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Venezuela, a
putsch by the US deep state
by Manlio
Dinucci
The announcement by President Trump, which
recognises Juan Guaidó as the « legitimate President » of Venezuela,
was prepared in an underground control room within the Congress and the White
House.
This was described in
detail by the New York Times[1]. The principal operator, Republican Senator for
Florida Marco Rubio, « virtual Secretary of State for Latin America, will
lead and articulate the strategy of the Administration in the region », in
liaison with Vice-President Mike Pence and National Security Advisor John
Bolton.
On 22 January, at the
White House, the three men presented their plan to the President, who accepted
it. Immediately afterwards - reports the New York Times - « Mr.
Pence called Mr. Guaidó and told him that the United States would back him up
if he claimed the presidency ».
Vice-President Pence then broadcast a video
message to Venezuela in which he called on the demonstrators to « let your
voices be heard tomorrow » and assured « in the name of President
Trump and the American People - estamos con ustedes (we are with you) as
long as democracy has not been restored », and defined Maduro as a «
dictator who never won the presidency in free elections ».
The following day, Trump officially crowned
Guaidó « President of Venezuela », although he had not participated
in the presidential elections of May 2018. The elections were boycotted by the
opposition, which knew it would lose, and consequently handed the victory to
Maduro under the surveillance of numerous international observers.
This back-stage gossip reveals that political
decisions in the USA, before anything else, are taken by the « deep
state », the underground centre of real power, which is in the possession
of the economic, financial and military
oligarchies. These are the people who have decided to overthrow the Venezuelan
state. Apart from its huge reserves of precious minerals, Venezuela owns the
most expansive oil reserves in the world, estimated at more than 300 billion
barrels, six times more than the United States.
In order to struggle free from the strait-jacket
of sanctions, which go as far as preventing Venezuela from receiving the
dollars they have earned by selling petrol to the USA, Caracas has decided to
quote the sale price of petrol no longer in US dollars, but in Chinese yuans.
This is a manœuvre which threatens the exorbitant power of the petrodollars,
and it is for this reason that the US
oligarchies have decided to speed up the overthrow of the Venezuelan state and
get their hands on its oil wealth. They need it immediately, not as a source of
energy for the USA, but as a strategic instrument for controlling the world energy market, mainly
countering Russia and China.
To this effect, sanctions and sabotage have been
used to artificially deteriorate the penury of basic necessities in Venezuela
in order to stoke popular miscontent. Simultaneously, the penetration of US
« non-governmental organisations »has been intensified – for example,
in the space of one year, the National Endowment for Democracy has financed
more than 40 projects in Venezuela on the « defence of Human Rights and
Democracy », each of them costing tens or hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
Since the government continues to enjoy the
support of the majority, some large-scale provocation is almost certainly in
preparation, aimed at triggering a civil war on the interior and opening the
way for intervention from the exterior. With the complicity of the European
Union, which, after having blocked Venezuelan public funds in Belgium - a value
of 1.2 billion dollars - sent Caracas an
ultimatum (with the agreement of the Italian government) to hold new
elections. They would be under the control of Federica Mogherini, the same
person who last year refused Maduro's invitation to go to Venezuela and moniter
the presidential elections.
[1] “Trump takes sharp turn on ‘America First’ policy”,
Peter Baker and Edward Long, The New York Times, January 26, 2019.
Traduction: Pete Kimberley
Source: Réseau Voltaire
NO WAR NO NATO
Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018.
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