Venezuela 2017-2020

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“White Helmets” in Venezuela?


“White Helmets” in Venezuela
Wrong Kind of Green May 10, 2017 Avaaz, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Purpose, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, USAID
INTERNATIONALIST 360°
May 3, 2017
Editorial Comment by Internationalist 360:

As the dirty war against the Venezuelan people unfolds at a swift and ruthless pace, the best accounts and analysis are not available in English. The report below is an example of critical information that we need today.  I am confident that readers can both understand what is said and make allowances for the fact this is run through a translator.
A.V.

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A new star has been born on the scrawny firmament
Investigative Report by Misión Verdad
Approximate Translation from Original Spanish by Google
They say to be there, in the line of contact, risking the skin, fighting against so many adverse factors in a moment of adrenaline and high tension. You see them attending to the victims, you see when they say that they act disinterestedly, mystically, a question of vocation, of trade, and by custom the “noblest of all”: to guard life, health. Something universal.
They say that they were born in adversity, they impact, they move their people. They exalt feelings (without frontiers), stand on the side of the weak, assist them. But they would also come to the fort if they needed it, they say. They are untiring. They are gaining the applause of all. They receive centimetraje in the means. The awards and recognitions await in the near future.
They become untouchable, sacred, angelic.

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Thus, without fault in the story, a squad of rescuers, doctors, medical students, but above all uuu-niversitarios: the “white / green cross helmets” emerge without fault, inserting themselves within the Venezuelan and international informative landscape, Of the current political context.
And the strong advertising campaign that promotes them will be anything but innocent. It contains all the symbolic elements, places all the necessary signs and stimulating data that draw a “noblisima” cause.
But the adage says: if it is a story, it sells. We think of images, emotions and stimuli in the first place; Then the brain shapes it in its rational scheme. And not the other way around. That is the tactic with which a product is placed in the market.
Apart from precipitating a priori judgments about the composition of the rescue group, which has become one of the central protagonists in the insurrectional actions of the coup plot, and assuming in advance that the same operative principle is reproduced in which many people Are incorporated and stimulated by what they conceive as nobility or goodwill, just as many people are lumpy in mobilizations whose main operators act with a different and different political intention.
And, in the context of the new information landscape that has developed in the actions of the last month, other signs and data seem to guide everything in another direction.
Of the political as “spot” advertising
“We have no political color, the medicine has no color and we are there to care for whoever is injured, because that is what the Hippocratic oath tells us, we are to care for whoever needs us,” said Daniella Liendo, for all Practical effects spokesman of the group, in an interview with Panampost , signed by Sabrina Martín.
“There are more than 50 volunteer medical students who risk their lives to save those who are constantly demanding democracy in their country,” he says in another point in the same interview. Of his words that even at this point could be admitted approximate to neutral. “We have been growing a lot, people have given us incredible support and now when the demonstrations started we wanted to take up that initiative.”
And at this point the contrast between an alleged objectivity and defined political positions begins:
“The first aid brigade UCV was born at the time of the protests for ‘La Salida’ in 2014, and revived on Tuesday April 4, when the opposition called the first mobilization after knowing the sentences of the Supreme Court of Justice Which officially annulled the competencies of the National Assembly, already caught up in fact, “Liendo says this time for a work with a clear profile of publicity for El Encouragement, in this case signed by Maria Emilia Jorge M.
Organized from another similar political operation, “The Exit” of 2014, can already be circumscribing the sphere of political and ideological identity. A context. “It is not the same to take care of an injured person in an emergency of a hospital that to attend to him in these manifestations in which we are basically in a war”, maintains Liendo in Panampost, with such turn of nut.
The works reviewed for this research coincide in the same “interpretative” traits: youth, freshness, presumed spontaneity, disinterested virtuosity, and unselfish courage. This (deliberately) generalized impression also contributes the projection that they have been having in social networks.
Bring in reputed figures for their experience in putting together dirty information operations, such as Braulio Jatar , the well-known astróloga and web star Venezuelan-Mayamera Mía Astral, or the new 2.0 organizations of the trendiest, such as the Facebook account Trending Tropic . In what is accused, too, an accusatory, elaborate work. More professional than usual.



In the image above, consecrated visually by Donaldo Barros, one of the influencers “of weight.” The image below speaks for itself.




 “Before they were 100 chamos who always stayed at the moment of repression, now they are the same 100 chamos, plus the student movement, the leaders of the opposition and the civil society. The departure of a political party of power, now the motives are different: we need people to stop starving, to get medicines to the country, people ask for social change, Liendo analyzes, “according to the note from El Encímulo.
Another disinformation, mystifying element, if you will, is in the number of activists who are assumed part of the grouping. The Stimulus (April 11) talks about 21 volunteers. Panampost, whose work is also on the same date (April 11), already speaks of “more than 50”. Effect Cocuyo puts them in “more than 80” on April 17 .
Reuters, replicated by La Patilla , already speaks of 120 for April 26, the same as the portal France 24 (in English). Both reports offer more than a coincidence: in addition to the voluntary figure, the respective reports come out the same day, with a very similar description of situation, between chaos and “objective” glorification.
Between the chaos and the violence, “the Green Cross arrived”, narrates the report of France24, signed by Esteban Rojas. “When a group of them walks through a protest, protesters stop their cries of ‘No more dictatorship!’ And they begin to cheer them up with cheers and cheers from ‘heroes!’ “Describes Alexandra Ulmer’s work for Reuters.
“The affection and warmth shown by Venezuelans is what gives us strength to continue,” sentence, prefabricated and swallowed Rojas, in France24. Common places, television glorification, political candor, alleged superior intentions that reinforce the “objective” character of the “Venezuelan crisis” and of “peaceful protests.” Epic consolidation attempt.
Not inconspicuous, but rather delicate inconsistencies, which could be assumed as traces of tender premature labor (or bad confessional praxis): “They began to save lives even before they had a license to practice medicine in a care center, and without But they have been formed to do it well “( The Stimulus ). Detailing, in addition, the incorporation of volunteers of the school of odontology of the University Santa Maria (?).
“In the western state of Táchira, bordering Colombia, doctors wear civilian clothing and use pseudonyms to avoid being arrested or attacked by government officials,” notes Reuters’ work, adding a more delicate element in many ways.
They are, as will be seen below, an expression “of the vanguard” of the “humanitarian channel” that Luis Almagro has obsessively advocated from the OAS and the National Assembly in contempt.
The group’s Instagram account was activated on April 7th .
In recent days (this note was published on May 2), in the account of the same network was added the option to receive financing via Amazon and other financing platforms 2.0 style crowd funding . For this, they had to add in their offer to be identified as a company the identification as Medical Company / Medical Company, according to the filter through which their account is visited.
War is also a matter of marketing.



And if one of the rules of marketing is to impact, it is not a good idea that in the first failed attempts at advertising (the image was removed from your account), it might be more effective to place the gas mask on the older lady instead of the sacrificial Rescuer And do not do it on the stairs of the San Ignacio Shopping Center.
Political ties will always reveal the agenda (and stakeholders)
All the works consulted also show the same closure and the general “humanitarian” conclusion: “To return to have inventory, First Aid UCV made this Tuesday a collection of supplies and medicines in the church Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Las Mercedes, Caracas; But also have points of collection in Miami, Houston, Washington DC and New York, the United States, Panama City, Panama, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, Bogotá, Colombia, and Lima, Peru “(El Encímulo).
Small de facto channels, micro “humanitarian channels” via “direct diplomacy” and “solidarity action”. But everything remains surface. Behind the veil, the details speak more clearly.
Daniella Liendo is a member of the student center of the Medical School of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). It is also part of the NGO ” Doctors for Health “, a very active lobby in the accumulation (under what criteria?) Of figures, data and elements around the construction of the matrix of humanitarian crisis, lack of medicines (Product of “model failure”). The political connection always ends up revealing the usual suspects.
Behind all these formations is Deputy José Manuel Olivares (Vargas, Primero Justicia), president of the Health Sub-Commission and principal promoter of the ” Special Law to address the humanitarian crisis in health “, reverted by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), for its regressive character and its obvious opening of floodgates towards “humanitarian intervention”.



 Law from which species such as Article 16 can be extracted: “The National Executive must receive all the International Humanitarian Aid that they offer to the Venezuelan State, even if it comes from an organization or State to which it has not been requested.”
Or for example 17: “The rejection of International Humanitarian Aid, requires in any case the previous authorization by the National Assembly, for which the National Executive must communicate to the legislative body the reasons why it intends to reject International Assistance Humanitarian.
The National Assembly shall decide, by a simple majority of its members, within two days after receiving the communication sent by the National Executive. The ruling of the National Assembly on the acceptance or rejection of the International Humanitarian Aid will be binding for the National Executive. “
Transfer of powers of last word that corresponds to other powers of the State, “soft” suppression of sovereignty, opening of a “humanitarian front” that would hardly deal with the transfer of medicines or medical equipment, but as a point of circulation of logistics equipment, Military, intelligence operators, etc.
Oenegización of the society, dissolution of political borders of the nation-state (Libya, once again). How many humanitarian interventions did Kosovo have in 1998? How much round of sanctions for the same purpose does this seemingly legal certification offer? How much is guaranteed by international law?
From this perspective, and on the syntax in exercise in the immediate reality, in spite of those who participate under the innocent bait of voluntarism (and not of those who obviously fulfill another mission), it is another front of money laundering that has much To do with information war and little with genuine concerns.
Cruz Verde, as you may recall, is also a well-known brand of cleaning products. The irony appears alone.
Shaping the message, “humanitarianism”, precedents
The operation against Venezuela is regional, geopolitical, global. The same thing, we have insisted to the point of being tired from this rostrum. The methods by which contexts and ways to orientate the situation towards “regime change”, the undermining of the social, the resumption of political control that consolidates the financial economy and force the planet’s hot spots towards the expected objectives .
Thus, it is inevitable to bring in this point the Syrian case, and within that, to the already renamed “White Helmets”. These multipurpose operators that only act in territories controlled by the jihadist entities, which have carried out more than one false file and with a clear anti-State orientation, its integral defense and its way of representing.
Its dubious “humanitarian work”, in the foreground, is inserted and strengthened from the logic of spectacle and the usual perceptual banalization of the transmission belt of corporate media interested in the overthrow of the government chaired by Bashar Al-Assad, Which then comes with the same logic of realignment and geopolitical subordination to Western interests.
As it is known, they were created by a former British intelligence officer, have been recognized, supported and promoted by how much prize is in the talk of opinion, while receiving moral certification by figures of Western politics and global celebrity. The same ones that today are filing batteries against Venezuela, under similar method.
In the immediate past, the “White Helmets” were the main source for the “Syrian government” chemical attack on Jan Sheyjun’s population, which led to direct US intervention by the Trump Administration , By bombarding with Tomahawlk missiles at the Sharyat airbase.
His dubious “humanitarian work”, on the other hand, has been dissected by a considerable batch of serious investigations, revealing the publicity construct and shedding light on its true nature, purpose, and membership in the humanitarian industrial complex that complements and whitens the actions Pure and hard political intervention.
The researches of Vanessa Beeley , Moon of Alabama , Patrick Henningsen, and even Max Blumenthal (hardly recognizable as a “pro-Assad” figure), are a necessary consultation. Beyond the obvious, for the effects of this work will be emphasized in other subyascentes functions of this class of operations:

• The “White Helmets” or Syrian Civil Defense is a complex network of public relations firms, such as the renowned Purpose, heavy investments, dark figures from the oil world (including the Rockefeller Foundation) and the Syrian “exile” . It was partially created by the Office of Transitional Initiatives of USAID (with a first donation of $ 23 million among other donations), has received training from MI6 – the British Foreign Intelligence Service -, is financed by the taxes of the citizen gringos And English. Within this media advertising brokerage, as a high-level “simultaneous news placement” in various media, taxed (or taxed) other global action operations, such as the one led by the Avaaz portal, responsible for gathering signatures that requested An “Air Exclusion Zone” over Syria (ie direct and heavy military intervention), which led to its heightened evidence in the huge campaign against the liberation of Aleppo at the end of 2016. This last operation Others resound in the “meeting of signatures” against the Ombudsman, Tarek William Saab.
  
• In the same way, they act as a non-state actor that assigns state tasks in the area of assistance and rescatismo, since, for example, the Syrian government does have its own civil defense body, specialized in disaster and disaster relief (Active in almost all the territory) and strongly depauperada by the economic blockade product of the sanctions. Similarly, it displaces, hegemonizes and criminalizes the action of other truly humanitarian groups, including the Red Crescent and the International Red Cross, as it also campaigns against the same action by the United Nations on this field of action. A global power that tries to impose itself on local, national.
  

In summary, scenarios of situations oriented to the Western public, seeking to convey the idea of genuine and legitimate the process of intervention via false flag operations, promoters of disinformation via disaster propaganda, transmitters of the idea of neutrality to be beyond politics.
It is evident everything that could be claimed in contextual jumps, since in operational “phases”, the insurrectional operation in Venezuela is not at the tragic and violent point (and in resistance) in the case of the Syrian Arab Republic . But the precedent, the model, remains.
Situations planned in larval stage?
Finally, as Mission Truth has developed, the panorama of the Venezuelan information battlefield has experienced a dramatic jump in strategies, tactics and methods to produce (dis) information about what happens on the ground, where the battle is Matter, entails, and is intended to climb the same dangerous path.
How much prefiguration and projection into the future have these kinds of operations as here analyzed? To what extent will the procedures that control the narrative be extended in both sphere 2.0, the news, and on the administration of the territory as a privileged scenery? We already saw a test balloon and its results with the incident of April 10 in Las Mercedes.
In recent days, again from his Instagram account, First Aid UCV denounced the treatment that a journalist of Venezolana de Televisión granted them, disregarding any agenda , any war context and appealing to international legislation to certify their selfless work.
If so, they should then also consider all the positive, promotional and exacerbated propaganda that the media clearly added to the coup plot are developing at this time, since it would do the same poor favor.
As a closure, reminder and alert, we will not put the video in which the “White Helmets” perform that simulated antics of the manequin challenge, but a simulacrum of railway accident carried out in England in 2015, as a clear demonstration of how far Can be reached, if you want, in the elaboration and conduction of a message:

http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2017/05/...venezuela/

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Peds Ansichten: Der Maidan
als Konzept für Venezuela
Liest man Berichte der Massenmedien über Venezuela, dann fällt rasch auf, dass die Begriffe stark an die vergangene und gelebte Berichterstattung zu anderen Staaten erinnern; z.B. Hongkong (Regenschirm-Proteste), die Ukraine (Maidan), Russland und Weißrussland über die Jahre hinweg, natürlich Syrien und gern auch die Ereignisse auf dem Tienanmen-Platz im China des Jahres 1989. Und nicht nur die Begrifflichkeiten, auch die Parteinahme für eine Seite des Konflikts war offensichtlich – was im völligen Gegensatz zum Anspruch an eine objektive Berichterstattung steht.
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Jens E sagte:
8. Juni 2017 
Da kommt die Wahrheit ans Tageslicht , genau wie auf dem Maidan werden die gewaltsamen Proteste in Venezuela „bezahlt!“ mit Geld Alkohol und Munition. Die Polizei hat viele Lager ausgehoben !
Teen reveals the payout and arsenal provided to youth in exchange for participation in Venezuela's opposition protests: pic.twitter.com/7Ul6hUlpGO
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) June 8, 2017

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Melenis sagte: 18. Juni 2017 
Die Medien nutzen die wirtschaftlichen Probleme Venezuelas um ein Bild von einem gescheiterten Staat und einem nötigen Regierungswechsel zu zeigen.

Abby Martin interviewt Venezuelas Minister für Wirtschaftsplanung, Ricardo Menéndez, um die Seite der Regierung zu zeigen. Sie diskutieren über die Mangel, die Ölabhängigkeit, die Rolle der US-unterstützten Oppositionsbewegung und mehr.

Empire Files: Venezuela Economy Minister—Sabotage, Not Socialism, is the Problem

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Zahl der Toten in Venezuela steigt weiter

Zunehmend Angriffe auf die Infrastruktur des Landes. Darstellung in internationalen Medien gibt verzerrtes Bild der Lage wieder
In Venezuela spitzt sich nach einer weiteren Woche regierungsfeindlicher Ausschreitungen die Debatte über die Schuldfrage zu. Während die Opposition der Regierung von Präsident Nicolás Maduro und ihr nahestehenden Milizen die Schuld für die Toten gibt, vermittelt ein genauerer Blick auf die Lage vor Ort oft ein andres Bild. Demonstranten gehen demnach zunehmend gewalttätig gegen politische Gegner, Unbeteiligte und die Infrastruktur vor. In Lateinamerika wächst die Sorge vor einer unkontrollierten Eskalation der Auseinandersetzung.
Boliviens Präsident Evo Morales forderte die Regierungsgegner über den Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter nun dazu auf, dem Appell von Papst Franziskus zu folgen, um in einen Dialog mit der Regierung einzutreten. Dies sei notwendig, um die Kultur des Friedens in Lateinamerika zu wahren, so Morales.
Zugleich warf der linksgerichtete Staatschef den USA vor, die Lage in Venezuela zu destabilisieren. Dabei täte Washington gut daran, sich zunähst für die vergangenen Putsche in Lateinamerika zu entschuldigen, so Morales weiter....

https://www.heise.de/tp/news/Zahl-der-To...60821.html

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klitzekleines Update:

[Reuters]
Exclusive: U.S. sanctions Venezuelan officials to pressure Maduro - sources
The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on 13 senior officials of Venezuela's government, military and state oil company PDVSA on Wednesday, U.S. officials said, seeking to ratchet up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to scrap plans for a controversial new congress.

[Junge Welt]
Direktor von US-Geheimdienst räumt internationale Kooperation für Sturz der Regierung Venezuelas ein
Der Chef des US-Geheimdienstes hatte am 20. Juli beim »Aspen Security Forum« im US-Bundesstaat Colorado erklärt, man sei »sehr hoffnungsvoll«, dass es in Venezuela eine »Transition«, also einen Regierungswechsel, geben werde. Dazu habe er in Mexiko-Stadt und Bogotá bereits Gespräche geführt, damit »sie verstehen, was sie tun sollten«.

[Counterpunch]
Time for the “International Left” to Take a Stand on Venezuela
(17.7.2017) If the international left receives its news about Venezuela primarily from the international media, it is understandable why it is being so quiet. After all, this mainstream media consistently fails to report who is instigating the violence in this conflict. For example, a follower of CNN or the New York Times would not know that of the 103 who have been killed as a result of street protests, 27 were the direct or indirect result of the protesters themselves. Another 14 were the result of lootings, in one prominent case because looters set fire to a store and ended up getting engulfed in the flames themselves. 14 deaths are attributable to the actions of state authorities (where in almost all cases those responsible have been charged), and 44 are still under investigation or in dispute. This is according to data from the office of the Attorney General, which itself has recently become pro-opposition.

[venezuelanalysis.com]
In Detail: The Deaths So Far
Deaths caused by authorities: 13 (..)
Direct victims of opposition political violence: 20 (..)
Deaths indirectly linked to opposition barricades*: 8 (..)
Deaths still unaccounted for / disputed: 47 (..)
Accidental deaths: 3 (..)
People killed in lootings**: 14 (..)
Deaths attributed to pro-gov’t civilians: 3

[Miami Herald]
Venezuela accuses Rubio, CIA of plotting to topple Caracas government
“What this group is trying to do with Venezuela is basically divide the government, recognize other leaders and foment a conflict with the Venezuelans,” Ron told a small group of reporters in Washington on Tuesday. “This is absolutely unacceptable.”

The South American country with the world’s largest oil reserves is spinning out of control, its economy in tatters and its people starving as oil revenues plummet.

[Amerika21.de]
Bei Protesten in Venezuela wurden 23 Menschen bei lebendigem Leib angezündet
Man könne diese Taten nicht mehr als isolierte Vorkommnisse ansehen, so die Autoren der Dokumentation. Sie zeigen sich beunruhigt, dass die Urheber dieser spezifischen Gewalt bei ihren Aktionen ihre Inspiration durch geschichtliche Bezüge auf paramilitärische und faschistische Bewegungen, religiösen Fanatismus oder auf den rassistischen Ku-Klux-Klan in den USA zur Schau stellten.

[Reuters]
Venezuela's opposition stages two-day anti-Maduro shutdown
Neighbors gathered from dawn in cities around Venezuela to block roads with rubbish, stones and tape, while many cafes and businesses remained closed in protest against the ruling Socialist Party's planned Constituent Assembly vote.

"We need to paralyze the whole country," said Flor Lanz, 68, standing with a group of women blocking the entrance to a freeway in upscale east Caracas with rope and iron sheets.

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July 28, 2017

Countdown To War On Venezuela
On Sunday Venezuela will hold an general election of participants of a constitutional assembly. Half of the representatives will be elected from regular electoral districts. The other half will be elected from and by eight special constituencies like "workers", "farmers", "employers", etc. The second part may be unusual but is no less democratic than the U.S. system which gives voters in rural states more weight than city dwellers.
The new assembly will formulate changes to the current constitution. Those changes will be decided on in another general vote. It is likely that the outcome will reinforce the favorite policies of a great majority of the people and of the social-democratic government under President Manduro.
The more wealthy part of the population as well as the foreign lobbies and governments have tried to prevent or sabotage the upcoming election. The U.S. has used various economic pressure points against the Venezuelan government including economic warfare with ever increasing sanctions. The opposition has held violent street rallies, attacked government institutions and supporters and called for general strikes.
But the NYT propaganda pictures of opposition rallies in the capitol Caracas show only small crowds of dozens to a few hundred of often violent youth. The opposition calls for general strikes have had little resonance as even the feverish anti-Maduro Washington Post has to concede:
In the wealthier eastern half of the city, most businesses closed to support the strike called by the opposition, which is boycotting the vote and calling for its cancellation.
The main highways of the capital city were largely closed down in the early morning, and reports surfaced of national police lobbing tear gas at strikers in the center. In the poorer neighborhoods in the west, the strike appeared less pronounced, with more businesses open and more people on the streets.
(Translation of the WaPo propagandese: "Not even the rich opposition neighborhoods of the city closed down completely. Attempts by the opposition to block central roads were prevented by the police. In the poorer parts of the city the opposition call for a strike was simply ignored.") The opposition is only active within the richer strata of the population and only in a few big cities. The poor rural areas have gained under the social-democratic governments and continue to favor it.
In an op-ed in yesterday's New York Times the "regime change" lobby of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) laid out the steps towards an upcoming war in Venezuela:
Since the plebiscite, Venezuela’s opposition has taken steps toward establishing a parallel government. This might remain a symbolic initiative. But if the opposition continues down this road, it will soon be looking for international recognition and funding, and will at least implicitly be asserting the parallel government’s claim to the legitimate monopoly on the use of force. After that it will seek what every government wants: weapons to defend itself. If it succeeds, Venezuela could plunge into a civil war that will make the current conflict seem like high school fisticuffs.
(The WOLA was also involved in Hillary Clinton's coup in Honduras.)
The CIA is quite open about the plans:
In one of the clearest clues yet about Washington’s latest meddling in the politics of Latin America, CIA director Mike Pompeo said he was “hopeful that there can be a transition in Venezuela and we the CIA is doing its best to understand the dynamic there”.
He added: “I was just down in Mexico City and in Bogota a week before last talking about this very issue, trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for their part of the world and our part of the world.”
The piece notes:
In Venezuela, [the U.S. government] has sought to weaken the elected governments of both Mr Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez, who was briefly ousted in a 2002 coup. Some of the effort has been in distributing funds to opposition groups through organisations such as the National Endowment for Democracy, while some has been in the form of simple propaganda.
In May 2016 unidentified US officials told reporters in a background briefing that Venezuela was descending into a deepening “crisis” that could end in violence.
We can conclude that the upcoming violence in Venezuela is not a spontaneous action of the opposition but the implementation of a plan that has been around since at least May 2016. It is likely to follow the color revolution by force script the U.S. developed and implemented in several countries over the last decade. Weapon supply and mercenary support for the opposition will come in from and through the neighboring countries the CIA head visited.
The vote to the constitutional assembly will proceed as planned. The opposition will attempt to sabotage it or, if that fails, proceed with violence. Weapons and tactical advice and support have likely already been provided through CIA channels.
The Venezuelan government is supported by a far larger constituency than the U.S. aligned right-wing opposition. The military has shown no sign of disloyalty to the government. Unless there is some unforeseeable event any attempt to overthrow the government will fail.
The U.S. can further hurt Venezuela by closing down oil imports from the country. But this will likely increase U.S. gas prices. It would create a some short term inconvenience for Venezuela, but oil is fungible and other customers will be available.
To overthrow the Venezuelan government has been tried since the first election of a somewhat socialist government in 1999. The U.S. instigated coup in 2002 failed when the people and the military stood up against the blatant interference. The "regime change" methods have since changed with the added support of a militant "democratic opposition" fed from the outside. The use of that tool had negative outcomes in Libya and Ukraine and it failed in Syria. I am confident that the government of Venezuela has analyzed those cases and prepared its own plans to counter a similar attempt.
The U.S. just ordered the relatives of its embassy employees out of the country. Such is only done when imminent action is expected.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/07/cou...zuela.html

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[Info-Welt]
Venezuela – Der angekündigte Putsch, der drohende Krieg
In Venezuela rief Präsident Nicolas Maduro zur Wahl einer Verfassungsgebenden Nationalversammlung auf. Während die Regierung damit einen Putsch vermeiden will, bereitet die Opposition genau diesen Putsch für Sonntag – den Tag der Wahl – vor. Statt demokratisch an der Wahl teilzunehmen und so die Verfassungsänderung zu verhindern, boykottieren sie die Wahl und rufen offen zum Putsch auf!

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U.S. Sanctions Venezuela's President Maduro, Freezes U.S. Assets
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has personally sanctioned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, adding him to the list of specially designated nationals, freezing any U.S. assets he may have and generally blocking U.S. persons from transactions involving him.

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ARD/WDR verbreitet fortgesetzte Regime-Change-Propaganda gegen Venezuela

Die Methoden, mit denen die westliche Propaganda militanten Umsturz vorbereitet, wenn widerspenstige Regierungen auf demokratischem Weg nicht zu beseitigen und durch Marionettenregime ersetzt werden können, sind immer wieder die gleichen: Eine militante Opposition wird als Opfer dargestellt und die legitime Staatsmacht als Diktatur diffamiert.

Was wir zuletzt (und bis heute) in den „öffentlich-rechtlichen“ Propagandaanstalten über Syrien oder auch die Ukraine vorgesetzt bekommen haben, wiederholt sich nun seit einigen Monaten in Venezuela. Mit einseitiger Stimmungsmache, die die Gewalt der Opposition unterschlägt, verharmlost, rechtfertigt oder verherrlicht, wird das Land bis hin zum offenen Bürgerkrieg destabilisiert. Propaganda und westliche Sanktionen gehen auch in diesem von Washington orchestrierten „RegimeChange“ Hand in Hand. Die Täter und ihre Handlanger in den Medien sind skrupellose Verbrecher, die nicht nur über Leichen gehen, sondern Leichen für ihre Propaganda geradezu brauchen und benutzen.

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