leven kreeg, inclusief gezondheidszorg, een fatsoenlijk dak boven het hoofd en alfabetisering. Vandaar ook dat de VS zo haar best doet daar een eind aan te maken, wat tot nu toe al een aantal keren is gelukt, neem de uiterst bloedige staatsgreep tegen de democratisch gekozen regering van president Salvador Allende op 11 september 1973 in Chili, waarbij Allende strijdend werd vermoord…….. (betaald door- en onder regie en mede verantwoording van de CIA…..)

 Momenteel is de VS naast het voeren van illegale oorlogen bezig met een economische oorlog tegen Venezuela, helaas is een heel groot deel van de Venezolaanse bevolking op de hoogte van de smerige streken die de VS het land levert (stop op leveringen van medicijnen en levensmiddelen) dat ze aan de kant van Maduro blijven staan. (dit nog naast de door de CIA georganiseerde gewelddadige protesten in Venezuela….)
De kijk van MLK op de wereld was volgens de schrijver van het volgende artikel, Paul Street, de reden waarom de overheid in de VS King alleen wil herdenken als strijder voor gelijke rechten t.b.v. gekleurde burgers……. Men leidt willens en wetens de aandacht af van de visie die King had op de VS en de wereld in het groot. Street spreekt dan ook (terecht) van een voortdurende morele en intellectuele moord op Martin Luther Kung………. (‘vreemd genoeg’ is er ook in de EU amper of geen aandacht voor de linkse kant van King….)

 Zijn visie op de wereld, gecombineerd met zijn charisma is dan ook de reden waarom Martin Luther King ‘een bedreiging was’ voor de overheid en ‘wel vermoord moest worden…..’
Counterpunch JANUARY 19, 2018

Dr. King’s Long Assassination

Photo by Ron Cogswell | CC BY 2.0
As the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s violent death (on April 4, 1968) grows closer, you can expect to hear more and more in U.S. corporate media about the real and alleged details of his immediate physical assassination (or perhaps execution). You will not be told about King’s subsequent and ongoing moral, intellectual, and ideological assassination.
I am referring to the conventional, neo-McCarthyite, and whitewashed narrative of King that is purveyed across the nation every year, especially during and around the national holiday that bears his name. This domesticated, bourgeois airbrushing portrays King as a mild liberal reformist who wanted little more than a few basic civil rights adjustments in a supposedly good and decent American System – a loyal supplicant who was grateful to the nation’s leaders for finally making noble alterations. This year was no exception.
The official commemorations never say anything about the Dr. King who studied Marx sympathetically at a young age and who said in his last years that “if we are to achieve real equality, the United States will have to adopt a modified form of socialism.” They delete the King who wrote that “the real issue to be faced” beyond “superficial” matters was the need for a radical social revolution.
It deletes the King who went on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in late 1967 to reflect on how little the Black freedom struggle had attained beyond some fractional changes in the South. He deplored “the arresting of the limited forward progress” Blacks and their allies had attained “by [a] white resistance [that] revealed the latent racism that was [still] deeply rooted in U.S. society.”

 “As elation and expectations died,” King explained on the CBC, “Negroes became more sharply aware that the goal of freedom was still distant and our immediate plight was substantially still an agony of deprivation. In the past decade, little has been done for Northern ghettoes. Al the legislation was to remedy Southern conditions – and even these were only partially improved.”
Worse than merely limited, King felt, the gains won by Black Americans during what he considered just the “first phase” of their freedom struggle (1955-1965) were dangerous in that they “brought whites a sense of completion” – a preposterous impression that the so-called “Negro problem” had been solved and that there was therefore no more basis or justification for further black activism. “When Negroes assertively moved on to ascend to the second rung of the ladder,” King noted, “a firm resistance from the white community developed…In some quarters it was a courteous rejection, in others it was a singing white backlash. In all quarters unmistakably, it was outright resistance.”
Explaining to his CBC listeners the remarkable wave of race riots that washed across U.S. cities in the summers of 1966 and 1967, King made no apologies for Black violence. He blamed “the white power structure…still seeking to keep the walls of segregation and inequality intact” for the disturbances. He found the leading cause of the riots in the reactionary posture of “the white society, unprepared and unwilling to accept radical structural change,” which” produc[ed] chaos” by telling Blacks (whose expectations for substantive change had been aroused) “that they must expect to remain permanently unequal and permanently poor.”
King also blamed the riots in part on Washington’s imperialist and mass-murderous war on Vietnam. Along with the misery it inflicted on Indochina, King said, the United States’ savage military aggression against Southeast Asia stole resources from Lyndon Johnson’s briefly declared and barely fought “War on Poverty.” It sent poor Blacks to the front killing lines to a disproportionate degree. It advanced the notion that violence was a reasonable response and even a solution to social and political problems.
Black Americans and others sensed what King called “the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same school. We watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit,” King said on the CBC, adding that he “could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.”
Racial hypocrisy aside, King said that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense [here he might better have said “military empire”] than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
Did the rioters disrespect the law, as their liberal and conservative critics alike charged? Yes, King said, but added that the rioters’ transgressions were “derivative crimes…born of the greater crimes of the…policy-makers of the white society,” who “created discrimination…created slums [and] perpetuate unemployment, ignorance, and poverty… [T]he white man,” King elaborated, “does not abide by law in the ghetto. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provision of public services. The slums are a handiwork of a vicious system of the white society.”
Did the rioters engage in violence? Yes, King said, but noted that their aggression was “to a startling degree…focused against property rather than against people.” He observed that “property represents the white power structure, which [the rioters] were [quite understandably] attacking and trying to destroy.” Against those who held property “sacred,” King argued that “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround with rights and respect, it has no personal being.”
What to do? King advanced radical changes that went against the grain of the nation’s corporate state, reflecting his agreement with New Left militants that “only by structural change can current evils be eliminated, because the roots are in the system rather in man or faulty operations.” King advocated an emergency national program providing either decent-paying jobs for all or a guaranteed national income “at levels that sustain life in decent circumstances.” He also called for the “demolition of slums and rebuilding by the population that lives in them.”
His proposals, he said, aimed for more than racial justice alone. Seeking to abolish poverty for all, including poor whites, he felt that “the Negro revolt” was properly challenging each of what he called “the interrelated triple evils” of racism, economic injustice/poverty (capitalism) and war (militarism and imperialism). The Black struggle had thankfully “evolve[ed] into more than a quest for [racial] desegregation and equality,” King said. It had become “a challenge to a system that has created miracles of production and technology” but had failed to “create justice.”

 “If humanism is locked outside the [capitalist] system,” King said on CBC five months before his assassination (or execution), “Negroes will have revealed its inner core of despotism and a far greater struggle for liberation will unfold. The United States is substantially challenged to demonstrate that it can abolish not only the evils of racism but the scourge of poverty and the horrors of war….”
There should be no doubt that King meant capitalism when he referred to “the system” and its “inner core of despotism.” This is clear from the best scholarship on King, including David Garrow’s epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Council (HarperCollins, 1986)

No careful listener to King’s CBC talks could have missed the radicalism of his vision and tactics. “The dispossessed of this nation – the poor, both White and Negro – live in a cruelly unjust society,” King said. “They must organize a revolution against that injustice,” he added.
Such a revolution would require “more than a statement to the larger society,” more than “street marches” King proclaimed. “There must,” he added, “be a force that interrupts [that society’s] functioning at some key point.” That force would use “mass civil disobedience” to “transmute the deep rage of the ghetto into a constructive and creative force” by “dislocate[ing] the functioning of a society.”
“The storm is rising against the privileged minority of the earth,” King added for good measure. “The storm will not abate until [there is a] just distribution of the fruits of the earth…” The “massive, active, nonviolent resistance to the evils of the modern system” that King advocated was “international in scope,” reflecting the fact that “the poor countries are poor primarily because [rich Western nations] have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. Americans in particular must help their nation repent of her modern economic imperialism.”
King was a democratic socialist mass-disobedience-advocating and anti-imperialist world revolution advocate. The guardians of national memory don’t want you to know about that when they purvey the official, doctrinally imposed memory of King as an at most liberal and milquetoast reformer. (In a similar vein, our ideological overlords don’t want us to know that Albert Einstein [Time magazine’s “Person of the 20th Century”] wrote a brilliant essay making the case for socialism in the first issue of venerable U.S.-Marxist magazine Monthly Review – or that Helen Keller was a fan of the Russian Revolution.)
The threat posed to the official bourgeois memory by King’s CBC lectures – and by much more that King said and wrote in the last three years of his life – is not just that they show an officially iconic gradualist reformer to have been a democratic socialist opponent of the profits system and its empire. It is also about how clearly King analyzed the incomplete and unfinished nature of the nation’s progress against racial and class injustice, around which all forward developments pretty much ceased in the 1970s, thanks to a white backlash that was already well underway in the early and mid-1960s (before the rise of the Black Panthers, who liberal historians like to blame for the nation’s rightward racial drift under Nixon and Reagan) and to a top-down corporate war on working-class Americans that started under Jimmy Carter and then went ballistic under Ronald Reagan.
The “spiritual doom” imposed by U.S. militarism has lived on, with Washington having directly and indirectly killed untold millions of Central Americans, South Americans, Africans, Muslims, Arabs, and Asians in many different ways over the years since Vietnam. Accounting for roughly 40 percent of the world’s military expenditure, the U.S. maintains Cold War-level “defense” (empire) budgets to sustain an historically unmatched global empire (with at least 800 military bases spread across more than 80 foreign countries and “troops or other military personnel in about 160 foreign countries and territories”) even as a near-record 45 million U.S.-Americans remain stuck under the federal government’s notoriously inadequate poverty level. A very disproportionate number of the nation’s poor are Black and Latino/a.
It is obvious that the racist and white-supremacist real estate baron Donald J. Trump spoke disingenuously in tongue when he mouthed nice words about Dr. King last Monday. But what about his predecessor, Barack Obama, the nation’s first technically Black president? It was cruelly ironic that Obama kept a bust of King in the Oval Office to watch over his regular betrayal of the martyred peace and justice leader’s ideals. Consistent with Dr. Adolph Reed Jr.’s early (1996) dead-on description of the future President as “a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable credentials and vacuous to repressive neoliberal politics,” Obama consistently backed top corporate and financial interests (whose representatives filled and dominated his administrations, campaigns, and campaign coffers) over and against those who would undertake serious programs to end poverty, redistribute wealth (the savage re-concentration of which since Dr. King’s time has produced a New Gilded Age in the U.S.), grant free and universal health care, constrain capital, and save livable ecology as it approached a number of critical tipping points on the accelerating path to irreversible catastrophe. Thus is that one of Obama’s supporters (Ezra Klein) was moved in late 2012 to complain that a president “whose platform consists of Romney’s health care bill, Newt Gingrich’s environmental policies, John McCain’s deficit-financed payroll tax cuts, George W. Bush’s bailouts of filing banks and corporations, and a mixture of the Bush and Clinton tax rate” was still being denounced as a “leftist.”

 Obama opposed calls for any special programs or serious federal attention to the nation’s savage racial inequalities, so vast now that the median of white households was 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households near the end of his presidency. He did this while the fact of his ascendency to the White House deeply reinforced white America’s sense that racism was over as a barrier to black advancement and generated its own significant white backlash that only worsened the situation of less privileged black Americans.
Obama made it crystal clear in ways that no white president could that what Dr. King in 1963 called America’s unpaid “promissory note” and “bad check” to Black America would remain un-cashed. This was all too sadly consistent with Obama’s preposterous 2007 campaign claim (at a commemoration of the King-led 1965 Selma Voting Rights March) to believe that Blacks had already come “90 percent” of the way to equality in the U.S.
Completing the “triple evils” hat trick, Obama – the self-appointed chief-executioner atop the Special Forces Global War on (of) Terror Kill List – embraced and expanded upon the vast criminal and worldwide spying and killing operation he inherited from Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and George W. Bush. He tamped down Bush’s failed ground wars only to ramp up and inflate the role of unaccountable special force and drone attacks in the spirit of his dashing and reckless imperial role model John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Obama’s drone program, Noam Chomsky noted in early 2015, was “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times.” It “target[ed] people suspected of perhaps intending to harm us some day, and any unfortunates who happen to be nearby,” Chomsky wrote.
In waging his deadly and disastrous, nation-wrecking and regionally destabilizing air war on Libya, Obama (unlike Bush prior to the invasion of Iraq) did not even bother with the pretense of seeking Congressional approval. “It should be a scandal,” Stansfield Smith wrote on CounterPunch one year ago, “that left-liberals paint Trump as a special threat, a war mongerer – [but] not Obama who is the first president to be at war every day of his eight years, who is waging seven wars at present, who dropped three bombs an hour, 24 hours a day, in 2016.” As Alan Nairn told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman in early 2010, Obama kept the nation’s giant imperial machinery “set on kill.”
Meanwhile, Obama far surpassed the Cheney-Bush regime when it came to repressing antiwar dissenters, not to mention those who opposed the rule of the 1 percent – smashed by a coordinated federal campaign in the fall of 2011. “As all kinds of journalists have continuously pointed out,” Glenn Greenwald noted in early 2014, “the Obama administration is more aggressive and more vindictive when it comes to punishing whistleblowers than any administration in American history, including the Nixon administration.”
Furthermore, and to make matters far worse, Obama helped keep the planet set on burn. As Stansfield Smith noted two days before the horrid Trump’s inauguration:

Obama, who says he recognizes the threat to humanity posed by climate change, still invested at least $34 billion to promote fossil fuel projects in other countries. That is three times as much as George W Bush spent in his two terms, almost twice that of Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and Bill Clinton put together…Obama financed 70 foreign fossil fuel projects. When completed they will release 164 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year – about the same output as the 95 currently operating coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. He financed two natural gas plants on an island in the Great Barrier Reef, as well as two of the largest coalmines on the planet… Moreover, under Obama, the U.S. has reversed the steady drop in U.S. oil production which had continued unchecked since 1971. The U.S. was pumping just 5.1 million barrels per day when Obama took office. By April 2016 it was up to 8.9 million barrels per day. A 74% increase.

As Obama proudly said in 2012, in the film This Changes Everything:

‘Over the last three years I’ve directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. We’re opening up more than 75% of our potential oil resources offshore. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. We’ve added enough oil and gas pipelines to encircle the earth and then some. So, we are drilling all over the place, right now.’

“Drill, baby, drill!”
Perhaps the dismal neoliberal Obama presidency – a key midwife to the Trump atrocity – was at least an object lesson on how real progressive and democratic change is about something bigger than a change in the party or color of the people in nominal power. That is certainly something King (who would be 88 today) would have understood very well had he been able to witness the endless mendacity of the nation’s first half-white president first-hand.
“The black revolution,” King wrote in a posthumously published 1969 essay titled “A Testament of Hope” (embracing a very different, authentically progressive sort of hope than that purveyed by Brand Obama in 2008) “is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws – racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction society of society itself is the real issue to be faced.”
Those words ring as true as ever today, with heightened urgency as it becomes undeniable that the profits system is driving humanity over an environmental cliff. They are words we never hear during official King Day commemorations.
King, it is worth recalling, was recruited by antiwar progressives to run for the U.S. presidency in 1967. He politely declined, claiming that he’d have little chance of winning and that he preferred to serve as a force of moral conscience for all the nation’s political parties.
The deeper truth, clear from his late-life writing and speeches, is that he had no interest in climbing into the power elite: his passion was directed toward a “revolution” of “the dispossessed” and a mass grassroots movement for the redistribution of wealth and power – a “radical reconstruction of society itself” – from the bottom up. Dr. King was interested in what the late radical U.S. historian Howard Zinn considered the more urgent politics of “who’s sitting in the streets,” very different from what Zinn saw as the comparatively superficial politics of “who’s sitting in the White House.”

 King’s officially deleted radical record and Zinn’s clever and sage dichotomy are worth bearing in mind in coming months and years as we watch the nation’s “left” liberals try to call forth and herald a new Obama (Oprah perhaps?) in 2020. That is certainly one of the last things we need.
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Zie ook: ‘Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: 8 wijze lessen!‘

en: ‘Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..‘

en: ‘Martin Luther King misbruikt door Radio1‘

en: ‘Martin Luther King: de moord van 50 jaar geleden door de VS overheid uiterst beperkt herdacht‘

en: ‘De oorlog tegen het arme deel van de VS bevolking‘

en: ‘Nam Kurt Cobain zijn eigen leven? Niet volgens een flink aantal mensen‘

en: ‘Paul Scheffer, het media-orakel met een ‘vlijmscherpe analyse’ over het racistische optreden van de politie in de VS……… AUW!!!‘

en: ‘Willem Post over de zegeningen van het zero tolerance beleid in de VS en ach, het is misschien ietsje doorgeschoten…….‘

Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Alsof ze opgelucht was, Sadet Karabulut van de SP, toen ze gistermiddag op BNR (rond 16.37 u.) voor het Nederlandse volk haar beklag kon doen over de Venezolaanse president Maduro………..

Dat zit zo, eerder dit jaar had Karabulut het in Trouw opgenomen voor de Venezolaanse president. Nou dat zit iets anders Azijnpisser, Karabulut stelde, dat Trouw dit ervan had gemaakt……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ziedaar een opportunistische op macht beluste politicus!!

Maduro schendt de mensenrechten, gebruikt geweld tegen de bevolking en heeft antidemocratische maatregelen genomen, aldus Karabulut…….. Het kon er nog net vanaf: volgens Karabulut gebruiken de ‘demonstranten’ ook geweld……. Wat Karabulut betreft is de grondwetgevende vergadering die Maduro heeft ingesteld, volkomen antidemocratisch…….

Karabulut vindt het waarschijnlijk normaal dat ongeregelde bewapende troepen zich op straat voordoen als demonstranten…… Karabulut vindt het waarschijnlijk normaal dat de VS al een paar jaar geleden (onder Obama) VS bedrijven met winkelketens (waaronder die voor levensmiddelen) onder druk heeft gezet, de winkels in Venezuela niet meer te bevoorraden……. Karabulut weet waarschijnlijk niet dat dit een typische CIA manier van doen is, erop gericht de bevolking ontevreden te maken en hen zo de straat op te jagen met de eis dat de regering moet aftreden…….. ‘Uiteraard’ werd dit door Karabulut niet een vorm van terreur, of ronduit economische oorlogsvoering genoemd……

Kortom Karabulut volgt de reguliere (afhankelijke) westerse media, die oplepelen wat de VS en de rest van de neoliberale westerse overheden voorschrijven……..

Zoals zojuist opgemerkt: goed beschouwd is Venezuela eigenlijk een land dat in oorlog verkeert en ja, als de oppositie zich dan inlaat met ingehuurde bewapende troepen van buiten, is het ‘niet zo heel vreemd’ dat de democratie wordt opgeschort………

Karabulut wil liever dat de grote onderlaag in Venezuela alles wordt afgepakt, zaken die ze na een paar eeuwen eindelijk onder Maduro hebben gekregen: betaalbare goede behuizing, werkende goedkope infrastructuur (elektriciteit, water en sanitair), prima onderwijs en een goede en goedkope gezondheidszorg…… Op zeker dat dit zal gebeuren, nadat de partijen van de gegoede burgerij weer aan de macht komen (godbetert op religieuze grondslag….)……. Zoals deze partijen ook in het verleden hebben getoond, dat ze die onderlaag zien als een nest kakkerlakken, waar je desgewenst overheen kan walsen…..

Karabulut is rijp voor GroenLinks of de PvdA, zoals een groot deel van haar collega’s………… Bah!!

Zie ook: ‘Venezuela Will Never Tolerate This‘ (This is an act of highest treason of international law.) Onder dat artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling.

en: ‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

en: ‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Laurens Trebes is een Nederlander die 15 jaar in Venezuela woonde en daar een paar bedrijfjes runde, echter na een aantal keer te zijn overvallen, besloot hij naar Nederland terug te keren.

Oh wonder, in het programma ‘De Ochtend’ van KRO-NCRV, uitgezonden op 4 augustus jl., was Trebes te horen over de situatie in Venezuela. Waarom ‘een wonder’ vraagt u zich wellicht af, welnu Trebes kwam niet met de afgezaagde leugens die we in de reguliere westerse media voorgeschoteld krijgen, leugens waarin Maduro als een barbaarse dictator wordt afgeschilderd.

Zo vertelde Trebes dat aan de zogenaamde studentenprotesten geen student meedoet. Volgens Trebes worden er troepen ingehuurd om deze protesten te laten plaatsvinden, protest dat uiterst gewelddadig is, al noemde Trebes dat er niet bij, maar wie de situatie in Venezuela via de alternatieve media volgt, wist dit al lang……..

Trebes stelt dat de regering ook troepen inhuurt voor tegen protesten, al zijn dat aanhangers van Maduro (zogenaamde Chavisten). Beetje vreemd, daar die mensen zonder oproep al uiterst gemotiveerd zijn de straat op te gaan, tegen het gewelddadige tuig dat Maduro weg wil hebben. Niet zo vreemd als je bedenkt dat deze mensen, hoofdzakelijk het armere deel van Venezuela, voor het eerst in vele decennia een stem kregen van Chavez, de voorganger van Maduro, die hen voorzag van goede en goedkope huizen, prima scholen en een betaalbare, werkende gezondheidszorg………..

Alleen in de wijken van steden waar de oppositie groot is, wordt volgens Trebes gedemonstreerd, echter ook in centra van steden, waar nu veelal juist geen armen wonen, gaat het ‘oppositie’ geteisem tekeer….

De oppositie gaat zelfs zover dat het boeren bedreigt, die voedsel aan de steden willen leveren. Trebes ging hier verder niet op door, maar dit past precies in de CIA tactiek: zorg dat mensen grote tekorten hebben, het liefst aan basisbehoeften als voedsel en medicijnen, dan gaan ze vanzelf de straat op, om het aftreden van de zittende (VS onwelgevallige) regering te eisen…..

Voorts is de VS al een paar jaar bezig met een ‘stille’ economische boycot tegen Venezuela: veel supermarkten in Venezuela zijn onderdeel van VS ketens, zij werden al een paar jaar geleden onder druk gezet, geen producten meer te leveren aan hun winkels in Venezuela……. Jammer dat Trebes dit niet noemde, of niet wist….

Volgens Trebes kan Maduro alleen overleven als hij samen met de liberale partij gaat samenwerken…… Ik vrees dat Trebes de macht van de VS onderschat……

Maar wat een verademing in de berichtgeving over Venezuela en dat op Radio1, bij een niet onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde (zendgemachtigden die veelal het fascistische neoliberalisme aanhangen), de wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit!

Zie ook:
‘VS gaat door met uithongeren Venezolaanse volk >> de westerse wereld negeert deze afschuwelijke oorlogsmisdaad‘

‘Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt‘

‘Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties‘

‘Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence‘

‘Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen‘

 ‘Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda‘

 ‘Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland‘

‘Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk‘

‘Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges‘

 ‘Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….‘

‘Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt‘

‘Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers‘

 ‘Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra‘

‘Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela‘

‘Venezuela >> de media willen het socialisme definitief de nek omdraaien‘

 ‘Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok‘

‘BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

 ‘Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia‘

‘Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit‘

‘Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie‘

‘Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt‘

‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank‘

 ‘VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen‘

 ‘Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela‘

 ‘Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela‘

‘Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……‘

‘Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie‘

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

‘Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……‘

‘Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….‘

 ‘Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media‘


‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!‘

‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..‘

‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………‘

Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Anti-Media bracht afgelopen zaterdag een artikel van Geopolitics Alert over de chaos in Venezuela. De schrijver, Jim Carey stelt dat men in de VS maanden aaneen iedereen aan het woord laat, als deze maar spuugt op de regering Maduro……. Als een religieus voorschrift herhalen de reguliere (massa-) media deze verhalen, die echter maar één kant van het verhaal laten horen, een leugenachtig verhaal, of ronduit leugens wel te verstaan……

Economische isolatie van Venezuela door vooral de VS en onder druk van de VS, hebben velen in diepe ellende gestort, echter de oppositieleiders die beweren in dezelfde ellende te leven, zijn voor het overgrote deel welgestelde figuren, die het aan niets ontbreekt. Opvallend overigens, dat de oligarchen nooit hebben hoeven vluchten, ook niet onder Chavez, deze figuren gooien overdag met stenen en begeven zich ‘s nachts in het nachtleven, waar ze horeca gelegenheden bezoeken, waar het grootste deel van de Venezolanen alleen maar van kan dromen……

De VS heeft haar winkelketens, die supermarkten in Venezuela hebben, al een paar jaar geleden opgedragen de winkels niet langer te bevoorraden, waarmee voor de gewone burgers de ellende begon. Dit is overigens maar één van de maatregelen uit de smerige VS koker…… Vergeleken met Oekraïne en Syrië is er één groot verschil, de VS doet zelfs geen moeite haar steun aan ‘de gematigde oppositie’ (uiterst gewelddadig) te verbergen……

Vanaf 2009 zou de VS 49 miljoen euro in de oppositie van Venezuela hebben gestoken, reken maar dat dit bedrag in de praktijk een stuk hoger ligt……….

Overigens geldt wat betreft het verslaan van de demonstraties en rellen hetzelfde voor de reguliere (massa-) media in de EU landen en dus ook in ons land. Maduro is de kwaaie pier en de oppositie is geweldloos en zo heilig als Maria……. Terwijl het grootste geweld wordt gebruikt door deze oppositie……..

An anti-government protester wields a shotgun taken from security forces during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela, May 8, 2017. The protest movement has drawn masses of people into the streets nearly every day since March, has left some three dozen dead. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Lees dit prima artikel en geeft het door, onder het volgende artikel vindt u nog een aantal links over Venezuela en wat daar echt aan de gang is:

Why the Venezuelan Government Is Right to Resist the Venezuelan Opposition

August 12, 2017 at 10:12 pm
Written by Jim Carey
(GPA) — The US corporate media has spent months championing the cause of everyone they know in Venezuela, even the slightest of publicly known figures, as long as they are willing to go on record and slander the government of Nicolas Maduro. These quotes are religiously parroted by every major US media outlet that only wants readers, viewers and listeners to hear one side of the ongoing fight in Venezuela.
This article is meant to help clear up a lot of the questions that are left unanswered by US media, and to do that, we have to dissect a few key aspects of the current situation. In order to understand the Venezuelan opposition better, we should look closely at three key pieces of this puzzle:

  1. Who the opposition is and the methods they use.
  2. US backing of the opposition and what happens in other countries where US backed opposition is allowed to operate.
  3. And finally, what exactly the alleged “brutal crackdowns” by Maduro have actually entailed.

The Venezuelan Opposition: Peaceful Resistance or the ‘Moderate Rebels’ of Caracas?

If your primary source for news on the crisis in Venezuela is the US corporate media, it’s likely you have a certain image that comes to mind when you hear about the Venezuelan opposition. If you believe outlets like CNN or The New York Times it’s likely you conjure up an image of the opposition as a faceless mass of hungry and poor people risking it all to stand against tyranny in a massive fight for some subjective concepts like “freedom.”
Now this idea of brave everyday people protesting on the ground level probably has some truth behind it, but like most “uprisings” of this nature, the civilians in the street aren’t the ones responsible for the planning and logistics behind the scenes. The truth however, is that the forces that are actually behind this AstroTurf movement* are much more sinister than the average protester and promote methods that are well beyond anything that would be considered ‘peaceful and democratic’ opposition.
The opposition leaders may claim they share in the suffering endured by regular Venezuelans, and feel the same pain as those hurt the most by the economic isolation of the country but this is hardly the reality of their lives. In truth, many of the people who are seen as the leaders of the anti-Maduro movement (and who provide organizers essential financial support) live lives of extreme comfort and luxury while their pawns go hungry.
Many of the opposition leaders and financiers actually come from the wealthiest strata of Venezuelan society. While almost everyone is aware that the main driver of the Venezuelan economy is the nationalized oil industry, many people overlook or are unaware of the fact that most other sectors of the Venezuelan economy are still in the hands of private businesses.
Despite what many people may assume, both Chavez and Maduro had no problem with this arrangement. The most obvious example of this acceptance is the fact that even people like the pre-Chavez corrupt former oil tycoons still remain in Caracas with their stockpiles of ill-gotten wealth. These are the people who, in their own words, admit that “by day we throw stones,” and by night enjoy the exclusive night life that regular Venezuelans couldn’t even dream of. These oligarchs and crooks have opposed the government since Hugo Chavez won his first election and began distributing the nation’s wealth to the most poor Venezuelans as well as subsidizing and placing price controls on consumer goods.
And throwing stones isn’t all the opposition does.
Contrary to the rosy image of the opposition painted by US media the truth is that violence is one of their primary tools. The opposition has done everything from hiring poor local teens and providing them crude weapons like molotov cocktails and explosives, calling on international banks to cut off capital and further harm average Venezuelans to encouraging a military coup against the elected government. We know this is true, in part, thanks to independent US journalists who have been brave enough to expose the truth, such as Abby Martin, who opposition protesters promptly threatened to hang.

Now, you may be asking yourself, how does the opposition have the nerve to claim legitimacy and moral superiority while using such despicable methods? The answer to this question should be obvious based on earlier statements about US media’s representation of the opposition. The opposition’s claim of legitimacy is supported by the same people who support violent uprisings from Ukraine to Syria, the US government.
The Open Secret of US Subversion in Venezuela
Much like the recent history of Ukraine or Syria, the opposition in Venezuela persists thanks to political and financial support from Washington. Unlike Ukraine and Syria however, the US doesn’t even attempt to hide their connections to the oligarchs opposing Maduro.
The US shoves this support into the spotlight as an obvious insult to Maduro with the traditional arrogance that is expected when the US exercises what they consider to be their right to interfere in Latin America. There is such an absence of shame in the case of Venezuela that the Trump regime has no problem broadcasting events like when Trump met with the wife of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who himself has taken calls from prominent US figures like Vice-President Mike Pence.
Opposition leaders don’t just enjoy the political lip service that the US gives to anyone who opposes leaders Washington hates. As mentioned above, one major factor that allows the opposition to carry on this way is the millions of dollars sent from the US over the past few years.
Money for the Venezuelan opposition is a crucial piece of Washington’s long-game strategy to topple the Bolivarian government. This cash has been flowing to Caracas since at least 2009, adding up to at least $49 million to date. Congress’ stated purpose behind this “aid” for Venezuela is the same as it is for any country hostile to the US: “promoting democracy, civil society, independent media, and democratic political parties.”
In the 2011 budget, $1 million was specifically designated for “political competition,” showing that similar to US strategies in places like the Middle East, Washington was supporting a mediocre and artificial opposition and waiting for an opportunity to unleash their manufactured leaders. In Venezuela this chance finally presented itself when the price of oil drastically dropped, in part due to market manipulation by the US.
When you lay out all the above factors, it should be obvious why Nicolas Maduro is so committed to fending off his opponents’ attacks. If you look at other countries where the US has used tactics like those employed in Venezuela, Maduro is relatively lucky that it took this long for the opposition to become violent.
Syria, Ukraine and the End Result of US Failures
Two countries where these US policies failed due to either the unexpected resilience of the state (Syria), or the failure to predict organic resistance to intervention (Ukraine), most likely serve as examples of what’s at stake to Maduro.
Syria is a case study in what happens when a “revolution” backed by the US ends, in what is essentially, a failure. Just like Venezuela, the US was so ecstatic that they finally saw an opportunity to topple President Bashar Al Assad that Washington was practically falling all over themselves to find groups to arm and fund.
This ambition for Syria of course ended with the US placing their trust in a variety of Sunni extremists who – predictably – had no intention of taking orders from the CIA or Pentagon. Washington even allowed their future foes in the Islamic State to operate freely with the hope they would get to Damascus. Venezuela’s opposition looks similar to these groups just in a different context. In fact, the Venezuelan opposition even held a fake referendum similar to ridiculous votes organized by the US’s precious Kurds.
Ukraine should also serve as an example; not just to Maduro but to the US and the opposition as well. If the US has their way in Venezuela and basically forces an unpopular oligarch into power they should expect resistance from the millions of people who benefited from and still support the current government. They should also prepare for new dissenters once the new government is installed and actually lays out their presumably neoliberal policies, which aren’t popular anywhere in Central of South America.
These reasons show why the only option available to Maduro is to resist. At the government level Maduro has worked completely within the confines of the law, while still enjoying massive support as evidenced by Venezuela’s voters support for the new Constituent Assembly in a country known for it’s election integrity. As far as what is happening at the street level, we must make sure we take the opposition’s actions into account and understand the damage they could eventually do.
By Jim Carey / Republished with permission / Geopolitics Alert / Report a typo

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* Astro Turf movement: een beweging die wordt betaald om protesten te organiseren (zoals in dit geval ook met het terroriseren van een stad, of wijken in een stad), maar de schijn ophoudt dat protesten en acties spontaan uit de bevolking komen.

Zie ook: ‘Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare‘

en: ‘Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote‘

en: ‘10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela‘

en: ‘Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly‘

en: ‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

en: ‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

en: ‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………‘

en: ‘Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media‘

en: ‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..‘

 en: ‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘

en: ‘Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….‘

Na plaatsing toegevoegd: realiseerde me vanavond dat ik nog vergeten ben in te gaan op de uitspraak van Trump, dat hij desnoods Venezuela militair zal aanpakken (als Maduro niet opstapt en zich suïcideert, stel ik me zo voor)……. Militair ingrijpen is inderdaad de laatste stap die de VS in deze gevallen neemt, nadat het de economie van een land voor een groot deel heeft vernietigd en een opstand op poten heeft gezet die niet leidt tot het juiste doel, een ‘correcte’ VS belangenbehartiging, door het liefst een VS vriendelijke dictator (die op zijn beurt schijt heeft aan het arme deel van de bevolking in zijn land…)……..

Zoals gewoonlijk zijn de westerse ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken, zoals PvdA doedelzak Koenders, weer doodstil over deze grove opmerking, uh beter: openlijke bedreiging met oorlog……. Met andere woorden: men vindt het wel best als er alweer door toedoen van de VS duizenden, of zelfs tienduizenden doden vallen…. De NAVO schijnt intussen al aanwezig te zijn in Columbia, een buurland van Venezuela, dus…………

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Het is de VS opperknuppel Pompeo, chef van terreurorganisatie CIA nu werkelijk geheel en al in de smerige bol geslagen.

Pompeo durfde een paar dagen geleden op te merken, dat WikiLeaks in feite een niet-binnenlandse vijandige inlichtingenorganisatie is, die alles op alles zet om de VS onderuit te halen………

De smerige praktijken worden na meer dan een eeuw VS agressie eindelijk naar buiten gebracht door VS klokkenluiders en dat steekt Pompeo, die zich met zijn terreurorganisatie onder andere bezig houdt met: geheime acties in het buitenland, het omverwerpen van VS niet welgevallige regimes (zoals nu onder meer in Venezuela)…… Dezelfde CIA die militaire operaties voorbereid(de) tegen landen als Syrië en Iran, waar de eerste voor een groot deel is mislukt en de tweede wordt voorbereid…….

De VS is zelf bezig met het neerhalen van de VS en dat zoals gezegd al meer dan 100 jaar!! Vanaf 1945 tot het jaar 2000 vermoordde de VS bij illegale oorlogen, staatsgrepen en geheime militaire operaties, meer dan 20 miljoen mensen……….. Voor deze eeuw staat de teller op meer dan 2 miljoen, waar alleen in Irak al meer dan 1,5 miljoen mensen werden vermoord in de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen dat land……

Las vanmorgen op Information Clearing House, dat de VS verantwoordelijk is voor het manipuleren van 81 verkiezingen in 47 landen (dit bericht werd zelfs door CNN gebracht!)……. Voor de leugen dat Rusland de VS verkiezingen heeft gemanipuleerd is geen nanometer bewijs, terwijl daar alle (massa-) media aandacht, inclusief de leugens, naar toe gaat……… Dat de VS alles en iedereen hackt kan intussen iedereen weten, zelfs het bevriende staatshoofd Merkel, de premier van Duitsland, was niet veilig voor de NSA hacks…….

Pompeo wil klokkenluiders nog harder aanpakken en wil ook journalisten vervolgen, die berichten over de WikiLeaks documenten……..

Hier het artikel van Anti-Media over schoft Pompeo en zijn smerige uitlatingen:

CIA Chief Warns of WikiLeaks Plotting to “Take Down America Any Way They Can”

July 22, 2017 at 8:32 am
Written by Jason Ditz
(ANTIWAR.COM) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo remains inconsolably hostile toward whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, insisting they are a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and are plotting to “take down America any way they can and find any willing partner to achieve that end.”
Hostility to WikiLeaks has been a mainstay in the US government, as every administration faces the prospect of their covert misdeeds becoming a matter of public record, to their general embarrassment albeit rarely to the end of any meaningful reform.

Pompeo argued that the US needs to use the Espionage Act much more in going after leakers who aren’t actually foreign spies, though he stopped short of openly endorsing Espionage prosecutions against journalists for reporting on the leaks.
President Trump had a positive attitude toward WikiLeaks during last year’s campaign, declaring “I love WikiLeaks.” Pompeo insists he doesn’t feel the same way, and that US intelligence agencies need to find ways to fight the organization.

 By Jason Ditz / Republished with permission / ANTIWAR.COM / Report a typo
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Zie ook: ‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information‘

en: ‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘

en: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘

en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘

en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘

en: ‘Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence‘

en: ‘Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

en: ‘Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..‘

en: ‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….‘

en: ‘Clinton te kakken gezet: Donna Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte‘

en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)

en: ‘Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

en: ‘Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!‘

en: ‘Kaspersky Lab (antivirus) aangevallen met agressief ‘Grapperhaus virus’‘

Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Vanmorgen weer een staaltje anti-Maduro propaganda op BBC World Service waar de honden geen brood van lusten. Arturo Wallace, een journalist die ook voor de BBC werkt, vertelde o.a. over de aanval afgelopen week met een helikopter op het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en het hooggerechtshof, in de hoofdstad Caracas. In eerste instantie stelde Wallace dat de leider van deze aanval, Oscar Pérez waarschijnlijk maar een kleine groep van opstandelingen vertegenwoordigt. Pérez is een bekende Venezolaan, die goed bekendstaat, aldus Wallace. Na deze kwalificaties stelde hij echter even later dat deze Pérez waarschijnlijk door de regering Maduro op pad werd gestuurd, om een excuus te hebben soldaten* de straat op te sturen en zo mensen te demotiveren weer te gaan demonstreren………

‘Toevallig’ werkt deze Pérez nauw samen met en voor de bekende Venezolaanse oud-generaal en minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, Justitie en Vrede, Rodríguez, die momenteel onderzocht wordt vanwege banden met de DEA (VS: Drugs Enforcement Administration) en de CIA. Kortom om ‘t zachtjes uit te drukken, niet echt vrienden van Maduro en zijn regering……. Daarnaast heeft deze Rodríguez veel van zijn eigendommen en geld in de VS ondergebracht, op naam van zijn vrouw…….

Maduro regeert met het geweer, aldus Wallace en de actie met de helikopter is een teken dat velen Maduro zat zijn……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Je meent ‘t? Buiten dat ‘t nogal vreemd is te concluderen, dat een terreuraanval aangeeft dat de bevolking Maduro zat is, is het lullig voor Wallace dat er genoeg Venezolanen zijn die achter Maduro blijven staan…..

Wallace sprak wel over de demonstraties en dat daardoor al veel mensen zijn omgekomen, maar met geen woord sprak hij over het barbaarse geweld dat door de rechtse oppositie wordt gepleegd en uitgelokt, dit onder dekking van de demonstraties tegen Maduro………

Ik hoef u waarschijnlijk niet te vertellen, dat Wallace met geen woord sprak over alle machinaties van de VS, die de Venezolaanse economie tot staan hebben gebracht. Zo mag een grote winkelketen van levensmiddelen, die in handen is van een bedrijf in de VS, haar winkels al meer dan een half jaar niet bevoorraden en doet de VS van alles om ook andere bedrijven lam te leggen……. Daarmee heeft de VS (CIA) grote onvrede gekweekt** en het lijkt of iedereen de regering Maduro kwijt wil, echter zoals gezegd staat nog steeds een groot deel van de Venezolanen achter die regering.

Medestanders van Maduro en zijn regering bevinden zich niet alleen in de grote arme onderlaag van de bevolking, maar ook in leger, politie, rechterlijke macht en de geheime dienst,,,,,,,,,,

De helikopteraanval wordt door Maduro terecht als een terroristische aanval bestempeld, in het westen wordt dit weggelachen, echter als iets dergelijks hier of in welk ander westers land dan ook zou gebeuren, zou het onmiddellijk als een terreuraanval worden neergezet……

Hier een artikel over Venezuela en de couppoging (een mislukte, waar de helikopteraanval waarschijnlijk onderdeel van uitmaakte) tegen Maduro, hierin ook meer over de smerige rol van Rodríguez:

Venezuelan Coup Attempt Against Maduro Linked to DEA, CIA

June 29, 2017 at 9:35 am
Written by Whitney Webb
More than 80 people miraculously avoided injury or death in a helicopter attack that targeted Venezuelan government buildings this week. The attack may have been part of an attempted coup supported by the U.S. as it seeks to topple Venezuela’s government to gain access to its massive oil reserves.

(MPN) — Opposition efforts to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government are rapidly heating up, as months upon months of opposition protests have failed to make the inroads desired by the more extremist elements of the opposition and their foreign backers, particularly the United States.
With the current regime still hanging on to power despite years of economic sabotage and the funneling of millions from the U.S. to right-wing Venezuelan opposition parties, those determined to see Maduro removed from power have now turned to more drastic, violent measures in order to spark a coup.
On Tuesday, one of the more dramatic incidents of the most recent phase of the Venezuelan crisis took place when a stolen police helicopter opened fire on the Supreme Court and the Interior Ministry. At the time the attack occurred – about 5 p.m. local time – there were an estimated 80 people still inside the Interior Ministry and the Supreme Court was in session. No deaths or injuries were reported, a fact that the Venezuelan government attributed to a quick response by national guard forces, who repelled the attacking helicopter before it could do more damage.

De bovenstaande afbeelding is onderdeel van een video, die ik niet kan overnemen, zie daarvoor het origineel
Lee Saks @Lee_Saks

| Oscar Perez declares war after attacking supreme court. says theres union bet citizens police & soldiers to topple Maduro
4:57 AM – 28 Jun 2017
Maduro condemned the attack soon after it occurred, calling it a “terrorist attack” that “could have caused dozens of deaths.” Ernesto Villegas, Venezuela’s Communications and Information Minister, stated that the attack was intended to be part of an attempted coup led by extremist groups within the opposition, with full U.S. government support said to be behind them.
Villegas’ assertion that the U.S. was involved in this attack is not based on mere speculation. Pérez has been known to work for Miguel Rodríguez Torres, a former general and former minister of Venezuela’s Department of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace who is currently being investigated for his ties to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the CIA. The charges first surfaced when the Venezuelan news agency Últimas Noticias obtained an official DEA document that described Rodríguez Torres as a “key information provider” for the agency and recommended that he be secured as a protected source for the DEA and U.S. government. It also noted that 40 percent of his assets and wealth are held in the U.S. under his wife’s name.
The U.S. has long sought to oust the left-wing regime that was brought to power in Venezuela by Hugo Chávez in the late 1990s. Since Chávez’s election, the U.S. is believed to have spent between $50 to $60 million to strengthen the country’s right-wing opposition in the hope that they would win elections. Former U.S. President Barack Obama alone dedicated $5 million to “support political competition-building efforts” in Venezuela.
More recently, the U.S. Senate has been mulling over new legislation that would provide an additional $20 million for “democracy promotion” efforts in Venezuela. However, some of these efforts in the past have led to right-wing politicians and their affiliates paying protesters in cash to violently escalate opposition rallies.
Such rallies have turned increasingly violent in recent weeks, with three people burned alive by opposition protesters just in the last week. Journalists have also been targeted, with some being directly shot at and others threatened with being lynched or set aflame. Despite the violence, the Venezuelan opposition is likely to continue receiving funding from the U.S., which is eager to gain control of Venezuela’s oil reserves – the largest in the world – no matter the cost.
By Whitney Webb / Republished with permission / MintPress News / Report a typo

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* Dezelfde soldaten en politie die door snel optreden de helikopter wisten te dwingen het luchtruim boven Caracas te verlaten.

** Een beproefde methode van de CIA, o.a. ingezet in Libië, Oekraïne en Syrië

Zie ook: ‘“Venezuela is a wreck”‘ (video van Brasscheck TV)

en: ‘Venezuelan Man Burned Alive Dies as Death Toll Tops 73‘

en: ‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!‘

en: ‘Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….‘

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Op Radio1 had men gisteren en vandaag een programma onderdeel in ‘De Ochtend’ over Venezuela.

Het begon al goed met de aankondiging gistermorgen door presentator Plag, zij stelde, dat de Venezolaanse regering nog steeds gelooft in de revolutie, terwijl Venezolanen het land ontvluchten…..
Kijk daarmee geef je aan dat mensen gevaar lopen het leven te laten, als ze in Venezuela blijven wonen, ofwel president Maduro voert een schrikbewind……….

Vandaag in het tweede deel een herhaling van zetten, een gesprek met een ‘gevluchte’ vrouw, die illegaal op Curaçao werkt en de verhalen die zij vertelde over Venezuela. Zoals u begrijpt gaat het niet om vluchtelingen, maar mensen die geen toekomst meer zien in hun land en niet bijvoorbeeld door honger, of zoals gezegd politiek zijn gedreven (al zou je kunnen stellen, dat de VS e.e.a heeft veroorzaakt….)….

Vandaag werd gesteld, dat het onderuitgaan van de olieprijs een paar jaar geleden voor de ellende in Venezuela heeft gezorgd……. Niets over het feit, dat de VS al een paar jaar een economische boycot voert tegen Venezuela. Zo mogen bedrijven uit de VS geen producten meer leveren aan Venezuela, zelfs winkelketens uit de VS, die in Venezuela filialen hebben, zoals grootgrutters, mogen hun winkels daar niet meer bevoorraden……

Gezien de geschiedenis van de CIA in Latijns Amerika, is het zeker, dat deze psychopathische dienst de boel opstookt in Venezuela, waar de medewerkers niet moeilijk zullen doen, als misdaadbendes om wapens vragen, zolang ze daar het bewind van Maduro maar mee bevechten……

Tja, als je als een regering een beleid gaat voeren, waarbij de onderlaag in de maatschappij gigantisch wordt bevoordeeld, ten opzichte van groepen die dit niet nodig hebben en deze groepen, plus de welgestelden, eindelijk eerlijk belasting laat betalen, kan je op VS agressie rekenen…… Zie de staatsgreep tegen Allende op 11 september 1973 (911….) in Chili, bekostigd door de VS en geregisseerd door de CIA……

Overigens heeft de VS ook de coup in 2009 tegen de regering van Honduras* op touw gezet en geregisseerd (‘met grote dank’ aan hare kwaadaardigheid Hillary Clinton)…… De VS had verder een fikse vinger in de pap wat betreft het afzetten van de Braziliaanse president Dilma Roussef……….

* Hier stond eerder abusievelijk Guatemala genoemd, daar pleegde de CIA in 1954 een staatsgreep en was in 1982 betrokken bij een genocide in dat land: ‘Journalistiek steeds minder onafhankelijk, of wat de media u liever niet voorschotelen………‘ (toegevoegd op 23 oktober 2017)

Zie ook: ‘VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………‘

en: ‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!‘

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

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Ruslandfobie: anti-Russische propaganda, waarvoor Goebbels zich niet zou hebben geschaamd!

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Op 7 november jl. werd het volgende artikel op Information Clearing House geplaatst. Hierin een vrij korte en uiterst scherpe analyse van de leugens die ons dagelijks door de strot worden geduwd, onder verantwoording van de westerse politiek en de westerse reguliere (afhankelijke) media.

Leugens die er zo dik bovenop liggen, dat je je werkelijk afvraagt, wie dat nog gelooft……. Neem ook de keuze voor de tweede keer, Saoedi-Arabië te benoemen tot voorzitter van de VN mensenrechtenorganisatie UNHRC…..* Saoedi-Arabië, de dictatuur waar de ‘Oranjes’ mee bevriend zijn……** S-A u weet wel de totaal losgeslagen reli-psychopaten, die van onthoofdingen ‘een openbaar feest’ maken, een regime dat schijt heeft aan alle mensenrechten, waar arbeiders uit arme landen op een vreselijke manier worden misbruikt en uitgenomen (waarvoor maar één woord past: slavernij), het land dat in buurland Jemen, de ene grote oorlogsmisdaad na de andere begaat……..

Zoals op deze plek al vaker aangehaald, ook de leugens over ‘de enorme agressie van Rusland’, waarvoor u dagelijks wordt gewaarschuwd door politiek en reguliere media, wordt in dit artikel besproken en vergeleken met het: ‘vredelievende’ VS….. De VS dat de ene illegale oorlog na de andere begint en het niet laten kan VS niet welgevallige (democratisch geregeerde) regimes als Venezuela omver te werpen, eerst met economische maatregelen als boycots en als dat niet lukt middels het organiseren van een opstand, alweer zoals in het geval van Venezuela, maar ook Oekraïne en een land als Honduras…… Als dat niet lukt, gaat men over tot totale oorlogsvoering tegen zo’n land…….

Hier het artikel:

Russophobia: War Party Propaganda
The world’s most reactionary regime, the head-chopping, terror-sponsoring Saudi Arabian kleptocracy, was awarded the chair of the UN Human Rights Council, while Russia has been kicked out. The travesty was engineered by the Superpower of Lies to punish Moscow for resisting the U.S.-led war of sectarian massacre and regime change in Syria. The War Party is on the march, to the cheers of corporate media – and Hillary hasn’t even been elected yet.

By Margaret Kimberley

“All attempts to stop the fighting were rejected by the U.S. and NATO and sealed the fate of the Syrian people.”

November 06, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “BAR” – Did Russia invade Iraq and kill one million people? Does Russia have a greater percentage of its population behind bars than any other country in the world? Did Russia occupy Haiti after kidnapping its president? Are Russian police allowed to shoot children to death without fear of repercussion? Is Russia entering its 20th year of a terror war against the people of Somalia? All of these crimes take place in or at the direction of the United States. Yet the full force of propaganda and influence on world opinion is directed against Russia, which whatever its shortcomings cannot hold a candle to America in violating human rights.

The dangers presented by a Hillary Clinton presidency cannot be overstated. She and the war party have been steadily working towards a goal that defies logic and risks all life on earth. Regime change is once again their modus operandi and they hope to make it a reality against Russia.

Nearly every claim of Russian evil doing is a lie, a ruse meant to put Americans in a fighting mood and lose their fear of nuclear conflagration. It isn’t clear if Clinton and the rest of the would-be warriors actually realize they are risking mushroom clouds. Perhaps they believe that Vladimir Putin will be easily pushed around when all evidence points to the contrary.

The unproven allegations of interference in the presidential election and casting blame on Russia as the sole cause of suffering in Syria are meant to desensitize the public. It is an age old ploy which makes war not just acceptable but deemed a necessity. The usual suspects are helping out eagerly. The corporate media, led by newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post (WP), are front and center in pushing tales of Russian villainy. Human Rights Watch and other organizations who care nothing about abuses committed by the United States and its allies are also playing their usual role of choosing the next regime change victim.

 Russia lost its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in part because of American pressure and public relations assistance from the human rights industrial complex. The UNHRC is now chaired by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that funds the jihadist terrorist groups who caused 500,000 Syrian deaths. The Saudis are causing dislocation, death and starvation in Yemen, too, but they are American allies, so there is little opposition to their misdeeds.

The openly bigoted Donald Trump has been the perfect foil for Hillary Clinton. That is why she and the rest of the Democratic Party leadership preferred him as their rival. He made the case for the discredited lesser evilism argument and his sensible statements about avoiding enmity with Russia made him even more useful.

The United States and its allies are the cause of Syria’s destruction. Their effort to overthrow president Assad created a humanitarian disaster complete with ISIS and al Nusra fighters who love to chop off heads for entertainment. Far from being the cause of the catastrophe Russia left its ally to fight alone for four years. They even made overtures to negotiate Assad’s fate with the United States. All attempts to stop the fighting were rejected by the U.S. and NATO and sealed the fate of the Syrian people. The people of east Aleppo are being shelled by American allies but one wouldn’t know that by reading what passes for journalism in newspapers and on television. The American role in the slaughter is barely mentioned or is excused as an effort to protect the civilian population. The bloodshed was made in the U.S. and could end if this government wanted it to.

The anti-Russian propaganda effort has worked to perfection. NATO is massing troops on Russia’s borders in a clear provocation yet Putin is labeled the bad guy. He is said to be menacing the countries that join in threatening his nation. The United States makes phony claims of Russian war crimes despite having blood on its hands. The latest Human Rights Watch canards about prosecuting Assad come straight from the White House and State Department and have nothing to do with concern for Syrians living in their fifth year of hell.

There is no lesser evil between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. She is fully supported by the war party in her desire for a more “muscular” foreign policy. That bizarre term means death and starvation for millions more people if Clinton wins in a landslide. She must be denied a victory of that magnitude and any opportunity to claim a mandate. Peace loving people must give their votes to the Green Party ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. They are alone in rejecting the premise of an imperialist country and its endless wars.

The United States is the most dangerous country in the world. If it has a reckless and war loving president the threat becomes existential. That is the prospect we face with a Hillary Clinton presidency. If the role of villain is cast on the world stage she is the star of the show.

Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere. She maintains a frequently updated blog as well as athttp://freedomrider.blogspot.com. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.
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 ** Zoals bij de dood van de oude koning van S-A, waarvoor niet alleen Rutte afreisde, maar ook Willem Alexander…..

 Zie ook: ‘Nep-nieuws de norm bij NOS en Volkskrant‘

en: ‘Aleppo: Sander van Hoorn met ongezouten anti-Russische propaganda, gebaseerd op ‘van horen en zeggen…….’‘

en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!‘

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Chavez waarschijnlijk vermoord……..

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Op Information Clearing House gisteren een interview van Mike Whitney met Eva Golinger, een gelauwerd onderzoeksjournalist. Met de ‘Freedom of Information Act’ in de hand, haalde zij diverse smerige VS zaken boven tafel.

Volens Golinger is Chavez vrijwel zeker vermoord. In het interview noemt zij een aantal moordaanslagen op Chavez, tijdens de jaren van zijn presidentschap. In alle gevallen is de VS de grote boosdoener en initiatiefnemer op de achtergrond. En inderdaad, als je de buitenlandpolitiek van de VS ziet, zou de moord op Chavez maar een voetnoot zijn, bij de enorme terreur de de VS in veel landen heeft losgelaten op de bevolking…… Laatste bericht dienaangaande, was onlangs op de BBC te zien, waar in een documentaire wordt gesteld, dat het neerhalen van MH17 een complot is van de CIA, zelfs met medeweten van een Nederlandse geheime dienst……… Daarover later meer…..

Overigens is de VS zelfs op economisch gebied bezig regeringen omver te werpen, dat geldt ook voor Venezuela en Rusland. Met het massaal dumpen van olie, gas en kolen op de wereldmarkt, worden de economieën van deze landen geschaad en probeert de VS deze landen te destabiliseren, althans dat is de bedoeling, die godbetert in Venezuela is gelukt….. Intussen is de VS zelf in feite failliet en drijft het op een zeepbel, die op spanning wordt gehouden door China, de EU en Saoedi-Arabië….. Onlangs, tijdens de OPEC-top hield de VS Saoedi-Arabië met succes voor, de olieproductie niet te verminderen, wat het terroristische Saoedische bewind wel van plan was…….

Hier het verslag van het interview (voor een vertaling kan u onder dit artikel op Dutch klikken, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez

An Interview with Eva GolingerBy Mike Whitney
“Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow down….I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated.”

— Eva Golinger

April 25, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Counterpunch“- MW– Do you think that Hugo Chavez was murdered and, if so, who do you think might have been involved?

Eva Golinger– I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d’etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez and his government, such as in 2004 when dozens of Colombian paramilitary forces were captured on a farm outside of Caracas that was owned by an anti-Chavez activist, Robert Alonso, just days before they were going to attack the presidential palace and kill Chavez.

There was another, lesser-known plot against Chavez discovered in New York City during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2006. According to information provided by his security services, during standard security reconnaissance of an event where Chavez would address the US public at a local, renowned university, high levels of radiation were detected in the chair where he would have sat. The radiation was discovered by a Geiger detector, which is a handheld radiation detection device the presidential security used to ensure the President wasn’t in danger of exposure to harmful rays. In this case, the chair was removed and subsequent tests showed it was emanating unusual amounts of radiation that could have resulted in significant harm to Chavez had it gone undiscovered. According to accounts by the presidential security at the event, an individual from the US who had been involved in the logistical support for the event and had provided the chair was shown to be acting with US intelligent agents.

There were numerous other attempts on his life that were thwarted by the Venezuelan intelligence agencies and particularly the counterintelligence unit of the Presidential Guard that was charged with discovering and impeding such threats. One other well known attempt was in July 2010 when Francisco Chavez Abarca (no relation), a criminal working with Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 and killing all 73 passengers on board, was detained entering Venezuela and later confessed he had been sent to assassinate Chavez. Just five months earlier, in February 2010, when President Chavez was at an event near the Colombian border, his security forces discovered a sniper set up just over a quarter of a mile away from his location, who was subsequently neutralized.

While these accounts may sound like fiction, they are amply documented and very real. Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow down. As head of state of the nation without the largest oil reserves on the planet, and as someone who openly and directly challenged US and Western domination, Chavez was considered an enemy of Washington and its allies.

So, who could have been involved in Chavez’s assassination, if he was assassinated? Certainly it’s no far stretch to imagine the US government involved in a political assassination of an enemy it clearly – and openly – wanted out of the picture. In 2006, the US government formed a special Mission Manager for Venezuela and Cuba under the Directorate of National Intelligence. This elite intelligence unit was charged with expanding covert operations against Chavez and led clandestine missions out of an intelligence fusion center (CIA-DEA-DIA) in Colombia. Some of the pieces that have been coming together include the discovery of several close aides to Chavez who had private, unobstructed access to him over prolonged periods, who fled the country after his death and are collaborating with the US government. If he were assassinated by some kind of exposure to high levels of radiation, or otherwise inoculated or infected by a cancer-causing virus, it would have been done by someone with close access to him, whom he trusted.

MW– Who is Leamsy Salazar and how is he connected to the US Intelligence Agencies?
Eva Golinger– Leamsy Salazar was one of Chavez’s closest aides for nearly seven years. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan Navy and became known to Chavez after he waved the Venezuelan flag from the roof of the presidential guard’s barracks at the presidential palace during the 2002 coup, as the rescue of Chavez was underway. He became a symbol of the loyal armed forces that helped defeat the coup and Chavez rewarded him by bringing him on as one of his assistants. Salazar was both a bodyguard and an aide to Chavez, who would bring him coffee and meals, stand by his side, travel with him around the world and protect him during public events. I knew him and interacted with him many times. He was one of the familiar faces protecting Chavez for many years. He was a key member of Chavez’s elite inner security circle, with private access to Chavez and privileged and highly confidential knowledge of Chavez’s comings and goings, daily routine, schedule and dealings.

 After Chavez passed away in March 2013, because of his extended service and loyalty, Leamsy was transferred to the security detail of Diosdado Cabello, who was then president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and considered one of the most powerful political and military figures in the country. Cabello was one of Chavez’s closest allies. It should be noted that Leamsy remained with Chavez throughout most of his illness up to his death and had privileged access to him that few had, even from his security team.

Shockingly, in December 2014, news reports revealed that Leamsy had secretly been flown to the US from Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with his family. The plane that flew him was said to be from the DEA. He was placed in witness protection and news reports have stated he is providing information to the US government about Venezuelan officials involved in a high level ring of drug trafficking. Opposition-owned media in Venezuela claim he gave details accusing Diosdado Cabello of being a drug-kingpin, but none of that information has been independently verified, nor have any court records or allegations been released, if they exist.

Another explanation for his going into the witness protection program in the US could include his involvement in the assassination of Chavez, possibly done as part of a CIA black op, or maybe even done under the auspices of CIA but carried out by corrupt elements within the Venezuelan government. Before the Panama Papers were released, I had accidentally discovered and was investigating a dangerous corrupt, high level individual within the government, who Chavez had previously dismissed, but who returned after his death and was placed in an even more influential, powerful position. This individual also appears to be collaborating with the US government. People like that, who let greed obscure their conscience, and who are involved in lucrative criminal activity, could have also played a role in his death.

For example, the Panama Papers exposed another former Chavez aide, Army Captain Adrian Velasquez, who was in charge of security for Chavez’s son Hugo. Captain Velasquez’s wife, a former Navy Officer, Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, was Chavez’s nurse for several years and had private, unsupervised access to him. Furthermore, Claudia administered medicines, shots and other health and food-related materials to Chavez over a period of years. Just one month before his deadly illness was discovered in 2011, Chavez named Claudia as Treasurer of Venezuela, placing her in charge of the country’s money. It’s still unclear as to why she was named to this important position, considering she had previously been his nurse and had no similar experience. She was dismissed from the position right after Chavez passed away. Both Captain Velasquez and Claudia appeared in the Panama Papers as owning a shell company with millions of dollars. They also own property in an elite area in the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, where properties cost in the millions, and they have resided there since at least June 2015. The documents show that right after Chavez passed away and Nicolas Maduro was elected president in April 2013, Captain Velasquez opened an off-shore company on April 18, 2013 through the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonesca, called Bleckner Associates Limited. A Swiss financial investment firm, V3 Capital Partners LLC, affirmed they manage the funds of Captain Velasquez, which number in the millions. It’s impossible for an Army Captain to have earned that amount of money through legitimate means. Neither him nor his wife, Claudia, have returned to Venezuela since 2015.
Captain Velasquez was especially close with Leamsy Salazar.

MW– Can you explain the suspicious circumstances under which Salazar was flown out of Spain to the safety of the United States on a plane belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)? Doesn’t that strike you as a bit strange? At the very least, this suggests that Salazar was acting as an agent for a country that is openly hostile towards Venezuela? That makes him either a collaborator or a traitor. Do you agree?

Eva Golinger– Of course it was highly suspicious that Salazar was flown out of Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with his family, and taken to the United States on a DEA plane. There is no question that he was collaborating with the US government and betrayed his country. What remains to be seen is what his exact role was. Did he administer the murderous poison to Chavez, or was it one of his partners, such as Captain Velasquez or the nurse/treasurer Claudia?

 While this all may sound very conspiracy theory-ish, these are facts that can be verified independently. It is also true, according to declassified secret US documents, that the US Army was developing an injectable radiation weapon to use for political assassinations of select enemies as far back as 1948. The Church Commission hearings into the Kennedy Assassination also uncovered the existence of an assassination weapon developed by CIA to induce heart attacks and soft-tissue cancers. Chavez died of an aggressive soft-tissue cancer. By the time it was detected it was too late. There is other information out there documenting the development of a “cancer virus” that was going to be weaponized and allegedly used to kill Fidel Castro in the 1960s. I know most of that seems like science fiction, but do your research and see what really exists. I don’t believe everything I read either. As a lawyer and investigative journalist, I need hard evidence, and multiple, verifiable sources. Even if we just go on the official US Army document from 1948, it’s a fact that the US government was in the process of a developing a radiation weapon for political assassinations. More than 60 years later we can only imagine what technological capacities exist.

MW– Can you explain why the DEA was involved in this operation and not the CIA as many would expect?

Eva Golinger– I think CIA was involved. They work together on high-profile political cases, and they were operating out of the Intelligence Fusion Center in Colombia together. Why it was DEA and not CIA that brought Leamsy Salazar to the US has not yet been revealed, but I don’t think that means the CIA wasn’t involved in the whole operation.

MW– On a personal note, Hugo Chavez was a giant among men and a real hero. Would you please tell us what his loss has meant to you personally and how his death has impacted the people of Venezuela?

 Eva Golinger– The loss of Hugo Chavez has been crushing. He was my friend and I spent nearly ten years as his advisor. The void he has left is impossible to replace. Despite his human flaws, he had a huge heart and genuinely dedicated himself to build a better country for his people, and a better world for humanity. He cared deeply about all people, but especially the poor, neglected and marginalized.
There is a picture taken of Chavez by a bystander, when he had been at an event in the center of Caracas and was walking through a large plaza that had been cleared by security. All of a sudden, he saw a young man, disheveled and seemingly on drugs, barely able to keep himself upright, wearing ragged clothes. To the horror of his security guards, Chavez went over to him and lovingly put his arm around him and offered him a cup of coffee. He didn’t judge the poor guy or reprimand him, or show disgust. He treated him like a fellow human being who deserved to be seen with dignity. He stayed there with him for a while, just telling stories and chatting like old friends. When he had to go, he told one of his guards to offer the man whatever help he needed.

There were no cameras there, no TV, no public. It wasn’t a publicity stunt. It was genuine, sincere care and concern for a fellow human in need. Despite being president and a powerful head of state, Chavez always saw himself as an equal to all people.

His unexpected death has had a tragic toll on Venezuela. Sadly, those he left in charge have been unable to manage the country through this difficult times. A combination of corruption and external sabotage by opposition forces (with foreign support) has crippled the economy. Mismanagement has been widespread and destructive. US agencies and their allies in Venezuela have seized the opportunity to further destabilize and destroy all remaining remnants of chavismo. Now they are trying to tarnish and erase Chavez’s legacy, but I believe this is an impossible task. Even if the current government doesn’t survive the vicious attacks against it, Chavez’s memory in the millions of people he impacted and improved the lives of, will weather the storm. “Chavismo” has become an ideology founded on principles of social justice and human dignity. But do people miss him terribly? Yes.

Eva Golinger is winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico (2009), named “La Novia de Venezuela” by President Hugo Chávez, is an Attorney and Writer from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of the best-selling books, “The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela” (2006 Olive Branch Press), “Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela” (2007, Monthly Review Press)

Since 2003, Eva has been investigating, analyzing and writing about US intervention in Venezuela using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain information about US Government efforts to undermine progressive movements in Latin America.


Mike Whitney – lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.

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Zie ook: ‘VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………‘

en: ‘Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media‘

en: ‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

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