Ian DeMartino
On Monday, the National Electoral Council of Venezuela announced that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro had won reelection. The opposition disputed the result and received significant public support from Western countries.
The United States hoped to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by supporting a coup. It failed because the people of Venezuela support Maduro and the Bolivarian revolution, researcher and geopolitical analyst Christopher Helali told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Wednesday.
“Of course, we’ve seen this playbook before… not only in Latin America, we’ve seen it in Eastern Europe, we’ve seen it in the Caucasus in Georgia, we’ve seen it all throughout Central Asia,” Helali explained. “Anywhere the United States feels that its interests are threatened, or that a country doesn’t kowtow to Washington or Brussels.”
On Monday and Tuesday, supporters of the opposition started violent riots in the streets, utilizing Molotov cocktails and firearms to fight police. By Wednesday, the government had regained control and tens of thousands of Venezuelans from across the country traveled to the capital Caracas, and took to the streets supporting Maduro. The President joined them in what appeared to be a jubilant and peaceful celebration.
[The West] already were giving people the heads up that there was going to be chaos and disorder if President Maduro was reelected. And, lo and behold, it happened. They said it. It happened,” he explained. “They’re trying to spin it as a crackdown by the government, but that’s not the case. In fact, the government is trying to maintain peace and order. It’s the opposition that wants disorder and chaos, [which is] just the recipe for the US to come in and gobble up all of Venezuela’s oil and natural resources and begin plundering the country like they did before Hugo Chavez’s time.”
While the United States has a long history of successfully supporting coups in other countries, it has had a string of failures that raise the question of whether it is as effective as it used to be
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Helali noted that they may not have the support of “the elite” in the countries who have “dreams of plundering the countries once more with the help of the West.” However, the working class is “fighting to defend their sovereignty and their territorial integrity and their own mode of development and prosperity outside of Western imperialism.”
Ultimately, the people decided that they were “not going to allow some gringos from the north to come and take [Venezuela] and plunder it,” Helali said.
The United States has been trying to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela since Hugo Chavez’s time and the leader of the opposition, Maria Corina Machado, was arrested for taking payments from the US-funded Non-Governmental Organization National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in the early 2000s and met with then-US President George W Bush in 2005
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Thanks for answering my question about Maduro, Dr. B. I have a coiple of favorite “go to” references for the US tactics of staging “coups” around the world.
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The CIA is informally known as Coups-R-Us.
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And John Perkins calls them the “jackals”. A truly sinister organization, now retirees are becoming news anchors.
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I have not researched this much so am not well-informed at this point. Many, including many respected individuals, many that are “awake”, say that the Venezuela election was rigged, and Maduro “played” with the outcome. So then some are claiming, as this article does, that this is a failed US supported coup.
Where is there reliable independent sources of info to understand what is really going on there?
My limited understanding is that Chavez was terrible for the country (and similarly Maduro). So the implication by this article is that if you are against Chavez, and likewise Maduro, you are on the wrong side.
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Sbs, I have been following the situation in Venezuela since Chavez first became president in 1999. I assume that Venezuelans’ views on the Chavez/Madura regimes depend mainly on their social class. For the vast majority of Venezuelans who previously were homeless or lived in tin shacks in the barrio and now live in apartment buildings they own collectively and have free access to health care and education, life is greatly improved. For the oil elite, which represents less than 10% of the population, there are new limits on their ability to profit from Venezuela’s oil riches. Although their oil industry was nationalized in 1976, prior to Chavez taking power, most of the revenue flowed to a few elite families. The Venezuelan economy has struggled since 2005, when it first came under a US sanctions regime (which the US forces all its allies to comply or face sanctions themselves). The main reason the US keeps launching coups against Chavez and Madura is owing to the leadership’s determination to industrialize Venezuela to reduce its dependence on oil revenue. The US State Department also opposes the efforts of Saudi Arabia and other Middle East oil countries to diversify their economies.
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