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United States President Trump has decreed draconian economic sanctions against Venezuela and threatened it with military intervention.
Venezuela is not a threat to any country. It is not a threat to world peace. It has never gone to war. It has a small army and no major weaponry.
The U.S. sanctions are:
Against INTERNATIONAL LAW
NOT backed by the United Nations, nor by the Organization of American States.
Venezuela’s DEMOCRACY is vibrant. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attests to Venezuela's electoral process. He said it is the best in the world, with 23 elections in 18 years, 2 won by the opposition.
The SANCTIONS impede the delivery of food and medicines. They hurt ordinary people. Hence they are AN ACT OF WAR and constitute a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Venezuela has the universally recognized right to sovereignty and self-determination.
It has the right to amend its constitution by means of a Constituent Assembly, elected by 8.7 million votes.
Venezuela HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL ITS OWN RESOURCES.
Contact the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee at e-mail: [email protected]
On facebook: fb.com/vsoltoronto
United States President Trump has decreed draconian economic sanctions against Venezuela and threatened it with military intervention.
Venezuela is not a threat to any country. It is not a threat to world peace. It has never gone to war. It has a small army and no major weaponry.
The U.S. sanctions are:
Against INTERNATIONAL LAW
NOT backed by the United Nations, nor by the Organization of American States.
Venezuela’s DEMOCRACY is vibrant. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attests to Venezuela's electoral process. He said it is the best in the world, with 23 elections in 18 years, 2 won by the opposition.
The SANCTIONS impede the delivery of food and medicines. They hurt ordinary people. Hence they are AN ACT OF WAR and constitute a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Venezuela has the universally recognized right to sovereignty and self-determination.
It has the right to amend its constitution by means of a Constituent Assembly, elected by 8.7 million votes.
Venezuela HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL ITS OWN RESOURCES.
Contact the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee at e-mail: [email protected]
On facebook: fb.com/vsoltoronto
On Saturday, September 16, at 1 p.m., a rally will take place outside the United States Consulate at University Avenue and Armoury Street (north of the Osgoode subway station) to demand: Trump and Trudeau: Hands Off Venezuela! No Sanctions! No Coup! No invasion!
The protest organizers demand an end to U.S. attempts at 'regime change' in Venezuela, and say No to the Canadian government's complicity in efforts to overthrow the progressive, democratic government of that country. The event is part of an International Day of Action.
Speakers from endorsing organizations and live music will be featured.
Sponsored by the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee.
Endorsed by: ALBA movimientos – Capitulo Canada, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel, Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA), Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere (SAFE), Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN), Canadian Peace Congress, the NDP Socialist Caucus, Canada-Cuba Friendship Association, Communist Party of Canada, and Common Frontiers.
For more information call: 647-986-1917
fb.com/vsoltoronto e-mail: [email protected]
The protest organizers demand an end to U.S. attempts at 'regime change' in Venezuela, and say No to the Canadian government's complicity in efforts to overthrow the progressive, democratic government of that country. The event is part of an International Day of Action.
Speakers from endorsing organizations and live music will be featured.
Sponsored by the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee.
Endorsed by: ALBA movimientos – Capitulo Canada, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel, Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA), Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere (SAFE), Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN), Canadian Peace Congress, the NDP Socialist Caucus, Canada-Cuba Friendship Association, Communist Party of Canada, and Common Frontiers.
For more information call: 647-986-1917
fb.com/vsoltoronto e-mail: [email protected]
READ:
"Open letter to the people and government of the United States
of America by the people of Venezuela"
Published in The New York Times, Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Also read: Rally Outside Public Canadian Broadcaster Demands it Cover Venezuela ‘Truthfully’
CBC: Tell the Truth
Barry Weisleder - www.socialistaction.ca
The Truth about Venezuela
Over one hundred people rallied on August 29 in front of the headquarters of the national broadcaster to demand "CBC: Tell the Truth About Venezuela!"
Reportage about the situation in Venezuela is not balanced. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other mass media in Canada publicize right wing opposition voices, but downplay pro-government sources in the oil-rich South American country. The CBC has no reporter in Venezuela. It regurgitates one-sided reports and biased commentaries emanating from U.S. media outlets. The coverage provides almost no social or political context for events. The truth about the causes of social conflict in Venezuela should be told.
The gathering heard Venezuela Solidarity Committee speakers talk about the reality of minority ultra-right wing violence, and the economic sabotage orchestrated by foreign and domestic business groups. They described the positive work of the National Constituent Assembly, elected democratically on July 30 in an election in which over 8 million voters participated.
Signs, placards and banners at the Toronto protest called for media accountability and honest reporting, and demanded that Ottawa and Washington keep their Hands Off Venezuela!
The August 29 event was sponsored by the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee. It was endorsed by:
ALBA moviementos – Capitulo Canada, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel, Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA), Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front, Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere (SAFE), Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN), the NDP Socialist Caucus, and Socialist Action. Speakers at the rally included:
- Raul Burbano, Common Frontiers
- Francisco Suarez, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle
- Elizabeth Byce, NDP Socialist Caucus
- Marta Palominos, Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front
- Javier Pineda, a Colombian activist and member of Socialist Action
- Juan Restrepo, Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere
- Marco Castillo, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, poet and writer
- Sam Cheadle, Ontario Public Service Employees' Union
- William, who presented one of his poems
- and two veteran companeros who led the crowd in singing the popular anthem "Comandante Che Guevara".
Opening remarks of the rally chairperson
Good evening. My name is Barry Weisleder and I am a member of the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee.
I will introduce a number of speakers and entertainers who will explain why we are all here today. Let me begin by saying that I am a teacher, a Toronto resident and a tax payer. And I am very angry with the CBC. It’s the public broadcaster. It’s supported by the taxes you and I pay, but it’s not telling the whole truth about Venezuela. The CBC, and other mass media in North America, have become little more than a mouth piece for Washington, Ottawa, Wall Street and Bay Street, spreading exaggerations and lies about the progressive, popular, and elected government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. The CBC gives voice only to the violent right wing opposition in the country, ignoring the election of the Constituent Assembly on July 30 by 8 million-plus voters, ignoring the legal mandate to re-write the constitution of Venezuela. While Trump cuts off financial credit, and Trudeau applauds, the rich are putting the squeeze on the working class of Venezuela, hoping to create a shortage of basic goods, to foster social discontent and division, and instigate a fascist coup, like the one that occurred in Chile in 1973. Well, we say: Enough is enough! CBC, stop the abuse, it’s time to tell the truth.
Socialist Caucus remarks to August 29 Venezuela protest rally at CBC
Good afternoon. My name is Elizabeth Byce and I am speaking to you on behalf of the NDP Socialist Caucus, representing hundreds of left wing NDPers. I am the Socialist Caucus federal treasurer. I am also a retired member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and a past Secretary of the Toronto Labour Council.
On July 30 over 8 million people voted in Venezuela to elect a National Constituent Assembly. That is more than voted for Nicolas Maduro in 2013, or for his party in the 2015 legislature election. It is 1 million more than the votes claimed in the fake referendum conducted by the right wing over a month ago.
Sadly, the New Democratic Party foreign affairs critic, Helen Laverdiere, called that vote “illegitimate.” Well, in light of the massive turnout, despite an organized right wing boycott, and recognizing the achievements of the Bolivarian process, we must say that the NDP critic’s criticism is illegitimate. It should be challenged across the Canadian workers’ movement. And that is exactly what we are doing.
On August 23, the NDP Socialist Caucus demanded the resignation of the NDP Foreign Affairs Critic. For months, Ms. Laverdiere has publicly expressed policy positions that are quite reactionary. In many cases, she has taken positions that violate NDP policies and principles. The latest is her effort, parallel to that of the Justin Trudeau Liberal government, and that of the Donald Trump White House, to isolate, starve and remove the popular elected government of Venezuela. Yves Engler, a widely-read Canadian foreign policy critic, exposed the record of the NDP spokesperson in an August 12 article, NDP foreign affairs critic marches in step with US Empire.
I quote: “Hélène Laverdière certainly seems to support the US-led geopolitical order. She’s aligned with the Empire on issues ranging from Venezuela to Palestine, Ukraine to Syria.
Echoing Washington and Ottawa, Laverdière recently attacked the Venezuelan government. “On the heels of Sunday’s illegitimate constituent assembly vote, it’s more important than ever for Canada to work with our allies and through multilateral groups like the OAS to secure a lasting resolution to the crisis,” she told the CBC.
But, the constituent assembly vote wasn’t “illegitimate”. Venezuela’s current constitution empowers the president to call a constituent assembly to draft a new one. If the population endorses the revised constitution in a referendum, the president – and all other governmental bodies – are legally required to follow the new constitutional framework.
Additionally, calling on Ottawa to “work with our allies” through the OAS may sound reasonable, but in practice it means backing Justin Trudeau’s efforts to weaken Venezuela through that body. In a June 2016 press release Laverdière said “the OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro has invoked the Inter-American Democratic Charter regarding Venezuela, and Canada, as a member of the OAS, should support his efforts.” But, the former Uruguayan Foreign Minister’s actions as head of the OAS have been highly controversial. The previous head of the OAS, former Uruguayan president José Mujica, condemned Almagro’s bias against the Venezuelan government.
Laverdière has also cozied up to pro-Israel groups. Last year she spoke to the notorious anti-Palestinian lobby organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Months after AIPAC paid for her to speak at their conference in Washington, Laverdière visited Israel with Canada’s governor general, even participating in a ceremony hosted by the explicitly racist Jewish National Fund.
The only Quebec MP to endorse Jagmeet Singh as next NDP leader, Laverdière has attended other events put on by groups aligned with Washington. She publicized and spoke to the weirdly themed “Demonstration for human and democratic rights in Venezuela, in solidarity with Ukraine and Syria.”
Laverdière supports deploying troops to the Russian border and repeatedly called for more sanctions on that country. She said the plan to send military trainers to the Ukraine “sounds good in principle” and only called for a debate in Parliament about sending 450 Canadians to head up a 1,000-strong NATO force in Latvia.”
Since 2014 Laverdière has repeatedly called for stronger sanctions on Russia, threatening to turn the Cold War into a Hot nuclear confrontation.
For all of these reasons, we call for her removal as NDP Foreign Affairs Critic. We call on the four NDP leadership candidates to speak out and demand the same.
We say: Stop the lies! Stop U.S. interference in Venezuela! End Canadian Complicity! CBC: Tell the Truth! Self-determination for Venezuela!
Socialist Action speech to August 29 protest rally at the CBC (The remarks below were presented in Spanish.)
Hello. My name is Javier Pineda. I am a member of CUPE Local 416, and I bring a message of solidarity from Socialist Action / Liga por l'Action Socialista en Canada.
Clearly, a new chapter in the history of Venezuela is opening. Big challenges and tests lay ahead. For revolutionary change, there must be confrontation and class struggle. This we know very well.
Nicolas Maduro in a recent speech told the rulers of the American Empire that he “will not be taken for a sucker.” In other words, this is no time to put faith in conciliation, or the OAS or any third party. It’s time for the Venezuelan working class to settle accounts with the exploiters, the hoarders, the drug smugglers, and the banksters.
It is time for the workers to put an end to the violent thugs who would burn, not only Chavistas, but every leftist, every union member, every person who benefits from social housing, public medicine and education.
We condemn the aggression of Washington and its imperialist ally in Ottawa. They claim that there is starvation, chaos and repression in Venezuela. Lies and exaggerations! If they were really concerned about hunger, they would look to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala where tens of thousands are fleeing to El Norte in search of food. If the imperialists were really concerned about democracy, they would stop backing repressive regimes, like the one in my country, Colombia, where so many have been killed by the army and right wing death squads just for organizing a workers' union. Why don't the imperialists complain about the parliamentary coup in Brazil that removed Dilma Rousseff, the elected President, over trumped-up corruption charges? Why don't they complain about the brutal, authoritarian monarchy of Saudi Arabia, instead of selling it mobile weapons to be used against the people of Yemen, as well as in Saudi?
Support for Venezuela is crucial as the hour of reckoning approaches. The road forward is workers’ power. The road forward is socialist revolution, the road Russia took 100 years ago under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, the road traveled by Cuba in 1959, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Haydee Santamaria and Vilma Espin. As Che said, “The revolution will be a socialist revolution, or it will be a caricature of a revolution.”
Naturally, we have concerns about the Bolivarian process in recent years. Of course bureaucracy and corruption are not new problems in the underdeveloped countries. But efforts to collaborate with sectors of the bourgeoisie, to delay expropriation of the commanding heights of the economy, especially the big banks, giant landlords and foreign capital, only emboldened the right wing to disrupt the economy and to organize for counter-revolution. Workers everywhere have reason to fear imperialism and domestic reactionaries. We remember 1973.
There must not be a repeat of the tragedy of Chile in September 1973. That was when Salvador Allende applied the brakes and brought General Pinochet into his cabinet, hoping to appease the bourgeoisie. The direction today should be clear.
Forward to socialism! And our task here is clear. We need to work together in the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee, and to build solidarity across Canada. We need to hold many more rallies, marches, sit-ins, concerts and petition drives to confront media lies and government villainy. We should ask all working class and progressive organizations to build, with us, a united, anti-war, anti-intervention movement based on the following demands: “Self-determination for Venezuela. Respect the July 30 vote. Ottawa, Washington, Hands Off Venezuela!”
That is what Socialist Action will be doing, with our partners, with all our energy, in the coming days and weeks. If you agree, we ask you to join us tonight.
Hasta la Victoria siempre! Venceremos!
Reportage about the situation in Venezuela is not balanced. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other mass media in Canada publicize right wing opposition voices, but downplay pro-government sources in the oil-rich South American country. The CBC has no reporter in Venezuela. It regurgitates one-sided reports and biased commentaries emanating from U.S. media outlets. The coverage provides almost no social or political context for events. The truth about the causes of social conflict in Venezuela should be told.
The gathering heard Venezuela Solidarity Committee speakers talk about the reality of minority ultra-right wing violence, and the economic sabotage orchestrated by foreign and domestic business groups. They described the positive work of the National Constituent Assembly, elected democratically on July 30 in an election in which over 8 million voters participated.
Signs, placards and banners at the Toronto protest called for media accountability and honest reporting, and demanded that Ottawa and Washington keep their Hands Off Venezuela!
The August 29 event was sponsored by the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee. It was endorsed by:
ALBA moviementos – Capitulo Canada, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel, Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA), Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front, Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere (SAFE), Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN), the NDP Socialist Caucus, and Socialist Action. Speakers at the rally included:
- Raul Burbano, Common Frontiers
- Francisco Suarez, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle
- Elizabeth Byce, NDP Socialist Caucus
- Marta Palominos, Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front
- Javier Pineda, a Colombian activist and member of Socialist Action
- Juan Restrepo, Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere
- Marco Castillo, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, poet and writer
- Sam Cheadle, Ontario Public Service Employees' Union
- William, who presented one of his poems
- and two veteran companeros who led the crowd in singing the popular anthem "Comandante Che Guevara".
Opening remarks of the rally chairperson
Good evening. My name is Barry Weisleder and I am a member of the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee.
I will introduce a number of speakers and entertainers who will explain why we are all here today. Let me begin by saying that I am a teacher, a Toronto resident and a tax payer. And I am very angry with the CBC. It’s the public broadcaster. It’s supported by the taxes you and I pay, but it’s not telling the whole truth about Venezuela. The CBC, and other mass media in North America, have become little more than a mouth piece for Washington, Ottawa, Wall Street and Bay Street, spreading exaggerations and lies about the progressive, popular, and elected government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. The CBC gives voice only to the violent right wing opposition in the country, ignoring the election of the Constituent Assembly on July 30 by 8 million-plus voters, ignoring the legal mandate to re-write the constitution of Venezuela. While Trump cuts off financial credit, and Trudeau applauds, the rich are putting the squeeze on the working class of Venezuela, hoping to create a shortage of basic goods, to foster social discontent and division, and instigate a fascist coup, like the one that occurred in Chile in 1973. Well, we say: Enough is enough! CBC, stop the abuse, it’s time to tell the truth.
Socialist Caucus remarks to August 29 Venezuela protest rally at CBC
Good afternoon. My name is Elizabeth Byce and I am speaking to you on behalf of the NDP Socialist Caucus, representing hundreds of left wing NDPers. I am the Socialist Caucus federal treasurer. I am also a retired member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and a past Secretary of the Toronto Labour Council.
On July 30 over 8 million people voted in Venezuela to elect a National Constituent Assembly. That is more than voted for Nicolas Maduro in 2013, or for his party in the 2015 legislature election. It is 1 million more than the votes claimed in the fake referendum conducted by the right wing over a month ago.
Sadly, the New Democratic Party foreign affairs critic, Helen Laverdiere, called that vote “illegitimate.” Well, in light of the massive turnout, despite an organized right wing boycott, and recognizing the achievements of the Bolivarian process, we must say that the NDP critic’s criticism is illegitimate. It should be challenged across the Canadian workers’ movement. And that is exactly what we are doing.
On August 23, the NDP Socialist Caucus demanded the resignation of the NDP Foreign Affairs Critic. For months, Ms. Laverdiere has publicly expressed policy positions that are quite reactionary. In many cases, she has taken positions that violate NDP policies and principles. The latest is her effort, parallel to that of the Justin Trudeau Liberal government, and that of the Donald Trump White House, to isolate, starve and remove the popular elected government of Venezuela. Yves Engler, a widely-read Canadian foreign policy critic, exposed the record of the NDP spokesperson in an August 12 article, NDP foreign affairs critic marches in step with US Empire.
I quote: “Hélène Laverdière certainly seems to support the US-led geopolitical order. She’s aligned with the Empire on issues ranging from Venezuela to Palestine, Ukraine to Syria.
Echoing Washington and Ottawa, Laverdière recently attacked the Venezuelan government. “On the heels of Sunday’s illegitimate constituent assembly vote, it’s more important than ever for Canada to work with our allies and through multilateral groups like the OAS to secure a lasting resolution to the crisis,” she told the CBC.
But, the constituent assembly vote wasn’t “illegitimate”. Venezuela’s current constitution empowers the president to call a constituent assembly to draft a new one. If the population endorses the revised constitution in a referendum, the president – and all other governmental bodies – are legally required to follow the new constitutional framework.
Additionally, calling on Ottawa to “work with our allies” through the OAS may sound reasonable, but in practice it means backing Justin Trudeau’s efforts to weaken Venezuela through that body. In a June 2016 press release Laverdière said “the OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro has invoked the Inter-American Democratic Charter regarding Venezuela, and Canada, as a member of the OAS, should support his efforts.” But, the former Uruguayan Foreign Minister’s actions as head of the OAS have been highly controversial. The previous head of the OAS, former Uruguayan president José Mujica, condemned Almagro’s bias against the Venezuelan government.
Laverdière has also cozied up to pro-Israel groups. Last year she spoke to the notorious anti-Palestinian lobby organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Months after AIPAC paid for her to speak at their conference in Washington, Laverdière visited Israel with Canada’s governor general, even participating in a ceremony hosted by the explicitly racist Jewish National Fund.
The only Quebec MP to endorse Jagmeet Singh as next NDP leader, Laverdière has attended other events put on by groups aligned with Washington. She publicized and spoke to the weirdly themed “Demonstration for human and democratic rights in Venezuela, in solidarity with Ukraine and Syria.”
Laverdière supports deploying troops to the Russian border and repeatedly called for more sanctions on that country. She said the plan to send military trainers to the Ukraine “sounds good in principle” and only called for a debate in Parliament about sending 450 Canadians to head up a 1,000-strong NATO force in Latvia.”
Since 2014 Laverdière has repeatedly called for stronger sanctions on Russia, threatening to turn the Cold War into a Hot nuclear confrontation.
For all of these reasons, we call for her removal as NDP Foreign Affairs Critic. We call on the four NDP leadership candidates to speak out and demand the same.
We say: Stop the lies! Stop U.S. interference in Venezuela! End Canadian Complicity! CBC: Tell the Truth! Self-determination for Venezuela!
Socialist Action speech to August 29 protest rally at the CBC (The remarks below were presented in Spanish.)
Hello. My name is Javier Pineda. I am a member of CUPE Local 416, and I bring a message of solidarity from Socialist Action / Liga por l'Action Socialista en Canada.
Clearly, a new chapter in the history of Venezuela is opening. Big challenges and tests lay ahead. For revolutionary change, there must be confrontation and class struggle. This we know very well.
Nicolas Maduro in a recent speech told the rulers of the American Empire that he “will not be taken for a sucker.” In other words, this is no time to put faith in conciliation, or the OAS or any third party. It’s time for the Venezuelan working class to settle accounts with the exploiters, the hoarders, the drug smugglers, and the banksters.
It is time for the workers to put an end to the violent thugs who would burn, not only Chavistas, but every leftist, every union member, every person who benefits from social housing, public medicine and education.
We condemn the aggression of Washington and its imperialist ally in Ottawa. They claim that there is starvation, chaos and repression in Venezuela. Lies and exaggerations! If they were really concerned about hunger, they would look to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala where tens of thousands are fleeing to El Norte in search of food. If the imperialists were really concerned about democracy, they would stop backing repressive regimes, like the one in my country, Colombia, where so many have been killed by the army and right wing death squads just for organizing a workers' union. Why don't the imperialists complain about the parliamentary coup in Brazil that removed Dilma Rousseff, the elected President, over trumped-up corruption charges? Why don't they complain about the brutal, authoritarian monarchy of Saudi Arabia, instead of selling it mobile weapons to be used against the people of Yemen, as well as in Saudi?
Support for Venezuela is crucial as the hour of reckoning approaches. The road forward is workers’ power. The road forward is socialist revolution, the road Russia took 100 years ago under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, the road traveled by Cuba in 1959, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Haydee Santamaria and Vilma Espin. As Che said, “The revolution will be a socialist revolution, or it will be a caricature of a revolution.”
Naturally, we have concerns about the Bolivarian process in recent years. Of course bureaucracy and corruption are not new problems in the underdeveloped countries. But efforts to collaborate with sectors of the bourgeoisie, to delay expropriation of the commanding heights of the economy, especially the big banks, giant landlords and foreign capital, only emboldened the right wing to disrupt the economy and to organize for counter-revolution. Workers everywhere have reason to fear imperialism and domestic reactionaries. We remember 1973.
There must not be a repeat of the tragedy of Chile in September 1973. That was when Salvador Allende applied the brakes and brought General Pinochet into his cabinet, hoping to appease the bourgeoisie. The direction today should be clear.
Forward to socialism! And our task here is clear. We need to work together in the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Committee, and to build solidarity across Canada. We need to hold many more rallies, marches, sit-ins, concerts and petition drives to confront media lies and government villainy. We should ask all working class and progressive organizations to build, with us, a united, anti-war, anti-intervention movement based on the following demands: “Self-determination for Venezuela. Respect the July 30 vote. Ottawa, Washington, Hands Off Venezuela!”
That is what Socialist Action will be doing, with our partners, with all our energy, in the coming days and weeks. If you agree, we ask you to join us tonight.
Hasta la Victoria siempre! Venceremos!
For information about the ongoing work in solidarity with the people of Venezuela
call: 647-986-1917.
call: 647-986-1917.
“COMUNIDAD INTERNACIONAL”
Ante el bombardeo mediático en contra de la revolución bolivariana y su presidente Nicolás Maduro, y la manipulación de conceptos para agrandar la desinformación y la confusión deliberada sobre la realidad venezolana, propongo un debate sobre el concepto de “La comunidad internacional”.
Escuché en una radio latina que comentaba el caso de los prisioneros por terrorismo venezolanos que después de haber recibido el beneficio de casa por celda, fueron devueltos a la prisión que les corresponde como delincuentes políticos, por haber violado las normas de dicho beneficio.
Al respecto se dijo: “Este caso ha sido visto por la comunidad internacional como una violación a los derechos humanos por parte del gobierno de Venezuela”, lo mismo se lee en la prensa escrita como remache para justificar las acciones injerencistas e intervencionistas de cualquier país soberano que defienda su dignidad y su derecho a ser libre. Al referirse a la “Comunidad Internacional” lo que se pretende, es dar a creer que todo el mundo está contra Venezuela y su gobierno legítimo, cosa totalmente falsa.
A propósito de ‘Comunidad internacional’ traigo a la memoria las reflexiones del escritor por excelencia de América latina, Eduardo Galeano; él decía que esa linda frase ha perdido todo su significado, porque hoy se entiende por ‘comunidad internacional’, al grupo de cinco países banqueros quienes toman las decisiones por resto de los países del mundo y nos imponen las reglas de cómo debemos vivir y el tipo de democracia que debemos adoptar.
¿Cuál es esa ‘comunidad internacional’ que habla de violación de derechos humanos en Venezuela? ¿acaso la comunidad internacional la componen Estados Unidos, Canadá y los otros 11 países que busca justificar una intervención descarada e injustificable contra en pueblo venezolano? ¿Y los otros 22 países que también son parte del continente, y que respaldan la soberanía de Venezuela, no cuentan en la llamada ‘comunidad internacional’? ¿Cuál es la moral de esos 13 países si además de ser violadores de los derechos humanos en sus propios pueblos también se destacan como violadores del derecho internacional? El gobierno de Canadá también tiene récord ante la ONU de serias violaciones de derecho humanos contra los pueblos nativos y otros casos como los llamados homeless, gente que vive en la calle por falta de un techo para vivir.
Y que pasa si hablamos de las otras potencias como Rusia, China y la India más 54 países que han hecho público su respaldo al gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro. ¿Dónde queda entonces la tal ‘comunidad internacional’ a la que se refieren las Voces vendidas de los medios de comunicación tanto escritas como radiales? Es más, el presidente del concejo de seguridad de la ONU ha declarado hoy dos de agosto que “Venezuela no representa una amenaza para la paz y la seguridad internacional…”
Ya es tiempo de rectificar y aclarar el concepto de Comunidad Internacional porque no existe como tal, y solo se invoca velada mente para manipular la opinión publica, pero los pueblos están despertando y ya no se le puede dar “atol con el dedo” como dice el refrán.
“No caigas en el peor de los errores: el silencio”. Walt whithman, poeta estadounidense.
Rodolfo Molina, 2 de agosto,2017
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No hay quien pueda con el pueblo de Hugo Chávez
(por Carlos Aznárez)
Julio 30, 2017
Escribo esta nota desde las entrañas y con toda la parcialidad que el momento que vive el continente exige. Conmovido hasta el límite por la nueva demostración de sabiduría, valentía y entusiasmo que brindó al continente el pueblo bolivariano.
¿Qué no han hecho en estos últimos meses los enemigos de la paz para que este día venturoso no llegara nunca? ¿Qué no ha generado la maquinaria de muerte y terror de una oposición que hoy ha quedado aplastada por toneladas de votos para que usted doña y usted don, se quedara paralizado en su vivienda y no saliera a cumplir con el mandato histórico de derrotarlos?.
Apelaron a todo: a querer matar de hambre con el desabastecimiento, a que niños y ancianos padecieran la falta de medicamentos elementales, solo por poner al chavismo de rodillas. Mientras en los barrios y parroquias humildes de cada gran ciudad surgían colas (a veces de desespero) para conseguir leche, harina pan o papel de baño, ellos, los opulentos de siempre se jactaban que en sus barrios del Este todo les sobraba. ¡Criminales!
Cuando esa maldita guerra económica ya no les alcanzaba movilizaron todo ese dinero que les llega por millones desde Miami o los centros de poder occidental adversos a esa Revolución que quisieran ver enterrada, y generaron otro tipo de guarimbas, más letales, más destructivas, más inimaginables para cualquier persona con sentido común.
Quemaron vivos a sus propios vecinos, lincharon con horcas que rememoraban al Klan estadounidense, o a golpes de bate de béisbol. Asesinaron por doquier, y se “enorgullecieron” de hacerlo porque para ello tenían y tienen a los medios hegemónicos de su lado. ¡Criminales!
Hoy mismo, desesperados porque el pueblo no les responde destruyeron máquinas de votación y atentaron con explosivos, allí en pleno centro de esa plaza de Altamira que utilizan como santuario, a guardias nacionales bolivarianos. Su propuesta siempre es el terror y se sentían impunes hasta hace muy poco, cuando las Fuerzas Armadas Bolivarianas (a las que intentaron vanamente quebrar) ganó las calles para defender al pueblo.
A nivel de presión internacional, estos que hoy no saben como explicarles a sus amos qué es lo que ha ocurrido, también tuvieron un acompañamiento descomunal. No faltó nadie en el tren de la injerencia y la desestabilización. Desde Trump con sus sanciones económicas y nueva forma de bloqueo hasta las maniobras de Almagro, la OEA, Macri, Temer, Bachelet, Kuzinsky, Cartes, Rajoy, Felipe González y la madre que los parió. Todos y todas ellos se anotaron en la lista de los posibles “reconstructores” de la Venezuela destruida por los cachorros locales del ISIS. Se imaginaban Libia e Iraq, pero no se dieron cuenta que Venezuela se parece más a la victoriosa Siria de Bachar y el pueblo hecho ejército.
Por fin, arribaron a esta última semana, de bomba en bomba, de incendio en incendio, de amenaza internacional a discurso provocador. Pusieron todo lo que tenían y más, para que Caracas ardiera por los cuatro costados y que algunos Estados se fragmentaran en islotes “balcánicos” frente al gobierno “tiránico” de Maduro. La CNN bramaba de mentiras, “El País” españolazo convocaba, junto a Felipe González, a un golpe militar. ¡Patéticos!
Todo este derroche para que un pueblo no votara. Parece broma, cuando los que tanto se llenan de la palabra “democracia” se oponen ahora a que el soberano emita un sufragio. Lo que no harían (ya lo sabemos, por experiencia) si este pueblo harto de provocaciones decidieran tomar otros caminos de autodefensa!
Sin embargo, el famoso “Día D” de la MUD se fue postergando hora a hora, el paro general quedó chamuscado por falta de apoyo, las barricadas del miedo se redujeron a su barrios y tanto destruyeron que hasta sus propios alentadores (los vecinos que antes les abrían sus puertas para que cargaran gasolina en sus molotov) empezaron a regañarlos y a apartarse. Un fiasco esta “resistencia” que jamás debería haber osado apoderarse de esa sacrosanta palabra de nuestros pueblos de la Patria Grande.
Hasta que llegamos a este domingo de júbilo para la democracia participativa. La gente salió a votar desde las primeras horas, desbordó algunos centros como el Poliedro de Caracas, cruzó ríos y caminó por montes (como en Táchira) para evitar a los violentos, se fueron ayudando unos a otros, mano con mano, haciendo de la fraternidad un símbolo tal que los mercenarios del MUD jamás habrán de conocer. Esa sublime dignidad que no se forja en el poder del dinero, sino en lo que el Comandante Eterno Hugo Chávez tanto repetía: “amor con amor se paga”.
El voto se hizo masa, y la masa arrasó con toda la carroña que intentó insuflar el imperio y sus discípulos locales. Este domingo es de gloria. Solo basta ver la impotencia en los rostros de los “comunicadores” del sistema. Queda reafirmada la Revolución, el liderazgo de los de abajo, los poderes comunales, la fuerza indestructible de la unidad pueblo y ejército, el mandato de Nicolás Maduro y por sobre todo el legado de Hugo Chávez Frías. Todos estos elementos se combinaron para que las mujeres y hombres de Venezuela se sintieran más bolivarianos que nunca y se echaran la mochila al hombro para salir a votar. Vencedores, alegres y rebeldes, auténticos resistentes para imponer la paz, le guste a quien le guste.
A partir de mañana, comienza una nueva etapa, el enemigo planeará nuevas maldades pero está herido del ala, y los que hoy se jugaron el cuerpo para decirle presente a la Revolución, exigirán profundizarla, corregir los errores, eliminar las barreras burocráticas, eliminar a los corruptos. Querrán más socialismo. ¿Con todo lo hecho hoy, quien se animará a decirles que esperen, que aún no es tiempo?
¿Qué no han hecho en estos últimos meses los enemigos de la paz para que este día venturoso no llegara nunca? ¿Qué no ha generado la maquinaria de muerte y terror de una oposición que hoy ha quedado aplastada por toneladas de votos para que usted doña y usted don, se quedara paralizado en su vivienda y no saliera a cumplir con el mandato histórico de derrotarlos?.
Apelaron a todo: a querer matar de hambre con el desabastecimiento, a que niños y ancianos padecieran la falta de medicamentos elementales, solo por poner al chavismo de rodillas. Mientras en los barrios y parroquias humildes de cada gran ciudad surgían colas (a veces de desespero) para conseguir leche, harina pan o papel de baño, ellos, los opulentos de siempre se jactaban que en sus barrios del Este todo les sobraba. ¡Criminales!
Cuando esa maldita guerra económica ya no les alcanzaba movilizaron todo ese dinero que les llega por millones desde Miami o los centros de poder occidental adversos a esa Revolución que quisieran ver enterrada, y generaron otro tipo de guarimbas, más letales, más destructivas, más inimaginables para cualquier persona con sentido común.
Quemaron vivos a sus propios vecinos, lincharon con horcas que rememoraban al Klan estadounidense, o a golpes de bate de béisbol. Asesinaron por doquier, y se “enorgullecieron” de hacerlo porque para ello tenían y tienen a los medios hegemónicos de su lado. ¡Criminales!
Hoy mismo, desesperados porque el pueblo no les responde destruyeron máquinas de votación y atentaron con explosivos, allí en pleno centro de esa plaza de Altamira que utilizan como santuario, a guardias nacionales bolivarianos. Su propuesta siempre es el terror y se sentían impunes hasta hace muy poco, cuando las Fuerzas Armadas Bolivarianas (a las que intentaron vanamente quebrar) ganó las calles para defender al pueblo.
A nivel de presión internacional, estos que hoy no saben como explicarles a sus amos qué es lo que ha ocurrido, también tuvieron un acompañamiento descomunal. No faltó nadie en el tren de la injerencia y la desestabilización. Desde Trump con sus sanciones económicas y nueva forma de bloqueo hasta las maniobras de Almagro, la OEA, Macri, Temer, Bachelet, Kuzinsky, Cartes, Rajoy, Felipe González y la madre que los parió. Todos y todas ellos se anotaron en la lista de los posibles “reconstructores” de la Venezuela destruida por los cachorros locales del ISIS. Se imaginaban Libia e Iraq, pero no se dieron cuenta que Venezuela se parece más a la victoriosa Siria de Bachar y el pueblo hecho ejército.
Por fin, arribaron a esta última semana, de bomba en bomba, de incendio en incendio, de amenaza internacional a discurso provocador. Pusieron todo lo que tenían y más, para que Caracas ardiera por los cuatro costados y que algunos Estados se fragmentaran en islotes “balcánicos” frente al gobierno “tiránico” de Maduro. La CNN bramaba de mentiras, “El País” españolazo convocaba, junto a Felipe González, a un golpe militar. ¡Patéticos!
Todo este derroche para que un pueblo no votara. Parece broma, cuando los que tanto se llenan de la palabra “democracia” se oponen ahora a que el soberano emita un sufragio. Lo que no harían (ya lo sabemos, por experiencia) si este pueblo harto de provocaciones decidieran tomar otros caminos de autodefensa!
Sin embargo, el famoso “Día D” de la MUD se fue postergando hora a hora, el paro general quedó chamuscado por falta de apoyo, las barricadas del miedo se redujeron a su barrios y tanto destruyeron que hasta sus propios alentadores (los vecinos que antes les abrían sus puertas para que cargaran gasolina en sus molotov) empezaron a regañarlos y a apartarse. Un fiasco esta “resistencia” que jamás debería haber osado apoderarse de esa sacrosanta palabra de nuestros pueblos de la Patria Grande.
Hasta que llegamos a este domingo de júbilo para la democracia participativa. La gente salió a votar desde las primeras horas, desbordó algunos centros como el Poliedro de Caracas, cruzó ríos y caminó por montes (como en Táchira) para evitar a los violentos, se fueron ayudando unos a otros, mano con mano, haciendo de la fraternidad un símbolo tal que los mercenarios del MUD jamás habrán de conocer. Esa sublime dignidad que no se forja en el poder del dinero, sino en lo que el Comandante Eterno Hugo Chávez tanto repetía: “amor con amor se paga”.
El voto se hizo masa, y la masa arrasó con toda la carroña que intentó insuflar el imperio y sus discípulos locales. Este domingo es de gloria. Solo basta ver la impotencia en los rostros de los “comunicadores” del sistema. Queda reafirmada la Revolución, el liderazgo de los de abajo, los poderes comunales, la fuerza indestructible de la unidad pueblo y ejército, el mandato de Nicolás Maduro y por sobre todo el legado de Hugo Chávez Frías. Todos estos elementos se combinaron para que las mujeres y hombres de Venezuela se sintieran más bolivarianos que nunca y se echaran la mochila al hombro para salir a votar. Vencedores, alegres y rebeldes, auténticos resistentes para imponer la paz, le guste a quien le guste.
A partir de mañana, comienza una nueva etapa, el enemigo planeará nuevas maldades pero está herido del ala, y los que hoy se jugaron el cuerpo para decirle presente a la Revolución, exigirán profundizarla, corregir los errores, eliminar las barreras burocráticas, eliminar a los corruptos. Querrán más socialismo. ¿Con todo lo hecho hoy, quien se animará a decirles que esperen, que aún no es tiempo?
TORONTO, 24 DE JULIO:
NATALICIO DEL LIBERTADOR SIMON BOLIVAR
SI A LA CONSTITUYENTE!!
Latest Venezuelan Opposition Coup Attempt Against Maduro Linked to DEA, CIA
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.
By Whitney Webb June 30, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - CARACAS–
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.
READ MORE HERE ....
By Whitney Webb June 30, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - CARACAS–
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.
READ MORE HERE ....
NEW!!
Soldier Killed, Three More Burned Alive
Venezuela’s Maduro Condemns Helicopter Attack on Supreme Court, Justice Ministry
Venezuela Slams OAS, Opposition Silence After Helicopter 'Terror' Attack
LA RAZÓN FUNDAMENTAL DEL ACOSO DE E.U. A VENEZUELA: ES EL PAÍS CON LOS MAYORES RECURSOS NATURALES Y RESERVAS ENERGÉTICAS DEL PLANETA
CIBERSUR - Cronicon, June 2017
Algo sorprendente sucede en Venezuela. En el programa de televisión Dossier dirigido por el periodista Walter Martínez se reveló que esta nación suramericana además de ser una de las principales productoras de petróleo en el mundo, cuenta con recursos minerales de un valor extraordinario bajo su superficie, que jamás se hubiesen pensado que existieran.
En efecto, Venezuela no solo es la primera reserva de petróleo del mundo, con más de 490 mil millones de barriles de crudo, superior a la mitad de todos los países del Medio Oriente unidos, sino también la segunda reserva de gas del planeta, la primera reserva de oro con más de 11 mil toneladas bajo su superficie, el segundo caudal de agua dulce más grande de la tierra, la segunda reserva de coltán (oro azul o mineral de la muerte), la segunda reserva de uranio del mundo. Y para mayor sorpresa se ha detectado la reserva de thorium más grande sobre la faz de la tierra cuyo tamaño es dos veces superior a la reserva de petróleo que cruza la mitad del país.
Este sorprendente mineral es 90% más poderoso que toda la energía que produce el uranio en una explosión nuclear. Se estaría hablando del mineral que permite la evolución del poder de las armas nucleares más poderosas ya existentes.
El descubrimiento de este elemento químico pone en mayor alerta al país bolivariano porque podría significar una agresión de mayor escala contra Venezuela por parte de la mayor potencia armada y sedienta de poder como es Estados Unidos.
Para hablar sobre dicho hallazgo y los niveles de acoso de Washington para apoderarse de los recursos naturales de Venezuela, Walter Martínez entrevistó en su programa Dossier al general de brigada y doctor de Seguridad y Desarrollo, Roberto González Cárdenas.
En el siguiente video la entrevista completa:
En efecto, Venezuela no solo es la primera reserva de petróleo del mundo, con más de 490 mil millones de barriles de crudo, superior a la mitad de todos los países del Medio Oriente unidos, sino también la segunda reserva de gas del planeta, la primera reserva de oro con más de 11 mil toneladas bajo su superficie, el segundo caudal de agua dulce más grande de la tierra, la segunda reserva de coltán (oro azul o mineral de la muerte), la segunda reserva de uranio del mundo. Y para mayor sorpresa se ha detectado la reserva de thorium más grande sobre la faz de la tierra cuyo tamaño es dos veces superior a la reserva de petróleo que cruza la mitad del país.
Este sorprendente mineral es 90% más poderoso que toda la energía que produce el uranio en una explosión nuclear. Se estaría hablando del mineral que permite la evolución del poder de las armas nucleares más poderosas ya existentes.
El descubrimiento de este elemento químico pone en mayor alerta al país bolivariano porque podría significar una agresión de mayor escala contra Venezuela por parte de la mayor potencia armada y sedienta de poder como es Estados Unidos.
Para hablar sobre dicho hallazgo y los niveles de acoso de Washington para apoderarse de los recursos naturales de Venezuela, Walter Martínez entrevistó en su programa Dossier al general de brigada y doctor de Seguridad y Desarrollo, Roberto González Cárdenas.
En el siguiente video la entrevista completa:
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World Ignores Opposition Violence
at Venezuela
Canadians Rally in Support of
Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
SEE PICTURES HERE: Dozens gathered outside Toronto city hall to demand the international community respect Venezuela's sovereignty.
MORE PICS BELOW!
Canadians rallied in front of Toronto City Hall Friday in support of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Participating groups included Hugo Chavez Peoples Defense Front, Circulo Bolivariano, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Siglo XXI and the Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance.
The rally comes as Maduro reiterates his hopes for peace and stability with the coming of the national Constituent Assembly.
Dozens of Maduro supporters gathered outside Toronto city hall to show their support for the Venezuelan government. The Venezuelan government has come under increasing attack from organizations like the OAS and mainstream media which have blamed Maduro for the recent violent protests. The Canadian solidarity rally with Venezuela follows similar shows of support from Cuba and Bolivia.
The protesters held up signs condemning calls for intervention and showing support for the national constituent assembly. The Canadian protesters waved signs reminding the public President Maduro was democratically elected to counter claims the Venezuelan president is a dictator. The Canadian rally comes amid mounting right-wing violence with over 70 people killed since April. The protesters voiced their support for the national constituent assembly as a way to ease the rising tensions.
MORE PICS BELOW!
Canadians rallied in front of Toronto City Hall Friday in support of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Participating groups included Hugo Chavez Peoples Defense Front, Circulo Bolivariano, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Siglo XXI and the Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance.
The rally comes as Maduro reiterates his hopes for peace and stability with the coming of the national Constituent Assembly.
Dozens of Maduro supporters gathered outside Toronto city hall to show their support for the Venezuelan government. The Venezuelan government has come under increasing attack from organizations like the OAS and mainstream media which have blamed Maduro for the recent violent protests. The Canadian solidarity rally with Venezuela follows similar shows of support from Cuba and Bolivia.
The protesters held up signs condemning calls for intervention and showing support for the national constituent assembly. The Canadian protesters waved signs reminding the public President Maduro was democratically elected to counter claims the Venezuelan president is a dictator. The Canadian rally comes amid mounting right-wing violence with over 70 people killed since April. The protesters voiced their support for the national constituent assembly as a way to ease the rising tensions.
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When everything makes sense:
The Southern Command offensive against Venezuela
By: Mariadela Villanueva / Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News / April 20, 2016
The Southern Command, the armed arm of corporations in the region, can’t afford wasting any time. The pressure is increasingly more evident and the distance between the current reality with what they had planned, hampers their narrative, that is, the attempts of their media to hide what in fact is a well-orchestrated plan that now is fully under way.
This is the second phase of the operation called “Venezuela Freedom”, according to the document that the organism Misión Verdad [Mission Truth] has managed to access. It outlines the second phase —because the first one was developed by Tidd’s predecessor, General John Kelly, “was seen in action in the latest events”.
The document is based on the fundamental speech that Kelly gave in front of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, on March 12, 2015, and which was then reviewed. Namely, the intervention focuses on the humanitarian crisis caused by “rampant violence, crime and poverty, inflation, and severe shortages of food, medicine and electricity”.
As we know, the “humanitarian crisis” forecast was the main focus in the MUD’s campaign. In this sense, the chief of the Southern Command pointed out that “the defeat in the elections and the internal breakdown of the populist and anti-US regime is a testimony of the successful impact of the policies that we have promoted with allied forces in the region, in the phase 1 of this operation, amongst the most prominent ones we find:
The document is a proof that there is in fact an openly-declared war. According to Tidd, “in spite of rivalries and disgregation within their ranks, due to different interests and points of view, the MUD and its allies have taken advantage of the circumstances to grow”.
But such “courtesy” in discourse, lets through that this union meant little, given that, in the next sentence to the Admiral says, “our opportune intervention has allowed us to draw a path for a quick way out of the regime. Something that definitely goes beyond the political capacity of the MUD.
“While the peaceful, legal and electoral way is being promoted, there’s a growing conviction that it is necessary to press with street demonstrations, in order to force military contingents to focus on maintaining internal order and government security. This situation will become untenable as more conflicts and pressures break out”, concludes Tidd in his diagnosis.
This is the basis, and now the new leadership of the Southern Command is now analysing “a set of recommendations for the second phase, effective for a new intervention in Venezuela”.
“Encirclement and suffocation”: Admiral Tidd’s 12 recommendations Continue reading here!
This is the second phase of the operation called “Venezuela Freedom”, according to the document that the organism Misión Verdad [Mission Truth] has managed to access. It outlines the second phase —because the first one was developed by Tidd’s predecessor, General John Kelly, “was seen in action in the latest events”.
The document is based on the fundamental speech that Kelly gave in front of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, on March 12, 2015, and which was then reviewed. Namely, the intervention focuses on the humanitarian crisis caused by “rampant violence, crime and poverty, inflation, and severe shortages of food, medicine and electricity”.
As we know, the “humanitarian crisis” forecast was the main focus in the MUD’s campaign. In this sense, the chief of the Southern Command pointed out that “the defeat in the elections and the internal breakdown of the populist and anti-US regime is a testimony of the successful impact of the policies that we have promoted with allied forces in the region, in the phase 1 of this operation, amongst the most prominent ones we find:
- Putting in evidence Nicolas Maduro’s nature as authoritarian and violator of human rights.
- Using the mechanism of the Executive Order as part of a strategy that can justify the development of our policy, with the legal basis of the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.
- International isolation and disqualification of the democratic system, given that autonomy and power separation are not being respected.
- Creation of an environment that enables the implementation of the OAS Democratic Charter.
- Put in the international agenda the premise of “humanitarian crisis” what may allow an intervention with the support of multilateral organisms, including the UN.
The document is a proof that there is in fact an openly-declared war. According to Tidd, “in spite of rivalries and disgregation within their ranks, due to different interests and points of view, the MUD and its allies have taken advantage of the circumstances to grow”.
But such “courtesy” in discourse, lets through that this union meant little, given that, in the next sentence to the Admiral says, “our opportune intervention has allowed us to draw a path for a quick way out of the regime. Something that definitely goes beyond the political capacity of the MUD.
“While the peaceful, legal and electoral way is being promoted, there’s a growing conviction that it is necessary to press with street demonstrations, in order to force military contingents to focus on maintaining internal order and government security. This situation will become untenable as more conflicts and pressures break out”, concludes Tidd in his diagnosis.
This is the basis, and now the new leadership of the Southern Command is now analysing “a set of recommendations for the second phase, effective for a new intervention in Venezuela”.
“Encirclement and suffocation”: Admiral Tidd’s 12 recommendations Continue reading here!
OAS: STOP VIOLENCE IN VENEZUELA!
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Whereas:
· The Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro was democratically elected in 2013 for a 6-year term;
· The Venezuelan opposition, led by extreme right groups with strong links to Colombian paramilitary forces, have activated a plan to overthrow the democratic elected government of President Nicolas Maduro, and have been responsible for the recent episodes of violence occurred in Venezuela resulting in more than 10 killings and dozens of people hurt;
· The violent extremist groups that operate inside the Venezuelan opposition and openly call for a “regime change”, have set buildings on fire, fired guns and randomly killed people; and attacked for 4 hours a maternity hospital endangering the lives of staff, mothers and newborn babies, among others;
· The opposition are backed by transnational interest groups that wants to topple the government and control the oil money as it did in the past when left the country with 80% of poverty;
· The government of President Nicolas Maduro has recently excelled in the OHCHR Universal Periodic Review and UNDP report, achieving the millennium goals and gaining a high level of human development; and has been praised by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization for the outstanding accomplishments in food security;
· The Venezuelan government has fully respected peaceful demonstrations, and acted according the law and the Constitution, always respecting all human rights;
· Venezuela will hold elections, as they are scheduled - as per the Constitution - for the regions this year and the presidency next year, since Venezuela is the country of the region that has had most elections: 18 in 17 years (presidential, regional, and a few referendums), having been praised by President Jimmy Carter, who has publicly stated that Venezuela’s electoral process is the best in the world;
· The elections in Venezuela are carried out by an independent entity - the Conseco National Electoral - that has constitutional power and is not accountable to the Executive Power;
· The opposition abandoned the dialogue process for peace and understanding with the government, brokered by the mediation of UNASUR, former presidents Rodriguez Zapatero from Spain, Manuel Torrijos from Panama and Leonel Fernandez from Dominican Republic, and Pope Francis;
· On the 19th of April, the international press did not report on the 3 million strong march in favour of the government - one of the three largest marches ever in the country, (the other two occurred during President Chavez's government), and have also failed to report on the violence carried out by the opposition;
· The economic downturn in Venezuela is due to the fall in oil prices, and the economic warfare orchestrated by the wealthy elite along with its corporate partners, by hoarding, smuggling and provoking the scarcity of products in a mixed economy where the distribution of foodstuffs is in the hands of large private monopolies;
· The government has countered the economic situation by subsidising basic food products and distributed them through popular councils, without implementing austerity policies;
· The opposition has used the economic problems as a reason to topple the government, which constitutes a dangerous precedent for all democratic governments in the region;
· Several governments in the region and the world have intervened in the internal affairs of Venezuela in a clear violation of its sovereignty and self-determination. Instead, the international community must assume a constructive approach, based on dialogue and mutual respect, fully respecting the Venezuelan sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people.
We, the undersigned:
1. Condemn the violent acts carried out by the Venezuelan opposition that, as it did in the past, have caused deaths, dozens of people injured and destruction;
2. Support the dialogue process between the government and the opposition, with the mediation of UNASUR, former presidents Rodriguez Zapatero from Spain, Manuel Torrijos from Panama and Leonel Fernandez from Dominican Republic, and Pope Francis;
3. Demand the opposition to behave responsibly and democratically, to stop plotting against the democratic elected government, to engage in the dialogue process and to respect the Constitution and the electoral schedule set by the Electoral Council.
LACSN:
Casa Salvador Allende
Circulo Bolivariano Louis Riel (Toronto) [email protected]
Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA)
Grupo Cultural Víctor Jara
Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS)
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN)
and a group of Individual Members!!
April 26th, 2017
· The Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro was democratically elected in 2013 for a 6-year term;
· The Venezuelan opposition, led by extreme right groups with strong links to Colombian paramilitary forces, have activated a plan to overthrow the democratic elected government of President Nicolas Maduro, and have been responsible for the recent episodes of violence occurred in Venezuela resulting in more than 10 killings and dozens of people hurt;
· The violent extremist groups that operate inside the Venezuelan opposition and openly call for a “regime change”, have set buildings on fire, fired guns and randomly killed people; and attacked for 4 hours a maternity hospital endangering the lives of staff, mothers and newborn babies, among others;
· The opposition are backed by transnational interest groups that wants to topple the government and control the oil money as it did in the past when left the country with 80% of poverty;
· The government of President Nicolas Maduro has recently excelled in the OHCHR Universal Periodic Review and UNDP report, achieving the millennium goals and gaining a high level of human development; and has been praised by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization for the outstanding accomplishments in food security;
· The Venezuelan government has fully respected peaceful demonstrations, and acted according the law and the Constitution, always respecting all human rights;
· Venezuela will hold elections, as they are scheduled - as per the Constitution - for the regions this year and the presidency next year, since Venezuela is the country of the region that has had most elections: 18 in 17 years (presidential, regional, and a few referendums), having been praised by President Jimmy Carter, who has publicly stated that Venezuela’s electoral process is the best in the world;
· The elections in Venezuela are carried out by an independent entity - the Conseco National Electoral - that has constitutional power and is not accountable to the Executive Power;
· The opposition abandoned the dialogue process for peace and understanding with the government, brokered by the mediation of UNASUR, former presidents Rodriguez Zapatero from Spain, Manuel Torrijos from Panama and Leonel Fernandez from Dominican Republic, and Pope Francis;
· On the 19th of April, the international press did not report on the 3 million strong march in favour of the government - one of the three largest marches ever in the country, (the other two occurred during President Chavez's government), and have also failed to report on the violence carried out by the opposition;
· The economic downturn in Venezuela is due to the fall in oil prices, and the economic warfare orchestrated by the wealthy elite along with its corporate partners, by hoarding, smuggling and provoking the scarcity of products in a mixed economy where the distribution of foodstuffs is in the hands of large private monopolies;
· The government has countered the economic situation by subsidising basic food products and distributed them through popular councils, without implementing austerity policies;
· The opposition has used the economic problems as a reason to topple the government, which constitutes a dangerous precedent for all democratic governments in the region;
· Several governments in the region and the world have intervened in the internal affairs of Venezuela in a clear violation of its sovereignty and self-determination. Instead, the international community must assume a constructive approach, based on dialogue and mutual respect, fully respecting the Venezuelan sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people.
We, the undersigned:
1. Condemn the violent acts carried out by the Venezuelan opposition that, as it did in the past, have caused deaths, dozens of people injured and destruction;
2. Support the dialogue process between the government and the opposition, with the mediation of UNASUR, former presidents Rodriguez Zapatero from Spain, Manuel Torrijos from Panama and Leonel Fernandez from Dominican Republic, and Pope Francis;
3. Demand the opposition to behave responsibly and democratically, to stop plotting against the democratic elected government, to engage in the dialogue process and to respect the Constitution and the electoral schedule set by the Electoral Council.
LACSN:
Casa Salvador Allende
Circulo Bolivariano Louis Riel (Toronto) [email protected]
Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA)
Grupo Cultural Víctor Jara
Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS)
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN)
and a group of Individual Members!!
April 26th, 2017
Venezuela!! Ultimas noticias aqui:
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- Bolivia ratifica su defensa a Venezuela ante conducta intervencionista de Luis Almagro
- Secretario general de la OEA anunció medidas contra Venezuela
- Venezuela's Economic Crisis: Does It Mean That the Left Has Failed?
La derecha venezolana intenta dar un golpe
de Estado parlamentario
TeleSUR, Oct. 23, 2016
El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela declaró en desacato a la junta directiva de la Asamblea Nacional por juramentar a tres ciudadanos sin autorización del máximo tribunal.
La Asamblea Nacional (AN) de Venezuela realizó este domingo una sesión ordinaria a pesar de que se encuentra en desacato al Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ), con el objetivo de desconocer el mandato constitucional del Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro, y dar así un golpe de Estado parlamentario.
El mandatario venezolano se encuentra en una gira internacional por países exportadores de petróleo con el objetivo de estabilizar el mercado mundial del crudo, apegado a sus atribuciones legales.
La derecha venezolana, mayoría en el Parlamento, aprobó en la sesión de este domingo un "acuerdo para la restitución del orden constitucional" en el país, acusando al presidente Nicolás Maduro de abandonar el cargo, declarando una ruptura del orden constitucional y anunciando una denuncia ante la Corte Penal Internacional contra jueces y rectores responsables de suspender el proceso de Referendo Revocatorio.
El acuerdo también señala que se designarán a tes nuevos rectores principales y suplentes del Poder Electoral, y nuevos magistrados del TSJ.
El diputado por el Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Héctor Rodríguez, aseguró que la mayoría parlamentaria de derecha está “intentando dar un golpe de Estado parlamentario como se hizo en Brasil y Paraguay, un intento burdo de copiar porque en Venezuela no hay condiciones para un golpe".
El abogado constitucionalista Enrique Tineo explicó a teleSUR que "Venezuela corre el riesgo de que se pueda entronizar la impunidad ya que la oposición está atentando a la constitucionalidad, creando falsos supuestos de que el Presidente abandonó el país, cuando solo está cumpliendo sus facultades como jefe de Estado al realizar una gira internacional” por países productores de petróleo.
Venezuela no hará referendo revocatorio este año por los ilícitos cometidos por la MUD durante la recolección del 1 por ciento de voluntades.
Los tribunales penales de los estados Trujillo, Aragua, Bolívar, Carabobo, Monagas, Apure y Zulia, suspendieron la segunda fase del proceso para activar el referendo revocatorio (recolección del 20 por ciento de las firmas) por las irregularidades presentadas en la primera etapa.
La Asamblea Nacional (AN) de Venezuela realizó este domingo una sesión ordinaria a pesar de que se encuentra en desacato al Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ), con el objetivo de desconocer el mandato constitucional del Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro, y dar así un golpe de Estado parlamentario.
El mandatario venezolano se encuentra en una gira internacional por países exportadores de petróleo con el objetivo de estabilizar el mercado mundial del crudo, apegado a sus atribuciones legales.
La derecha venezolana, mayoría en el Parlamento, aprobó en la sesión de este domingo un "acuerdo para la restitución del orden constitucional" en el país, acusando al presidente Nicolás Maduro de abandonar el cargo, declarando una ruptura del orden constitucional y anunciando una denuncia ante la Corte Penal Internacional contra jueces y rectores responsables de suspender el proceso de Referendo Revocatorio.
El acuerdo también señala que se designarán a tes nuevos rectores principales y suplentes del Poder Electoral, y nuevos magistrados del TSJ.
El diputado por el Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Héctor Rodríguez, aseguró que la mayoría parlamentaria de derecha está “intentando dar un golpe de Estado parlamentario como se hizo en Brasil y Paraguay, un intento burdo de copiar porque en Venezuela no hay condiciones para un golpe".
El abogado constitucionalista Enrique Tineo explicó a teleSUR que "Venezuela corre el riesgo de que se pueda entronizar la impunidad ya que la oposición está atentando a la constitucionalidad, creando falsos supuestos de que el Presidente abandonó el país, cuando solo está cumpliendo sus facultades como jefe de Estado al realizar una gira internacional” por países productores de petróleo.
Venezuela no hará referendo revocatorio este año por los ilícitos cometidos por la MUD durante la recolección del 1 por ciento de voluntades.
Los tribunales penales de los estados Trujillo, Aragua, Bolívar, Carabobo, Monagas, Apure y Zulia, suspendieron la segunda fase del proceso para activar el referendo revocatorio (recolección del 20 por ciento de las firmas) por las irregularidades presentadas en la primera etapa.
Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage Of Venezuela
By Telesur October 20, 2016
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution.
While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilization efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks. In 2010, Clinton asked Arturo Valenzuela, then assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, how “to rein in Chavez.” Valenzuela responded that, “We need to carefully consider the consequences of publicly confronting him but ought to look at opportunities for others in the region to help.”
His answer was in line with the U.S. embassy strategy in 2006, also revealed in WikiLeaks intelligence cables: “Creative U.S. outreach to Chavez’ regional partners will drive a wedge between him and them,” said the confidential cable from the embassy. “By refusing to take each of Chavez’s outbursts seriously, we frustrate him even more, paving the way for additional Bolivarian miscalculations. We also allow room for other international actors to respond.”
Spain was among the countries willing to help the U.S. in its subversive foreign relations strategy. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed on a message from the administration of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 expressing intentions “to re-orient Spanish foreign policy so that it can work with the U.S. in Latin America, especially on Venezuela and Cuba … As a transition in Cuba and something significant in Venezuela (and possibly the Andes) loom, a stronger working relationship between the U.S. and Spain could be very helpful.”
When keeping an eye on regional meetings, Clinton was especially concerned with Venezuela. Responding to a United Nations statement against the coup in Honduras in 2009—that she supported—Clinton shifted the attention to Venezuela: “Ok—but have they ever condemned Venezuela for denying press freedom?” she wrote to Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan. He responded “I highly doubt it. And that is just the tip of the iceberg,” to which Clinton wrote, “Ah, the proverbial iceberg.”
Clinton was cautious not to respond to all of Hugo Chavez’s “antics,” but her staff insisted that Venezuelan politics were a threat to U.S. interests.
An email advising how to spend USAID funds strongly suggested refraining from backing leftist states like Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba because the money “could undermine real democratic development to hand over ‘ownership’ to populist centralizers.”
Clinton should use language like “‘local ownership’ in a nuanced way” to avoid having her words “used against her by demagogues and kleptocrats,” said the email. Any funds channeled into such unreliable states, it added, must be accompanied by “(h)uman behavioral changes.”
International aid to Venezuela was siphoned off, but broadcasts to counter local “propaganda” were amplified.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors—which runs the Marti stations, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks—requested more funding in a 2010 email forwarded to Clinton to “combat the public diplomacy efforts of America’s ‘enemies,’ which he (chairman Walter Isaacson) identifies as Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China.”
The BBG, with a US$700 million annual budget—now increased to over US$750 million, though not because of Clinton—was “facing increased competition from other governments’ forays into international broadcasting … including Venezuela’s teleSUR.”A month later, when the board was facing cuts, Cuban-born Florida Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen suggested focusing resources on high-priority countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. “Let the fun begin—and let’s keep going w(ith) our plans,” responded Clinton.
Another leaked email from Stratfor described the BBG as “responsible for the radio and TV aggressions against Cuba,” which received its own category of state funding of nearly US$40 million. The board separated from State Department control in 1999, officially becoming an independent agency. “Congress agreed that credibility of U.S. international broadcasting was crucial to its effectiveness as a public diplomacy tool,” according to Congress’s 2008 budget on foreign operations.
While giving the cold shoulder to Venezuela, Clinton was cozy with Latin American players that opposed the country’s leftist politics. Her counselor and chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, forwarded her a recommendation for Mari Carmen Aponte to be appointed as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, noted the email, “has consistently fought Cuba and Venezuela’s efforts to gain influence in Central America and as a result of her negotiating skills, the U.S. and El Salvador will open a new, jointly-funded, electronic monitoring center that will be an invaluable tool in fighting transnational crime.”
She won the appointment and later became assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Clinton also drew fire for saying, “We’re winning!” when the Venezuelan opposition won a majority of seats in parliament in 2015 and for serving as secretary of state while the National Security Administration regularly spied on Venezuela.
While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilization efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks. In 2010, Clinton asked Arturo Valenzuela, then assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, how “to rein in Chavez.” Valenzuela responded that, “We need to carefully consider the consequences of publicly confronting him but ought to look at opportunities for others in the region to help.”
His answer was in line with the U.S. embassy strategy in 2006, also revealed in WikiLeaks intelligence cables: “Creative U.S. outreach to Chavez’ regional partners will drive a wedge between him and them,” said the confidential cable from the embassy. “By refusing to take each of Chavez’s outbursts seriously, we frustrate him even more, paving the way for additional Bolivarian miscalculations. We also allow room for other international actors to respond.”
Spain was among the countries willing to help the U.S. in its subversive foreign relations strategy. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed on a message from the administration of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 expressing intentions “to re-orient Spanish foreign policy so that it can work with the U.S. in Latin America, especially on Venezuela and Cuba … As a transition in Cuba and something significant in Venezuela (and possibly the Andes) loom, a stronger working relationship between the U.S. and Spain could be very helpful.”
When keeping an eye on regional meetings, Clinton was especially concerned with Venezuela. Responding to a United Nations statement against the coup in Honduras in 2009—that she supported—Clinton shifted the attention to Venezuela: “Ok—but have they ever condemned Venezuela for denying press freedom?” she wrote to Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan. He responded “I highly doubt it. And that is just the tip of the iceberg,” to which Clinton wrote, “Ah, the proverbial iceberg.”
Clinton was cautious not to respond to all of Hugo Chavez’s “antics,” but her staff insisted that Venezuelan politics were a threat to U.S. interests.
An email advising how to spend USAID funds strongly suggested refraining from backing leftist states like Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba because the money “could undermine real democratic development to hand over ‘ownership’ to populist centralizers.”
Clinton should use language like “‘local ownership’ in a nuanced way” to avoid having her words “used against her by demagogues and kleptocrats,” said the email. Any funds channeled into such unreliable states, it added, must be accompanied by “(h)uman behavioral changes.”
International aid to Venezuela was siphoned off, but broadcasts to counter local “propaganda” were amplified.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors—which runs the Marti stations, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks—requested more funding in a 2010 email forwarded to Clinton to “combat the public diplomacy efforts of America’s ‘enemies,’ which he (chairman Walter Isaacson) identifies as Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China.”
The BBG, with a US$700 million annual budget—now increased to over US$750 million, though not because of Clinton—was “facing increased competition from other governments’ forays into international broadcasting … including Venezuela’s teleSUR.”A month later, when the board was facing cuts, Cuban-born Florida Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen suggested focusing resources on high-priority countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. “Let the fun begin—and let’s keep going w(ith) our plans,” responded Clinton.
Another leaked email from Stratfor described the BBG as “responsible for the radio and TV aggressions against Cuba,” which received its own category of state funding of nearly US$40 million. The board separated from State Department control in 1999, officially becoming an independent agency. “Congress agreed that credibility of U.S. international broadcasting was crucial to its effectiveness as a public diplomacy tool,” according to Congress’s 2008 budget on foreign operations.
While giving the cold shoulder to Venezuela, Clinton was cozy with Latin American players that opposed the country’s leftist politics. Her counselor and chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, forwarded her a recommendation for Mari Carmen Aponte to be appointed as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, noted the email, “has consistently fought Cuba and Venezuela’s efforts to gain influence in Central America and as a result of her negotiating skills, the U.S. and El Salvador will open a new, jointly-funded, electronic monitoring center that will be an invaluable tool in fighting transnational crime.”
She won the appointment and later became assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Clinton also drew fire for saying, “We’re winning!” when the Venezuelan opposition won a majority of seats in parliament in 2015 and for serving as secretary of state while the National Security Administration regularly spied on Venezuela.
Presidente Maduro: Con Kerry nos comprometimos a construir una agenda positiva
Aporrea / Prensa YVKE | 28/09/2016
"Ambos nos comprometimos a construir una agenda positiva", así lo dio a conocer el presidente Nicolás Maduro Moros en torno al encuentro que sostuvo en Cartagena, Colombia, con el secretario de Estado norteamericano, John Kerry.
“Fue una reunión, yo diría que agradable, franca, respetuosa, diplomática, y yo que soy cristiano practicante, militante y creyente de Cristo nuestro Señor redentor, le pido a Dios que los que allí se conversó se haga realidad y sé que habrá la oportunidad de tener relaciones buenas y de respeto de dialogo con el gobierno del presidente Barack Obama”, detalló.
Asimismo, reveló que "muy pronto estará en Venezuela el subsecretario de los Estados Unidos, Thomas Shannon, junto a otros componentes, miembros, de la delegación y espero que muy pronto esté en Venezuela John Kerry”.
Durante la edición 68 del programa Contacto con Maduro, el jefe de Estado reiteró que durante su Gobierno siempre ha aspirado a “las mejores relaciones de respeto y de diálogo con Barack Obama como presidente de los Estados Unidos y con el presidente o la presidenta que venga después, sea uno u otro”, apuntó.
Puntualizó, que "nunca jamás nos vamos a someter a ningún imperio, ni a ninguna potencia en el mundo; nunca, jamás, bajo ninguna circunstancia, ni en la peor de las circunstancias, nosotros someteríamos a nuestra patria, la entregaríamos, la pondríamos de rodillas en el mundo a ninguna potencia”.
Enfatizó que Venezuela se ha ganado su espacio en la diplomacia mundial, latinoamericana, caribeña, la diplomacia global, regional y así lo ratifica el hecho que el país actualmente presida el Movimiento de países No Alineados(MNOAL), por decisión de 120 países.
“Fue una reunión, yo diría que agradable, franca, respetuosa, diplomática, y yo que soy cristiano practicante, militante y creyente de Cristo nuestro Señor redentor, le pido a Dios que los que allí se conversó se haga realidad y sé que habrá la oportunidad de tener relaciones buenas y de respeto de dialogo con el gobierno del presidente Barack Obama”, detalló.
Asimismo, reveló que "muy pronto estará en Venezuela el subsecretario de los Estados Unidos, Thomas Shannon, junto a otros componentes, miembros, de la delegación y espero que muy pronto esté en Venezuela John Kerry”.
Durante la edición 68 del programa Contacto con Maduro, el jefe de Estado reiteró que durante su Gobierno siempre ha aspirado a “las mejores relaciones de respeto y de diálogo con Barack Obama como presidente de los Estados Unidos y con el presidente o la presidenta que venga después, sea uno u otro”, apuntó.
Puntualizó, que "nunca jamás nos vamos a someter a ningún imperio, ni a ninguna potencia en el mundo; nunca, jamás, bajo ninguna circunstancia, ni en la peor de las circunstancias, nosotros someteríamos a nuestra patria, la entregaríamos, la pondríamos de rodillas en el mundo a ninguna potencia”.
Enfatizó que Venezuela se ha ganado su espacio en la diplomacia mundial, latinoamericana, caribeña, la diplomacia global, regional y así lo ratifica el hecho que el país actualmente presida el Movimiento de países No Alineados(MNOAL), por decisión de 120 países.
Maduro anunció los compromisos que impulsará Venezuela al frente del MNOAL
Cuba debate - Sept. 18, 2016
El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros expresó en la Cumbre de los No Alineados los compromisos de su país durante su mandato:
1.- Acelerar los procesos del sistema de Naciones Unidas para lograr su verdadera democratización: la ampliación del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, con la participación de potencias emergentes del Sur, la democratización de los sistemas de elección de Gobierno y de toma de decisión del sistema de Naciones Unidas, así como el impulso de una agenda de cultura de paz y de defensa de la autodeterminación de los pueblos.
Recalcó que no será una reforma, sino una refundación de una nueva fundación de un sistema de Naciones Unidas, “tiene la fuerza, el liderazgo, y los votos para avanzar de manera decidida en un proceso de concreción aceleración de estos procesos de transformación”.
2.- “Retomar las banderas del nuevo orden económico internacional, a la luz de los organismos emergentes que han surgido, a la luz de una poderosa alianza con los Brics (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica), como fuerza económica emergente (…), a la luz de una alianza de los bloques regionales que ya se han consolidado en Asia, África, América Latina y el Caribe”.
3.- La asunción de los planes específicos del Plan 2030. Subrayó que este programa que se adoptó hace un año en el marco de la conmemoración del sistema de Naciones Unidas, se considera “una gran prioridad”.
Mencionó que este punto se busca superar las deudas y retos dejados por el colonialismo, neocolonialismo, neoliberalismo y el sistema salvaje del sometimiento de nuestras economías.Señaló que se ha visto un enorme avance en los indicadores sociales en acceso a la alimentación, salud, trabajo, derechos entre otros, de acuerdo a los últimos reportes del MNOAL.
4.- Retomar la agenda democratización, de la comunicación y la información en el nuevo orden internacional. Aseveró que se debe renovar todo lo que tiene que ver con la comunicación, “es una bandera que el MNOAL ha levantado”.
Recordó que el comandante Hugo Chávez fundó la multiestatal TeleSUR, que hoy “es la ventana de la verdad de las luchas de América y el Caribe que se han dado (…), creemos que ha llegado un momento especial, para los procesos de articulación del poder comunicacional que hoy tienen nuestros pueblos a través de la batalla de ideas”.
5.- Impulsar una agenda de cultura de paz, de dialogo de civilizaciones, de defensa de autodeterminación de los pueblos, frente a la agenda de intervencionismo, de amenazas de guerra, de modelos no convencionales de intervención. Llamó a retomar con fuerza la agenda de dialogo de la paz, del encuentro y solución de conflictos a través de métodos diplomáticos.
6.- Asumir una agenda verde desde el Sur, puesto que los pueblos del sur “somos las grandes victimas del calentamiento global”, por tal razón se concretó hallar soluciones para contrarrestar este fenómeno que afecta al planeta tierra.
7.- Hallar soluciones a la causa del pueblo palestino. “Tenemos que continuar de manera perseverante apoyando al pueblo de palestina (…), es una tema central no resuelto por la humanidad. Así como se liberó a Sudáfrica del apartheid (fue el sistema de segregación racial en Sudáfrica y Namibia)”, acotó.
8.- Finalizar por completo la persecución y el bloqueo a la nación hermana de Cuba, impuesto por el imperio estadounidense por más de cinco décadas, afectado de manera significativa al pueblo cubano.
“Tenemos que ir junto a Cuba hasta que logremos desmoronar y hacer caer la persecución del bloqueo financiero (…), Cuba merece que a su pueblo se le resarzan todos los años que el gobierno de Estado Unidos realizó por más de cinco décadas”, acotó.
9.- Concretar un proceso de descolonización del pueblo de Puerto Rico.
10.- La asunción y el drama de los refugiamos del medio oriente, producto de las bombas y ataques imperialistas.
11.- Erradicar el terrorismo en todas sus formas. Manifestó que se debe luchar contra los ataques de los países que causan desestabilización. “Asumimos con mucha fuerza la toma de iniciativas en la lucha contra el terrorismo en todas su formas”, acotó.
(Con información de CubaMinrex)
1.- Acelerar los procesos del sistema de Naciones Unidas para lograr su verdadera democratización: la ampliación del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, con la participación de potencias emergentes del Sur, la democratización de los sistemas de elección de Gobierno y de toma de decisión del sistema de Naciones Unidas, así como el impulso de una agenda de cultura de paz y de defensa de la autodeterminación de los pueblos.
Recalcó que no será una reforma, sino una refundación de una nueva fundación de un sistema de Naciones Unidas, “tiene la fuerza, el liderazgo, y los votos para avanzar de manera decidida en un proceso de concreción aceleración de estos procesos de transformación”.
2.- “Retomar las banderas del nuevo orden económico internacional, a la luz de los organismos emergentes que han surgido, a la luz de una poderosa alianza con los Brics (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica), como fuerza económica emergente (…), a la luz de una alianza de los bloques regionales que ya se han consolidado en Asia, África, América Latina y el Caribe”.
3.- La asunción de los planes específicos del Plan 2030. Subrayó que este programa que se adoptó hace un año en el marco de la conmemoración del sistema de Naciones Unidas, se considera “una gran prioridad”.
Mencionó que este punto se busca superar las deudas y retos dejados por el colonialismo, neocolonialismo, neoliberalismo y el sistema salvaje del sometimiento de nuestras economías.Señaló que se ha visto un enorme avance en los indicadores sociales en acceso a la alimentación, salud, trabajo, derechos entre otros, de acuerdo a los últimos reportes del MNOAL.
4.- Retomar la agenda democratización, de la comunicación y la información en el nuevo orden internacional. Aseveró que se debe renovar todo lo que tiene que ver con la comunicación, “es una bandera que el MNOAL ha levantado”.
Recordó que el comandante Hugo Chávez fundó la multiestatal TeleSUR, que hoy “es la ventana de la verdad de las luchas de América y el Caribe que se han dado (…), creemos que ha llegado un momento especial, para los procesos de articulación del poder comunicacional que hoy tienen nuestros pueblos a través de la batalla de ideas”.
5.- Impulsar una agenda de cultura de paz, de dialogo de civilizaciones, de defensa de autodeterminación de los pueblos, frente a la agenda de intervencionismo, de amenazas de guerra, de modelos no convencionales de intervención. Llamó a retomar con fuerza la agenda de dialogo de la paz, del encuentro y solución de conflictos a través de métodos diplomáticos.
6.- Asumir una agenda verde desde el Sur, puesto que los pueblos del sur “somos las grandes victimas del calentamiento global”, por tal razón se concretó hallar soluciones para contrarrestar este fenómeno que afecta al planeta tierra.
7.- Hallar soluciones a la causa del pueblo palestino. “Tenemos que continuar de manera perseverante apoyando al pueblo de palestina (…), es una tema central no resuelto por la humanidad. Así como se liberó a Sudáfrica del apartheid (fue el sistema de segregación racial en Sudáfrica y Namibia)”, acotó.
8.- Finalizar por completo la persecución y el bloqueo a la nación hermana de Cuba, impuesto por el imperio estadounidense por más de cinco décadas, afectado de manera significativa al pueblo cubano.
“Tenemos que ir junto a Cuba hasta que logremos desmoronar y hacer caer la persecución del bloqueo financiero (…), Cuba merece que a su pueblo se le resarzan todos los años que el gobierno de Estado Unidos realizó por más de cinco décadas”, acotó.
9.- Concretar un proceso de descolonización del pueblo de Puerto Rico.
10.- La asunción y el drama de los refugiamos del medio oriente, producto de las bombas y ataques imperialistas.
11.- Erradicar el terrorismo en todas sus formas. Manifestó que se debe luchar contra los ataques de los países que causan desestabilización. “Asumimos con mucha fuerza la toma de iniciativas en la lucha contra el terrorismo en todas su formas”, acotó.
(Con información de CubaMinrex)
La falacia de la hambruna en Venezuela
Ilka Oliva Corado - Crónicas de una Inquilina
Septiembre 15, 2016
Me pregunto a dónde se está yendo el sentido común de las personas, ¿qué está sucediendo con la inteligencia natural y la capacidad de raciocinio? Nos estamos dejando llevar por lo que nos imponen las grandes corporaciones de la mediatización mundial. ¿En dónde está nuestro poder de resistencia, de cuestionamiento, el derecho a dudar? ¿Es que acaso hasta el instinto nos dejamos arrebatar?
A quién se le ocurre que puede haber hambruna en Venezuela, a causa del actual gobierno; cuando salen aquellas tomas expuestas en cadenas internacionales, afines al capital, de docenas de mujeres galanas, bien nutridas, y con cierto sobrepeso, vestidas de blanco –como las Damas de Blanco en Cuba, o cuando la oligarquía latinoamericana sale a protestar buscando dar golpes de Estado a presidentes progresistas- cruzando la frontera hacia Colombia para comprar productos venezolanos que fueron robados en Venezuela y revendidos en Colombia, por las parvadas que buscan desestabilizar al actual gobierno como parte del plan estratégico de la guerra económica contra Venezuela.
Hay necesidad, claro que sí, hay pobreza, también. Males de siglos no se pueden curar en meses ni en un lustro. Contra eso está trabajando el gobierno de Maduro, en erradicarla, a pesar de los innumerables ataques en convoy de quienes buscan imponer un sistema neoliberal en el país, arremetiendo contra su propio pueblo y sacrificándolo con tal de lograr el beneficio para las corporaciones de unos cuántos.
Arremeten contra el sistema de salud, el de educación, contra la infraestructura, la agricultura, desde distintos frentes, al unísono, constantemente para hacer caer el sistema progresista implementado por Chávez. ¿Para qué? Para que se rebalsen las cuentas bancarias de quienes pretenden ponerlo a los pies del capital estadounidense y mundial: quienes odian Venezuela. Es una regla de tres sin mayor complicación. Se puede comprender en un parpadear, saltando cuerda o jugando avioncito (rayuela). ¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto comprender lo simple?
Una persona que sufre hambruna presenta un cuadro clínico visible, ninguna de las personas que salen devanándose sobre su propia saliva, en entrevistas para medios internacionales de carácter capitalista la sufren. ¿Por qué los medios de comunicación que hablan de hambruna, no entrevistan a personas que pueden evidenciar con pruebas que ésta no existe a consecuencia del actual gobierno?
Ahora bien, hablando propiamente de hambruna, ahí está Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, México, Haití, Colombia, como ejemplos claros de lo que hacen los gobiernos con su propio pueblo. La cantidad de personas que están muriendo por no tener qué comer, por no tener un sistema de salud que las atienda a tiempo. Por no tener un gobierno con un sistema de carácter preventivo que invierta en lo más urgente. ¿Por qué esas que sí son verdaderas crisis humanitarias no las ven los medios de comunicación mundial?
Aquí mismo en Estados Unidos hay hambruna, mueren miles de personas que no tienen acceso al sistema de salud, que viven en la miseria. Que mueren de frío en invierno porque no tienen para pagar la calefacción. ¿Qué dicen de eso las grandes corporaciones mediáticas de carácter empresarial? Lo callan.
No es tan difícil entender la razón de por qué las masas entorpecidas creen lo que dicen los noticieros, si tienen como referente a medios como Univisión, Telemundo, CNN en Español y El País que infestan Latinoamérica. Y la cuadrilla de medios nacionales creados por esa pandilla de empresarios oligarcas y las embajadas de Estados Unidos, con la única finalidad de convertir -como en la educación superior- las mentes y el raciocinio en una masa amorfa, maniobrable a las órdenes de unos cuántos truhanes que la manipulan.
“Fácil es hablar desde Estados Unidos, véngase a vivir a Venezuela” es lo común de quienes apoyan este tipo de intervención exterior, quienes no tienen identidad y claman por el fin de la dictadura de Maduro. Lo que no dicen es que son personas que viven en la comodidad de la clase media alta, de la burguesía y la oligarquía, que durante años se sirvieron del sistema y que ahora están viendo cómo el pueblo que humillaron y marginaron tiene la oportunidad de vivir en dignidad. Acceso a la educación que les fue negada durante ciclos, un plato de comida en la mesa, techo, acceso a la salud. Una vida integral.
Personas con cuentas bancarias en el exterior, con lujos, vacaciones al exterior varias veces por año, que llegan a Estados Unidos a celebrar el 4 de julio como fiesta propia. Que tienen hasta tres empleadas domésticas y dos niñeras, y las visten de uniforme y las mandan a comer las sobras al patio, en platos que no deben revolver con los de la familia. A las que no les pagan un salario justo y obligan a trabajar a deshoras. Este tipo de gente es la que está pidiendo la intervención estadounidense en el país. Que si vive en Estados Unidos dará su voto a Hillary Clinton para que lo haga.
Que si vive en Venezuela o en otro país del mundo, tienen empleados a los que explotan y discriminan. Y se ponen de alfombra y a las órdenes de cualquier extranjero que quiera destrozar Venezuela.
Este tipo de gente que no denuncia que en La Guajira, Colombia los niños mueren de hambre. O que en Haití los Cascos Azules de la ONU violan niñas, niños y mujeres a cambio de una galleta. Que no denuncian que la Patrulla Fronteriza en Estados Unidos realiza cacerías con los indocumentados. Que no denuncia que el gobierno de Peña Nieto está masacrando a su propia gente en un genocidio que desangra al país.
Que no denuncia que Macri está regresando a Argentina a la miseria de donde la sacaron Néstor y Cristina. Que Temer está implementando el sistema neoliberal en Brasil y está recortando políticas sociales de beneficio para las favelas, que tanto lucharon Lula y Dilma. Que en Guatemala continúan gobernando los militares que tienen al país temblando en una ola de violencia gubernamental que disfrazan de común.
Gente que no denuncia que el paramilitarismo en Colombia destroza a los más necesitados. Que en Guatemala salen embarazadas por violación más de 200 niñas al día. Que el triángulo norte de Centroamérica sufre una crisis humanitaria perenne, lo mismo que México: causa de un sistema neoliberal. Que en México desaparecen docenas de personas al día, que los feminicidios tal como en Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras son el pan nuestro de cada día. Cabe preguntar, cuántos feminicidios al día vive Venezuela.
Ese sistema neoliberal que ellos quieren volver a implementar en Venezuela porque los beneficia expresamente, porque excluye a las mayorías. Porque con esa mente colonizada, porque por su carácter racista y clasista, por su insensibilidad no tienen capacidad de ver las necesidades de los demás. Es éste el tipo de gente que pide el fin del gobierno de Maduro y lo llama dictadura porque éste significa una oportunidad para los parias, mismos que ellos utilizan como sirvientes. Piden que regrese Venezuela a los tiempos de las injerencias y los ecocidios, de la opresión policiaca, de la violencia militar. Quieren que Venezuela vuelva a ser tierra de saqueos y torturas, tierra de vasallos.
La próxima vez que nos digan que Venezuela vive bajo una dictadura, que es urgente liberarla, pensemos en cómo vivimos en nuestros países y qué tipo de gobierno es que el escogimos. Y muy importante, pensar en la fuente de información, ¿qué tan confiables pueden ser ciertos periodistas, artistas y medios de comunicación afines al capital? ¿Qué hay en juego y por qué les importa tanto convencernos? ¿Por qué nos bombardean constantemente con la crisis humanitaria en Venezuela y por qué no le dan la misma importancia a las verdaderas crisis humanitarias que se viven en otros países del continente? Al genocidio que se vive en México que es urgente.
Solo necesitamos un poquito de sentido común para no permitir que jueguen con nuestra inteligencia y dejar que la insulten. Necesitamos tan solo ser humanos. La próxima vez que pensemos en Venezuela, hagamos un ejercicio de raciocinio y permitámonos pensar por nosotros mismos, es nuestro absoluto derecho y es nuestra obligación defenderlo. Y cuando nos digan “Maduro es un dictador” pensemos en lo que tenemos como presidentes en nuestros países, y ya verán que muchos querrán tener un dictador como Maduro. No es cuento.
A quién se le ocurre que puede haber hambruna en Venezuela, a causa del actual gobierno; cuando salen aquellas tomas expuestas en cadenas internacionales, afines al capital, de docenas de mujeres galanas, bien nutridas, y con cierto sobrepeso, vestidas de blanco –como las Damas de Blanco en Cuba, o cuando la oligarquía latinoamericana sale a protestar buscando dar golpes de Estado a presidentes progresistas- cruzando la frontera hacia Colombia para comprar productos venezolanos que fueron robados en Venezuela y revendidos en Colombia, por las parvadas que buscan desestabilizar al actual gobierno como parte del plan estratégico de la guerra económica contra Venezuela.
Hay necesidad, claro que sí, hay pobreza, también. Males de siglos no se pueden curar en meses ni en un lustro. Contra eso está trabajando el gobierno de Maduro, en erradicarla, a pesar de los innumerables ataques en convoy de quienes buscan imponer un sistema neoliberal en el país, arremetiendo contra su propio pueblo y sacrificándolo con tal de lograr el beneficio para las corporaciones de unos cuántos.
Arremeten contra el sistema de salud, el de educación, contra la infraestructura, la agricultura, desde distintos frentes, al unísono, constantemente para hacer caer el sistema progresista implementado por Chávez. ¿Para qué? Para que se rebalsen las cuentas bancarias de quienes pretenden ponerlo a los pies del capital estadounidense y mundial: quienes odian Venezuela. Es una regla de tres sin mayor complicación. Se puede comprender en un parpadear, saltando cuerda o jugando avioncito (rayuela). ¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto comprender lo simple?
Una persona que sufre hambruna presenta un cuadro clínico visible, ninguna de las personas que salen devanándose sobre su propia saliva, en entrevistas para medios internacionales de carácter capitalista la sufren. ¿Por qué los medios de comunicación que hablan de hambruna, no entrevistan a personas que pueden evidenciar con pruebas que ésta no existe a consecuencia del actual gobierno?
Ahora bien, hablando propiamente de hambruna, ahí está Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, México, Haití, Colombia, como ejemplos claros de lo que hacen los gobiernos con su propio pueblo. La cantidad de personas que están muriendo por no tener qué comer, por no tener un sistema de salud que las atienda a tiempo. Por no tener un gobierno con un sistema de carácter preventivo que invierta en lo más urgente. ¿Por qué esas que sí son verdaderas crisis humanitarias no las ven los medios de comunicación mundial?
Aquí mismo en Estados Unidos hay hambruna, mueren miles de personas que no tienen acceso al sistema de salud, que viven en la miseria. Que mueren de frío en invierno porque no tienen para pagar la calefacción. ¿Qué dicen de eso las grandes corporaciones mediáticas de carácter empresarial? Lo callan.
No es tan difícil entender la razón de por qué las masas entorpecidas creen lo que dicen los noticieros, si tienen como referente a medios como Univisión, Telemundo, CNN en Español y El País que infestan Latinoamérica. Y la cuadrilla de medios nacionales creados por esa pandilla de empresarios oligarcas y las embajadas de Estados Unidos, con la única finalidad de convertir -como en la educación superior- las mentes y el raciocinio en una masa amorfa, maniobrable a las órdenes de unos cuántos truhanes que la manipulan.
“Fácil es hablar desde Estados Unidos, véngase a vivir a Venezuela” es lo común de quienes apoyan este tipo de intervención exterior, quienes no tienen identidad y claman por el fin de la dictadura de Maduro. Lo que no dicen es que son personas que viven en la comodidad de la clase media alta, de la burguesía y la oligarquía, que durante años se sirvieron del sistema y que ahora están viendo cómo el pueblo que humillaron y marginaron tiene la oportunidad de vivir en dignidad. Acceso a la educación que les fue negada durante ciclos, un plato de comida en la mesa, techo, acceso a la salud. Una vida integral.
Personas con cuentas bancarias en el exterior, con lujos, vacaciones al exterior varias veces por año, que llegan a Estados Unidos a celebrar el 4 de julio como fiesta propia. Que tienen hasta tres empleadas domésticas y dos niñeras, y las visten de uniforme y las mandan a comer las sobras al patio, en platos que no deben revolver con los de la familia. A las que no les pagan un salario justo y obligan a trabajar a deshoras. Este tipo de gente es la que está pidiendo la intervención estadounidense en el país. Que si vive en Estados Unidos dará su voto a Hillary Clinton para que lo haga.
Que si vive en Venezuela o en otro país del mundo, tienen empleados a los que explotan y discriminan. Y se ponen de alfombra y a las órdenes de cualquier extranjero que quiera destrozar Venezuela.
Este tipo de gente que no denuncia que en La Guajira, Colombia los niños mueren de hambre. O que en Haití los Cascos Azules de la ONU violan niñas, niños y mujeres a cambio de una galleta. Que no denuncian que la Patrulla Fronteriza en Estados Unidos realiza cacerías con los indocumentados. Que no denuncia que el gobierno de Peña Nieto está masacrando a su propia gente en un genocidio que desangra al país.
Que no denuncia que Macri está regresando a Argentina a la miseria de donde la sacaron Néstor y Cristina. Que Temer está implementando el sistema neoliberal en Brasil y está recortando políticas sociales de beneficio para las favelas, que tanto lucharon Lula y Dilma. Que en Guatemala continúan gobernando los militares que tienen al país temblando en una ola de violencia gubernamental que disfrazan de común.
Gente que no denuncia que el paramilitarismo en Colombia destroza a los más necesitados. Que en Guatemala salen embarazadas por violación más de 200 niñas al día. Que el triángulo norte de Centroamérica sufre una crisis humanitaria perenne, lo mismo que México: causa de un sistema neoliberal. Que en México desaparecen docenas de personas al día, que los feminicidios tal como en Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras son el pan nuestro de cada día. Cabe preguntar, cuántos feminicidios al día vive Venezuela.
Ese sistema neoliberal que ellos quieren volver a implementar en Venezuela porque los beneficia expresamente, porque excluye a las mayorías. Porque con esa mente colonizada, porque por su carácter racista y clasista, por su insensibilidad no tienen capacidad de ver las necesidades de los demás. Es éste el tipo de gente que pide el fin del gobierno de Maduro y lo llama dictadura porque éste significa una oportunidad para los parias, mismos que ellos utilizan como sirvientes. Piden que regrese Venezuela a los tiempos de las injerencias y los ecocidios, de la opresión policiaca, de la violencia militar. Quieren que Venezuela vuelva a ser tierra de saqueos y torturas, tierra de vasallos.
La próxima vez que nos digan que Venezuela vive bajo una dictadura, que es urgente liberarla, pensemos en cómo vivimos en nuestros países y qué tipo de gobierno es que el escogimos. Y muy importante, pensar en la fuente de información, ¿qué tan confiables pueden ser ciertos periodistas, artistas y medios de comunicación afines al capital? ¿Qué hay en juego y por qué les importa tanto convencernos? ¿Por qué nos bombardean constantemente con la crisis humanitaria en Venezuela y por qué no le dan la misma importancia a las verdaderas crisis humanitarias que se viven en otros países del continente? Al genocidio que se vive en México que es urgente.
Solo necesitamos un poquito de sentido común para no permitir que jueguen con nuestra inteligencia y dejar que la insulten. Necesitamos tan solo ser humanos. La próxima vez que pensemos en Venezuela, hagamos un ejercicio de raciocinio y permitámonos pensar por nosotros mismos, es nuestro absoluto derecho y es nuestra obligación defenderlo. Y cuando nos digan “Maduro es un dictador” pensemos en lo que tenemos como presidentes en nuestros países, y ya verán que muchos querrán tener un dictador como Maduro. No es cuento.
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Una estratégica Cumbre de Países No Alineados comienza en Venezuela
Resumen Latinoamericano
13 de Septiembre 2016
Radio del Sur entrevista al analista internacional y colaborador de Resumen Latinoamericano, José Antonio Egido, a propósito de la Cumbre de los No Alineados que se realizará en septiembre.
Radio del Sur: Quisiéramos darle a nuestro público un contexto de la importancia de esta cumbre para los países que están acá.
José Antonio Egido: Este Movimiento de los Países No Alineados, es uno de los más importantes y signficativos movimientos nacido en el siglo XX al calor de las luchas por la independencia nacional de las antiguas colonias; propiedad de los países coloniales e imperialistas de Europa Occidental. Hay que entenderlo como el gran foro anticolonialista y antiimperialista nacido de la Cumbre de Bandung en 1955 con un número pequeño de países; 14 países fueron los que se reunieron en Bandung-Indonesia, bajo la iniciativa de tres hombres fundamentales: el Presidente Sukarno de Indonesia (enorme país musulmán del extremo oriente asiático que había sido colonia de la potencia holandesa), el Presidente Nheru de la India (que muy poco tiempo atrás había dejado de ser colonia del Imperio Británico) y el hombre del panaraberismo del siglo XX, el Presidente y Coronel Gamal Abdel Nasser, esos tres hombres son los iniciadores de la Cumbre.
Radio del Sur: Antonio, quisiéramos que le cuentes a nuestra audiencia cuál ha sido el papel fundamental de Cuba y de los países de latinoamerica en este Movimiento.
José Antonio Egido: En los inicios en 1955, aunque en realidad la primera Cumbre es en Yugoslavia en 1961, el movimiento se va extendiendo a países africanos y también llega a América Latina. El país pionero es Cuba, la Cuba revolucionaria que a partir del año 59 consolida su revolución y toma la bandera de la no alineación hasta el punto de que Cuba es el único país que ha recibido dos cumbres del Movimiento de los No Alineados, una en 1979 en La Habana y la otra, en el 2003 también en La Habana.
A partir de la llegada a tierras latinoamericanas del Movimiento de los No Alineados, se fueron incorporando cada vez más países, por ejemplo, la República de Guyana que venía de ser una colonia británica, se incorpora en el 70 cuando hay un gobierno revolucionario fuertemente anticolonialista en nuestro hermano y vecino país de Venezuela. Después al final del gobierno de la IV República, el gobierno de Carlos André Pérez se incorpora Venezuela. Se incorpora tarde porque la IV República ha sido un país alineado a EE.UU y sus aliados, pero es tan grande el prestigio que en cada cumbre va tomando este Movimiento, que en 1989 se incorpora Venezuela. Desde 1955 en que participaron 14 países y en la Cumbre de 1961 participaron 21 países, hasta la última Cumbre que ha sido en Teherán, se han ido incorporando cada vez más países en la medida que se iban independizando. Muy importante ha sido el papel de la revolución islámica iraní.
Radio del Sur: En los últimos años como sabemos la posición de Venezuela ha sido distinta. Nos interesa conocer cómo ha sido el avance, el alcance que ha tenido Venezuela y los países que en este momento se encuentran haciendo un bloque y alianza.
José Antonio Egido: La presidencia del Comandante Chávez marcó un giro también con respecto al del Movimiento de los No Alineados. Él entendió que es la plataforma de la mayor importancia y compartió la orientación fundamental de los No Alineados: la Independencia Nacional de los nuevos países que dejaron de ser colonias, y además, concretamente lo que ha confrontado a los No Alineados con las políticas expansionistas del mundo occidental, por ejemplo un caso de conflicto tradicional fue con el régimen del Apartheid; el régimen racista de Sudáfrica, otra confrontación vino de la mano de la existencia del Estado sionista de Israel que ocupaba tierras árabes y tierras palestinas. También hay que decir que el mundo occidental golpea a los No Alineados de varias maneras, por ejemplo, derribando al Presidente Sukarno con un golpe de Estado en 1961. No obstante los No Alineados se fue fortaleciendo con la orientación de la independencia de los países del Sur.
Radio del Sur: Ahora, en el año 2016, después de tantas experiencias que ha recorrido el Movimiento de los No Alineados, cuál es la postura al día de hoy?
José Antonio Egido: En esto momentos los No Alineados han atravesado un momento muy difícil que han sido los años 90, que fueron de hegemonía de los EE.UU, de las potencias coloniales que pretendían reconquistar los espacios perdidos, volver a recolonizar a los países que se habían independizado. Entonces allí hubo un momento de crisis para el Movimiento, pero comenzando el siglo XXI hay una respuesta a ese expansionismo y recolonización, y así se abre un período de fortalecimiento. Esta Cumbre va a ser de la mayor importancia, pues está más fuerte que nunca como plataforma principal de los países del sur en un mundo que sigue estando bajo el hegemonismo de los imperialismos políticos y economómicos occidentales.
Radio del Sur: Qué se ha rescatado y mantenido de la Conferencia de Bandung?
José Antonio Egido: Hay asuntos que aún no se han resuelto, porque se ha demostrado que la independencia de muchos países puede ser revertida en función de las políticas expansivas. Quiero mencionar las intervenciones de la potencia francesa en África, o los países de la OTAN y los países occidentales contra países independientes que han sido destruidos como el caso de Libia, Irak, Afganistán y Siria, que resiste en condiciones sumamente difíciles. De manera que la vieja bandera de la descolonización no se ha perdido, hay que recordar que cuando nacen los No Alineados hay un gran elemento favorable a su lucha que era la existencia de un fuerte campo socialista, que estaba presente en las Naciones Unidas y que defendía el derecho de los pueblos a la autodeterminación, hoy no existe ese campo socialista y el mundo imperialista viola ese derecho internacional, que es un hijo de las luchas de los pueblos. De manera que la unidad de los pueblos del Sur es algo de la mayor importancia para poder enfrentar las crisis económicas, el desafío del desarrollo, el problema de la paz y de la resolución pacífica de los conflictos, el eterno problema de la ocupación del territorio palestino por Israel, y en estos momentos el problema del terrorismo que es un instrumento grave de recolonización. Esto además junto a problemas globales como el del calentamiento global que nos afecta de una manera importante. Todos estos son desafíosy problemas que debe afrontar el Movimiento de los No ALineados.
Radio del Sur: Quisiéramos darle a nuestro público un contexto de la importancia de esta cumbre para los países que están acá.
José Antonio Egido: Este Movimiento de los Países No Alineados, es uno de los más importantes y signficativos movimientos nacido en el siglo XX al calor de las luchas por la independencia nacional de las antiguas colonias; propiedad de los países coloniales e imperialistas de Europa Occidental. Hay que entenderlo como el gran foro anticolonialista y antiimperialista nacido de la Cumbre de Bandung en 1955 con un número pequeño de países; 14 países fueron los que se reunieron en Bandung-Indonesia, bajo la iniciativa de tres hombres fundamentales: el Presidente Sukarno de Indonesia (enorme país musulmán del extremo oriente asiático que había sido colonia de la potencia holandesa), el Presidente Nheru de la India (que muy poco tiempo atrás había dejado de ser colonia del Imperio Británico) y el hombre del panaraberismo del siglo XX, el Presidente y Coronel Gamal Abdel Nasser, esos tres hombres son los iniciadores de la Cumbre.
Radio del Sur: Antonio, quisiéramos que le cuentes a nuestra audiencia cuál ha sido el papel fundamental de Cuba y de los países de latinoamerica en este Movimiento.
José Antonio Egido: En los inicios en 1955, aunque en realidad la primera Cumbre es en Yugoslavia en 1961, el movimiento se va extendiendo a países africanos y también llega a América Latina. El país pionero es Cuba, la Cuba revolucionaria que a partir del año 59 consolida su revolución y toma la bandera de la no alineación hasta el punto de que Cuba es el único país que ha recibido dos cumbres del Movimiento de los No Alineados, una en 1979 en La Habana y la otra, en el 2003 también en La Habana.
A partir de la llegada a tierras latinoamericanas del Movimiento de los No Alineados, se fueron incorporando cada vez más países, por ejemplo, la República de Guyana que venía de ser una colonia británica, se incorpora en el 70 cuando hay un gobierno revolucionario fuertemente anticolonialista en nuestro hermano y vecino país de Venezuela. Después al final del gobierno de la IV República, el gobierno de Carlos André Pérez se incorpora Venezuela. Se incorpora tarde porque la IV República ha sido un país alineado a EE.UU y sus aliados, pero es tan grande el prestigio que en cada cumbre va tomando este Movimiento, que en 1989 se incorpora Venezuela. Desde 1955 en que participaron 14 países y en la Cumbre de 1961 participaron 21 países, hasta la última Cumbre que ha sido en Teherán, se han ido incorporando cada vez más países en la medida que se iban independizando. Muy importante ha sido el papel de la revolución islámica iraní.
Radio del Sur: En los últimos años como sabemos la posición de Venezuela ha sido distinta. Nos interesa conocer cómo ha sido el avance, el alcance que ha tenido Venezuela y los países que en este momento se encuentran haciendo un bloque y alianza.
José Antonio Egido: La presidencia del Comandante Chávez marcó un giro también con respecto al del Movimiento de los No Alineados. Él entendió que es la plataforma de la mayor importancia y compartió la orientación fundamental de los No Alineados: la Independencia Nacional de los nuevos países que dejaron de ser colonias, y además, concretamente lo que ha confrontado a los No Alineados con las políticas expansionistas del mundo occidental, por ejemplo un caso de conflicto tradicional fue con el régimen del Apartheid; el régimen racista de Sudáfrica, otra confrontación vino de la mano de la existencia del Estado sionista de Israel que ocupaba tierras árabes y tierras palestinas. También hay que decir que el mundo occidental golpea a los No Alineados de varias maneras, por ejemplo, derribando al Presidente Sukarno con un golpe de Estado en 1961. No obstante los No Alineados se fue fortaleciendo con la orientación de la independencia de los países del Sur.
Radio del Sur: Ahora, en el año 2016, después de tantas experiencias que ha recorrido el Movimiento de los No Alineados, cuál es la postura al día de hoy?
José Antonio Egido: En esto momentos los No Alineados han atravesado un momento muy difícil que han sido los años 90, que fueron de hegemonía de los EE.UU, de las potencias coloniales que pretendían reconquistar los espacios perdidos, volver a recolonizar a los países que se habían independizado. Entonces allí hubo un momento de crisis para el Movimiento, pero comenzando el siglo XXI hay una respuesta a ese expansionismo y recolonización, y así se abre un período de fortalecimiento. Esta Cumbre va a ser de la mayor importancia, pues está más fuerte que nunca como plataforma principal de los países del sur en un mundo que sigue estando bajo el hegemonismo de los imperialismos políticos y economómicos occidentales.
Radio del Sur: Qué se ha rescatado y mantenido de la Conferencia de Bandung?
José Antonio Egido: Hay asuntos que aún no se han resuelto, porque se ha demostrado que la independencia de muchos países puede ser revertida en función de las políticas expansivas. Quiero mencionar las intervenciones de la potencia francesa en África, o los países de la OTAN y los países occidentales contra países independientes que han sido destruidos como el caso de Libia, Irak, Afganistán y Siria, que resiste en condiciones sumamente difíciles. De manera que la vieja bandera de la descolonización no se ha perdido, hay que recordar que cuando nacen los No Alineados hay un gran elemento favorable a su lucha que era la existencia de un fuerte campo socialista, que estaba presente en las Naciones Unidas y que defendía el derecho de los pueblos a la autodeterminación, hoy no existe ese campo socialista y el mundo imperialista viola ese derecho internacional, que es un hijo de las luchas de los pueblos. De manera que la unidad de los pueblos del Sur es algo de la mayor importancia para poder enfrentar las crisis económicas, el desafío del desarrollo, el problema de la paz y de la resolución pacífica de los conflictos, el eterno problema de la ocupación del territorio palestino por Israel, y en estos momentos el problema del terrorismo que es un instrumento grave de recolonización. Esto además junto a problemas globales como el del calentamiento global que nos afecta de una manera importante. Todos estos son desafíosy problemas que debe afrontar el Movimiento de los No ALineados.
Canciller Delcy Rodríguez:
La oposición reeditó su plan violento
Correo del Orinoco- TeleSUR
Viernes, 02/09/2016
La oposición venezolana reeditó las acciones violentas de 2014 para desestabilizar al Gobierno e imponer un modelo neoliberal, señaló la canciller Delcy Rodríguez en entrevista exclusiva para TeleSUR.
“Cuando se convocó la Toma de Caracas empezó una campaña de guerra, avisando que habría una toma que acabaría con el Gobierno de Venezuela”, destacó la diplomática venezolana en relación con la movilización opositora de este 1 de septiembre en Caracas.
Después de las 14H00 (hora local), cuando culminó formalmente la marcha convocada por la Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), grupos violentos crearon focos de desestabilización en la capitalina autopista Francisco Fajardo. Generaron disturbios y colocaron artefactos en la vía que estuvieron cerca de ocasionar la muerte a motorizados.
Pese a los focos de violencia generados por la oposición, la canciller aseguró que ganó la paz. El pueblo revolucionario se concentró en la avenida Bolívar de Caracas para expresar apoyo a la Revolución Bolivariana.
Respecto al proceso de referendo revocatorio que impulsa la oposición, la canciller dijo que el Gobierno reconoce el derecho que tienen los venezolanos de elegir, pero no permitirán las acciones violentas ni que para atentar contra un Gobierno hagan uso de la muerte y la violencia.
Aseguró que la Toma de Caracas fue un plan golpista con marca de Washington y se refirió a acciones desestabilizadoras pasadas como el golpe del 11 de abril de 2002 y las llamadas guarimbas de 2014, que dejaron 43 muertos.
No obstante, el plan golpista fue neutralizado, expresó: “Es un triunfo garantizado por el pueblo chavista, bolivariano e independiente. Oportunamente el presidente de la República informó el desarme de bandas paramilitares para provocar una masacre”.
La derecha también tiene el objetivo político de atentar contra el socialismo en la región, dijo. “No es posible que en Brasil, 60 senadores de dudosa reputación, pretendan minimizar el llamado de millones de personas que votaron por Dilma Rousseff”.
“Cuando se convocó la Toma de Caracas empezó una campaña de guerra, avisando que habría una toma que acabaría con el Gobierno de Venezuela”, destacó la diplomática venezolana en relación con la movilización opositora de este 1 de septiembre en Caracas.
Después de las 14H00 (hora local), cuando culminó formalmente la marcha convocada por la Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), grupos violentos crearon focos de desestabilización en la capitalina autopista Francisco Fajardo. Generaron disturbios y colocaron artefactos en la vía que estuvieron cerca de ocasionar la muerte a motorizados.
Pese a los focos de violencia generados por la oposición, la canciller aseguró que ganó la paz. El pueblo revolucionario se concentró en la avenida Bolívar de Caracas para expresar apoyo a la Revolución Bolivariana.
Respecto al proceso de referendo revocatorio que impulsa la oposición, la canciller dijo que el Gobierno reconoce el derecho que tienen los venezolanos de elegir, pero no permitirán las acciones violentas ni que para atentar contra un Gobierno hagan uso de la muerte y la violencia.
Aseguró que la Toma de Caracas fue un plan golpista con marca de Washington y se refirió a acciones desestabilizadoras pasadas como el golpe del 11 de abril de 2002 y las llamadas guarimbas de 2014, que dejaron 43 muertos.
No obstante, el plan golpista fue neutralizado, expresó: “Es un triunfo garantizado por el pueblo chavista, bolivariano e independiente. Oportunamente el presidente de la República informó el desarme de bandas paramilitares para provocar una masacre”.
La derecha también tiene el objetivo político de atentar contra el socialismo en la región, dijo. “No es posible que en Brasil, 60 senadores de dudosa reputación, pretendan minimizar el llamado de millones de personas que votaron por Dilma Rousseff”.
On September 1st, we Must Defend the Bolivarian Revolution More Than Ever
Carlos Aznárez / Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News
August 31, 2016
There are times when doubts and hesitations become complicities. There are circumstances where reservations and discussions about internal contradictions of a particular political process pushed to the background by a greater evil. We may have varying degrees of agreement with some decisions, but there’s something that’s beyond any sort of doubt: the Venezuelan people have conquered, with Chavism, a way out of the hole that capitalism had buried them in. And that’s worth defending.
There are times for criticism and self-criticism, but when the enemy is closing in and seeks to take advantage of our weaknesses to give us a mortal blow, we can’t doubt and much less recede.
That’s what’s happening today in Bolivarian Venezuela, where the worst threats have materialized in a date and a slogan: “On September 1, We Must Take Over Caracas”. The internal and external opposition plays, as in 2002, a dangerous card. They are announcing a dangerous day, and it may go by without a fuss or —as has happened before when the opposition revolted— it may end in a bloodbath. They have a history of causing bloodshed: the massacre of Puente Llaguno, the kidnapping of Hugo Chavez that almost ends with his murder in La Orchila, the oil strike, the guarimbas (barricades on the streets) with snipers that shot pedestrians and drivers. They know better than anyone that they have no peaceful means to achieve their ends and so they seek to disturb and instill fear with threats of violence and terror.
Therefore, it’s time to close ranks and commit to solidarity, to support the Venezuelan people who will defend their country against the uprising. In every country, we must demonstrate outside Venezuelan embassies to express solidarity with this courageous country, its people and its democratically-elected President Nicolás Maduro, and warn the opposition that they better not attempt to promote violence, because they shall not pass.
Now that we’ve established this, as internationalist militants in every aspect and not just as writers or endorsers of manifestos, we also believe that it’s necessary for the revolutionary discourse to undergo a change towards radicalization, to deepen the process as far as it takes, no matter what, to avoid the enemy to keep blackmailing us day after day. To deepen the process means: going against the particular interests of whichever person, including those who cause the shortage of basic goods and the economic war, those who make tours around the world financed by Washington and the European right, those who practice media terrorism and those who promote the violence of paramilitarism to murder the leaders of the people or Chavist militaries.
But this is also true for the “red-coated bureaucrats” that are encrusted in the government and use their seats and power for their own personal benefit and betray the Revolution. President Nicolás Maduro himself has denounced this.
The Revolution mustn’t hesitate to nationalize foreign commerce and banks, expropriate all companies that boycott the process and deepen the agrarian reform, take power from those who want a European social democratic model in a society that is quintessentially Latin American and Third-Worldly. All of this is what Chavist Venezuelans are demanding throughout the country. Capitalism can only be overcome with more socialism, and not with half-heartedness, as some defeatist ideologists propose.
Due to all of these reasons, Resumen Latinoamericano and The Dawn News call on Thursday, September 1st, to take to the streets to defend Venezuelan Embassies in every country. Latin America and the world have a great debt with Venezuela and this is why they need to act to defend our sister nation in this difficult time.
Respect Democracy in Venezuela!
For Independence and Socialism!
There are times for criticism and self-criticism, but when the enemy is closing in and seeks to take advantage of our weaknesses to give us a mortal blow, we can’t doubt and much less recede.
That’s what’s happening today in Bolivarian Venezuela, where the worst threats have materialized in a date and a slogan: “On September 1, We Must Take Over Caracas”. The internal and external opposition plays, as in 2002, a dangerous card. They are announcing a dangerous day, and it may go by without a fuss or —as has happened before when the opposition revolted— it may end in a bloodbath. They have a history of causing bloodshed: the massacre of Puente Llaguno, the kidnapping of Hugo Chavez that almost ends with his murder in La Orchila, the oil strike, the guarimbas (barricades on the streets) with snipers that shot pedestrians and drivers. They know better than anyone that they have no peaceful means to achieve their ends and so they seek to disturb and instill fear with threats of violence and terror.
Therefore, it’s time to close ranks and commit to solidarity, to support the Venezuelan people who will defend their country against the uprising. In every country, we must demonstrate outside Venezuelan embassies to express solidarity with this courageous country, its people and its democratically-elected President Nicolás Maduro, and warn the opposition that they better not attempt to promote violence, because they shall not pass.
Now that we’ve established this, as internationalist militants in every aspect and not just as writers or endorsers of manifestos, we also believe that it’s necessary for the revolutionary discourse to undergo a change towards radicalization, to deepen the process as far as it takes, no matter what, to avoid the enemy to keep blackmailing us day after day. To deepen the process means: going against the particular interests of whichever person, including those who cause the shortage of basic goods and the economic war, those who make tours around the world financed by Washington and the European right, those who practice media terrorism and those who promote the violence of paramilitarism to murder the leaders of the people or Chavist militaries.
But this is also true for the “red-coated bureaucrats” that are encrusted in the government and use their seats and power for their own personal benefit and betray the Revolution. President Nicolás Maduro himself has denounced this.
The Revolution mustn’t hesitate to nationalize foreign commerce and banks, expropriate all companies that boycott the process and deepen the agrarian reform, take power from those who want a European social democratic model in a society that is quintessentially Latin American and Third-Worldly. All of this is what Chavist Venezuelans are demanding throughout the country. Capitalism can only be overcome with more socialism, and not with half-heartedness, as some defeatist ideologists propose.
Due to all of these reasons, Resumen Latinoamericano and The Dawn News call on Thursday, September 1st, to take to the streets to defend Venezuelan Embassies in every country. Latin America and the world have a great debt with Venezuela and this is why they need to act to defend our sister nation in this difficult time.
Respect Democracy in Venezuela!
For Independence and Socialism!
LEA: Se devela un plan para desestabilizar el sistema democrático de Venezuela
Nicolas Maduro Announced Key Points of the Counteroffensive in Venezuela
TeleSur / The Dawn News
August 25, 2016
Last Thursday, mobilizations were registered in various regions of the country to reaffirm the support to the Bolivarian Revolution and the commitment to defending the Homeland.
In the latest contact of Nicolas Maduro with Venezolana de Televisión, the President highlighted the progresses made to guarantee the full supply of the Venezuelan people. “Only the people, taking to the streets, will be able to defeat the coup attempts that the right is promoting”, the President affirmed.
At the same time, he said that the main guidelines of the plan are based, in the first place, on the “social happiness agenda”, in second place, on the stabilization of economy and finally, on political strengthening and social mobilizations.
During his speech, President Nicolas Maduro announced that “when the school year begins, we will deliver computers to all students, and make sure that all resources are provided so that our schools, high schools and universities have a very successful school year”.
The President also mentioned that his goal in the state of Lara is for the “Barrio Adentro” program to reach 100% coverage, along with medical assistance and medicine to ensure the full care of the people of Lara, located in Western Venezuela
Maduro encouraged his cabinet to carry out this plan so it brings positive results to the people of Lara.
Governmental action
The Venezuelan President also highlighted the work they are carrying out to attack the offensive against the people.
The first aspect is that they are working to reinforce and supply the “Great mission of Sovereign Supply”, ensuring that the Local Committees of Distribution and Supply (CLAPs) can have more provisions and can achieve a better quality in the whole Venezuelan territory.
“We already have over 13 thousand CLAPs throughout the national territory and we are taking care of over one million Venezuelan families”, Nicolas Maduro asserted in his speech.
The Venezuelan government is protecting the Plan called Gran Misión Hogares de la Patria (Great mission of the Houses of the Homeland). More than 500 thousand houses have been delivered. “I’m looking for resources to see if by December 31 we can increase our goal of building 100 thousand more houses”, said Maduro.
The Venezuelan leader expressed his rejection against the sector of the bourgeoisie led by the Venezuelan opposition, Henry Ramos Allup, who he qualified as “number one enemy” of the Homeland.
“The Venezuelan people should be alert due to the threats of imperialism and the bourgeoisie, for that we only have one answer: a people that is mobilized, a people that is aware. A people that is out on the streets, moralized, united. A civic-military union, for which I’m sure we will prevail”, he urged.
Last Thursday, deputies and leaders of The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Diosdado Cabello and Carmen Meléndez, lead a mobilization in Defense of Peace and in defense of the Mission of Safe Supply, in the state of Lara, Venezuela.
“Revolutionary leaders should step up, they must be in the vanguard, next to the Venezuelan people to face the violent plans of the right sectors”, said the socialist leader, Diosdado Cabello.
In the latest contact of Nicolas Maduro with Venezolana de Televisión, the President highlighted the progresses made to guarantee the full supply of the Venezuelan people. “Only the people, taking to the streets, will be able to defeat the coup attempts that the right is promoting”, the President affirmed.
At the same time, he said that the main guidelines of the plan are based, in the first place, on the “social happiness agenda”, in second place, on the stabilization of economy and finally, on political strengthening and social mobilizations.
During his speech, President Nicolas Maduro announced that “when the school year begins, we will deliver computers to all students, and make sure that all resources are provided so that our schools, high schools and universities have a very successful school year”.
The President also mentioned that his goal in the state of Lara is for the “Barrio Adentro” program to reach 100% coverage, along with medical assistance and medicine to ensure the full care of the people of Lara, located in Western Venezuela
Maduro encouraged his cabinet to carry out this plan so it brings positive results to the people of Lara.
Governmental action
The Venezuelan President also highlighted the work they are carrying out to attack the offensive against the people.
The first aspect is that they are working to reinforce and supply the “Great mission of Sovereign Supply”, ensuring that the Local Committees of Distribution and Supply (CLAPs) can have more provisions and can achieve a better quality in the whole Venezuelan territory.
“We already have over 13 thousand CLAPs throughout the national territory and we are taking care of over one million Venezuelan families”, Nicolas Maduro asserted in his speech.
The Venezuelan government is protecting the Plan called Gran Misión Hogares de la Patria (Great mission of the Houses of the Homeland). More than 500 thousand houses have been delivered. “I’m looking for resources to see if by December 31 we can increase our goal of building 100 thousand more houses”, said Maduro.
The Venezuelan leader expressed his rejection against the sector of the bourgeoisie led by the Venezuelan opposition, Henry Ramos Allup, who he qualified as “number one enemy” of the Homeland.
“The Venezuelan people should be alert due to the threats of imperialism and the bourgeoisie, for that we only have one answer: a people that is mobilized, a people that is aware. A people that is out on the streets, moralized, united. A civic-military union, for which I’m sure we will prevail”, he urged.
Last Thursday, deputies and leaders of The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Diosdado Cabello and Carmen Meléndez, lead a mobilization in Defense of Peace and in defense of the Mission of Safe Supply, in the state of Lara, Venezuela.
“Revolutionary leaders should step up, they must be in the vanguard, next to the Venezuelan people to face the violent plans of the right sectors”, said the socialist leader, Diosdado Cabello.
Urgent Call for Solidarity Delegation to Venezuela, December 5-15, 2016
Revolucionalimentaria ⋅ August 16, 2016
What’s going on right now in Venezuela? Come see for yourself by connecting with the grassroots movements at the heart of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York invites historians, artists, videographers, writers, political analysts, and other activists who sympathize with the Bolivarian Revolution to join a delegation to Caracas, Venezuela this December. Witness:
-communities organizing themselves in the face of manufactured food shortages to grow and distribute their own food
-participatory democracy in action through community councils, ‘comunas’ and other forms of citizen organization
-community-run art, media, education, health and nutrition efforts
-alternative markets and fairs featuring homemade products and agroecologically produced foods
-parks, natural areas, historic sites, and other reclaimed public spaces.
Come witness the efforts of the popular sectors to regroup and defend the political, economic and social rights guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution, even during a period in which a neoliberal agenda will likely dominate the legislative branch of government.
Come see the real “threat” posed by Venezuela – as living proof that another world indeed is possible. As the Venezuelan people assert, “Venezuela is not a threat – we are hope!”
When: December 5-15, 2016
Tentative itinerary: Start and end in Caracas; visits to the states of Miranda and Aragua.
Cost for activities: $1000. This will cover all lodging, all ground transportation, 2 meals per day, qualified trip leaders, and Spanish-English interpretation. Additional expenses during the trip will be minimal. Airfare not included. (Round trip flights to Venezuela from New York are available in the range of $333- $430.)
Sponsored by the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York
For more information: [email protected]
Some important articles:
Special Report: Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
Statement of International Solidarity with Venezuela’s Seed Law
Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
Venezuela Takes Control of Its Border as Bogotá and Caracas Bring Their Cases to UNASUR
Venezuela Recognized by FAO for Halving Malnutrition
Revolution, Counter Revolution, and the Economic War in Venezuela: Part I
Revolution, Counter Revolution, and the Economic War in Venezuela: Part II
“THE COMMUNE OR NOTHING”: POPULAR POWER AND THE STATE IN VENEZUELA
VENEZUELA TO CONSIDER BAN ON TRANSGENIC SEED
VENEZUELA AND THE BATTLE AGAINST TRANSGENIC SEEDS
The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York invites historians, artists, videographers, writers, political analysts, and other activists who sympathize with the Bolivarian Revolution to join a delegation to Caracas, Venezuela this December. Witness:
-communities organizing themselves in the face of manufactured food shortages to grow and distribute their own food
-participatory democracy in action through community councils, ‘comunas’ and other forms of citizen organization
-community-run art, media, education, health and nutrition efforts
-alternative markets and fairs featuring homemade products and agroecologically produced foods
-parks, natural areas, historic sites, and other reclaimed public spaces.
Come witness the efforts of the popular sectors to regroup and defend the political, economic and social rights guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution, even during a period in which a neoliberal agenda will likely dominate the legislative branch of government.
Come see the real “threat” posed by Venezuela – as living proof that another world indeed is possible. As the Venezuelan people assert, “Venezuela is not a threat – we are hope!”
When: December 5-15, 2016
Tentative itinerary: Start and end in Caracas; visits to the states of Miranda and Aragua.
Cost for activities: $1000. This will cover all lodging, all ground transportation, 2 meals per day, qualified trip leaders, and Spanish-English interpretation. Additional expenses during the trip will be minimal. Airfare not included. (Round trip flights to Venezuela from New York are available in the range of $333- $430.)
Sponsored by the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York
For more information: [email protected]
Some important articles:
Special Report: Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
Statement of International Solidarity with Venezuela’s Seed Law
Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
Venezuela Takes Control of Its Border as Bogotá and Caracas Bring Their Cases to UNASUR
Venezuela Recognized by FAO for Halving Malnutrition
Revolution, Counter Revolution, and the Economic War in Venezuela: Part I
Revolution, Counter Revolution, and the Economic War in Venezuela: Part II
“THE COMMUNE OR NOTHING”: POPULAR POWER AND THE STATE IN VENEZUELA
VENEZUELA TO CONSIDER BAN ON TRANSGENIC SEED
VENEZUELA AND THE BATTLE AGAINST TRANSGENIC SEEDS
Venezuela’s Maduro Names New Ministers
in Cabinet Shakeup
By Lucas Koerner - venezuelanalysis.com
August 3, 2016
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appointed on Tuesday new heads for the ministries of Interior, Justice, and Peace, Industry and Commerce, as well as Transport and Public Works.In a surprise announcement made during his weekly television program “In Contact with Maduro”, the leftist leader tapped Carlos Faria as the new Commerce and Industry minister, replacing the pro-government businessman Miguel Perez Abad.
Brother of the current Foreign Commerce Minister Jesus Faria, Carlos Faria is a Soviet-trained engineer who previously served as vice-minister of intermediate and light industries under late president Hugo Chávez. Prior to assuming his current post, Faria also served as president of the state steel giant SIDOR in 2012 before going on to head up the High Level Russia-Venezuela Mixed Commission in 2015.
Perez Abad, who presided over the progressive liberalization of Venezuela’s labyrinthine currency controls during his 7-month tenure, will also be supplanted in his role as Vice-President for Economy.
Maduro has, however, yet to select a replacement for the country’s top economic post.
The Venezuelan head of state went on to name General Nestor Reverol as the new minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace.
Maduro highlighted the general’s prior experience as director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) as well as commander of the National Guard, which he said would “strengthen” his government’s controversial anti-crime campaign, the OLP.
The appointment comes a day after a day after a US Federal District Court in Brooklyn issued an indictment against Reverol as well as the former sub-director of the ONA, Edylberto José Molina, over allegations that they allegedly took bribes from drug-traffickers between 2008 and 2010.
Maduro voiced his “solidarity” with Reverol and his family, who he said were being unjustly “attacked from the United States”.
“As interior minister, he broke the world record for capturing traffickers; this is why they want to make him pay– the DEA and all of the US drug mafias,” he stated, referring to the general’s previous tenure as interior minister under President Chávez.
Caracas has long been the target of repeated US accusations of abetting drug trafficking since the Chavez government’s 2005 decision to break ties with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) over espionage allegations. However, reports from Venezuela’s anti-drug agency show that drug seizures spiked following the DEA’s departure.
During his televised address, Maduro additionally designated Ricardo Molina as the new transport and public works minister.
Molina, who served as housing and habitat minister under Chavez and Maduro, will also take on the office of vice-president for territorial socialism.
Tuesday’s appointments mark the first major cabinet shakeup since President Maduro named a new vice-president as well as a handful of top ministers in January.
Brother of the current Foreign Commerce Minister Jesus Faria, Carlos Faria is a Soviet-trained engineer who previously served as vice-minister of intermediate and light industries under late president Hugo Chávez. Prior to assuming his current post, Faria also served as president of the state steel giant SIDOR in 2012 before going on to head up the High Level Russia-Venezuela Mixed Commission in 2015.
Perez Abad, who presided over the progressive liberalization of Venezuela’s labyrinthine currency controls during his 7-month tenure, will also be supplanted in his role as Vice-President for Economy.
Maduro has, however, yet to select a replacement for the country’s top economic post.
The Venezuelan head of state went on to name General Nestor Reverol as the new minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace.
Maduro highlighted the general’s prior experience as director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) as well as commander of the National Guard, which he said would “strengthen” his government’s controversial anti-crime campaign, the OLP.
The appointment comes a day after a day after a US Federal District Court in Brooklyn issued an indictment against Reverol as well as the former sub-director of the ONA, Edylberto José Molina, over allegations that they allegedly took bribes from drug-traffickers between 2008 and 2010.
Maduro voiced his “solidarity” with Reverol and his family, who he said were being unjustly “attacked from the United States”.
“As interior minister, he broke the world record for capturing traffickers; this is why they want to make him pay– the DEA and all of the US drug mafias,” he stated, referring to the general’s previous tenure as interior minister under President Chávez.
Caracas has long been the target of repeated US accusations of abetting drug trafficking since the Chavez government’s 2005 decision to break ties with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) over espionage allegations. However, reports from Venezuela’s anti-drug agency show that drug seizures spiked following the DEA’s departure.
During his televised address, Maduro additionally designated Ricardo Molina as the new transport and public works minister.
Molina, who served as housing and habitat minister under Chavez and Maduro, will also take on the office of vice-president for territorial socialism.
Tuesday’s appointments mark the first major cabinet shakeup since President Maduro named a new vice-president as well as a handful of top ministers in January.
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The Need to Remember Chavez in Times of Hostility
By: Carlos Aznárez / Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News
July 28, 2016
If we reflect on how much worse the situation in Latin America has become since the death of Hugo Chávez Frías in 2013, it’s hard to believe that it all happened in such a short amount of time.
The same neoliberalism that Chávez fought against by taking up arms in the two coup attempts he took part in 1992, has resurged again in our continent and threatens to dismantle each and every one of the achievements towards continental integration that the leader of the Bolivarian revolution made —it seems— only yesterday.
Not to mention all the setbacks at the economic, political, union and foreign relations level that are taking place since politicians such as Macri, Temer, Bachelet, Cartes, Tabaré Vázquez and Humala rose to power by using different methods, including the so-called “soft coups”.
It’s also true that these involutions served to make visible the weaknesses and, in some cases, the flagrant contradictions of some neo-developmentalist governments, which sparked in some countries an ostensible crisis of values and inspired, among the younger generation, a significant amount of rejection towards politics in general.
In this context, it’s healthy for the memory of the peoples to remember Chávez, that whirlwind of passion and energy, that militant for ethics with the courage of those who want to change it all and fully commit to anything they set themselves to do.
He was determined when it came to taking decisions, especially those who involved the wellbeing of his beloved Venezuela. Passionate and enthusiastic in his defense of the poorest ones, to whom he dedicated each and every day of his government. A promoter of unity to fight together against the Empire, which he strived for not only in the realm of internal policy but at the Latin American and worldwide level.
Cerebral and with his feet on the ground when it came to opening the doors to debate —even with his sworn enemies— and to propose ways to bring closer together completely opposite views.
A wielder of the most powerful weapons to resist the onslaughts of powerful enemies such as Bush or Obama —but his weapons weren’t loaded with bullets but with a sound and lively political consciousness, that grew from the history of struggle of our peoples.
He and only he was lucid enough to realize that the time had come to set the continent on its way towards the Second Independence(1), which for long has been denied to our peoples. He rescued from oblivion the memory of our founding fathers and mothers, and our continent’s heros, whom he dusted off and turned into protagonic figures of our present time. Bolívar, San Martín, Sucre, Manuelita Sáenz, O’Higgins, Guacaipuro, Túpac Amaru, Simón Rodríguez, Sandino, Evita Perón and, of course, Che Guevara.
With them as comrades, he called us all to reclaim the “Patria Grande” (Great Motherland)(2). He denounced Bush’s plots in the UN and gave him a proverbial kick in the butt back when he and a group of Latin American Presidents demolished the ALCA. Chavez did all of this and more.
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The same neoliberalism that Chávez fought against by taking up arms in the two coup attempts he took part in 1992, has resurged again in our continent and threatens to dismantle each and every one of the achievements towards continental integration that the leader of the Bolivarian revolution made —it seems— only yesterday.
Not to mention all the setbacks at the economic, political, union and foreign relations level that are taking place since politicians such as Macri, Temer, Bachelet, Cartes, Tabaré Vázquez and Humala rose to power by using different methods, including the so-called “soft coups”.
It’s also true that these involutions served to make visible the weaknesses and, in some cases, the flagrant contradictions of some neo-developmentalist governments, which sparked in some countries an ostensible crisis of values and inspired, among the younger generation, a significant amount of rejection towards politics in general.
In this context, it’s healthy for the memory of the peoples to remember Chávez, that whirlwind of passion and energy, that militant for ethics with the courage of those who want to change it all and fully commit to anything they set themselves to do.
He was determined when it came to taking decisions, especially those who involved the wellbeing of his beloved Venezuela. Passionate and enthusiastic in his defense of the poorest ones, to whom he dedicated each and every day of his government. A promoter of unity to fight together against the Empire, which he strived for not only in the realm of internal policy but at the Latin American and worldwide level.
Cerebral and with his feet on the ground when it came to opening the doors to debate —even with his sworn enemies— and to propose ways to bring closer together completely opposite views.
A wielder of the most powerful weapons to resist the onslaughts of powerful enemies such as Bush or Obama —but his weapons weren’t loaded with bullets but with a sound and lively political consciousness, that grew from the history of struggle of our peoples.
He and only he was lucid enough to realize that the time had come to set the continent on its way towards the Second Independence(1), which for long has been denied to our peoples. He rescued from oblivion the memory of our founding fathers and mothers, and our continent’s heros, whom he dusted off and turned into protagonic figures of our present time. Bolívar, San Martín, Sucre, Manuelita Sáenz, O’Higgins, Guacaipuro, Túpac Amaru, Simón Rodríguez, Sandino, Evita Perón and, of course, Che Guevara.
With them as comrades, he called us all to reclaim the “Patria Grande” (Great Motherland)(2). He denounced Bush’s plots in the UN and gave him a proverbial kick in the butt back when he and a group of Latin American Presidents demolished the ALCA. Chavez did all of this and more.
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Hugo Chávez: la clave de la participación
Por Augusto Márquez / Resumen Latinoamericano
26 de Julio 2016
No fue que Chávez se salió del molde de la política tradicional. Fue que la demolió por completo, de cabo a rabo.
Si algo definió la conducta de Hugo Chávez fue su permanente preocupación sobre el papel que juega el pensamiento en el marco de una revolución que sigue sacudiendo cultural y políticamente a Venezuela. Y no cualquier carantoña al pasado y sus manuales heróicos que se autoproclaman “pensamiento revolucionario”, sino aquel que aún sin terminar de ser parido encuentra en la participación permanente en la política la clave para su constitución.
Todas las batallas libradas junto al pueblo; las victorias electorales conquistadas, los golpes y conspiraciones internacionales desmanteladas; el rescate de la OPEP para recuperar los precios del petróleo; construir una fuerte referencia geopolítica para neutralizar la política exterior de los centros de poder global; derrotar guarimbas y conspiraciones enemigas a lo interno y externo.
Ninguna de estas victorias tenían un fin en sí mismo, sino uno estratégicamente superior: construir la estabilidad política necesaria para poder pensar con qué se come eso de socialismo, cómo se construye, cuál es su teoría y su práctica, dónde y en qué condiciones territoriales debe constituirse. La política que condujo a Chávez, consistente en la intracultura de este territorio, tenía como eje central la participación de todos para el diseño de una política propia e histórica.
Es el poder, en su concepción filosófica, el primer resorte en entrar en crisis en un tiempo revolucionario. Quienes hacen política en nuestra contra nos ven como estadística, mercancía para rotar y vender, minas y campos para explotar, no existimos más que para ser tasados en una balanza atornillada en Europa y Estados Unidos, donde no participamos; se diseñó teniéndonos en cuenta como cobre que se deprecia si no lo vendes ya.
Seguro aquí no faltará, y valga el inciso, aquel que se alegra interprentando erróneamente esa premisa del poder con respecto al directorio revolucionario. Los que más dicen detestar la “representatividad” aún no comprenden que Maduro y Diosdado se están jugando lo mismo que todos nosotros: la vida como país y nuestro derecho a escribir la historia de este territorio. Quemaron los barcos, sí. Pero en desagravio al escritor que mencionó esa frase, no fue para quedarse comiendo mango y catalufa, lo cual depende de donde llegaron después de quemar los barcos, si a chacopatica o a cariaco. También están en el tumulto; es esa falta de pasividad y flojera lo que los distingue precisamente de la intelecualidad clase media que sí quiere representarnos.
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Si algo definió la conducta de Hugo Chávez fue su permanente preocupación sobre el papel que juega el pensamiento en el marco de una revolución que sigue sacudiendo cultural y políticamente a Venezuela. Y no cualquier carantoña al pasado y sus manuales heróicos que se autoproclaman “pensamiento revolucionario”, sino aquel que aún sin terminar de ser parido encuentra en la participación permanente en la política la clave para su constitución.
Todas las batallas libradas junto al pueblo; las victorias electorales conquistadas, los golpes y conspiraciones internacionales desmanteladas; el rescate de la OPEP para recuperar los precios del petróleo; construir una fuerte referencia geopolítica para neutralizar la política exterior de los centros de poder global; derrotar guarimbas y conspiraciones enemigas a lo interno y externo.
Ninguna de estas victorias tenían un fin en sí mismo, sino uno estratégicamente superior: construir la estabilidad política necesaria para poder pensar con qué se come eso de socialismo, cómo se construye, cuál es su teoría y su práctica, dónde y en qué condiciones territoriales debe constituirse. La política que condujo a Chávez, consistente en la intracultura de este territorio, tenía como eje central la participación de todos para el diseño de una política propia e histórica.
Es el poder, en su concepción filosófica, el primer resorte en entrar en crisis en un tiempo revolucionario. Quienes hacen política en nuestra contra nos ven como estadística, mercancía para rotar y vender, minas y campos para explotar, no existimos más que para ser tasados en una balanza atornillada en Europa y Estados Unidos, donde no participamos; se diseñó teniéndonos en cuenta como cobre que se deprecia si no lo vendes ya.
Seguro aquí no faltará, y valga el inciso, aquel que se alegra interprentando erróneamente esa premisa del poder con respecto al directorio revolucionario. Los que más dicen detestar la “representatividad” aún no comprenden que Maduro y Diosdado se están jugando lo mismo que todos nosotros: la vida como país y nuestro derecho a escribir la historia de este territorio. Quemaron los barcos, sí. Pero en desagravio al escritor que mencionó esa frase, no fue para quedarse comiendo mango y catalufa, lo cual depende de donde llegaron después de quemar los barcos, si a chacopatica o a cariaco. También están en el tumulto; es esa falta de pasividad y flojera lo que los distingue precisamente de la intelecualidad clase media que sí quiere representarnos.
CONTINUE LEYENDO AQUI .....
The time we have left
Marco Teruggi / hastaelnocau.wordpress.com
The Dawn News - July, 12, 2016
By this time —according to the coupist leader Ramos Allup— the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, should have been ousted. Or so he announced when he took office as Head of the National Assembly, elected by the maximum majority on December 6: “We’ll give him 6 more months”, were his words. The only thing left to decide was the method.
Months went by, and what was supposed to be a firm act of the right quickly ended up being the current swamp of the recall referendum, signed with false signatures —many others legitimate— and with a schedule that won’t allow them to fulfill their prophecy in 2016. Probably, —unless something unusual changes the situation—, the referendum will be carried out in 2017, which would mean that, if Nicolas Maduro were to be removed from his seat, the Vice President would replace him. In other words, Chavism would still remain in power.
Numbers these days are not favouring the President. According to the latest polls, carried out last May by Hinterlaces, 61% of the population would vote to revoke Nicolas Maduro and 57% believes that the government is to blame for the current crisis. This feeling is palpable on the streets. The President, who is the main target of media attacks, and for his position as Head of a leadership that is not giving the expected answers, carries all of the burden of responsibility on his back.
As is often said in Venezuela, la vaina está arrecha [this shit is fucked]. It’s a siege that chokes and chokes: food, medicine, hygiene products, streets, buses, media, everything has been transformed into a battlefield. This was done by the right. The problem, according to the poll, is that only 25% of the population believes that the cause of this whole situation is the economic war — the remaining 14% believes that the cause is the drop in oil prices.
It’s important to repeat this: there is a war going on. This war is not like the kind of war we are used to: helmets, IDs, generals, statements, rules. This is an unconventional war: its strength is based on killing without a name, starving without a name, being invisible. Nobody is held accountable for what is going on.
In this scenario, one the one hand, we have North American imperialism —beyond the potential dialogues that may arise— and the ruling classes of Venezuela. On the other side, the leadership of the revolution, the political tools for mediation (mostly the PSUV), the popular and communal organizations, men and women who are daily enduring the blows. This is the broad outline. On the side of those who are waging the war there are no major doubts. On the side of Chavism, however, the situation is not as clear: is everyone rooting for the same side?
***
July it is. The right did not meet its goals. Neither did Chavism: seven months after the electoral defeat, measures have not been taken and mistakes have not been corrected in order to fix the situation. They have lost. And a defeat requires a rectification. Even more so when the right’s victory was based on a “punishment vote” by the chavist bases. The right was never an alternative. The poll confirms that: only 30% believe that the opposition could resolve the problems if they reached the executive power.
One of the main issues is related to the direction of the revolution. Is it disconnected from the popular movements? Is it turning and turning without founding the way out? Now, things seem to be still, as if the efforts were in vain. The shortage of food, medicine, hygiene products, the long queues, exacerbated price increases are still there. The Local Committees of Supply And Production, a central measure of the government implemented this year, are just a patch. It was a necessary measure, but still a patch. Nobody can affirm that a family could live for three weeks on a bag of food —in the hypothetical and unlikely case that the distribution is in fact done effectively once every three weeks.
The truth is that the weight of the crisis is being unloaded on the people, the most humble people. And that the leadership has decided to prioritize their agreements with the private sector —banking, importing, businessmen. A revolution that decides to finance the right instead of taking power from them, is stuck in a very dangerous corner. Especially when the answers are not coming and the quality of life of its own social base is quickly decreasing, day by day.
There is no doubt that money is lacking. Prices of oil are still low, the government took the political decision of not prosecuting those members of the government who stole 475 thousand million dollars or transnational companies who don’t pay taxes, and there is no intention of renegotiating the external debt. Money is lacking, indeed. Amidst the situation, the government made a widely criticized decision: t 12% of the national territory will be open for mining exploitation by transnational companies. This is called the “Mining Arch”.
To sum it up, we could say that problems have gotten worse, the policies that were questioned in the elections last December 6, are still intact, the war has submerged the country in a critical situation where the leadership has lost touch with the people. They are not choosing in favor of the communes, popular empowerment nor the inclusion of new actors into the process. The same actors remain in their places, often questioned. And war is always lost by the leadership, not by its soldiers.
***
This is not about pessimism or optimism, but about analyzing a process that still has a great amount of strength to resist, even though it’s decreasing. Let’s leave aside the OAS agenda, the visits of former presidents, the statements of the right, the dialogue between the Venezuelan Chancellor and the North American Secretary of State…. We should stop avoiding dealing with the most complex issues, which are hard to process. The rest of the issues have already been largely analyzed.
Is the enemy so powerful that we can’t defeat it? Or is it that a part of the core of Chavism is favoring the other side? The enemy is doing what we knew it would do: killing, starving, sieging, infiltrating paramilitary, creating chaos. According to the right, the main issue are the alleged “lootings”: I say alleged because those were not lootings, but violent acts organized by units that belong to the right, which then caused massive robberies in some cases, as what happened in Cumaná. They try to carry this out in the popular areas (Chavist territories). The scenario of the right —middle and high classes, where the 2014 guarimbas took place— is in crisis: the right is not able to mobilize its own base of support.
Their tactic is based on a very important issue: the material conditions exists for lootings to take place. The situation is really difficult: in many houses, families eat only twice a day, sometimes even less. Goods can’t be found in the supermarkets, the prices in the black market are unreachable —only those with money can save themselves from this crisis. The attempt of the right is to promote violent acts through the groups they finance. They want to show the world that the country is going through humanitarian crisis so as to promote a foreign intervention.
The political conditions, on the other hand, do not seem to be apt. It’s true that a vast majority would probably vote in favor of removing Maduro from the presidency, but we must bear in mind that Chavism is the political identity of the popular sectors. In spite of the dissatisfaction with the current administration. That’s why people have not massively chosen lootings. Because the people knows where they come from, they are politically educated, organized, and are aware that if the government falls, the dark times will be back.
How long can this go on given that the economic situation is very hard to contain and the leadership can’t connect with its bases? The popular DNA is hard to read. I believe, from what I heard and saw when traveling across the country, its neighborhoods and fields, that there’s not a lot to do. I hope I’m wrong.
Lastly, there is a scenario that is slowly emerging and must be avoided: an hypothetical ideological defeat. Losing the government, of course, wouldn’t mean losing the revolution. But to lose the ideas, the legitimacy of the words “socialism”, “popular power”, “anti-imperialism”, “communes”, etc, that would be the real defeat. Not only for Venezuela, but for the continent and the world. The possibilities for transformation with or without the Bolivarian Revolution are not the same. This process began to implement the most advanced hypotheses of creation of a non-capitalist society, and thus became a benchmark against which to measure what can be possible.
It’s hard to know how much time we have left. All variables will probably become more exacerbated. Imperialism believes that this is the final blow. The opposition also believes this and the situation is getting increasingly violent. On our side, we will continue to resist and to win one more time. Now, the question is: if the leadership doesn’t rectify itself, what should the soldiers do?
Months went by, and what was supposed to be a firm act of the right quickly ended up being the current swamp of the recall referendum, signed with false signatures —many others legitimate— and with a schedule that won’t allow them to fulfill their prophecy in 2016. Probably, —unless something unusual changes the situation—, the referendum will be carried out in 2017, which would mean that, if Nicolas Maduro were to be removed from his seat, the Vice President would replace him. In other words, Chavism would still remain in power.
Numbers these days are not favouring the President. According to the latest polls, carried out last May by Hinterlaces, 61% of the population would vote to revoke Nicolas Maduro and 57% believes that the government is to blame for the current crisis. This feeling is palpable on the streets. The President, who is the main target of media attacks, and for his position as Head of a leadership that is not giving the expected answers, carries all of the burden of responsibility on his back.
As is often said in Venezuela, la vaina está arrecha [this shit is fucked]. It’s a siege that chokes and chokes: food, medicine, hygiene products, streets, buses, media, everything has been transformed into a battlefield. This was done by the right. The problem, according to the poll, is that only 25% of the population believes that the cause of this whole situation is the economic war — the remaining 14% believes that the cause is the drop in oil prices.
It’s important to repeat this: there is a war going on. This war is not like the kind of war we are used to: helmets, IDs, generals, statements, rules. This is an unconventional war: its strength is based on killing without a name, starving without a name, being invisible. Nobody is held accountable for what is going on.
In this scenario, one the one hand, we have North American imperialism —beyond the potential dialogues that may arise— and the ruling classes of Venezuela. On the other side, the leadership of the revolution, the political tools for mediation (mostly the PSUV), the popular and communal organizations, men and women who are daily enduring the blows. This is the broad outline. On the side of those who are waging the war there are no major doubts. On the side of Chavism, however, the situation is not as clear: is everyone rooting for the same side?
***
July it is. The right did not meet its goals. Neither did Chavism: seven months after the electoral defeat, measures have not been taken and mistakes have not been corrected in order to fix the situation. They have lost. And a defeat requires a rectification. Even more so when the right’s victory was based on a “punishment vote” by the chavist bases. The right was never an alternative. The poll confirms that: only 30% believe that the opposition could resolve the problems if they reached the executive power.
One of the main issues is related to the direction of the revolution. Is it disconnected from the popular movements? Is it turning and turning without founding the way out? Now, things seem to be still, as if the efforts were in vain. The shortage of food, medicine, hygiene products, the long queues, exacerbated price increases are still there. The Local Committees of Supply And Production, a central measure of the government implemented this year, are just a patch. It was a necessary measure, but still a patch. Nobody can affirm that a family could live for three weeks on a bag of food —in the hypothetical and unlikely case that the distribution is in fact done effectively once every three weeks.
The truth is that the weight of the crisis is being unloaded on the people, the most humble people. And that the leadership has decided to prioritize their agreements with the private sector —banking, importing, businessmen. A revolution that decides to finance the right instead of taking power from them, is stuck in a very dangerous corner. Especially when the answers are not coming and the quality of life of its own social base is quickly decreasing, day by day.
There is no doubt that money is lacking. Prices of oil are still low, the government took the political decision of not prosecuting those members of the government who stole 475 thousand million dollars or transnational companies who don’t pay taxes, and there is no intention of renegotiating the external debt. Money is lacking, indeed. Amidst the situation, the government made a widely criticized decision: t 12% of the national territory will be open for mining exploitation by transnational companies. This is called the “Mining Arch”.
To sum it up, we could say that problems have gotten worse, the policies that were questioned in the elections last December 6, are still intact, the war has submerged the country in a critical situation where the leadership has lost touch with the people. They are not choosing in favor of the communes, popular empowerment nor the inclusion of new actors into the process. The same actors remain in their places, often questioned. And war is always lost by the leadership, not by its soldiers.
***
This is not about pessimism or optimism, but about analyzing a process that still has a great amount of strength to resist, even though it’s decreasing. Let’s leave aside the OAS agenda, the visits of former presidents, the statements of the right, the dialogue between the Venezuelan Chancellor and the North American Secretary of State…. We should stop avoiding dealing with the most complex issues, which are hard to process. The rest of the issues have already been largely analyzed.
Is the enemy so powerful that we can’t defeat it? Or is it that a part of the core of Chavism is favoring the other side? The enemy is doing what we knew it would do: killing, starving, sieging, infiltrating paramilitary, creating chaos. According to the right, the main issue are the alleged “lootings”: I say alleged because those were not lootings, but violent acts organized by units that belong to the right, which then caused massive robberies in some cases, as what happened in Cumaná. They try to carry this out in the popular areas (Chavist territories). The scenario of the right —middle and high classes, where the 2014 guarimbas took place— is in crisis: the right is not able to mobilize its own base of support.
Their tactic is based on a very important issue: the material conditions exists for lootings to take place. The situation is really difficult: in many houses, families eat only twice a day, sometimes even less. Goods can’t be found in the supermarkets, the prices in the black market are unreachable —only those with money can save themselves from this crisis. The attempt of the right is to promote violent acts through the groups they finance. They want to show the world that the country is going through humanitarian crisis so as to promote a foreign intervention.
The political conditions, on the other hand, do not seem to be apt. It’s true that a vast majority would probably vote in favor of removing Maduro from the presidency, but we must bear in mind that Chavism is the political identity of the popular sectors. In spite of the dissatisfaction with the current administration. That’s why people have not massively chosen lootings. Because the people knows where they come from, they are politically educated, organized, and are aware that if the government falls, the dark times will be back.
How long can this go on given that the economic situation is very hard to contain and the leadership can’t connect with its bases? The popular DNA is hard to read. I believe, from what I heard and saw when traveling across the country, its neighborhoods and fields, that there’s not a lot to do. I hope I’m wrong.
Lastly, there is a scenario that is slowly emerging and must be avoided: an hypothetical ideological defeat. Losing the government, of course, wouldn’t mean losing the revolution. But to lose the ideas, the legitimacy of the words “socialism”, “popular power”, “anti-imperialism”, “communes”, etc, that would be the real defeat. Not only for Venezuela, but for the continent and the world. The possibilities for transformation with or without the Bolivarian Revolution are not the same. This process began to implement the most advanced hypotheses of creation of a non-capitalist society, and thus became a benchmark against which to measure what can be possible.
It’s hard to know how much time we have left. All variables will probably become more exacerbated. Imperialism believes that this is the final blow. The opposition also believes this and the situation is getting increasingly violent. On our side, we will continue to resist and to win one more time. Now, the question is: if the leadership doesn’t rectify itself, what should the soldiers do?
Venezuela defiende derecho a recibir
presidencia de Mercosur
Resumen Latinoamricano
11 julio 2016
La canciller ha rechazado las declaraciones de su homólogo de Brasil sobre el traspaso. Delcy Rodríguez asiste a la reunión de cancilleres del organismo en Montevideo, Uruguay.
Venezuela defiende este lunes su derecho a recibir la presidencia pro témpore del Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur), en la reunión de cancilleres que se desarrolla en Montevideo, Uruguay.
El corresponsal de teleSUR en ese país, Mauricio de los Santos, informó que la canciller Delcy Rodríguez ya se encuentra reunida y ha llamado a “no atenerse a los malos modales de la derecha” y concretar el traspaso de la presidencia temporal.
Agregó que se espera que en esta jornada se cumpla con ese proceso.
Los gobiernos de Paraguay y Brasil han manifestado su negativa a que Venezuela asuma la presidencia del organismo, lo que Rodríguez ha condenado en declaraciones anteriores al considerar que los cancilleres de esos países provienen precisamente “de gobiernos de facto que dieron golpes de Estado a presidentes legítimos”.
Al llegar a Uruguay la Canciller venezolana sostuvo un encuentro con senadores, diputados y representantes sindicales del Frente Amplio de Uruguay que acompañan la gestión del presidente Tabaré Vázquez.
Venezuela defiende este lunes su derecho a recibir la presidencia pro témpore del Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur), en la reunión de cancilleres que se desarrolla en Montevideo, Uruguay.
El corresponsal de teleSUR en ese país, Mauricio de los Santos, informó que la canciller Delcy Rodríguez ya se encuentra reunida y ha llamado a “no atenerse a los malos modales de la derecha” y concretar el traspaso de la presidencia temporal.
Agregó que se espera que en esta jornada se cumpla con ese proceso.
Los gobiernos de Paraguay y Brasil han manifestado su negativa a que Venezuela asuma la presidencia del organismo, lo que Rodríguez ha condenado en declaraciones anteriores al considerar que los cancilleres de esos países provienen precisamente “de gobiernos de facto que dieron golpes de Estado a presidentes legítimos”.
Al llegar a Uruguay la Canciller venezolana sostuvo un encuentro con senadores, diputados y representantes sindicales del Frente Amplio de Uruguay que acompañan la gestión del presidente Tabaré Vázquez.
Chávez y la V Internacional
Por Fernando Bossi, Portal ALBA / Resumen Latinoamericano
5 julio 2016
Ya se van a cumplir siete años desde que el Comandante Chávez convocó a la conformación de la V Internacional. Fue durante dos eventos, el Encuentro de Partidos de Izquierda realizado en Caracas los días 19, 20 y 21 de noviembre de 2009 y en el acto de instalación del Congreso Extraordinario del PSUV para esa misma fecha.En ambas oportunidades el Comandante hizo hincapié en esa necesidad. Dijo frente a la dirigencia del PSUV: “No hay tiempo que perder. Si le tocara al PSUV y a un partido más de este mundo conformar el primer núcleo, lo haríamos. Pero estoy seguro de que serán más los dispuestos a la tarea, que es de suma urgencia, porque la crisis mundial se acelera”.
Tanto en uno como en el otro encuentro se resolvió conformar una comisión que se encargaría del tema. Lamentablemente recuerdo aquello que siempre decía el General Perón: “si usted quiere que algo no se realice, conforme una comisión”. Y a la luz del tiempo, esta sarcástica frase del líder argentino, parece de nuevo verificarse.
Traigo a la memoria también la cara de muchos asistentes al encuentro internacional cuando el Comandante lanzó, a quemarropa, esa propuesta. El desconcierto reinó, no primó el entusiasmo ni la algarabía; no aparecieron muchos gestos espontáneos de aprobación. Nada de eso, y aún más, en los pasillos, y finalizada la reunión, hubo algunas manifestaciones de preocupación y también de desacuerdo. Seguramente algunas “izquierdas” –fundamentalmente aquellas de los países imperialistas–, se vieron desorientadas por tan audaz iniciativa. Pero otras organizaciones, principalmente las ubicadas en los países del Tercer Mundo, recibieron con beneplácito la convocatoria.
¿Es que el mundo actual no necesita de una herramienta de unidad y coordinación de las fuerzas antiimperialistas y socialistas para encarar las luchas actuales y las que se avecinan de manera mancomunada? Se entiende que todo verdadero revolucionario ha asumido que el capitalismo no va a “implosionar”, no va a derrumbarse si no es por la acción consciente de las masas populares. Entonces ¿por qué muchas organizaciones autodenominadas de izquierda miran para otro lado cuando se habla de la V Internacional? ¿Es que no es necesaria? ¿No es el momento para conformarla? ¿No hay correlación de fuerzas?
Chávez fue categórico a la hora de lanzar la iniciativa, afirmando que esta vez, la Internacional tenía que ser convocada por quienes están a la vanguardia de la lucha contra antiimeprialista. Decía el Comandante, refiriéndose a las otras Internacionales y justificando por qué Venezuela podría ser el impulsor de esta organización de fuerzas antiimperialistas: “ …todas fueron convocadas desde Europa, desde aquella Europa donde nació con fuerza esa tesis del socialismo científico, al calor de grandes luchas populares… pero pudiéramos decir que el centro de gravedad de las luchas revolucionarias en este planeta ya no están en Europa, el centro de gravedad dije, porque esto hay que decirlo con mucho respeto a todos los movimientos por más modestos que sean en la Europa, en el Asia, en el África, en el Oriente Medio, en Oceanía, en Norteamérica… pero cualquier observador, cualquier analista, no hace falta ser analista, sólo hace falta seguir el consejo de la Biblia, ‘el que tenga ojos que vea, el que tenga oídos que oiga’, sabe que el epicentro de las luchas revolucionarias, de las luchas socialistas hoy en el mundo, comenzando el siglo XXI, está aquí, en nuestra América, y a Venezuela le toca ser epicentro en esa batalla”.
¿Hay fuerza y voluntad suficiente para conformar una V Internacional antiimperialista? Podríamos afirmar que sí, pero si no hay una convocatoria seria y puntual la incógnita sigue abierta. ¿Hay causas que ameriten esa convocatoria? Sobran las razones. Estamos al borde de una nueva guerra mundial que puede acarrear consecuencias impredecibles, no solo para la región afectada directamente, sino para todo el planeta. El cambio climático ya está provocando calamidades apocalípticas. Los organismos internacionales clásicos, la ONU por ejemplo, con su Consejo de Seguridad y sus asambleas periódicas, demuestran que sólo sirven para lanzar discursos rimbombantes o meramente para hacerle el juego a los intereses de los países imperialistas… Las injusticias y la opresión crecen y el irrespeto a las soberanías nacionales y a los derechos humanos es moneda corriente…
Ante toda esta realidad ¿por qué se sigue dilatando el llamado del Comandante, si cuando él lo realizó el mundo no estaba peor que ahora? Esa es una pregunta que debemos hacernos.
Chávez señaló con toda precisión la tarea a llevar a cabo: “Nos toca a nosotros asumir el papel de vanguardia y tenemos que asumirlo así, compañeros y compañeras, para que nos demos cuenta y tomemos conciencia de la gigantesca responsabilidad que tenemos sobre nuestros hombros, cada una de ustedes compañeras, cada uno de ustedes compañeros, camaradas, nosotros en el Partido Socialista Unido, los partidos aliados, nosotros en el gobierno la inmensa responsabilidad que tenemos… por eso honestamente creo que llegó la hora de convocar a la V Internacional y la convocamos desde Caracas y hacemos un llamado a todos los partidos socialistas revolucionarios, movimientos y corrientes de los que luchan por el socialismo, contra el capitalismo, contra el imperialismo para salvar el mundo”.
Me pregunto ¿no habría que hacer un esfuerzo para llevar adelante esta convocatoria tan necesaria en estos momentos? Tal vez no desde Venezuela, que hoy está afrontando una agresión interna y externa de dimensiones extraordinarias… O tal vez sí, precisamente por eso… Pero más allá de quién lo haga, de quién pueda convocar, creemos necesario, al menos, que se abra nuevamente el debate.
Las fuerzas antiimperialistas del planeta representan a millones y millones de seres humanos, y la verdadera izquierda socialista es parte de esa inmensa mayoría que enfrenta a los gobiernos imperialistas liderados hoy por los Estados Unidos. La dictadura imperialista pretende imponerse en todo el planeta, la respuesta debe ser también mundial, y seguramente será desde la periferia hacia las metrópolis del gran capital.
A 205 años de la Declaración de la Independencia de Venezuela
Tanto en uno como en el otro encuentro se resolvió conformar una comisión que se encargaría del tema. Lamentablemente recuerdo aquello que siempre decía el General Perón: “si usted quiere que algo no se realice, conforme una comisión”. Y a la luz del tiempo, esta sarcástica frase del líder argentino, parece de nuevo verificarse.
Traigo a la memoria también la cara de muchos asistentes al encuentro internacional cuando el Comandante lanzó, a quemarropa, esa propuesta. El desconcierto reinó, no primó el entusiasmo ni la algarabía; no aparecieron muchos gestos espontáneos de aprobación. Nada de eso, y aún más, en los pasillos, y finalizada la reunión, hubo algunas manifestaciones de preocupación y también de desacuerdo. Seguramente algunas “izquierdas” –fundamentalmente aquellas de los países imperialistas–, se vieron desorientadas por tan audaz iniciativa. Pero otras organizaciones, principalmente las ubicadas en los países del Tercer Mundo, recibieron con beneplácito la convocatoria.
¿Es que el mundo actual no necesita de una herramienta de unidad y coordinación de las fuerzas antiimperialistas y socialistas para encarar las luchas actuales y las que se avecinan de manera mancomunada? Se entiende que todo verdadero revolucionario ha asumido que el capitalismo no va a “implosionar”, no va a derrumbarse si no es por la acción consciente de las masas populares. Entonces ¿por qué muchas organizaciones autodenominadas de izquierda miran para otro lado cuando se habla de la V Internacional? ¿Es que no es necesaria? ¿No es el momento para conformarla? ¿No hay correlación de fuerzas?
Chávez fue categórico a la hora de lanzar la iniciativa, afirmando que esta vez, la Internacional tenía que ser convocada por quienes están a la vanguardia de la lucha contra antiimeprialista. Decía el Comandante, refiriéndose a las otras Internacionales y justificando por qué Venezuela podría ser el impulsor de esta organización de fuerzas antiimperialistas: “ …todas fueron convocadas desde Europa, desde aquella Europa donde nació con fuerza esa tesis del socialismo científico, al calor de grandes luchas populares… pero pudiéramos decir que el centro de gravedad de las luchas revolucionarias en este planeta ya no están en Europa, el centro de gravedad dije, porque esto hay que decirlo con mucho respeto a todos los movimientos por más modestos que sean en la Europa, en el Asia, en el África, en el Oriente Medio, en Oceanía, en Norteamérica… pero cualquier observador, cualquier analista, no hace falta ser analista, sólo hace falta seguir el consejo de la Biblia, ‘el que tenga ojos que vea, el que tenga oídos que oiga’, sabe que el epicentro de las luchas revolucionarias, de las luchas socialistas hoy en el mundo, comenzando el siglo XXI, está aquí, en nuestra América, y a Venezuela le toca ser epicentro en esa batalla”.
¿Hay fuerza y voluntad suficiente para conformar una V Internacional antiimperialista? Podríamos afirmar que sí, pero si no hay una convocatoria seria y puntual la incógnita sigue abierta. ¿Hay causas que ameriten esa convocatoria? Sobran las razones. Estamos al borde de una nueva guerra mundial que puede acarrear consecuencias impredecibles, no solo para la región afectada directamente, sino para todo el planeta. El cambio climático ya está provocando calamidades apocalípticas. Los organismos internacionales clásicos, la ONU por ejemplo, con su Consejo de Seguridad y sus asambleas periódicas, demuestran que sólo sirven para lanzar discursos rimbombantes o meramente para hacerle el juego a los intereses de los países imperialistas… Las injusticias y la opresión crecen y el irrespeto a las soberanías nacionales y a los derechos humanos es moneda corriente…
Ante toda esta realidad ¿por qué se sigue dilatando el llamado del Comandante, si cuando él lo realizó el mundo no estaba peor que ahora? Esa es una pregunta que debemos hacernos.
Chávez señaló con toda precisión la tarea a llevar a cabo: “Nos toca a nosotros asumir el papel de vanguardia y tenemos que asumirlo así, compañeros y compañeras, para que nos demos cuenta y tomemos conciencia de la gigantesca responsabilidad que tenemos sobre nuestros hombros, cada una de ustedes compañeras, cada uno de ustedes compañeros, camaradas, nosotros en el Partido Socialista Unido, los partidos aliados, nosotros en el gobierno la inmensa responsabilidad que tenemos… por eso honestamente creo que llegó la hora de convocar a la V Internacional y la convocamos desde Caracas y hacemos un llamado a todos los partidos socialistas revolucionarios, movimientos y corrientes de los que luchan por el socialismo, contra el capitalismo, contra el imperialismo para salvar el mundo”.
Me pregunto ¿no habría que hacer un esfuerzo para llevar adelante esta convocatoria tan necesaria en estos momentos? Tal vez no desde Venezuela, que hoy está afrontando una agresión interna y externa de dimensiones extraordinarias… O tal vez sí, precisamente por eso… Pero más allá de quién lo haga, de quién pueda convocar, creemos necesario, al menos, que se abra nuevamente el debate.
Las fuerzas antiimperialistas del planeta representan a millones y millones de seres humanos, y la verdadera izquierda socialista es parte de esa inmensa mayoría que enfrenta a los gobiernos imperialistas liderados hoy por los Estados Unidos. La dictadura imperialista pretende imponerse en todo el planeta, la respuesta debe ser también mundial, y seguramente será desde la periferia hacia las metrópolis del gran capital.
A 205 años de la Declaración de la Independencia de Venezuela
A Policy of Non-Intervention in Venezuela Would be
a Welcome Change
by Mark Weisbrot - Counterpunch
July 1, 2016
The best thing that the United States government could do with regard to Venezuela, regardless of political outcomes there, would be to end its intervention there.
Washington has caused enormous damage to Venezuela in its relentless pursuit of “regime change” for the last 15 years. In March, President Obama once again absurdly declared Venezuela to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” and extended economic sanctions against the country. Although the sanctions themselves are narrow, they have a considerable impact on investment decisions, as investors know what often happens to countries that Washington targets as an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security. The sanctions, as well as pressure from the U.S. government, helped convince major financial institutions not to make otherwise low-risk loans, collateralized by gold, to the Venezuelan government.
Washington was involved in the short-lived 2002 military coup against the elected government of Venezuela, and the U.S. government acknowledged providing “training, institution building and other support to individuals and organizations” who carried out the coup. Afterwards, it stepped up funding to opposition groups and has continued to this day to give them millions of dollars. In 2013, Washington was again isolated in the region and the world when it refused to recognize the presidential election results (even though there was no doubt about the outcome); the U.S. thereby lent its support to violent street protests that were seeking to topple the government. Washington gave political support to similar efforts in 2014.
All this is well-documented and well-known to journalists covering Venezuela, but try finding one at a major news outlet who has the courage to write about it. It’s a bit like reporting on Ukraine and never mentioning Russia.
U.S. intervention in Venezuela, as in other countries, has contributed to political polarization and conflict over the years, as it encouraged elements of the opposition at numerous junctures to also pursue a strategy of regime change, rather than seeking peaceful political change.
A switch to a policy of non-intervention in Venezuela would be a sea change for Washington, and would set a healthy precedent. After all, the world is awash in bloodshed and refugees as a result of the U.S. pursuit of “regime change” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. Why not try something different in the Western Hemisphere?
Washington has caused enormous damage to Venezuela in its relentless pursuit of “regime change” for the last 15 years. In March, President Obama once again absurdly declared Venezuela to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” and extended economic sanctions against the country. Although the sanctions themselves are narrow, they have a considerable impact on investment decisions, as investors know what often happens to countries that Washington targets as an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security. The sanctions, as well as pressure from the U.S. government, helped convince major financial institutions not to make otherwise low-risk loans, collateralized by gold, to the Venezuelan government.
Washington was involved in the short-lived 2002 military coup against the elected government of Venezuela, and the U.S. government acknowledged providing “training, institution building and other support to individuals and organizations” who carried out the coup. Afterwards, it stepped up funding to opposition groups and has continued to this day to give them millions of dollars. In 2013, Washington was again isolated in the region and the world when it refused to recognize the presidential election results (even though there was no doubt about the outcome); the U.S. thereby lent its support to violent street protests that were seeking to topple the government. Washington gave political support to similar efforts in 2014.
All this is well-documented and well-known to journalists covering Venezuela, but try finding one at a major news outlet who has the courage to write about it. It’s a bit like reporting on Ukraine and never mentioning Russia.
U.S. intervention in Venezuela, as in other countries, has contributed to political polarization and conflict over the years, as it encouraged elements of the opposition at numerous junctures to also pursue a strategy of regime change, rather than seeking peaceful political change.
A switch to a policy of non-intervention in Venezuela would be a sea change for Washington, and would set a healthy precedent. After all, the world is awash in bloodshed and refugees as a result of the U.S. pursuit of “regime change” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. Why not try something different in the Western Hemisphere?
Brillante discurso de la ministra de Relaciones Exteriores, Delcy Rodríguez, quien pidió durante la Asamblea General de la OEA que se discuta la conducta del secretario general de la organización, Luis Almagro
The Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle - OPEN LETTER:
"The US and Canada should not interfere
in the internal affairs of Venezuela"
VENEZUELA CERCADA
María Páez Victor
Programa Venezuela Viva Recorrido Latinaomericano de
Radio Voces Latinas
Toronto, 19 mayo 2016
Han sucedido una serie de eventos que, singularmente quizás no sean sin alguna causa razonable. Pero tomados en conjunto, demuestran claramente un patrón. Y ese patrón apunta a un ataque organizado, planificado, deliberado al gobierno de Venezuela, a la constitucionalidad, es decir al estado mismo:
Y qué ha sucedido en otros gobiernos progresistas?
Que está sucediendo? Los presidentes Correa y Maduro lo han dicho ambos: un nuevo Plan Condor contra América Latina para imponer de nuevo las órdenes de Washington y las políticas económicas neo-liberales que tanto favorecen a las élites y desfavorecen a nuestros pueblos. Observen que miembros de las élites son los que están al frente de la violenta oposición venezolana: Capriles, Machado, López, Mendoza, Ledezma. Todos de las familias más ricas del país. Coincidencia?!
El Plan Condor fué un satánico plan de la CIA para eliminar los reformistas, los comunistas, los socialistas del sub-continente uniendo las policias secretas de los dictadores que en los años 70 y 80 predominaban en América Latina. Murieron torturados, asesinados, desaparecidos unas 50,000 personas. Un genocidio verdadero.
Ahora han unido los grupos de derecha , incluyendo los de España, para acabar con los gobiernos progresistas.
Todos estos evento en conjunto son evidencia de una plan para violentar la voluntad del pueblo venezolano y tumbar – como sea- al Presidente Maduro. Lo que no entiende esta gente, es que un golpe institucional, o un golpe militar no significa que gozen del apoyo social. El Presidente y el gobierno, a pesar de la tribulación que ha causado la baja en los precios del petroleo y la arremetida del DOLAR TODAY (o sea el mercado negro que a su vez ha sido manipulado y orquestrado), es sumamente popular. De darse una suspension del hilo constitucional, de ponerse en peligro la presidencia en Venezuela, habrá un levantamiento popular, y no será bonito. El pueblo no va a dejar que lo arrastren atrás a los años 70 ó 80.
Y si estan leyendo ésto venezolanos opositores, sepan que ustedes no van a estar a salvo pues una sublevación o una crisis de violencia civil no hace distinciones politicas, son dificiles de controlar. Todos pagan por igual con la violencia. El desastre al país les afectara a todos.
Cómo es que los que se oponen al gobierno actual de Venezuela que viven aquí en Canadá: pagan impuestos, gozan de escuelas y hospitales públicos, de viviendas buenas, acatan las leyes, pero en Venezuela esas aspiraciones son “comunismo”, son “tiranía”? Es que no quieren que el pueblo tenga escuelas, casas, hospitals, comida? Qué es exactamente a lo que se oponen aparte de “salir de Maduro”?
Uno llega a la conclusión de que solamente desean “la guanábana”, o sea, controlar el gobierno para el ursufructo propio y egoísta. Porque los gobiernos anteriores, que tanto añoran y desean que vuelvan, en esos años del 70 al 90 invirtieron en servicios públicos solamente en promedio el 37% del PIB, en cambio, los gobiernos bolivarianos han invertido el 60.7% del PIB en el desarrollo humano del país.
Eso si es una realidad verificaable al comparar las estadísticas de los años 1990 con ahora: verificable con la baja de la pobreza del casi 80% al 27% hoy, la extrema pobreza de casi un tercio de la poblacion al 5%, de una población con 1.5 millón de analfabetos, a la certificación de la UNESCO que Venezuela acabó con el analfabetismo, con la FAO ( Organizacion Mundial de Agricultura) certificando que Venezuela es uno de los 7 países regionales que más ha erradicado el hambre.
Y cómo se le va a acusar a Maduro de tiranía, cuando la oposición tiene la mayoría en la Asamblea Nacional, más 3 gobernaciones?
Ha llegado el momento en que los líderes de la oposición han pasado una linea: de oposición legítima, a oposición apátrida.
Así mismo oligarquía criolla del siglo 19 le hizo a Bolívar. Parafraseando a Fidel: la historia los juzgará así como hoy juzgamos y repudiamos a esa antigua oligarquía apátrida.
- · El presidente del país mas poderoso del mundo, Obama, declara –dos veces, en 2015 y 2016- a Venezuela un “peligro inusual” a la seguridad de los EEUU.
- · 18 de abril: el secretario de estado de los EEUU John Kerry se pronuncia a favor de aplicar la Carta Democrática de la OEA contra Venezuela pese a que no tienen razón alguna para ello.
- · 27 de abril: Luis Almagro, Secretario General de la OEA se pronunció a favor de aplicar la carta democrática contra Venezuela.
- · 11 de mayo 2016: El vice-presidente de los EEUU, Joe Biden acusó a Venezuela de continuar cometiendo graves violaciones de derechos humanos y de silenciar y intimidar a la oposición, y exigió la liberación de los criminales L. López y Ledezma.
- · Ayer, un avión de EEUU, Boing 707, de sofisticado equipo tecnológico de espionaje voló dos veces en espacio venezolano. Avión que se usa para apoyar comunicaciones de grupos armados o preparar condiciones para utilizar equipos electrónicos.
Y qué ha sucedido en otros gobiernos progresistas?
- · A Cristina Kirchner le montaron una campaña de difamación feroz que resultó en que su partido perdiera las elecciones. Luego, Macri se empecina en una campaña para continuar difamándola al ver la gran popularidad de que aun goza
- · A Evo Morales le montaron un teatro relacionado con una antigua novia y un supuesto hijo inexistente para destruir su carácter.
- · A Rafael Correa los medios no cesan de atacarlo, nacional e internacionalmente, pues no le perdonan el asilo que le ha dado a Julian Asange.
- · A Dilma Rousseff le aplicaron un golpe parlamentario, un vicepresdiente corrupto y un congreso lleno de hampones.
- · El ex-gobernante de Colombia, el narco-paramilitarista Alvaro Uribe, se reune con los ex-presidentes de España y Chile, las esposas de López y Ledezma y el nefasto y siniestro John Negropone ex- director de la CIA, y pide a los EEUU que ponga fuerzas armadas al servicio de la oposición en Venezuela y que liberen a los terroristas López y Ledezma.
- Los medios de comunicación privados manejados por intereses de la derecha nacional e internacional, han incrementado una campaña contra Venezuela feroz y maliciosa que reproduce el mismo ambiente de 2002 cuando ocurrió el golpe de Estado contra el comandante Hugo Chávez.
Que está sucediendo? Los presidentes Correa y Maduro lo han dicho ambos: un nuevo Plan Condor contra América Latina para imponer de nuevo las órdenes de Washington y las políticas económicas neo-liberales que tanto favorecen a las élites y desfavorecen a nuestros pueblos. Observen que miembros de las élites son los que están al frente de la violenta oposición venezolana: Capriles, Machado, López, Mendoza, Ledezma. Todos de las familias más ricas del país. Coincidencia?!
El Plan Condor fué un satánico plan de la CIA para eliminar los reformistas, los comunistas, los socialistas del sub-continente uniendo las policias secretas de los dictadores que en los años 70 y 80 predominaban en América Latina. Murieron torturados, asesinados, desaparecidos unas 50,000 personas. Un genocidio verdadero.
Ahora han unido los grupos de derecha , incluyendo los de España, para acabar con los gobiernos progresistas.
Todos estos evento en conjunto son evidencia de una plan para violentar la voluntad del pueblo venezolano y tumbar – como sea- al Presidente Maduro. Lo que no entiende esta gente, es que un golpe institucional, o un golpe militar no significa que gozen del apoyo social. El Presidente y el gobierno, a pesar de la tribulación que ha causado la baja en los precios del petroleo y la arremetida del DOLAR TODAY (o sea el mercado negro que a su vez ha sido manipulado y orquestrado), es sumamente popular. De darse una suspension del hilo constitucional, de ponerse en peligro la presidencia en Venezuela, habrá un levantamiento popular, y no será bonito. El pueblo no va a dejar que lo arrastren atrás a los años 70 ó 80.
Y si estan leyendo ésto venezolanos opositores, sepan que ustedes no van a estar a salvo pues una sublevación o una crisis de violencia civil no hace distinciones politicas, son dificiles de controlar. Todos pagan por igual con la violencia. El desastre al país les afectara a todos.
Cómo es que los que se oponen al gobierno actual de Venezuela que viven aquí en Canadá: pagan impuestos, gozan de escuelas y hospitales públicos, de viviendas buenas, acatan las leyes, pero en Venezuela esas aspiraciones son “comunismo”, son “tiranía”? Es que no quieren que el pueblo tenga escuelas, casas, hospitals, comida? Qué es exactamente a lo que se oponen aparte de “salir de Maduro”?
Uno llega a la conclusión de que solamente desean “la guanábana”, o sea, controlar el gobierno para el ursufructo propio y egoísta. Porque los gobiernos anteriores, que tanto añoran y desean que vuelvan, en esos años del 70 al 90 invirtieron en servicios públicos solamente en promedio el 37% del PIB, en cambio, los gobiernos bolivarianos han invertido el 60.7% del PIB en el desarrollo humano del país.
Eso si es una realidad verificaable al comparar las estadísticas de los años 1990 con ahora: verificable con la baja de la pobreza del casi 80% al 27% hoy, la extrema pobreza de casi un tercio de la poblacion al 5%, de una población con 1.5 millón de analfabetos, a la certificación de la UNESCO que Venezuela acabó con el analfabetismo, con la FAO ( Organizacion Mundial de Agricultura) certificando que Venezuela es uno de los 7 países regionales que más ha erradicado el hambre.
Y cómo se le va a acusar a Maduro de tiranía, cuando la oposición tiene la mayoría en la Asamblea Nacional, más 3 gobernaciones?
Ha llegado el momento en que los líderes de la oposición han pasado una linea: de oposición legítima, a oposición apátrida.
Así mismo oligarquía criolla del siglo 19 le hizo a Bolívar. Parafraseando a Fidel: la historia los juzgará así como hoy juzgamos y repudiamos a esa antigua oligarquía apátrida.
The Washington Post Reaches New Low in Calls
for Political Intervention in Venezuela
By Peter Bolton
Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
April 14, 2016
The Washington Post, in an op-ed issued yesterday by its Editorial Board, suggests that the remedy for the “accelerating spiral toward an economic and political crash” that now awaits Venezuela is “political intervention by its neighbors.”
It recommends intervention by the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Inter-American Democratic Charter, which, the Post claims, “provides for collective action when a regime violates constitutional norms.” Amongst these allegations of constitutional violations, the Post accuses the government of President Nicolás Maduro of waging “scorched-earth warfare with the National Assembly,” which since December of last year has been controlled by the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), and of illegally packing the Supreme Court with government supporters in order to “strip the opposition majority of its constitutional powers and reject every measure it has passed.”
The Post could have added some balance to the discussion by mentioning, for instance, that upon winning their two-thirds majority the opposition’s first order of business was passing an amnesty law that, in addition to including a worryingly broad set of crimes, has unsettled victims of right-wing violence, some of whom view it as sanctioning impunity.
In addition to open acts of provocation such as taking down all symbols of the Bolivarian cause from the walls of the legislature and immediately laying out a plan to ensure Maduro will be out of office within six months, the opposition have wasted no time in introducing legislation to privatize the public housing mission and roll back progressive labor law.
The Post’s proposal of this neighborly intervention...... CONTINUE READING HERE ....
It recommends intervention by the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Inter-American Democratic Charter, which, the Post claims, “provides for collective action when a regime violates constitutional norms.” Amongst these allegations of constitutional violations, the Post accuses the government of President Nicolás Maduro of waging “scorched-earth warfare with the National Assembly,” which since December of last year has been controlled by the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), and of illegally packing the Supreme Court with government supporters in order to “strip the opposition majority of its constitutional powers and reject every measure it has passed.”
The Post could have added some balance to the discussion by mentioning, for instance, that upon winning their two-thirds majority the opposition’s first order of business was passing an amnesty law that, in addition to including a worryingly broad set of crimes, has unsettled victims of right-wing violence, some of whom view it as sanctioning impunity.
In addition to open acts of provocation such as taking down all symbols of the Bolivarian cause from the walls of the legislature and immediately laying out a plan to ensure Maduro will be out of office within six months, the opposition have wasted no time in introducing legislation to privatize the public housing mission and roll back progressive labor law.
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Hace 14 años: El 12 de abril de 2002 el pueblo venezolano venció el silencio mediático
Prensa YVKE - www.aporrea.org
12/04/16
La Asamblea Nacional (AN) aprobó el año pasado un acuerdo que declara el 12 de abril como Día de la Comunicación Popular, para recordar cada año el papel que jugó la comunicación alternativa y la acción popular en el restablecimiento del hilo constitucional aquel 12 y 13 de abril de 2002, luego del golpe de Estado mediático que ejecutó la derecha venezolana contra el entonces Presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez.
De acuerdo con la página web de la anterior Asamblea Nacional, el diputado Darío Vivas, del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) presentó ante la plenaria una propuesta enviada por el Consejo Nacional de Comunicación Popular, en la que recuerdan cómo ese abril de 2002 el pueblo se activó a través de “radio bemba”, con megáfonos, mensajes de texto, pancartas, grafitis, radios comunitarias y colectivos comunicacionales que se venían conformando.
“Hubo un momento estelar de la comunicación en Venezuela, el pueblo todo ante la manipulación mediática, ante el engaño, ante la mentira, rompió el silencio informativo (de los medios privados) que se generó durante el golpe de Estado. Es por eso la iniciativa de que el día 12 de abril se convierta en Día de la Comunicación Popular”, enfatizó.
Vivas agregó que desde la llegada de la Revolución Bolivariana comenzó una guerra comunicacional por parte de los medios privados. “El pueblo rompió el cerco comunicacional conspirador durante el golpe de Estado. Este acuerdo es un reconocimiento a los comunicadores populares que siguen batallando (…) Buena parte de las victorias de la Revolución se las debemos a ellos, que transmiten la verdad sin ningún miedo”.
“El pueblo todo por la vía oral, actuando en comunicación permanente, rompió el silencio. En ese momento se hizo visible, el pueblo todo junto con los medios alternativos que existían, multiplicaron su voz”, diputado Darío Vivas.
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De acuerdo con la página web de la anterior Asamblea Nacional, el diputado Darío Vivas, del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) presentó ante la plenaria una propuesta enviada por el Consejo Nacional de Comunicación Popular, en la que recuerdan cómo ese abril de 2002 el pueblo se activó a través de “radio bemba”, con megáfonos, mensajes de texto, pancartas, grafitis, radios comunitarias y colectivos comunicacionales que se venían conformando.
“Hubo un momento estelar de la comunicación en Venezuela, el pueblo todo ante la manipulación mediática, ante el engaño, ante la mentira, rompió el silencio informativo (de los medios privados) que se generó durante el golpe de Estado. Es por eso la iniciativa de que el día 12 de abril se convierta en Día de la Comunicación Popular”, enfatizó.
Vivas agregó que desde la llegada de la Revolución Bolivariana comenzó una guerra comunicacional por parte de los medios privados. “El pueblo rompió el cerco comunicacional conspirador durante el golpe de Estado. Este acuerdo es un reconocimiento a los comunicadores populares que siguen batallando (…) Buena parte de las victorias de la Revolución se las debemos a ellos, que transmiten la verdad sin ningún miedo”.
“El pueblo todo por la vía oral, actuando en comunicación permanente, rompió el silencio. En ese momento se hizo visible, el pueblo todo junto con los medios alternativos que existían, multiplicaron su voz”, diputado Darío Vivas.
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Continuar el Legado de Hugo Chávez
Gilberto López y Rivas
La Jornada - Abril 1, 2016
La renovación de la orden ejecutiva dictada por Barack Obama, que por segundo año insiste en declarar a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela como una amenaza inusual y extraordinaria a la seguridad nacional y a la política externa de Estados Unidos, constituye una clara violación al marco jurídico internacional y a los principios de no injerencia en los asuntos internos y de igualdad soberana de los estados. En los hechos, se trata de apoyar abiertamente las acciones desestabilizadoras de la derecha venezolana, que pretende derrocar por cualquier medio al gobierno constitucional de Nicolás Maduro.
El imperio y sus asociados apátridas se unifican en una operación subversiva que pretende pasar por legal y legítima. No hay duda: la revolución bolivariana se encuentra en el momento de mayor peligro, después de la muerte del presidente Hugo Chávez. En esta coyuntura corresponde a las fuerzas políticas del chavismo hacer los mayores esfuerzos para evitar todo desgaste interno y analizar la mejor estrategia de lucha que corresponda a las necesidades de tan delicada situación.
No es suficiente con identificar las características actuales del factor constante imperialismo/burguesía, en esta renovada ofensiva contra el proceso bolivariano, sin que al mismo tiempo se ubiquen y asuman las responsabilidades propias, en el interior del propio movimiento chavista, tendientes a consolidar y desarrollar una defensa efectiva de las conquistas de la revolución, basadas en el poder popular-comunal, la propiedad social y el socialismo.
En el memorable documento Plan de la patria, más vigente que nunca en condiciones de riego extremo como las actuales, el comandante Chávez planteó lo siguiente: Para avanzar hacia el socialismo, necesitamos de un poder popular capaz de desarticular las tramas de la opresión, explotación y dominación que subsisten en la sociedad venezolana, capaz de configurar una nueva sociedad desde la vida cotidiana, donde la fraternidad y la solidaridad corran parejas con la emergencia permanente de nuevos modos de planificar y producir la vida material de nuestro pueblo.
Al presentar este programa, lo hago con el convencimiento de que sólo con la participación protagónica del pueblo, con su más amplia discusión en las bases populares, podremos perfeccionarlo, desatando toda su potencia creadora y liberadora.
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El imperio y sus asociados apátridas se unifican en una operación subversiva que pretende pasar por legal y legítima. No hay duda: la revolución bolivariana se encuentra en el momento de mayor peligro, después de la muerte del presidente Hugo Chávez. En esta coyuntura corresponde a las fuerzas políticas del chavismo hacer los mayores esfuerzos para evitar todo desgaste interno y analizar la mejor estrategia de lucha que corresponda a las necesidades de tan delicada situación.
No es suficiente con identificar las características actuales del factor constante imperialismo/burguesía, en esta renovada ofensiva contra el proceso bolivariano, sin que al mismo tiempo se ubiquen y asuman las responsabilidades propias, en el interior del propio movimiento chavista, tendientes a consolidar y desarrollar una defensa efectiva de las conquistas de la revolución, basadas en el poder popular-comunal, la propiedad social y el socialismo.
En el memorable documento Plan de la patria, más vigente que nunca en condiciones de riego extremo como las actuales, el comandante Chávez planteó lo siguiente: Para avanzar hacia el socialismo, necesitamos de un poder popular capaz de desarticular las tramas de la opresión, explotación y dominación que subsisten en la sociedad venezolana, capaz de configurar una nueva sociedad desde la vida cotidiana, donde la fraternidad y la solidaridad corran parejas con la emergencia permanente de nuevos modos de planificar y producir la vida material de nuestro pueblo.
Al presentar este programa, lo hago con el convencimiento de que sólo con la participación protagónica del pueblo, con su más amplia discusión en las bases populares, podremos perfeccionarlo, desatando toda su potencia creadora y liberadora.
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The Other Explanation for Venezuela’s Economic Crisis
By Peter Bolton, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs - COHA
Marzo 24, 2016
Reports in the English-language press last week highlighted a series of small-scale street protests in Venezuela that bemoaned the scarcity of certain basic products, chronic shortages of medical supplies, and continued power and water outages throughout the country. According to Reuters, for instance, more than a thousand such protests occurred in January and February and, taken together, “show the depth of public anger” and “could become a catalyst for wider unrest.”[1] News accounts proclaiming Venezuela’s state of emergency are not new but in recent weeks have reached hysterical levels, with the Boston-based Global Post claiming that Venezuela’s economic situation is now “worse than 1960s Cuba.”[2]
The mainstream narrative explanation is that the crisis is the result of economic mismanagement and the ideological rigidity of the country’s “authoritarian” Chavista led-government. For instance, Andreas E. Feldmann, Federico Merke, and Oliver Stuenkel, writing for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote last November that “Venezuela’s steep recession has been worsened by economic mismanagement leading to mounting inflation, a widening fiscal deficit, and growing shortages of essential goods including food, soap, and diapers.”[3] Similarly, Arlecchino Gomez at The Daily Signal, wrote, also last November, that Venezuela’s recession “was largely due to government incompetence and mismanagement.”[4]
The Workings of the “Free” Market
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The mainstream narrative explanation is that the crisis is the result of economic mismanagement and the ideological rigidity of the country’s “authoritarian” Chavista led-government. For instance, Andreas E. Feldmann, Federico Merke, and Oliver Stuenkel, writing for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote last November that “Venezuela’s steep recession has been worsened by economic mismanagement leading to mounting inflation, a widening fiscal deficit, and growing shortages of essential goods including food, soap, and diapers.”[3] Similarly, Arlecchino Gomez at The Daily Signal, wrote, also last November, that Venezuela’s recession “was largely due to government incompetence and mismanagement.”[4]
The Workings of the “Free” Market
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MUERTE DEL PRESIDENTE CHAVEZ:
La CIA, la DEA y un traidor
Por Montserrat Mestre / Resumen Latinoamericano
20/03/2016
El que fuera jefe de la guardia presidencial del fallecido mandatario Hugo Chávez, Leamsy Villafaña Salazar, tras la muerte del presidente Chávez estuvo 13 meses en negociaciones con la DEA estadounidense planeando su fuga. Con la excusa de pasar la luna de miel con su segunda esposa en República Dominicana, viajaron a Santo Domingo y una vez allí intempestivamente volaron a España, donde un avión de la DEA los recogió hasta su nueva residencia en EEUU, donde vive bajo la protección de las autoridades estadounidenes. ¿Por cuántas monedas habrá vendido este nuevo Judas al Comandante? Tal vez no sepa este Judas moderno, que el traidor por excelencia, el Judas bíblico, no pudo soportar el peso de la culpa y se suicidó ahorcándose en un árbol que crecía en el basural de las afueras de Jerusalén, en el valle de Hinón.
¿Chávez, asesinado por el jefe de su guardia? EEUU trata de cubrir sus huellas en el caso CONTINUE LEYENDO AQUI....
¿Chávez, asesinado por el jefe de su guardia? EEUU trata de cubrir sus huellas en el caso CONTINUE LEYENDO AQUI....
Venezuela: desmontando un arma
de destrucción masiva
MARK WEISBROT | Ultimas Noticias
6-03-2016
"El gobierno de Venezuela hace a menudo denuncias de que es víctima de una “guerra económica”, y por supuesto esto es parte de la realidad"
El gobierno de Venezuela hace a menudo denuncias de que es víctima de una “guerra económica”, y por supuesto esto es parte de la realidad. El arma principal de destrucción masiva en esta guerra es el mercado negro del dólar. No es ninguna coincidencia que la principal fuente de información en ese mercado, “Dolar Today” -la cual es de extrema derecha-, sea manejada por una persona que jugó un papel importante en el Golpe de Estado apoyado por los militares estadounidenses en 2002. Era un oficial de la Armada -coronel Gustavo Díaz Vivas-, quien ahora está residenciado en Alabama, Estados Unidos, desde donde opera su página web.
Tampoco es coincidencia que opere desde EEUU. Washington lleva al menos 15 años intentando derrocar el gobierno de Venezuela. Casi todos los periodistas con los que he conversado durante este período -incluyendo periodistas de los principales medios internacionales- han reconocido estar al tanto de esos esfuerzos, aunque casi nunca escriben sobre ello.
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El gobierno de Venezuela hace a menudo denuncias de que es víctima de una “guerra económica”, y por supuesto esto es parte de la realidad. El arma principal de destrucción masiva en esta guerra es el mercado negro del dólar. No es ninguna coincidencia que la principal fuente de información en ese mercado, “Dolar Today” -la cual es de extrema derecha-, sea manejada por una persona que jugó un papel importante en el Golpe de Estado apoyado por los militares estadounidenses en 2002. Era un oficial de la Armada -coronel Gustavo Díaz Vivas-, quien ahora está residenciado en Alabama, Estados Unidos, desde donde opera su página web.
Tampoco es coincidencia que opere desde EEUU. Washington lleva al menos 15 años intentando derrocar el gobierno de Venezuela. Casi todos los periodistas con los que he conversado durante este período -incluyendo periodistas de los principales medios internacionales- han reconocido estar al tanto de esos esfuerzos, aunque casi nunca escriben sobre ello.
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Maduro calls Venezuela to protest against the imperialist decree
Source YVKE Mundial / The Dawn News
March 9, 2016
Last Wednesday, President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro urged the Venezuelan people to stand firm, so that Venezuela remains forefront of the revolution in Latin America, marked by the ideals of Simón Bolívar and Commander Hugo Chavez.
The leader of Miraflores convened all Venezuelans to a large mobilization this Saturday, March 12, to protest the imperialist decree extended by US President, Barack Obama.
“We must be fully aware, if we want to keep being the forefront of revolutions. We have the power of decision at this time, and in future times, that the Venezuela of Bolívar and Chávez, remains forefront of the revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean and of the new independence of our continent”, said the head of State in a joint transmission through both radio and television from the National Pantheon in Caracas, where an activity was performed to ratify the anti-imperialist nature of the Bolivarian Revolution, in the first anniversary of the imperialist decree, which is now being extended for another year.
Maduro removed the charge d’affaires of Venezuela in the US
The President gave instructions for the return of Maximilian Arveláez, charge d’affaires of Venezuela in the United States, to the country.
“If they don’t want to have anything to do with us, the Bolivarian Venezuela is withdrawing its ambassador from Washington”, Maduro said.
On March 3rd, US President Barack Obama renewed the executive order against Venezuela, which considers the South American nation a threat to the country’s security and to its foreign policy.
According to the US, Venezuelan officials have been linked to acts of violation of human rights when in fact they were stopping the coup protests, between February and May 2014, of the “Exit” plan (referring to the “exit” of Nicolas Maduro), headed by opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, where 43 people died at the hands of the opposition, most of them shot in the neck and head.
The US government, based on its power as world potency, is known for meddling in other country’s affairs. In the case of Venezuela, it has maintained a hostile policy since President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías came to power to establish a socialist revolution, which is currently maintained by President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan people.
The leader of Miraflores convened all Venezuelans to a large mobilization this Saturday, March 12, to protest the imperialist decree extended by US President, Barack Obama.
“We must be fully aware, if we want to keep being the forefront of revolutions. We have the power of decision at this time, and in future times, that the Venezuela of Bolívar and Chávez, remains forefront of the revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean and of the new independence of our continent”, said the head of State in a joint transmission through both radio and television from the National Pantheon in Caracas, where an activity was performed to ratify the anti-imperialist nature of the Bolivarian Revolution, in the first anniversary of the imperialist decree, which is now being extended for another year.
Maduro removed the charge d’affaires of Venezuela in the US
The President gave instructions for the return of Maximilian Arveláez, charge d’affaires of Venezuela in the United States, to the country.
“If they don’t want to have anything to do with us, the Bolivarian Venezuela is withdrawing its ambassador from Washington”, Maduro said.
On March 3rd, US President Barack Obama renewed the executive order against Venezuela, which considers the South American nation a threat to the country’s security and to its foreign policy.
According to the US, Venezuelan officials have been linked to acts of violation of human rights when in fact they were stopping the coup protests, between February and May 2014, of the “Exit” plan (referring to the “exit” of Nicolas Maduro), headed by opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, where 43 people died at the hands of the opposition, most of them shot in the neck and head.
The US government, based on its power as world potency, is known for meddling in other country’s affairs. In the case of Venezuela, it has maintained a hostile policy since President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías came to power to establish a socialist revolution, which is currently maintained by President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan people.
All Out to Defend Venezuela's Achievements Against Their Usurpation by Darkest Reaction!
By Sam Heaton - TML Weekly
Feb. 20, 2016
Venezuela's government and people are taking important measures to defend the country's sovereignty and dignity in the face of the assault of the reactionary forces which have staged a comeback in that country.
To their merit, the achievements of the Venezuelan people and government under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro are all the more noteworthy given the context of the period of retreat of revolution in which the world has been mired since the 1989-90 period. From 1998 to today they have taken serious measures to right historical wrongs so that the people would no longer suffer the abject poverty, deprivation and racism inflicted on them by one of the most brutal, racist and reactionary oligarchies any country has had the misfortune to be saddled with.
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To their merit, the achievements of the Venezuelan people and government under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro are all the more noteworthy given the context of the period of retreat of revolution in which the world has been mired since the 1989-90 period. From 1998 to today they have taken serious measures to right historical wrongs so that the people would no longer suffer the abject poverty, deprivation and racism inflicted on them by one of the most brutal, racist and reactionary oligarchies any country has had the misfortune to be saddled with.
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¿Quién está detrás de la Guerra No Convencional
en Venezuela?
Miguel Jaimes - TeleSUR
Jan. 18, 2016
Las guerras no convencionales buscan derrocar países o gobiernos progresistas que representan una amenaza a sus intereses de dominación imperial, por lo que en el caso venezolano, la MUD intenta socavar la institucionalidad democrática del Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro.El politólogo y experto petrolero venezolano, Miguel Jaimes, aseguró en exclusiva para el sitio web de teleSUR que la Guerra No Convencional (GNC) en países de Latinoamérica se presenta de manera cambiante y veloz, adaptándose a los nuevos panoramas políticos, sociales y económicos.
Las GNC se insertan en países o gobiernos progresistas que representan una amenaza a los intereses de dominación imperial, reflexionó el experto en geopolítica. Continue leyendo aqui!
Las GNC se insertan en países o gobiernos progresistas que representan una amenaza a los intereses de dominación imperial, reflexionó el experto en geopolítica. Continue leyendo aqui!
The Fate and Legacy of Bolivarianism in Venezuela:
Will the Dec. 6 Parliamentary Election in Venezuela determine
the fate of Chavismo “21st century socialism”?
by Kurt Biray
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela faces probably the biggest challenge of his incumbency so far. Venezuelans will head to the polls on December 6 for the parliamentary election in which the Venezuelan opposition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD), could possibly gain control of the National Assembly. Since former President Hugo Chavez' death in 2013, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) under the leadership of Nicolás Maduro has struggled to maintain the political support and popularity that his predecessor enjoyed for 15 years.
With economic turmoil and tumbling oil prices, Venezuela's Bolivar currency continues to plummet in value as the country is approaching hyperinflation territory. Venezuelans are also becoming more disillusioned with the economic and monetary policies of Nicolás Maduro’s government as they are experiencing chronic shortages and long lines for food products like milk, meat and coffee and consumer goods such as toilet paper and personal hygiene products.
There is absolutely no doubt that the current economic hardships faced by many Venezuelans are the direct result of political reactionary elements within the country that have continuously attempted to sabotage the democratic process and economy. These right-wing forces are mere puppets of US geopolitical and economic interests, receiving funding and support by the CIA and the US State Department. From the Bush Administration’s failed coup attempt of April 2002 to depose Hugo Chavez to the Obama Administration’s public announcement in March of “Venezuela being a threat to US national security”, US Imperialism is a deadly force to be reckoned with for the PSUV and all other progressive forces in the country.
Nicolás Maduro's electoral victory in the 2013 presidential election to Henrique Capriles Radonski fell on a very close margin of 1.5%. Can the United Socialist Party of Venezuela enjoy a similar fate in maintaining legislative control of the unicameral National Assembly?
The legacy of Bolivarianism in Venezuela still resonates substantially with millions of Venezuelans, especially those living in poor neighbourhoods (barrios) and the countryside. Inspired by the political aspirations of Hugo Chavez, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro still enjoy substantial levels of support all throughout the country.
After winning democratic elections in 1998, former President Hugo Chavez and his Fifth Republic Movement began their mission to fighting extreme poverty, illiteracy and the vast inequalities that engulfed the country. Chavez instituted his “21st Century Socialism” in all spheres of Venezuelan society, the economy being the most fundamental indicator of this transition. His government achieved remarkable results in redistributing wealth through successful social policies, land reform programs and the provision of numerous government services.
Chavez’ fiscal and monetary policies also helped Venezuela attain economic sovereignty, predominantly via taking control of the state-owned oil industry and combating the US pursuit of free trade by instead fostering the economic integration of Latin America. The country’s oil industry is by far the clearest indicator of the leadership’s attempt to acquire economic sovereignty.
Historically speaking, the 1990s were characterized by the so-called Oil Opening which included strategic partnerships and operating agreements (mostly with American transnational companies such as Shell and Esso) aimed at privatizing Venezuela’s oil industry, PDVSA, which triggered big losses for Venezuela and its people. To review and correct the bad deals that were instigated within the framework of the Oil Opening, a new oil policy was adopted in 2004 to strive for “full oil sovereignty”. During the last decade, this process of gaining economic autonomy has produced outstanding results for the social integration of the Venezuelan people. Billions of dollars from oil revenues were used for social investment which greatly helped all sectors of the population, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Another historical event worth highlighting that clearly demonstrates the differences between Chavez and previous administrations was the neo-liberal reforms implemented in 1989. When Carlos Andres Perez became president in that year, Venezuela had close to $35 billion in foreign debt and consequently, a massive portion of the country’s revenue was used to finance that debt. At the time, President Perez had no choice but to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which mandated structural adjustment policies, most notably in neo-liberal economic restructuring and the reduction of government spending. This resulted in huge price increases and decreased state subsidies for public transportation among many other austerity measures. Perez’ Economic Adjustment Plan was simply referred to as the “Economic Package”. As it affected and hurt almost all Venezuelans, especially the poor, it provoked civil unrest in the form of protests, street violence and crime in massive proportions.
There is no question that the neo-liberal economic policies implemented by the Carlos Andres Perez administration (1989-1993) and also near the end of Rafael Caldera’s administration (1996-1998) had substantially contributed to the impoverishment in Venezuela due to the various privatization measures, decreases in social spending and increases in public service costs. Poverty itself had changed for the worst as it started affecting more and more of the middle class, never mind the poor. Thus poverty became more generalized and diversified as it encompassed more ethnically diverse groups. Public health care, for example, required patients to buy all treatment supplies while public education imposed registration fees for students and soaring costs for school supplies. These inequalities and social injustices had grown rampant due to the lack of effective and affordable public services and social safety net programs.
In contrast to Perez’ presidency, Chavez attempted to abrogate all neo-liberal reforms and unequal market allocations by implementing various intensive redistribution mechanisms. Government expenditures on health and education were dramatically increased (as a percentage of the national budget) and income tax collection facilitated the redistribution of wealth more than ever before.
One interesting form of redistribution worth discussing is the extensive micro-credit program which allows the poorest elements of the county to start their own micro-enterprises (given to one person or one family). To do this, the government created several micro-credit state banks including the Banco del Pueblo (People’s Bank), Fondo de Desarrollo Microfinanciero (Fund for Micro-Finance Development) and Banco de la Mujer (Women’s Bank). The rise in micro-finance projects has been astounding as demonstrated between 2004 and 2005 when private banks offered 140% more micro-credits having an aggregate value of $500 million in 2005. Out of the numerous redistribution mechanisms enacted by the former Chavez administration, the micro-credit program is one of the most successful in alleviating the poverty faced by millions of Venezuelans.
These particular forms of social investment have aimed to fully integrate and help the least well off segments of the population, predominantly minority groups such as women and Afro-Indigenous Venezuelans. Since former President Chavez assumed power in 1999, the economic downturn faced by millions of Venezuelans would change for the better. Women, for example, have greatly benefited by government-sponsored programs like the Madres del Barrio (Mothers of the Neighborhood) which fosters social inclusion and community development. Madres del Barrio offers women the tools and expertise to attain success personally and also economically by giving training, education and interest-free loans. Programs like this became extremely useful for women, especially those who have always worked inside the home.
Chavez’ creation of programs such as Mision Ribas and Barrio Adentro have greatly related to the concerns of women, especially in regards to health and education. Ordinary women from the barrios of Caracas have also engaged more in politics at the municipal or grassroots level. With these various programs and the general politicization of the female population in this all-encompassing movement, women from the barrios became a major component in the current Venezuelan urban social movements.
In regards to the social inclusion of the Afro-Indigenous population of Venezuela, Chavez signed a decree in 2011 to allow the enactment of the Organic Law against Racial Discrimination which stipulates conditions to address, stop, and punish all forms of racial discrimination. Chavez himself stated that Venezuelans are fighting for equality among all races of people, “We are all the same. There cannot be and we do not accept any kind of discrimination in socialist Venezuela.” The Bolivarian Revolution has politically mobilized the poorest elements of Venezuelan society resulting in an overwhelmingly popular and empowering political vision for the country. Chavez relentlessly advocated national sovereignty and Latin American solidarity against neo-liberal interference, predominantly from the US. In the process, he involved and activated previously disjointed and poverty stricken segments of society (women, indigenous people and small farmers, etc.) and successfully politicized and incorporated them into political life.
The legacy of Bolivarianism has certainly improved the economic, social and political atmosphere for the majority of Venezuelans, especially by raising the standard of living for the most impoverished sectors of society. With the current economic difficulties and hardships that exist in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela continue to hold substantial political and electoral support yet a strengthened opposition movement which intends to supersede Chavismo “21st Century Socialism” with the fulfilment of US geopolitical and economic interests in the country.
* Kurt Biray is a Political Science Graduate from the University of Toronto and Freelance Political Journalist
With economic turmoil and tumbling oil prices, Venezuela's Bolivar currency continues to plummet in value as the country is approaching hyperinflation territory. Venezuelans are also becoming more disillusioned with the economic and monetary policies of Nicolás Maduro’s government as they are experiencing chronic shortages and long lines for food products like milk, meat and coffee and consumer goods such as toilet paper and personal hygiene products.
There is absolutely no doubt that the current economic hardships faced by many Venezuelans are the direct result of political reactionary elements within the country that have continuously attempted to sabotage the democratic process and economy. These right-wing forces are mere puppets of US geopolitical and economic interests, receiving funding and support by the CIA and the US State Department. From the Bush Administration’s failed coup attempt of April 2002 to depose Hugo Chavez to the Obama Administration’s public announcement in March of “Venezuela being a threat to US national security”, US Imperialism is a deadly force to be reckoned with for the PSUV and all other progressive forces in the country.
Nicolás Maduro's electoral victory in the 2013 presidential election to Henrique Capriles Radonski fell on a very close margin of 1.5%. Can the United Socialist Party of Venezuela enjoy a similar fate in maintaining legislative control of the unicameral National Assembly?
The legacy of Bolivarianism in Venezuela still resonates substantially with millions of Venezuelans, especially those living in poor neighbourhoods (barrios) and the countryside. Inspired by the political aspirations of Hugo Chavez, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro still enjoy substantial levels of support all throughout the country.
After winning democratic elections in 1998, former President Hugo Chavez and his Fifth Republic Movement began their mission to fighting extreme poverty, illiteracy and the vast inequalities that engulfed the country. Chavez instituted his “21st Century Socialism” in all spheres of Venezuelan society, the economy being the most fundamental indicator of this transition. His government achieved remarkable results in redistributing wealth through successful social policies, land reform programs and the provision of numerous government services.
Chavez’ fiscal and monetary policies also helped Venezuela attain economic sovereignty, predominantly via taking control of the state-owned oil industry and combating the US pursuit of free trade by instead fostering the economic integration of Latin America. The country’s oil industry is by far the clearest indicator of the leadership’s attempt to acquire economic sovereignty.
Historically speaking, the 1990s were characterized by the so-called Oil Opening which included strategic partnerships and operating agreements (mostly with American transnational companies such as Shell and Esso) aimed at privatizing Venezuela’s oil industry, PDVSA, which triggered big losses for Venezuela and its people. To review and correct the bad deals that were instigated within the framework of the Oil Opening, a new oil policy was adopted in 2004 to strive for “full oil sovereignty”. During the last decade, this process of gaining economic autonomy has produced outstanding results for the social integration of the Venezuelan people. Billions of dollars from oil revenues were used for social investment which greatly helped all sectors of the population, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Another historical event worth highlighting that clearly demonstrates the differences between Chavez and previous administrations was the neo-liberal reforms implemented in 1989. When Carlos Andres Perez became president in that year, Venezuela had close to $35 billion in foreign debt and consequently, a massive portion of the country’s revenue was used to finance that debt. At the time, President Perez had no choice but to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which mandated structural adjustment policies, most notably in neo-liberal economic restructuring and the reduction of government spending. This resulted in huge price increases and decreased state subsidies for public transportation among many other austerity measures. Perez’ Economic Adjustment Plan was simply referred to as the “Economic Package”. As it affected and hurt almost all Venezuelans, especially the poor, it provoked civil unrest in the form of protests, street violence and crime in massive proportions.
There is no question that the neo-liberal economic policies implemented by the Carlos Andres Perez administration (1989-1993) and also near the end of Rafael Caldera’s administration (1996-1998) had substantially contributed to the impoverishment in Venezuela due to the various privatization measures, decreases in social spending and increases in public service costs. Poverty itself had changed for the worst as it started affecting more and more of the middle class, never mind the poor. Thus poverty became more generalized and diversified as it encompassed more ethnically diverse groups. Public health care, for example, required patients to buy all treatment supplies while public education imposed registration fees for students and soaring costs for school supplies. These inequalities and social injustices had grown rampant due to the lack of effective and affordable public services and social safety net programs.
In contrast to Perez’ presidency, Chavez attempted to abrogate all neo-liberal reforms and unequal market allocations by implementing various intensive redistribution mechanisms. Government expenditures on health and education were dramatically increased (as a percentage of the national budget) and income tax collection facilitated the redistribution of wealth more than ever before.
One interesting form of redistribution worth discussing is the extensive micro-credit program which allows the poorest elements of the county to start their own micro-enterprises (given to one person or one family). To do this, the government created several micro-credit state banks including the Banco del Pueblo (People’s Bank), Fondo de Desarrollo Microfinanciero (Fund for Micro-Finance Development) and Banco de la Mujer (Women’s Bank). The rise in micro-finance projects has been astounding as demonstrated between 2004 and 2005 when private banks offered 140% more micro-credits having an aggregate value of $500 million in 2005. Out of the numerous redistribution mechanisms enacted by the former Chavez administration, the micro-credit program is one of the most successful in alleviating the poverty faced by millions of Venezuelans.
These particular forms of social investment have aimed to fully integrate and help the least well off segments of the population, predominantly minority groups such as women and Afro-Indigenous Venezuelans. Since former President Chavez assumed power in 1999, the economic downturn faced by millions of Venezuelans would change for the better. Women, for example, have greatly benefited by government-sponsored programs like the Madres del Barrio (Mothers of the Neighborhood) which fosters social inclusion and community development. Madres del Barrio offers women the tools and expertise to attain success personally and also economically by giving training, education and interest-free loans. Programs like this became extremely useful for women, especially those who have always worked inside the home.
Chavez’ creation of programs such as Mision Ribas and Barrio Adentro have greatly related to the concerns of women, especially in regards to health and education. Ordinary women from the barrios of Caracas have also engaged more in politics at the municipal or grassroots level. With these various programs and the general politicization of the female population in this all-encompassing movement, women from the barrios became a major component in the current Venezuelan urban social movements.
In regards to the social inclusion of the Afro-Indigenous population of Venezuela, Chavez signed a decree in 2011 to allow the enactment of the Organic Law against Racial Discrimination which stipulates conditions to address, stop, and punish all forms of racial discrimination. Chavez himself stated that Venezuelans are fighting for equality among all races of people, “We are all the same. There cannot be and we do not accept any kind of discrimination in socialist Venezuela.” The Bolivarian Revolution has politically mobilized the poorest elements of Venezuelan society resulting in an overwhelmingly popular and empowering political vision for the country. Chavez relentlessly advocated national sovereignty and Latin American solidarity against neo-liberal interference, predominantly from the US. In the process, he involved and activated previously disjointed and poverty stricken segments of society (women, indigenous people and small farmers, etc.) and successfully politicized and incorporated them into political life.
The legacy of Bolivarianism has certainly improved the economic, social and political atmosphere for the majority of Venezuelans, especially by raising the standard of living for the most impoverished sectors of society. With the current economic difficulties and hardships that exist in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela continue to hold substantial political and electoral support yet a strengthened opposition movement which intends to supersede Chavismo “21st Century Socialism” with the fulfilment of US geopolitical and economic interests in the country.
* Kurt Biray is a Political Science Graduate from the University of Toronto and Freelance Political Journalist
En defensa de Venezuela, la democracia y la libertad
PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE URUGUAY
Nov. 12, 2015
Nuestro Partido ha caracterizado la situación actual como de crisis estructural del capitalismo y dentro de ella una fase de implementación de un gigantesco ajuste global para trasladarla de los países centrales hacia la periferia y cargar los costos sobre los pueblos. Estamos ante una contraofensiva del imperialismo económica, política e ideológica. Y es especialmente intensa en América Latina por ser la región del mundo donde se construyeron, fruto de la lucha de los pueblos, los espacios más importantes de independencia y soberanía y más se avanzó en la construcción de experiencias superadoras del neoliberalismo.
Analizar el escenario en América Latina en su conjunto, y en cada país en particular, sin tener en cuenta esta situación material y esta contraofensiva es, en el mejor de los casos, un pecado de ingenuidad política, y en el peor, erosionar la capacidad de resistencia y de avance de los pueblos que se sustenta, de manera determinante, en la unidad.
Es desde esa perspectiva que rechazamos el pronunciamiento del Secretario General de la OEA, Luis Almagro. Y rechazamos con el mismo énfasis la utilización que de este hace el imperialismo, la derecha continental, social, política y mediática, y en particular la oligarquía venezolana, empeñada en una furibunda campaña de desestabilización, deslegitimación y restauración conservadora.
Una de las conquistas más importantes del ciclo de gobiernos progresistas, de izquierda y revolucionarios en nuestro continente, iniciado precisamente en Venezuela, con el triunfo de Hugo Chávez en 1998, es la democratización, la extensión de la libertad y la conquista de derechos e igualdad. El continente no registra otro período tan largo en el tiempo de democracia y de avance en libertades.
Concebida la democracia no solo como la existencia de mecanismos institucionales para elegir mediante el voto los gobiernos, importantes y trascendentes, sino como una construcción social permanente de libertad e igualdad. Nunca fueron incluidos tantos millones de seres humanos en la ciudadanía, nunca tantos millones fueron arrancados de la miseria y la marginación. Los indígenas, las mujeres, los trabajadores, los campesinos, los afrodescendientes, han superado décadas, y en algunos casos siglos, de exclusión, por primera vez.
Esto es así en América Latina y también en Venezuela. No se puede golpear livianamente la principal legitimación de este proceso continental de democracia y libertad. Eso vienen haciendo desde el principio del mismo, la derecha y los medios que le responden. Lo volvieron a hacer ahora, apoyándose en el pronunciamiento de la OEA, hablando de que no es a futuro que se debe cuestionar la legitimidad democrática del gobierno en Venezuela, ni en Bolivia, ni en Ecuador, que son ilegítimos desde el principio, y que por lo tanto, deben irse, deben dejar el gobierno a los sectores ligados a la oligarquía, que por supuesto, más allá de lo que dicen la historia y el presente, según ellos tienen el monopolio de la democracia y la corrección electoral.
Llama mucho la atención que en un pronunciamiento absolutamente desequilibrado se den como buenos, sin pruebas ningunas, todos los argumentos que desde hace años sostiene la derecha continental y el imperialismo. Llama más la atención cuando no se ve el mismo celo, ni la misma contundencia, para cuestionar a Colombia, con miles de presos políticos, miles de dirigentes sindicales y campesinos asesinados, millones de desplazados, cinco millones de ellos refugiados en Venezuela y bases militares extranjeras en su territorio. Ni a México, con decenas de miles de muertos en los últimos años, el caso más emblemático el de los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos en Ayotzinapa. O las decenas de periodistas muertos en Honduras, o los cientos de dirigentes sindicales y campesinos asesinados en Guatemala o los presos políticos y la represión en Paraguay.
No se entiende a que continente se hace referencia cuando se dice que hace tiempo que no había tantas faltas de garantías para la oposición y dirigentes opositores presos o proscriptos. Para empezar López está preso por golpista, por actos de terrorismo y por ladrón. Nada que ver con Wilson Ferreira. Pero además no era solo Wilson el proscripto, había miles, miles de presas y presos y entre los proscriptos estaba Líber Seregni y todo el Frente Amplio. Pero podemos hablar de los más de 2 mil candidatos muertos, entre ellos los dos presidenciales, de la Unión Patriótica en los años 90 en la muy respetable Colombia. O de Lugo en Paraguay. O de Manuel Zelaya luego del golpe de 2009 en Honduras. Por citar solo algunos ejemplos.
Estamos entonces ante una visión nada equilibrada, más bien sesgada y equivocada. En Venezuela se ha vivido un proceso de democratización inédito, con la inclusión de millones de personas como ciudadanos y con garantías electorales como nunca antes hubo. Se han realizado en el actual proceso de Revolución Bolivariana más de 18 elecciones, el oficialismo ganó y perdió y aceptó siempre los resultados. Fue la oposición la que dio un golpe de Estado en 2002, la que boicoteó las elecciones, la que quemó locales partidarios y atacó manifestaciones. Los hechos de violencia por parte de agentes del Estado han sido perseguidos y condenados. La oposición siempre denunció fraude, salvo en los Estados donde ganó y salvo en las internas partidarias propias, donde se utiliza el mismo sistema pero llamativamente allí parece que funciona bien.
Además no lo hacen solo en Venezuela, también lo dicen en Ecuador, en Bolivia y sin ir más lejos, lo hicieron hasta último momento en Argentina, con denuncias catastrofistas de fraude hasta que el resultado los favoreció, entonces se callaron.
No es la OEA, expresión del viejo continente, nacida del panamericanismo, la garantía de transparencia. En los últimos años, América Latina ha generado mecanismos propios de debate y solución de conflictos, el MERCOSUR, la UNASUR y la CELAC, que han actuado con mucha más eficacia que la OEA para la paz en Colombia, la situación de la propia Venezuela e incluso en Paraguay y Honduras.
Es falsa la idea que se quiere instalar que las elecciones en Venezuela no han sido ni serán auditadas. Siempre fueron auditadas, y lo serán está vez, ocurre que no por la OEA, pero si por UNASUR y por otros organismos regionales e internacionales. Venezuela debe resolver sus problemas internos sin injerencia externa y se debe contribuir a ello con equilibrio y firmeza, con compromiso democrático y solidaridad, eso lo pueden hacer UNASUR y la CELAC y no la OEA, por su historia y por su presente.
En horas difíciles asumimos las dificultades y también los errores que puedan cometer los gobiernos y los procesos populares. No creemos en revoluciones perfectas o en líderes infalibles. La transformación de la sociedad es obra de los pueblos y se garantiza con su unidad y su lucha. Por ello reafirmamos nuestra solidaridad con el proceso de revolución bolivariana y con su pueblo y comprometemos nuestra lucha para defender la unidad del continente, de pueblos y gobiernos, para enfrentar la ofensiva del imperialismo y las clases dominantes para volver atrás la rueda de la historia.
Si triunfan, allí sí habrá retroceso democrático, en derechos, en institucionalidad y en igualdad, volveremos hacia sociedades fracturadas y débiles, sin perspectiva y con mucho menos libertad.
Comité Ejecutivo Nacional - Uruguay
Analizar el escenario en América Latina en su conjunto, y en cada país en particular, sin tener en cuenta esta situación material y esta contraofensiva es, en el mejor de los casos, un pecado de ingenuidad política, y en el peor, erosionar la capacidad de resistencia y de avance de los pueblos que se sustenta, de manera determinante, en la unidad.
Es desde esa perspectiva que rechazamos el pronunciamiento del Secretario General de la OEA, Luis Almagro. Y rechazamos con el mismo énfasis la utilización que de este hace el imperialismo, la derecha continental, social, política y mediática, y en particular la oligarquía venezolana, empeñada en una furibunda campaña de desestabilización, deslegitimación y restauración conservadora.
Una de las conquistas más importantes del ciclo de gobiernos progresistas, de izquierda y revolucionarios en nuestro continente, iniciado precisamente en Venezuela, con el triunfo de Hugo Chávez en 1998, es la democratización, la extensión de la libertad y la conquista de derechos e igualdad. El continente no registra otro período tan largo en el tiempo de democracia y de avance en libertades.
Concebida la democracia no solo como la existencia de mecanismos institucionales para elegir mediante el voto los gobiernos, importantes y trascendentes, sino como una construcción social permanente de libertad e igualdad. Nunca fueron incluidos tantos millones de seres humanos en la ciudadanía, nunca tantos millones fueron arrancados de la miseria y la marginación. Los indígenas, las mujeres, los trabajadores, los campesinos, los afrodescendientes, han superado décadas, y en algunos casos siglos, de exclusión, por primera vez.
Esto es así en América Latina y también en Venezuela. No se puede golpear livianamente la principal legitimación de este proceso continental de democracia y libertad. Eso vienen haciendo desde el principio del mismo, la derecha y los medios que le responden. Lo volvieron a hacer ahora, apoyándose en el pronunciamiento de la OEA, hablando de que no es a futuro que se debe cuestionar la legitimidad democrática del gobierno en Venezuela, ni en Bolivia, ni en Ecuador, que son ilegítimos desde el principio, y que por lo tanto, deben irse, deben dejar el gobierno a los sectores ligados a la oligarquía, que por supuesto, más allá de lo que dicen la historia y el presente, según ellos tienen el monopolio de la democracia y la corrección electoral.
Llama mucho la atención que en un pronunciamiento absolutamente desequilibrado se den como buenos, sin pruebas ningunas, todos los argumentos que desde hace años sostiene la derecha continental y el imperialismo. Llama más la atención cuando no se ve el mismo celo, ni la misma contundencia, para cuestionar a Colombia, con miles de presos políticos, miles de dirigentes sindicales y campesinos asesinados, millones de desplazados, cinco millones de ellos refugiados en Venezuela y bases militares extranjeras en su territorio. Ni a México, con decenas de miles de muertos en los últimos años, el caso más emblemático el de los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos en Ayotzinapa. O las decenas de periodistas muertos en Honduras, o los cientos de dirigentes sindicales y campesinos asesinados en Guatemala o los presos políticos y la represión en Paraguay.
No se entiende a que continente se hace referencia cuando se dice que hace tiempo que no había tantas faltas de garantías para la oposición y dirigentes opositores presos o proscriptos. Para empezar López está preso por golpista, por actos de terrorismo y por ladrón. Nada que ver con Wilson Ferreira. Pero además no era solo Wilson el proscripto, había miles, miles de presas y presos y entre los proscriptos estaba Líber Seregni y todo el Frente Amplio. Pero podemos hablar de los más de 2 mil candidatos muertos, entre ellos los dos presidenciales, de la Unión Patriótica en los años 90 en la muy respetable Colombia. O de Lugo en Paraguay. O de Manuel Zelaya luego del golpe de 2009 en Honduras. Por citar solo algunos ejemplos.
Estamos entonces ante una visión nada equilibrada, más bien sesgada y equivocada. En Venezuela se ha vivido un proceso de democratización inédito, con la inclusión de millones de personas como ciudadanos y con garantías electorales como nunca antes hubo. Se han realizado en el actual proceso de Revolución Bolivariana más de 18 elecciones, el oficialismo ganó y perdió y aceptó siempre los resultados. Fue la oposición la que dio un golpe de Estado en 2002, la que boicoteó las elecciones, la que quemó locales partidarios y atacó manifestaciones. Los hechos de violencia por parte de agentes del Estado han sido perseguidos y condenados. La oposición siempre denunció fraude, salvo en los Estados donde ganó y salvo en las internas partidarias propias, donde se utiliza el mismo sistema pero llamativamente allí parece que funciona bien.
Además no lo hacen solo en Venezuela, también lo dicen en Ecuador, en Bolivia y sin ir más lejos, lo hicieron hasta último momento en Argentina, con denuncias catastrofistas de fraude hasta que el resultado los favoreció, entonces se callaron.
No es la OEA, expresión del viejo continente, nacida del panamericanismo, la garantía de transparencia. En los últimos años, América Latina ha generado mecanismos propios de debate y solución de conflictos, el MERCOSUR, la UNASUR y la CELAC, que han actuado con mucha más eficacia que la OEA para la paz en Colombia, la situación de la propia Venezuela e incluso en Paraguay y Honduras.
Es falsa la idea que se quiere instalar que las elecciones en Venezuela no han sido ni serán auditadas. Siempre fueron auditadas, y lo serán está vez, ocurre que no por la OEA, pero si por UNASUR y por otros organismos regionales e internacionales. Venezuela debe resolver sus problemas internos sin injerencia externa y se debe contribuir a ello con equilibrio y firmeza, con compromiso democrático y solidaridad, eso lo pueden hacer UNASUR y la CELAC y no la OEA, por su historia y por su presente.
En horas difíciles asumimos las dificultades y también los errores que puedan cometer los gobiernos y los procesos populares. No creemos en revoluciones perfectas o en líderes infalibles. La transformación de la sociedad es obra de los pueblos y se garantiza con su unidad y su lucha. Por ello reafirmamos nuestra solidaridad con el proceso de revolución bolivariana y con su pueblo y comprometemos nuestra lucha para defender la unidad del continente, de pueblos y gobiernos, para enfrentar la ofensiva del imperialismo y las clases dominantes para volver atrás la rueda de la historia.
Si triunfan, allí sí habrá retroceso democrático, en derechos, en institucionalidad y en igualdad, volveremos hacia sociedades fracturadas y débiles, sin perspectiva y con mucho menos libertad.
Comité Ejecutivo Nacional - Uruguay
Sistema electoral Venezolano
listo a un mes de las elecciones
TelesurTV - Nov. 7, 2015
Venezuela celebrará el próximo 6 de diciembre elecciones parlamentarias para renovar los escaños de la Asamblea Nacional de esa nación, mediante votación universal, secreta y directa. El Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) de Venezuela ha cumplido con los pasos necesarios para garantizar la transparencia de los comicios.
Y sin embargo la OPOSICION SE HA NEGADO a firmar la declaracion afirmando que se aceptaran los resultados de las eleciones gane quien gane, cosa que el president Maduro si ha firmado. Tambien les hacemos saber que la oposicion esta llenando los medios de antemano con rumores de fraude electoral.
Les recordamos que Jimmy Carter, antiguo presidente de los EEUU, ha dicho publicamente que el sistema Venezolano es el mejor sistema electoral que el conoce, y el y su asociacion han sido testigos en 92 elecciones internacionales.
Lea mas sobre el proceso electoral Venezolano aqui ...
Y sin embargo la OPOSICION SE HA NEGADO a firmar la declaracion afirmando que se aceptaran los resultados de las eleciones gane quien gane, cosa que el president Maduro si ha firmado. Tambien les hacemos saber que la oposicion esta llenando los medios de antemano con rumores de fraude electoral.
Les recordamos que Jimmy Carter, antiguo presidente de los EEUU, ha dicho publicamente que el sistema Venezolano es el mejor sistema electoral que el conoce, y el y su asociacion han sido testigos en 92 elecciones internacionales.
Lea mas sobre el proceso electoral Venezolano aqui ...
Venezuela, 6 de diciembre:
¿A las puertas de un conflicto armado?
Contrainjerencia, Nov. 5, 2015
A nivel internacional en Perú el gobierno de Derecha permitió que 3200 marines y 90 aeronaves de guerra hoyaran suelo peruano, hay que saber que Perú tiene frontera por el norte con Colombia y por el oeste por el Océano Pacifico situación estratégica para cualquier evento bélico y de abastecimiento de pertrechos militares contra la Patria de Bolívar, el 4 de octubre el buque de guerra el Portaviones Nuclear USS George Washington arribó al puerto El Callao, en Perú, donde permaneció hasta el miércoles 7, de ahí continuó su recorrido a países aliados, como Panamá, Colombia, Chile, Brasil y Argentina,para que el 6 de diciembre una fecha clave este en Guyana a solo kilómetros de Venezuela.
En Honduras se amplió la mayor base militar estadounidense en toda América Latina “Palmerola” para “misiones de colaboración” con países del área, asistencia humanitaria y “operaciones antidrogas”, donde llegarán 250 marines, 4 helicópteros y un catamarán de alta velocidad, ya en ésta hay 500 soldados estadounidenses ya todos sabemos cómo son esas ayudas humanitarias que solo traen muerte y destrucción, en Colombia permitieron una invasión a gran escala de 7 bases militares estadounidenses y permanencia de militares gringos en las bases colombianas como colaboradores, en todas las bases militares de Colombia ,últimamente se ha observado movimientos inusuales en especial atención a las bases malambo, palanquero, que son frontera con esta patria querida de Bolívar.
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En Honduras se amplió la mayor base militar estadounidense en toda América Latina “Palmerola” para “misiones de colaboración” con países del área, asistencia humanitaria y “operaciones antidrogas”, donde llegarán 250 marines, 4 helicópteros y un catamarán de alta velocidad, ya en ésta hay 500 soldados estadounidenses ya todos sabemos cómo son esas ayudas humanitarias que solo traen muerte y destrucción, en Colombia permitieron una invasión a gran escala de 7 bases militares estadounidenses y permanencia de militares gringos en las bases colombianas como colaboradores, en todas las bases militares de Colombia ,últimamente se ha observado movimientos inusuales en especial atención a las bases malambo, palanquero, que son frontera con esta patria querida de Bolívar.
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Raul Castro to UN: Cuba Will Support Venezuela in the Face of Destabilisation Attempts
By Rachael Boothroyd Rojas
Venezuelananalysis.com
29 Sept. 2015
Cuban President Raul Castro vowed to support the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in the face of ongoing attempts to destabilise his administration.Addressing world leaders at the United Nations 70th General Assembly in New York City this Monday, the Cuban leader rallied against what he described as attempts to undermine Venezuela's socialist project and national democratic institutions.
“Venezuela will always have the solidarity of Cuba when faced with attempts to destabilise and subvert the constitutional order and destroy the works carried out by comrade Hugo Chavez Frias, and continued by Nicolas Maduro Moros for the benefit of the Venezuelan people,” stated the Cuban head of state. Castro’s comments follow a period of relative instability for the Venezuelan government, which has been wracked by attempts to unseat it over the past two years through economic sabotage and intermittent violent street campaigns known as the “guarimbas”.
Although 2015 has seen relatively calm streets, many are concerned that unrest may increase around December 6th, when the country will head to the ballot box to elect members of its chief legislative institution, the National Assembly.
The impending elections have already become a frequent subject on international news reports, and the Venezuelan government maintains there is an international campaign to delegitimise its state institutions ahead of the elections.
Just last week more than 30 former Latin American and Spanish presidents signed a document called the “Bogota Declaration ” calling on the Venezuelan government to accept “impartial international observation” missions from the European Union, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations during its upcoming parliamentary elections on December 6th.
Signed by a number of rightwing Colombian presidents, including Alvaro Uribe, the declaration received criticism from Ernesto Samper, the current Secretary General of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations), which is tasked with monitoring the legislative elections. “It asks for something which doesn’t need asking for, which is impartiality,” he stated.
“One of the principles of (our) mission is precisely the issue of impartiality,” he continued, before stating that the organisation “is not opposed to the participation of other international observers’.
Venezuela and Cuba have been close allies since former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999. Together they have spearheaded a number of projects in the region, including the creation of a continental alternative to Free Trade Agreements known as the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our America (ALBA).
“Venezuela will always have the solidarity of Cuba when faced with attempts to destabilise and subvert the constitutional order and destroy the works carried out by comrade Hugo Chavez Frias, and continued by Nicolas Maduro Moros for the benefit of the Venezuelan people,” stated the Cuban head of state. Castro’s comments follow a period of relative instability for the Venezuelan government, which has been wracked by attempts to unseat it over the past two years through economic sabotage and intermittent violent street campaigns known as the “guarimbas”.
Although 2015 has seen relatively calm streets, many are concerned that unrest may increase around December 6th, when the country will head to the ballot box to elect members of its chief legislative institution, the National Assembly.
The impending elections have already become a frequent subject on international news reports, and the Venezuelan government maintains there is an international campaign to delegitimise its state institutions ahead of the elections.
Just last week more than 30 former Latin American and Spanish presidents signed a document called the “Bogota Declaration ” calling on the Venezuelan government to accept “impartial international observation” missions from the European Union, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations during its upcoming parliamentary elections on December 6th.
Signed by a number of rightwing Colombian presidents, including Alvaro Uribe, the declaration received criticism from Ernesto Samper, the current Secretary General of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations), which is tasked with monitoring the legislative elections. “It asks for something which doesn’t need asking for, which is impartiality,” he stated.
“One of the principles of (our) mission is precisely the issue of impartiality,” he continued, before stating that the organisation “is not opposed to the participation of other international observers’.
Venezuela and Cuba have been close allies since former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999. Together they have spearheaded a number of projects in the region, including the creation of a continental alternative to Free Trade Agreements known as the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our America (ALBA).
Esequibo:
Venezolano por derecho histórico!
El Circulo Bolivariano Louis Riel, le pide a nuestros amigos que lean los siguientes documentos para enterarse de la situación del
Esequibo Venezolano y la conspiración de la Exxon Mobil que está detras de las declaraciones agresivas y bélicas del presidente de Guyana
contra Venezuela
El territorio Esequibo ha pertenecido a Venezuela desde de la época de la Colonia cuando el límite oriental de la entonces Capitanía General fue establecido en el denominado río. El laudo de París despojó al país suramericano de más de 160 mil kilómetros cuadros de territorio que alberga grandes riquezas naturales y recursos energéticos que despiertan el interés de empresas y países.
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US Targets Venezuela Using Border Dispute as Pretext
Jul 22nd 2015, by Eric Draitser- TeleSUR English
The ongoing border dispute between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its eastern neighbor Guyana is no simple disagreement over an arbitrary line on a map. Actually, it is a conflict of significant political and economic dimensions, one which will have deep and far-reaching geopolitical implications in the near and long term.
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Jul 22nd 2015, by Eric Draitser- TeleSUR English
The ongoing border dispute between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its eastern neighbor Guyana is no simple disagreement over an arbitrary line on a map. Actually, it is a conflict of significant political and economic dimensions, one which will have deep and far-reaching geopolitical implications in the near and long term.
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Campaña Exxon No!!
"La explotacion o pretension de explotar petroleo en culquier habitat del Esequibo venezolano, es un verdadero atentado en contra de la biodiversidad" Lenin Cardozo, Ambientalista Venezolano
Campaña de la Fundacion Azul Ambientalistas
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"La explotacion o pretension de explotar petroleo en culquier habitat del Esequibo venezolano, es un verdadero atentado en contra de la biodiversidad" Lenin Cardozo, Ambientalista Venezolano
Campaña de la Fundacion Azul Ambientalistas
Campaign's pics here ...
Toronto's Manifesto
YES to the Esequibo, NO to EXXON Mobil!
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YES to the Esequibo, NO to EXXON Mobil!
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La agenda secreta detrás del conflicto entre Venezuela y Guyana
Eva Golinger, Aug. 22, 2015
Todo comenzó en 1835 cuando el Imperio británico envió a un naturalista y explorador nacido en Alemania para llevar a cabo la investigación geográfica en el territorio de América del Sur que había colonizado y nombrado la Guayana Británica. En el curso de sus exploraciones, fue dibujado un mapa que bien excede el límite occidental original que primero fue ocupado por los holandeses y más tarde pasó a control británico. Provocando el deseo del imperio para expandir sus fronteras a la zona oeste del río Esequibo, que era rica en oro, el Gobierno británico encargó al explorador la investigación sobre sus límites territoriales. Lo que se conoció como la 'Línea Schomburgk', llamada así por el explorador Robert Hermann Schomburgk, usurpó una gran parte de tierra venezolana y provocó el inicio de una disputa territorial que ha permanecido sin resolver hasta hoy en día.
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Eva Golinger, Aug. 22, 2015
Todo comenzó en 1835 cuando el Imperio británico envió a un naturalista y explorador nacido en Alemania para llevar a cabo la investigación geográfica en el territorio de América del Sur que había colonizado y nombrado la Guayana Británica. En el curso de sus exploraciones, fue dibujado un mapa que bien excede el límite occidental original que primero fue ocupado por los holandeses y más tarde pasó a control británico. Provocando el deseo del imperio para expandir sus fronteras a la zona oeste del río Esequibo, que era rica en oro, el Gobierno británico encargó al explorador la investigación sobre sus límites territoriales. Lo que se conoció como la 'Línea Schomburgk', llamada así por el explorador Robert Hermann Schomburgk, usurpó una gran parte de tierra venezolana y provocó el inicio de una disputa territorial que ha permanecido sin resolver hasta hoy en día.
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VIDEOS DEL PROGRAMA “LA ESQUINA” DE RADIO VOCES LATINAS, SOBRE EL ESEQUIBO - Listen radio Interviews here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ddkbo_gaQ4
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wYuLoH8LMWs
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ddkbo_gaQ4
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Venezuela Announces 4-Year Human Rights Plan
TELESUR ENGLISH, July 16, 2015
Venezuela announced Tuesday a four year plan to improve human rights, including institutional reform and better coordination with social movements.
Announced by Vice President Jorge Arreaza and Security Vice President Carmen Melendez, the 2015-2019 National Plan for Human Rights aims to consolidate Venezuela's progress in promoting human rights. “Human rights are indivisible,” Arreaza stated.
According to Arreaza, the new human rights plan will focus on promoting a “culture of human rights.” The plan will also involve strengthening existing human rights institutions.
Arreaza praised the plan as a continuation of the vision of 19th century South American liberation fighter Simon Bolivar, arguing the initiative will be a historic step towards a more just society. He added that the plan is an expression of the governments’ philosophy of human rights, which includes a commitment to ensuring all Venezuelans have access to basic necessities like housing, work, food and healthcare.
"Here are the human rights, cultural, educational ... the right to work, the right to land," he said.
Arreaza also extended an invitation to social movements and nongovernmental human rights groups to work with institutions to better promote human rights.
In terms of concrete proposals, the plan seeks to establish a national human rights institute, make human rights a key theme in the education of teachers, strengthen higher education programs in human rights, raise consciousness regarding mother earth as a subject of human rights, among other goals.
The plan also extends the mandate of the newly created National Council for Human Rights, which was formed in 2014.
According to a statement from the government, the new four year plan is the result of extensive consultation between state officials in Caracas and representatives of the Union of South American Nations regional bloc, who visited Caracas in 2014.
Among the key recommendations of the international representatives were a series of advisories aimed at promoting dialogue between the Venezuelan government and opposition groups.
Within this plans, Arreaza said, “Venezuela has accepted the valid recommendations."
Ahead of the plan’s official launch, President Nicolas Maduro said the project was also formed through discussion with the public and human rights advocates.
“It’s a plan that began several years ago … and a proposal submitted to public consultation (in a) socialist democracy,” he said.
The announcement of the four year plan comes as Venezuela passes the half-way point in its time as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The South American nation was elected to take a seat at the council in 2012, marking the first time Venezuela has sat on the council – something Caracas says is emblematic of the progress it has made in promoting human rights.
At the time, Venezuela's representative to the U.N., Jorge Valero, said Venezuela had made major strides in human rights since the 1990s.
“This is a demonstration of the strength of the (Bolivarian) revolution in the world, and the successful state policies to protect the human rights of all Venezuelans without exception,” Valero said at the time.
Before it is approved in its final form, the plan will be subject to extensive consultation, first by the general public via the web, then by Venezuelan human rights organizations of all political stripes, and finally by the President of the Republic.
International Acclaim
Also present at the plan’s launch were the internationally-renowned human rights champions, Rigoberta Menchu and Piedad Cordoba, who praised the initiative.
“The fact that Venezuela publically presents its human rights plan and calls all sectors to the discussion table represents an example of democracy for the world to follow,” affirmed Menchu, a Guatemalan indigenous leader who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1992 for work in demanding justice for the victims the genocidal, US-backed military regime.
“You are an example of hope and democracy, I believe that this plan should be an example for the world, because it is mainly based on the concept of emancipatory human rights,” declared Cordova, former Colombian senator who has played a key role in the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP.
“Everyone who defends the process of socialist revolution in Latin America and the world is committed to the truth, that Venezuela does not violate human rights but rather defends them,” she continued.
Announced by Vice President Jorge Arreaza and Security Vice President Carmen Melendez, the 2015-2019 National Plan for Human Rights aims to consolidate Venezuela's progress in promoting human rights. “Human rights are indivisible,” Arreaza stated.
According to Arreaza, the new human rights plan will focus on promoting a “culture of human rights.” The plan will also involve strengthening existing human rights institutions.
Arreaza praised the plan as a continuation of the vision of 19th century South American liberation fighter Simon Bolivar, arguing the initiative will be a historic step towards a more just society. He added that the plan is an expression of the governments’ philosophy of human rights, which includes a commitment to ensuring all Venezuelans have access to basic necessities like housing, work, food and healthcare.
"Here are the human rights, cultural, educational ... the right to work, the right to land," he said.
Arreaza also extended an invitation to social movements and nongovernmental human rights groups to work with institutions to better promote human rights.
In terms of concrete proposals, the plan seeks to establish a national human rights institute, make human rights a key theme in the education of teachers, strengthen higher education programs in human rights, raise consciousness regarding mother earth as a subject of human rights, among other goals.
The plan also extends the mandate of the newly created National Council for Human Rights, which was formed in 2014.
According to a statement from the government, the new four year plan is the result of extensive consultation between state officials in Caracas and representatives of the Union of South American Nations regional bloc, who visited Caracas in 2014.
Among the key recommendations of the international representatives were a series of advisories aimed at promoting dialogue between the Venezuelan government and opposition groups.
Within this plans, Arreaza said, “Venezuela has accepted the valid recommendations."
Ahead of the plan’s official launch, President Nicolas Maduro said the project was also formed through discussion with the public and human rights advocates.
“It’s a plan that began several years ago … and a proposal submitted to public consultation (in a) socialist democracy,” he said.
The announcement of the four year plan comes as Venezuela passes the half-way point in its time as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The South American nation was elected to take a seat at the council in 2012, marking the first time Venezuela has sat on the council – something Caracas says is emblematic of the progress it has made in promoting human rights.
At the time, Venezuela's representative to the U.N., Jorge Valero, said Venezuela had made major strides in human rights since the 1990s.
“This is a demonstration of the strength of the (Bolivarian) revolution in the world, and the successful state policies to protect the human rights of all Venezuelans without exception,” Valero said at the time.
Before it is approved in its final form, the plan will be subject to extensive consultation, first by the general public via the web, then by Venezuelan human rights organizations of all political stripes, and finally by the President of the Republic.
International Acclaim
Also present at the plan’s launch were the internationally-renowned human rights champions, Rigoberta Menchu and Piedad Cordoba, who praised the initiative.
“The fact that Venezuela publically presents its human rights plan and calls all sectors to the discussion table represents an example of democracy for the world to follow,” affirmed Menchu, a Guatemalan indigenous leader who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1992 for work in demanding justice for the victims the genocidal, US-backed military regime.
“You are an example of hope and democracy, I believe that this plan should be an example for the world, because it is mainly based on the concept of emancipatory human rights,” declared Cordova, former Colombian senator who has played a key role in the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP.
“Everyone who defends the process of socialist revolution in Latin America and the world is committed to the truth, that Venezuela does not violate human rights but rather defends them,” she continued.
Solidarity Delegation of 20 US Activists to Visit Venezuela from July 4-16, 2015
A delegation of US organizations with long histories of support for social justice movements in Latin America and the Caribbean-Marin Task Force on the Americas, National Lawyers Guild, School of the Americas Watch, Alliance for Global Justice-is set to visit Venezuela next month. The delegation is a direct result of President Barack Obama's March 9, 2015 executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the United States in order to sanction high-ranking government officials.
Delegates plan to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of Venezuela by declaring that Obama's sanctions do not represent their sentiments. They will begin the delegation on July 5, Venezuela's Independence Day, as a symbolic statement of their affirmation of Venezuela's independence and sovereignty.
Among the delegates from the National Lawyers Guild, an organization that has made multiple visits to Venezuela to observe elections, are: Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, president-elect; David Gespass, former president; Judy Somberg, former vice president; Susan Scott, former International Committee co-chair and current co-chair of the NLG Task Force on the Americas; and David Mandel, of the Guild's Free Palestine Subcommittee.
Joining them will be several members of the leadership team for the Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas, an organization that has organized numerous delegations to Venezuela over the past decade, including their director, Dale Sorensen. Thanks to the work of Sorensen, a meeting with then-Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel took place in 2004, leading to President Chavez's decision to withdraw Venezuela from the notorious US military training institute, the School of the Americas.
The delegation is expected to meet with sectors of government including the legislative, judicial and electoral branches. They also plan to meet with press, trade unions, student groups, opposition members, human rights groups, and Latin American regional organizations. Activists will return to the US to and report back on current reality of Venezuela-one often distorted by mainstream media.For more information contact:
Lisa Sullivan, Delegation Coordinator
Phone: 0416-607-0972
Email: [email protected]
Delegates plan to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of Venezuela by declaring that Obama's sanctions do not represent their sentiments. They will begin the delegation on July 5, Venezuela's Independence Day, as a symbolic statement of their affirmation of Venezuela's independence and sovereignty.
Among the delegates from the National Lawyers Guild, an organization that has made multiple visits to Venezuela to observe elections, are: Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, president-elect; David Gespass, former president; Judy Somberg, former vice president; Susan Scott, former International Committee co-chair and current co-chair of the NLG Task Force on the Americas; and David Mandel, of the Guild's Free Palestine Subcommittee.
Joining them will be several members of the leadership team for the Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas, an organization that has organized numerous delegations to Venezuela over the past decade, including their director, Dale Sorensen. Thanks to the work of Sorensen, a meeting with then-Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel took place in 2004, leading to President Chavez's decision to withdraw Venezuela from the notorious US military training institute, the School of the Americas.
The delegation is expected to meet with sectors of government including the legislative, judicial and electoral branches. They also plan to meet with press, trade unions, student groups, opposition members, human rights groups, and Latin American regional organizations. Activists will return to the US to and report back on current reality of Venezuela-one often distorted by mainstream media.For more information contact:
Lisa Sullivan, Delegation Coordinator
Phone: 0416-607-0972
Email: [email protected]
Venezuela y Cuba en el 1º de Mayo: Aquí no se rinde nadie !!!
Presidentes Castro y Maduro encabezaron desfile en la
Plaza de la Revolucion
Video here
History is made: Venezuelan Ambassador visits Six Nations
April 15, 2015
OHSWEKEN – History was made on Wednesday April 8th as over 90 community members gathered to welcome the Venezuelan Ambassador Wilmer Barrientos to the Mohawk Longhouse on 5th Line for dinner and a social dance.
The ambassador was welcomed according to traditional protocol, and was offered a drink of strawberry juice and was “dusted off” with an eagle feather by longhouse representatives.
The Ambassador brought greetings from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a country on the Northern coast of South America with a population of 30 million people. Venezuela was a country long ruled by the ancestors of the Spanish conquistadors who began forcibly colonizing the area in 1522. Red More Here ...
The ambassador was welcomed according to traditional protocol, and was offered a drink of strawberry juice and was “dusted off” with an eagle feather by longhouse representatives.
The Ambassador brought greetings from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a country on the Northern coast of South America with a population of 30 million people. Venezuela was a country long ruled by the ancestors of the Spanish conquistadors who began forcibly colonizing the area in 1522. Red More Here ...
U.S. Alone Once Again at Americas summit
By Miguel Tinker Salas on April 09, 2015
The Obama administration wants to make Venezuela the new Cuba.
In December, shortly after President Obama announced that he wanted to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, he ironically declared his intention to impose sanctions on Venezuelan officials. Then, in March, he signed an executive order stating that Venezuela constituted an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
First, the facts. Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is approximately 1,370 miles from Miami. The Venezuelan government does not possess any long-range missile systems and it has threatened neither the United States nor any other countries in the region. Read more here ...
In December, shortly after President Obama announced that he wanted to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, he ironically declared his intention to impose sanctions on Venezuelan officials. Then, in March, he signed an executive order stating that Venezuela constituted an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
First, the facts. Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is approximately 1,370 miles from Miami. The Venezuelan government does not possess any long-range missile systems and it has threatened neither the United States nor any other countries in the region. Read more here ...
Rechazo mundial de la agresión de Estados Unidos
a Venezuela (I)
Salim Lamrani
Al Mayadeen
La comunidad internacional ha rechazado de modo unánime la declaración de la Casa Blanca de decretar un estado de emergencia nacional cuyo objetivo es romper el orden constitucional en Venezuela.
El 9 de marzo de 2015 Barack Obama firmó una orden ejecutiva y decretó “estado de emergencia” en Estados Unidos por “la amenaza inusitada y extraordinaria” que representaría Venezuela para la seguridad nacional del país. Esta decisión, hostil hacia otra nación soberana, es sumamente grave y se acompañó de nuevas sanciones contra varios funcionarios del gobierno de la república latinoamericana. [1]. Para justificar semejante medida, More Info here .....
Rechazo mundial de la agresión de Estados Unidos
a Venezuela (II)
Salim Lamrani
Al Mayadeen
América Latina repudió el Decreto Presidencial de Barack Obama y reclamó el respeto del Derecho Internacional.
Las condenas más firmes contra las medidas hostiles de Washington procedieron del Nuevo Mundo. Cuba fue la primera nación que criticó el decreto presidencial el mismo día de su divulgación. La Habana usó un lenguaje diplomático fuerte y reafirmó su “su incondicional apoyo […] al Gobierno legítimo del presidente Nicolás Maduro”, mostrando así que el acercamiento con Estados Unidos no interfería de ningún modo en su política exterior. More Info here ....
MAR. 10 - Sunday Mass in honour of President Hugo Chávez, MAR. 12 - Chávez: The Life of a Revolutionary, News updates and messages of Solidarity
March 10, 2013
12:30 PM
Sunday Mass
(to be held in Spanish)
in honour of President Hugo Chavez
at San Lorenzo Church
2981 Dufferin Street
Toronto
With sadness in our hearts, we say goodbye to an extraordinary human and revolutionary. Your energy, love and example will not be forgotten.
The revolution will continue until there is liberation for all.
QUE VIVA CHAVEZ!!
QUE VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN BOLIVARIANA!! NI UN PASO ATRÁS!!
Join us and spread the word, show your solidarity and support in memory of President Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
Contact: [email protected]
www.venezuelasolidarity.ca
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
7:00pm
Chávez: The Life of a Revolutionary
OISE Rm 2214
252 Bloor St. W. (St George TTC)
Speakers:
Maria Paez
Camilo Cahis
Other speakers to be announced
The life of Hugo Chávez contains many lessons and illustrates the story of the revolutionary rising of the Venezuelan people. Join us in this discussion that looks at the past, present and future of the movement in Latin America to answer the question, "What is the legacy of Chávez?"
Organized by Latin American solidarity organizations in Toronto: Hands Off Venezuela, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel, and others.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN) mourns the death of Comandante President Hugo Chávez Frías a great leader who brought to fruition the Bolivarian dream of regional integration through the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas (ALBA).
He championed the rights of the poor and marginalized bringing a life of dignity, access to education, housing and health care. Through his leadership Chávez changed the composition of the economy and society by integrating the values of a socialist Bolivarian revolution with Communal Councils, Workers Councils and other community organizations. His government instituted social programs, through the Misiones Bolivarianas which leaves a legacy of a humanist socialism. Chávez’ socialist Bolivarian revolution has stood firm against imperialism around the globe.
Thousands have gathered in Bolivar Square in Caracas and the Miraflores presidential palace in memory and support of the Bolivarian revolution.
Click here to read messages from LACSN's members
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Updates, News and Links
· Los asesinos de Chávez tienen nombres y apellidos
· Una idea invencible más allá de la muerte
· Hugo Chávez, según el escritor Gabriel García Márquez
· 'More Alive Than Ever': World Reacts to Loss of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez
· CBC Radio interview on the death of Presdient Hugo Chavez
· Over 70 gather in Toronto for rousing celebration of Hugo Chávez's life
· Tariq Ali: Hugo Chávez and me
· Eva Golinger: Hay evidencias que EE.UU. habría inducido el cáncer a Hugo Chávez
· Mensaje de René González
· Steve Paikin (TV Ontario) interviews Maria Páez Victor, member of the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle
· ¡Gloria al bravo Chávez!
· Message to Prime Minister Harper regarding his letter on the death of Venezuela's President, Hugo Chávez
· Mensaje de Antonio Guerrero. ! Viva Chávez!
· Statement by the Non Aligned Movement on the passing away of Commander President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
· Communiqué of the Community of the Latin American and Caribbean States on the decease of Commander President Hugo Chávez Frías
· Declaración del Movimiento de Países No Alineados sobre el deceso del Comandante Presidente Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
· Comunicado de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) sobre el fallecimiento del Comandante Presidente Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
12:30 PM
Sunday Mass
(to be held in Spanish)
in honour of President Hugo Chavez
at San Lorenzo Church
2981 Dufferin Street
Toronto
With sadness in our hearts, we say goodbye to an extraordinary human and revolutionary. Your energy, love and example will not be forgotten.
The revolution will continue until there is liberation for all.
QUE VIVA CHAVEZ!!
QUE VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN BOLIVARIANA!! NI UN PASO ATRÁS!!
Join us and spread the word, show your solidarity and support in memory of President Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
Contact: [email protected]
www.venezuelasolidarity.ca
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
7:00pm
Chávez: The Life of a Revolutionary
OISE Rm 2214
252 Bloor St. W. (St George TTC)
Speakers:
Maria Paez
Camilo Cahis
Other speakers to be announced
The life of Hugo Chávez contains many lessons and illustrates the story of the revolutionary rising of the Venezuelan people. Join us in this discussion that looks at the past, present and future of the movement in Latin America to answer the question, "What is the legacy of Chávez?"
Organized by Latin American solidarity organizations in Toronto: Hands Off Venezuela, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel, and others.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN) mourns the death of Comandante President Hugo Chávez Frías a great leader who brought to fruition the Bolivarian dream of regional integration through the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas (ALBA).
He championed the rights of the poor and marginalized bringing a life of dignity, access to education, housing and health care. Through his leadership Chávez changed the composition of the economy and society by integrating the values of a socialist Bolivarian revolution with Communal Councils, Workers Councils and other community organizations. His government instituted social programs, through the Misiones Bolivarianas which leaves a legacy of a humanist socialism. Chávez’ socialist Bolivarian revolution has stood firm against imperialism around the globe.
Thousands have gathered in Bolivar Square in Caracas and the Miraflores presidential palace in memory and support of the Bolivarian revolution.
Click here to read messages from LACSN's members
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Updates, News and Links
· Los asesinos de Chávez tienen nombres y apellidos
· Una idea invencible más allá de la muerte
· Hugo Chávez, según el escritor Gabriel García Márquez
· 'More Alive Than Ever': World Reacts to Loss of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez
· CBC Radio interview on the death of Presdient Hugo Chavez
· Over 70 gather in Toronto for rousing celebration of Hugo Chávez's life
· Tariq Ali: Hugo Chávez and me
· Eva Golinger: Hay evidencias que EE.UU. habría inducido el cáncer a Hugo Chávez
· Mensaje de René González
· Steve Paikin (TV Ontario) interviews Maria Páez Victor, member of the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle
· ¡Gloria al bravo Chávez!
· Message to Prime Minister Harper regarding his letter on the death of Venezuela's President, Hugo Chávez
· Mensaje de Antonio Guerrero. ! Viva Chávez!
· Statement by the Non Aligned Movement on the passing away of Commander President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
· Communiqué of the Community of the Latin American and Caribbean States on the decease of Commander President Hugo Chávez Frías
· Declaración del Movimiento de Países No Alineados sobre el deceso del Comandante Presidente Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
· Comunicado de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) sobre el fallecimiento del Comandante Presidente Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
LACSN mourns the death of comandante President Hugo Chávez Frías
The Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN) mourns the death of comandante President Hugo Chávez Frías a great leader who brought to fruition the Bolivarian dream of regional integration through The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Américas (ALBA).
He championed the rights of the poor and marginalized bringing a life of dignity, access to education, housing and health care. Through his leadership Chavez changed the composition of the economy and society by integrating the values of a socialist Bolivarian revolution with Communal Councils, Workers Councils and other community organizations.
His government instituted social programs, through the Misiones Bolivarianas which leaves a legacy of a humanist socialism. Chavez’ socialist Bolivarian revolution has stood firm against imperialism around the globe.
Thousands have gathered in Bolivar Square in Caracas and
Miraflores presidential palace in memory and support to the Bolivarian
revolution.
We join Hands Off Venezuela and the Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel and invite you to come out to the Yellow Griffin Pub tomorrow (Wednesday) night to celebrate the life and legacy of a great revolutionary. Also for those that can’t make it tomorrow join the candle light vigil in solidarity with President Hugo Chavez https://www.facebook.com/events/499246406800158/
Celebrating the life Hugo Chávez
Wed. March 5 @ 8:15pm
Yellow Griffin Pub
2202 Bloor St. W.,
Toronto
(near Runnymede subway station)
He championed the rights of the poor and marginalized bringing a life of dignity, access to education, housing and health care. Through his leadership Chavez changed the composition of the economy and society by integrating the values of a socialist Bolivarian revolution with Communal Councils, Workers Councils and other community organizations.
His government instituted social programs, through the Misiones Bolivarianas which leaves a legacy of a humanist socialism. Chavez’ socialist Bolivarian revolution has stood firm against imperialism around the globe.
Thousands have gathered in Bolivar Square in Caracas and
Miraflores presidential palace in memory and support to the Bolivarian
revolution.
We join Hands Off Venezuela and the Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel and invite you to come out to the Yellow Griffin Pub tomorrow (Wednesday) night to celebrate the life and legacy of a great revolutionary. Also for those that can’t make it tomorrow join the candle light vigil in solidarity with President Hugo Chavez https://www.facebook.com/events/499246406800158/
Celebrating the life Hugo Chávez
Wed. March 5 @ 8:15pm
Yellow Griffin Pub
2202 Bloor St. W.,
Toronto
(near Runnymede subway station)
International Day of Solidarity
with Venezuela in Toronto
with Venezuela in Toronto
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María Páez Victor
On January 28, 2013 The Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network organized a demonstration in Toronto in solidarity with Venezuela's democratic government that has come under attack by the Liberal Party Multicultural Critic, Jim Karygiannis. They were joined in solidarity by at least 40 people and activists from several other organizations, such as Occupy Toronto, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Idle No More, and Avanzada Bolivariana.
Mr. Karygiannis is backing the remnants of the corrupt Venezuelan elite that lives in this city who urged him to petition the Harper Government to have a debate in Parliament regarding the lack of democracy in Venezuela. Yes, the very same Mr. Harper that prorrogued Parliament - twice.
And yes, Karygiannis is backing the very same people who supported the 2002 coup d'etat against the democratically elected Venezuelan Government, that abolished its Constitution and the National Assembly in one stroke, which killed 17 people and kidnapped a legitimate president, Hugo Chávez.His ignorance of the recent history and political situation of Venezuela is appalling.
Mr. Karygiannis has declared (Noticias Montreal) that he has received 2,500 emails from Venezuela supporting his petition not realizing these have been orchestrated by the opposition there. It is clearly evidence of a Canadian parliamentarian being shamelessly used by the opposition party of another country.
Mr. Karygiannis has shown his ignorance of the principle of non interference in the internal affairs of another country. He has put at risk the relations between the two countries, Venezuela being Canada's 2nd largest export market in South America and 6th trading partner in the region. He has damaged the reputation of the Liberal Party among the large Latin American community in Canada that approves of Venezuela and all of the majority progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At the demonstration many voiced their support for President Chávez and the Bolivarian government which he leads that has lifted his people out of the poverty and misery that the elites, servile of the US and international corporations, had kept them in for 40 years. Latin America is now a unified entity in which the majority of countries are socially progressive and reject foreign interventions in their affairs. The Liberal Party had better find another Multicultural Critic, one that at least has a notion of complex national political processes and a minimum capacity to research and recognize important facts concerning this multicultural milieu in which we live.
On January 28, 2013 The Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network organized a demonstration in Toronto in solidarity with Venezuela's democratic government that has come under attack by the Liberal Party Multicultural Critic, Jim Karygiannis. They were joined in solidarity by at least 40 people and activists from several other organizations, such as Occupy Toronto, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Idle No More, and Avanzada Bolivariana.
Mr. Karygiannis is backing the remnants of the corrupt Venezuelan elite that lives in this city who urged him to petition the Harper Government to have a debate in Parliament regarding the lack of democracy in Venezuela. Yes, the very same Mr. Harper that prorrogued Parliament - twice.
And yes, Karygiannis is backing the very same people who supported the 2002 coup d'etat against the democratically elected Venezuelan Government, that abolished its Constitution and the National Assembly in one stroke, which killed 17 people and kidnapped a legitimate president, Hugo Chávez.His ignorance of the recent history and political situation of Venezuela is appalling.
Mr. Karygiannis has declared (Noticias Montreal) that he has received 2,500 emails from Venezuela supporting his petition not realizing these have been orchestrated by the opposition there. It is clearly evidence of a Canadian parliamentarian being shamelessly used by the opposition party of another country.
Mr. Karygiannis has shown his ignorance of the principle of non interference in the internal affairs of another country. He has put at risk the relations between the two countries, Venezuela being Canada's 2nd largest export market in South America and 6th trading partner in the region. He has damaged the reputation of the Liberal Party among the large Latin American community in Canada that approves of Venezuela and all of the majority progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At the demonstration many voiced their support for President Chávez and the Bolivarian government which he leads that has lifted his people out of the poverty and misery that the elites, servile of the US and international corporations, had kept them in for 40 years. Latin America is now a unified entity in which the majority of countries are socially progressive and reject foreign interventions in their affairs. The Liberal Party had better find another Multicultural Critic, one that at least has a notion of complex national political processes and a minimum capacity to research and recognize important facts concerning this multicultural milieu in which we live.
Brigade dates: September 27th – October 8th, 2012
Registrations close: May 31, 2012
The October 2012 presidential elections will be an historic moment in the Venezuelan revolution.
Since 1998, when Hugo Chavez Frias was first elected president, the Bolivarian revolution has achieved remarkable things, confronted many challenges and undergone many changes. Over the years, the United States-backed opposition has tried to halt, sabotage and stall this people’s-power revolution that is putting control of Venezuela’s politics and economy back into the hands of the poor majority. The October 2012 elections will be a critical point in the ongoing struggle between the people and the profits-first corporations and imperialism.
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s solidarity brigades to Venezuela are an opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution that is radically transforming the lives of Venezuelans and challenging the greed, exploitation and destructiveness of global capitalism by showing that a better world is possible.
As well as observing the last week of the presidential election campaign, and polling day itself, the 2012 brigade participants will visit social missions, communal councils and communes, as well as production cooperatives, public health and education services, sustainable development projects, community controlled media stations, and women’s and Indigenous organisations.
During the 12-day tour, brigadistas will speak to a wide range of grassroots organisations, community activists, trade unions and government representatives about the radical changes being implemented by the Venezuelan people.
The 2012 brigade is the 13th study tour organised by the AVSN. Reports from previous brigades are posted on our website: http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org. We are also happy to put you in touch with people who have participated in previous AVSN brigades if you would like to find out more.
(VIDEO) War on Democracy / spanish subtitle
En este documental John Pilger sugiere que, más allá de llevar la democracia a todo el mundo, como siempre proclama el Gobierno de los EUA, en realidad éste está haciendo todo lo posible para obstaculizar su avance. John Pilger realiza entrevistas exclusivas con oficiales del gobierno americanos, incluyendo agentes que revelan por primera vez como la CIA ha desplegado y está desplegando su guerra particular en Latino América. Pilger argumenta que la verdadera democracia popular se encuentra más bien entre los países más pobres de Latino América, cuyos movimientos y avances son ignorados por los medios.
WATCH THE TRAILER / Revolución Venezolana - Hugo Chavez
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The Australia - Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigades to Venezuela are a wonderful experience - the opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution that is not only radically transforming the lives of Venezuelans, but also challenging greed, exploitation and destructiveness of global capitalism by showing that a better world is possible.
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CONTROL OBRERO
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Reunión en la Presidencia de CVG Alcasa con Jose Gil, el Ministro Jose Khan y el Presidente Elio Sayago el lunes 21 de Junio de 2010, por que el sindicato quiere controlar personal y finanzas, y no reconoce las mesas administrativas ni las comisiones.
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COMISION PRESIDENCIAL: PLAN GUAYANA SOCIALISTA “2009-2012” (FASE III)
PRESENTACIÓN INFORME DE TRABAJO DE COMISION DE MESA:
INFORME DE GESTION FINAL DE COMISION DE MESA No1.
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