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

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 at
http://freedomrider.blogspot.com. Ms.
Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at
Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.

=========

* Zie: ‘VN ethisch en moreel totaal failliet…….. Saoedi-Arabië alweer verkozen tot voorzitter UNHRC….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!


** 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!!

       en: ‘De Hoop Scheffer (ex-NAVO): de defensie begrotingen zijn totaal scheefgetrokken…….. ha ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Zeg dat wel, zeg dat wel!!!

       en: ‘NAVO gaat door met voorbereiding op oorlog tegen Rusland……. Grootste troepenopbouw sinds Koude Oorlog…… Gaat u gerust slapen!’

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die  onder dit bericht terugvindt.

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De wereld danst alweer op de rand van de vulkaan……..

Weer doen ‘we’ mee alsof er niets aan de hand is, of ‘we’ kijken gehypnotiseerd toe…….

John Kerry eist referendum in Venezuela, ofwel de volgende stap in VS terreur…….

De VS heeft Venezuela naar de afgrond gebracht, middels economische maatregelen, zoals het dumpen op de wereldmarkt van olie en steenkool tegen afbraakprijzen. Voorts dwong de VS o.a. bedrijven niet meer uit te leveren aan Venezolaanse bedrijven, dan wel particulieren……

De bedoeling was de bevolking in opstand te krijgen tegen het Venezolaanse bewind, eerst van Hugo Chávez en na diens (verdachte) dood*, die van Nicolás Maduro, gevolgd door de afzetting van deze presidenten……. De opzet is zo goed als gelukt: nadat de winkels voor een groot deel leeg raakten en blijven, naast het gebrek aan bijvoorbeeld veel medicijnen in Venezuela, is een groot deel van de bevolking in opstand gekomen…..

Het gaat de VS minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Kerry niet snel genoeg, dus eist hij nu van de Venezolaanse regering een referendum over afzetting van president Maduro…… Waar haalt deze oorlogsmisdadiger het gore lef vandaan? Als een buitenlandse minister hetzelfde zou eisen in de VS, dus via een referendum een afzetting eisen van de valse slang Obama, zouden de rapen gaar zijn!!

Om maar te zwijgen over de gore machinaties van de VS om de economie van een ander land de nek om te draaien; als dat zou gebeuren met de VS als slachtoffer, zou men dit daar zien als een oorlogsverklaring…….

Niet te geloven: de VS gaat maar door met het terroriseren van andere landen……. Ook in Brazilië heeft de VS deze tactiek gevolgd, waar president Dilma Rousseff in feite is afgezet…… Dat laatste geldt voor een paar maanden, maar de kans dat Rousseff terugkomt als president, is bijna nihil……. Terwijl de VS gunstig gezinde regering van Temer, de neoliberale schoft die het presidentschap overnam in Brazilië, één grote corruptie bende is, waar in een paar maanden tijd al drie ministers vanwege grootschalige corruptie moesten aftreden en andere leden van het kabinet, inclusief Temer zelf, zware verdenkingen van o.a. corruptie tegen zich hebben…..

*      Zie: ‘Chavez waarschijnlijk vermoord……..

Zie ook: ‘De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??

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

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Bron o.a. BBC World Service nieuws 2 augustus 2016, 1.00 u. CET.

Clinton vertrouwt Trump de knop voor kernwapens niet toe…….. AUW!!!

Bij aanvaarding van haar nominatie tot ‘Democratisch’ presidentskandidaat, vroeg Clinton haar toehoorders, of zij Trump de knop voor kernwapens toevertrouwen…….. Een retorische vraag, waar het antwoord ‘uiteraard’ nee moet zijn.

Een retorische vraag, van een vrouw die één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken is, voor de illegale oorlogen tegen Libië en Syrië, een vrouw die achter de staatsgreep tegen het democratische bewind van Zelaya in Honduras zat, hetzelfde geldt voor de coup tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind van Janoekovytsj in Oekraïne, waar wat betreft Oekraïne de VS niet alleen de opstand tegen dit bewind regisseerde, maar e.e.a. ook financierde met 4 miljard dollar!! Eenzelfde opgezette opstand lukte nog wel in Syrië en Venezuela, maar de staatsgreep daarna mislukte……..

Voorlopig kan opperschoft Trump deze ‘geweldige daden’ niet op z’n naam schrijven: niet één oorlog, of opstand, al dan niet gevolgd door een coup, was het gevolg van zijn handelen……..

Beste bezoeker, ik weet niet of u wat beelden of geluiden heeft gezien en/of gehoord van de Democratische Conventie, bijvoorbeeld die bij de aanvaarding van de nominatie door Clinton? Haar manier van spreken en het gejoel en geschreeuw van het publiek daarna, lijken verdacht veel op de toespraken en de reacties daarop in nazi-Duitsland en fascistisch-Italië van voor en tijdens WOII…….

Persoonlijk vertrouw ik noch Clinton, noch Trump de knop toe voor het afschieten van kernraketten, sterker nog: die knop vertrouw ik niemand toe!! Deze belachelijke wapens, die onze aarde meerdere keren kunnen vernietigen, moeten als de sodemieter ontmanteld worden!!!

Dat laatste beloofde o.a. Obama, maar in plaats daarvan gaf hij z’n akkoord voor de vernieuwing van de kernwapens en het ontwikkelen van nieuwe ‘strategische kernwapens’ (kernwapens, die bijvoorbeeld  ‘op het slagveld kunnen worden gebruikt’, of die een stad kunnen wegvagen….)…….. Let wel: opperploert Obama kreeg de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Zie ook: ‘Hillary Clinton mede verantwoordelijk voor moord op Berta Cáceres………..

       en: ‘VS betrokken bij afzetting Braziliaanse president Rousseff……..

       en: ‘Dilna Rousseff afgezet, CIA coup gelukt……..‘ (klik ook op de ‘links’ in dat bericht)

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

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Obama ‘brengt vrede’: VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

Onder de valse slang Obama, aan wie godbetert de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede werd toegekend, heeft de VS bij mijn weten nog nooit zoveel pogingen ondernomen, om regeringswisselingen tot stand te brengen. De staatsgreep tegen de linkse Braziliaanse president Rousseff is nog maar net een afgerond, of meer en meer wordt bekend, welk smerig spel de VS speelt in Venezuela……..

Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) meldde gisteren, dat Coca Cola de productie in Venezuela stopt. Polar Group, de grootste levensmiddelen producent in Venezuela stopte eerder al met de productie in dat land….. President Maduro, die terecht de VS beschuldigt van het beramen van een staatsgreep, stelde dat Polar Group met de beslissing de productie te stoppen, de rechtse oppositie in de kaart speelt.

Daar heeft Maduro het grootste gelijk van de wereld, niet alleen worden door het stopzetten van de productie een groot aantal werknemers werkloos, maar ook de inkomsten voor de regering lijden onder deze maatregel. Door de stopzetting van de productie komt ook de suikerproductie van Venezuela onder zware druk te staan…… Dit alles zorgt voor grote ontevredenheid onder het volk en dat is dan ook de bedoeling van de VS………..

DWN stelde dat de VS ook op andere manieren Venezuela onder druk zet. Zo wordt het (ultra) rechtse politieke samenwerkingsverband Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD…. ha! ha! ha!) daadwerkelijk ‘massief’ financieel gesteund door de National Endowment for Democracy (NED), dat op haar beurt wordt betaald door de regering van de VS en de CIA mantelorganisatie USAID…….. Dat wetend is het niet de vraag, of de CIA de rechtse oppositie van andere hand en spandiensten voorziet, maar welke en op welke schaal (die enorm moet zijn…..)………

Hieruit kan je maar één conclusie trekken: de VS is een enorme terreurorganisatie!! Dan vindt men het in de VS nog vreemd, dat een groot deel van de wereld, de pest heeft aan de VS……. Dit onbegrip, terwijl de VS openlijk op zo’n grote schaal terreur uitoefent, vind ik pas ongelofelijk!!

Zojuist op BBC World Service, verslaggever Davis vanuit Venezuela, hij demoniseerde Maduro. Davis gaf gesprekken ten gehore, die hij met Venezolanen op straat voerde, over de tekorten aan de eerste levensbehoeften, zoals medicatie en voeding. Grote ontevredenheid zoals u zult begrijpen, volgens Davis zou alles terug te voeren zijn op ‘mismanagement’ van de regering Maduro………

De westerse pers, die geheel afhankelijk bericht over Venezuela, zonder de feiten, zoals hierboven beschreven zelfs maar te noemen, een herhaling van westerse ‘media-zetten’ zoals in het geval van Irak, Libië, Oekraïne, Syrie en Brazilië, waar de westerse media het terroristische VS buitenlandbeleid steunden en steunen, door de leugens van de VS en westerse politici te herhalen tot in het oneindige…….. Het VS buitenlandbeleid, waar de VS (en de CIA) de NAVO als één van haar vuisten gebruikt…….

Zie ook: ‘Chavez waarschijnlijk vermoord……..

       en: ‘De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??

       en: ‘Dilna Rousseff afgezet, CIA coup gelukt……..

       en: ‘Journalistiek steeds minder onafhankelijk, of wat de media u liever niet voorschotelen……..

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

      en: ‘John Kerry eist referendum in Venezuela, ofwel de volgende stap in VS terreur……

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

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

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

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

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


      en: ‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het hierboven gestelde, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: MUD, NED en USAID.

Chavez waarschijnlijk vermoord……..

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 Golinger
By
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.

A
version of this interview appeared on Telesur
at: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Golinger-Chavez-Assassination-Attempts-Documented-Very-Real-20160413-0025.html

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

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

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

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


     en: ‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht aantreft, dit geldt niet voor de labels: C.Abarca, Carriles, Golinger en L. Salazar.

VS steun voor IS, steun met een verleden van 10 geheime terreurgroepen opgezet door de CIA

Gisteren op Information Clearing House, een artikel over de ‘traditie’ van de CIA, geheime terreurgroepen* op te zetten, om zo de belangen van de VS veilig te stellen middels oorlog (de zwaarste vorm van terreur). Zelfs bananen (Guatemala) waren reden voor de CIA een illegale oorlog te beginnen, met een door hen opgezet en getrainde terreurgroep. Dit is nog buiten de illegale oorlogen die de VS (begon,) voerde en voert tegen Irak, Libië en Syrië.

Justin King schreef dit artikel naar aanleiding van het meer en meer duidelijk worden, dat de VS steun verleent aan IS (en zelfs meehielp bij het opzetten van IS)……. Het doel daarvan: de democratisch gekozen Assad en zijn regering wegwerken, puur uit eigenbelang van de VS (machtsuitbreiding in Midden-Oosten) en een aantal bondgenoten van deze terreurnatie, zoals het reli-fascistische Saoedi-Arabië………

Een zeer verhelderen artikel, dat een aantal duivelse en uiterst misdadige handelingen van de VS op een rij zet. Voor vertaling kan u onder dit artikel (op Dutch) klikken, dat neemt wel wat tijd in beslag.

10
Secret Armies of the Central Intelligence Agency
By
Justin King 


February
18, 2016 “
Information
Clearing House

– “
TFC
– 
 Langley,
Virginia –
 As
more and more evidence mounts that the US government was secretly
assisting the Islamic State, it might be time to point out a few
instances when the Central Intelligence Agency created secret armies.
The current theory suggests the
US secretly supported the Islamic State so the Islamists would
destabilize the government of Syrian President Assad. If that seems
out of the question, remember the CIA once started a war over
bananas… literal bananas.

Cuba: Probably
the best known secret army. Castro nationalized the assets of western
companies after his government took power,  so the US
decided to overthrow the government of Cuba and install a puppet
regime. As with most of the armies backed by the US intelligence
establishment, it failed. Miserably. The Bay of Pigs invasion
saw 1400
US-trained Cubans
 surrender to Castro’s forces within 24
hours.

El
Salvador
:
 The
US-supported Salvadoran government faced opposition from communist
rebels. US intelligence saw an obvious and simple answer:
establish death
squads
. US intelligence trained and advised pro-government forces
as they massacred villages and led the way to the displacement of
over a million people. Immediately after the ceasefire, there was a
general amnesty for people implicated in war crimes. This amnesty was
ruled to be illegal, but remains in effect anyway. Those seeking
justice are often burglarized and the evidence
of CIA involvement
is stolen.

Afghanistan: The
US armed and trained the Mujaheddin fighters through Operation
Cyclone
. Later, many of these fighters would form the core of the
fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups we are fighting (or possibly
supporting) today. Yes, Osama bin Laden was one
of the fighters
trained by the CIA in Afghanistan. The whole
operation was carried out to stop the Soviet invasion.

Guatemala: This
little CIA caper is the origin of the term “Banana Republic.” The
democratically elected President of Guatemala  decided
to punish the United Fruit Company for decades of
consorting with the country’s dictators. He began to propose
legislation to end the US multinational’s monopoly on almost
everything in the country. So what else could the CIA do? The
agency overthrew the
legal government and triggered a war… over bananas.

Congo: In
the 1960s, Belgium was ending its colonial rule over Congo. Rather
than allow self-determination,
the CIA staged
assassinations
, armed rebel forces, brought in European
mercenaries, and even backed them up with a secret air
force
.

Nicaragua
(the second time):
 In
the 1980s, the leftist Sandinistas took power. The CIA backed
the Contra militia
that opposed them. The agency funneled them arms, ran
cocaine
 for them, and trained the organization that
become well known for child soldiers, massacres at literacy
centers, and war crimes of just about every imaginable kind.

Angola: The
CIA hired French
and South African mercenaries to assist right-wing groups in their
fight against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
The group was competing with several other paramilitary
organizations in a fight to take over the country after the
Portuguese decolonized. The CIA’s mercenary army predictably
lost.

Ukraine
(the first time):
 During
the second World War, the Nazis set up a partisan group in Ukraine
to harass and slow the advancing Soviet forces. At the end of
World War II, US intelligence began funding and assisting the
partisan group. The Soviets wiped the partisans out in 1952.

Venezuela: In
2002, a group within Venezuela attempted to oust the government.
The US flatly denied involvement. Of course, there is more than
enough evidence
to tie
 the Bush Administration to the plot. There is even
circumstantial evidence a more recent second
attempt
.

Ukraine
(the second time):
 The
most recent revolution in Ukraine may have started organically,
however, it was seized upon by US intelligence. The revolution
became just another method of installing a US
puppet regime
. The US chose to install literal Nazis.
 These facts are largely ignored by
US media.

Would
US intelligence secretly back a brutal, murderous paramilitary
group to destabilize a country on the US hit list? Of course. The
US intelligence apparatus has been doing it for about 60 years.

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* Deze terreurgroepen waren vaak wel bekend, maar niet het feit, dat ze waren opgezet door de CIA…. Deze feiten werden vaak weggehouden uit de reguliere westerse pers.

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terugvindt.

Journalistiek steeds minder onafhankelijk, of wat de media u liever niet voorschotelen………

Hier een belangrijk bericht , dat ik van de site van Stan van Houcke heb gehaald. Het artikel bericht over de media in de VS, die via zelfcensuur, geen artikelen plaatst, waaruit blijkt hoe zwaar misdadig, om niet te zeggen terroristisch en staatsondermijnend, het handelen van de VS in hun (en ons) buitenland is.

Het artikel is in het Engels (helaas voor diegenen, die het Engels niet beheersen), maar goed te volgen en te lezen. Ook van belang voor Nederland, daar meer en meer ‘journalisten’ hardop durven te zeggen, dat je sommige zaken niet met het publiek moet delen, of ‘journalisten’ die met grote graagte de mening van de regering, of die van de VS overheid*, ventileren als onafhankelijke journalistiek…..

*Zoals Max van Weezel nog niet zo lang geleden deed.

Hier het artikel, (overigens onderaan deze pagina, vindt u een link naar Stan van Houcke’s site):

WOENSDAG 7 AUGUSTUS 2013

Western Mass Media

MASS MEDIA HELPS KEEP AMERICANS IN THE DARK ABOUT US FOREIGN POLICY

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 13:24

By Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian | Op-Ed

Juana Brito prays over the bodies of her father and an unidentified youth, both killed by Guatemalan soldiers in the civil war 30 years ago, as a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes their remains in the El Quiche Department of Guatemala, Feb. 13, 2013. (Photo: Victor J. Blue / The New York Times)

Juana Brito prays over the bodies of her father and an unidentified youth, both killed by Guatemalan soldiers in the civil war 30 years ago, as a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes their remains in the El Quiche Department of Guatemala, Feb. 13, 2013. (Photo: Victor J. Blue / The New York Times)

The United States still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan Cold War build-up, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War.  We seem to be in a state of permanent warfare, and – we have recently learned —  massive government spying and surveillance of our own citizens.  This is despite an ever-receding threat to the actual physical security of Americans.  Only 19 people have been killed acts of terrorism in the United States since September 11, 2001; and none or almost none of these were connected to foreign terrorists.  And there are no “enemy states” that pose a significant military threat to the United States – if any governments can be called “enemy states” at all.

One of the reasons for this disconnect is that most of the mass media provide a grossly distorted view of U.S. foreign policy. It presents an American foreign policy that is far more benign and justifiable than the reality of empire that most of the world knows.  In a well-researched and thoroughly documented article published by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Keane Bhatt provides an excellent case study of how this happens.

Bhatt focuses on a very popular and interesting National Public Radio (NPR) show, “This American Life,” and most importantly an episode that won the Peabody Award.  The Peabody Award , for distinguished achievement in electronic journalism, is a prestigious prize; so this makes the example even more relevant.

The episode was about the 1982 massacre in Guatemala. The story gives compelling eyewitness accounts of a horrendous slaughter of almost the entire village of Dos Erres, more than 200 people. The women and girls are raped and then killed, the men are shot or bludgeoned with sledgehammers, and many, including children, are dumped into a dry well – some while still alive – that would become their mass grave.  The broadcast walks the listener through a heroic investigation of the crime – the first ever to win punishment for such murders.  And finally, it provides a moving account of one survivor who was three years old at the time.  Three decades later, while living in Massachusetts, he discovers his roots and his biological father as a result of the investigation. The father lost his wife and his eight other children but survived because he happened to be out of town on the day of the massacre.

The story makes it clear that this bloodbath was one of many:

“This happened in over 600 villages, tens of thousands of people. A truth commission found that the number of Guatemalans killed or disappeared by their own government was over 180,000.”

But there is one striking omission – the U.S. role in what the UN Truth commission in 1999 later determined to be genocide.  The UN specifically noted Washington’s role and President Clinton publicly apologized for it – the first and to my knowledge the only apology from an American president for U.S. involvement in genocide.  The U.S. role in providing arms, training, ammunition, diplomatic cover, political and other support to the mass murderers is well-documented and has gotten some more documentation and attention as a result of the recent trial of former military dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt, who ruled from 1982-83.  (As Bhatt notes, the program states that the U.S. embassy had heard reports of massacres during this time but “dismissed” them; but this is very misleading at best — there are cables showing that the embassy clearly knew what was going on).

In fact, one of the soldiers who participated in the Dos Erres massacre, Pedro Pimentel, who later was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison, was airlifted the day after the mass murder to the School of the Americas, the U.S. military facility known for training some of the region’s worst dictators and human rights violators.

It is astonishing that one of the worst genocides of the post-World War II era was allowed to reach its peak, just a couple of hours of flying time from the U.S. mainland, with almost no media reporting on it. Here you can find investigative journalist Allan Nairn interviewing a Guatemalan soldier in 1982, who describes how he and his comrades murdered whole villages, as in Dos Erres. And yet the major media ignored it, allowing Ronald Reagan to promote Rios Montt as “a man of great personal integrity and commitment.”  So the omissions of This American Life are ironic in this historical context as well.

It is clear from the piece that Ira Glass, the show’s host, was well aware of the U.S. role in the Guatemalan genocide.  In the 1980s, it appears, he travelled to Central America and was active against the U.S. –funded wars and war crimes in the region.  In an email correspondence with Bhatt, he acknowledges that “maybe we made the wrong call” in leaving out the U.S. role.

That is an understatement, but a vitally important one.  For a program broadcast in English throughout the United States, this is arguably the most important thing that Americans need to know about the genocide.

I’m not faulting Glass. He may well have guessed that if he had made a point out of the U.S. role, and maybe questioned some of the U.S. officials who were responsible for it, the story would have run into trouble at NPR. It certainly wouldn’t have gotten a Peabody award.

That’s what makes this such a compelling illustration of how censorship and self-censorship operate in the U.S. media.  It demonstrates, at the micro level, something that I have seen countless times in the past 15 years of talking with journalists about these issues.  They have a good idea what the boundaries are and how much truth they can get away with.  I have met many good journalists who try to cross these boundaries, and some succeed — but they often don’t last very long.

Scott Wilson, who was a foreign editor at the Washington Post and covered Venezuela during the short-lived coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela in 2002, stated in an interview that “there was U.S. involvement” in the coup.  Yet this important fact never appeared anywhere in the Post, nor was it reported by any of the major U.S. media, despite considerable evidence from U.S. government documents that it was true.  Again, this is arguably the most important part of the story for a U.S. audience – especially since it played a major role in poisoning relations between Washington and Caracas over the past decade, and probably had a significant impact on relations with the whole continent of South America.  But, as in the Dos Erres story, the U.S. role in the crime is considered unmentionable.

The same is true for the U.S. role in the coup that destroyed Honduran democracy in 2009. The Obama administration’s considerable efforts to support and legitimize the coup government were not considered to be newsworthy by U.S. journalists.  (A program on Honduras was Bhatt’s other shot at “This American Life,” where they left the U.S.-supported coup out of a picture in which it should have had a prominent place). But this too, is off limits for the U.S. media.

What would U.S. foreign, military, and so-called “national security” policy look like if the media reported the most important facts about it?  There would be a lot fewer corpses abroad and returning home.  And we wouldn’t be cutting “meals on wheels” or other nutrition programs for the poor or elderly in order to sustain the world’s most fantastically bloated military budget.

This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.

MARK WEISBROT

Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, DC. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.

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

Hugo Chavez dood

Gisteren werd bekend gemaakt dat Hugo Chavez is overleden. In het Radio1 Journaal van 01.00u. werd gesteld door de nieuwslezer, dat Chavez omstreden was, o.a. door zijn verzet tegen privatisering* en andere zaken, maar vooral zijn grote verzet tegen de VS. De nieuwslezer had beter kunnen zeggen, dat na decennia lange inmenging in de politiek door de VS van een groot aantal landen in Midden en Zuid-Amerika, er met Chavez een ander tijdperk aanbrak in veel van die landen, een tijdperk dat zich kenmerkte door politieke omwentelingen en een bijzonder kritische houding t.a.v. de VS.

Hier mijn zienswijze op de dood van Chavez en Venezuela:

Ja, Chavez dood, Chavez heeft veel goeds gedaan voor de arme bevolking van Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, maar Venezuela in het bijzonder, ook al was hij een autoritaire klootzak**. Wat deed Chavez dan voor het arme deel van zijn bevolking? Niet alleen zorgde hij voor betere huisvesting (met riolering en schoon drinkwater), beter gezondheidszorg (arme Antillianen kunnen voor gratis zorg in Venezuela terecht…) maar ook voor alfabetisering (zelfs voor volwassen burgers, ook op een leeftijd boven de 50 jaar). De situatie toen hij de macht nam was een bijzonder slechte, en dat was niet alleen wat betreft de economie. Zo stemde het grootste deel van de bevolking niet en als armen al stemden, was dat vaak onder rechtse druk (door ‘bepaalde’ werkgevers), of na dat ze cadeaus ontvingen.

Voorts heeft Chavez de arme burgers van Zuid- en Midden-Amerika weer zelfbewustzijn en trots gegeven, niet voor niets heeft er de laatste 10 jaar een behoorlijke omwenteling plaatsgevonden in heel veel landen in de voornoemde regio, niet dat dit alleen een verdienste van Chavez is, maar het hielp wel.

Wat betreft de misdaad, die is  net als de corruptie heel hoog in Venezuela: in de 60er jaren was het echter nog veel erger dan nu, de cijfers laten sindsdien een kleine verbetering zien, al is de situatie onder Chavez niet significant verslechterd en als iets moeilijk uit te bannen is, dan is het wel de kanker van corruptie, die automatisch de misdaad aanwakkert. Ik vrees dat dit nu veel erger gaat worden, als eerste zal de VS de kans grijpen, haar invloed in Venezuela te laten gelden, dat gaat altijd via omkoping en ondermijning van de machthebbers, die de VS niet welgevallig zijn. Je moet dan ook vrezen, dat de situatie in Venezuela bijzonder instabiel zal worden en een burgeroorlog is niet ondenkbaar. Vergeet niet, dat Chavez de armen heeft getraind en bewapend……..

Laten we er maar het beste van hopen.

*  Echt goed over nagedacht: Chavez nationaliseerde een aantal grote ondernemingen, die het land jaren hadden leeggezogen.

** Las dit bericht nog eens op 5 april 2021, en moet zeggen dat ik wel erg kort ddoor de bocht ging met dat ‘klootzak’, hij was de eerste president die echt wat deed voor de arme bevolking en dat is hem duur komen te staan, je kan er dan ook donder op zeggen dat hij is vermoord door de CIA…..)

Edwin Koopmans over Venezuela

Bij de Kotsnieuwsshow aangeschoven gistermorgen, Edwin Koopman, de Venezuela ‘deskundige’. Deze ‘deskundige’ durfde te stellen, dat de armen het onder Chavez niet beter hebben gekregen. Dus geen betere, betaalbare huisvesting, geen goede gratis gezondheidszorg en geen gigantische verbetering van scholing en toegang tot scholing, die wel degelijk zijn doorgevoerd. Volgens Koopman is het puur de intentie van Chavez, die een ‘familiegevoel’ hebben opgeroepen bij de arme bevolking, waardoor dit deel van de Venezolaanse bevolking achter Chavez blijft staan, ha! ha! ha! ha!
 

Voorts noemde Koopman de gigantische misdaadcijfers en corruptie in Venezuela, die onder Chavez zou zijn ontstaan, gelul van de bovenste plank, al in de 60er jaren van de vorige eeuw, waren deze zaken een groot probleem in Venezuela.

Koopman? Ach, de zoveelste ‘deskundige’ die ongeremd zijn onzin analyses op de bevolking loslaat, lullig genoeg heeft dit soort figuren de macht, om veel 1 en 2 hersencelligen vol te proppen met onzin, die door die groep als absolute waarheid wordt gezien……