Briefly on Venezuela
Colonel Cassad, Jan 24 2019
- The Venezuelan army does not officially recognize Faschingstein’s newly appointed “President,” and expressed support for Maduro. To suppress the riots, part of the army and the national guard of Venezuela have been raised.
- Russia and Turkey expressed support for Maduro, who is seen as the legitimate President of Venezuela. “Friend Recep” called Maduro “brother.”
- Pindostan refused to remove the Embassy from Venezuela on the grounds that it was appointed from Faschingstein “President” are not allowed to remove the Embassy. In response, the Venezuelan government stated that the Embassy will suffer blocked water, gas and sewerage.
- Aside from Mexico, Cuba accused Pindostan of continuing attempts at imperialist intervention.
- The EU also de facto called for regime change in Venezuela through the transfer of power to “the opposition in Parliament.” Similarly in favor of regime change in Venezuela are Colombia and Brazil.
- As reported that Guaido, the leader of the party “Voluntad Popular,” appointed by Faschingstein, lives in Faschingstein. These guys have no fire.
Venezuela severs relations with Pindostan
Colonel Cassad, Jan 23 2019
- Maduro gave the Pindo diplomats 72 hours to leave the country. Relations Venezuela and Pindostan have been broken off.
- Mexico expressed support for Maduro, saying it considers him the legitimate President of Venezuela.
- Guaido, appointed “President” by Faschingstein, fled to the Colombian Embassy, where he remains in hiding from the military and security services.
- During clashes in Caracas, 6 people were killed and dozens injured.
- Pindostan threatens Venezuela a variety of punishments, if Maduro chooses the violent suppression of the coup.
- Maduro said that Venezuela has enough support in the world to cope with the attempt at state coup.
From the point of view of political survival of Chavistas, Guaido of course must be neutralized one way or another, the “opposition Parliament” dissolved, diplomats from countries supporting the coup should be expelled from the country, and the army should be brought in readiness in case of attempted intervention from outside. Perhaps these problems can be solved through the imposition of martial law.
Attempted state coup in Venezuela
Colonel Cassad, Jan 23 2019
The Pindo boxtop said they would not recognize Maduro as President of Venezuela, declaring “the new President of Venezuela,” the opposition leader, Guaido, who wasn’t even elected, just appointed “President” by Faschingstein. International law? Never heard of it! Having received approval from Faschingstein, Guaido declared himself “President of Venezuela.” Furthermore, Pindostan called on the army to support the coup to overthrow Maduro. It is quite clear that the Pindo effort to oust China and Russia from Venezuela, and also to gain control over Venezuelan oil, pushing them to cover those adventures, which they carried out in MENA. As usual, for the state coup, Pindostan formed a coalition of several states of the OAS and Canada. The Venezuelan army has said it will not allow the seizure of power and will act with determination. In addition to opposition rallies in the country, there are meetings of Chavistas. In general, we can not exclude the scenario of the civil war and subsequent foreign intervention, the conditions for which Pindostan has prepared for more than two years. What is happening is, of course, and the wine Maduro, who did not dare to do away with the dual power, which can not last long, especially in terms of support from abroad.
Faschingstein engineers right-wing coup in Venezuela
Bill Van Auken, WSWS, Jan 24 2019
The Pindo recognition of Juan Guaidó as the self-proclaimed and unelected “interim president” of Venezuela marks the initiation of a right-wing coup engineered in Faschingstein. Guaidó swore himself in Wednesday before a mass anti-government rally in Caracas. Virtually simultaneously, Donald Trump tweeted:
The citizens of Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate Maduro regime. Today, I have officially recognized the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela.
This attempt at regime change by tweet has been supported by a number of right-wing governments in Latin America, including that of the fascistic former army officer, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was inaugurated at the beginning of the year. Canada also quickly fell into line behind Faschingstein’s conspiracy, while the Macron government in France has reportedly begun discussions within the EU aimed at drumming up support for Faschingstein’s puppet. Russia, Turkey and Mexico reiterated their recognition of Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela’s constitutionally elected president, as did Cuba and Bolivia. Faschingstein’s recognition of Guaidó as president constitutes a naked intervention by Pindo imperialism with the aim of achieving its own predatory aims in Venezuela, which boasts the world’s largest proven oil reserves. At the same time, it is aimed at rolling back the influence in the hemisphere of Russia and China, which have both established close economic and political ties with Caracas. This regime change operation has been two decades in the making, from the abortive 2002 CIA-orchestrated coup against Maduro’s late predecessor Hugo Chávez under Bush 43, through the imposition of sanctions under Obama 44 and its designation of Venezuela as an “extraordinary threat to the natsec and foreign policy of Pindostan.” By in effect throwing Pindo support to a rival government, the Trump administration is seeking to create the conditions for a military coup or even civil war within Venezuela as well as a Pindo military intervention from without. Maduro responded to the Pindo intervention by breaking off diplomatic relations with Faschingstein and ordering all Pindo diplomatic personnel to leave the country within 72 hours. Guaidó, no doubt operating in close consultation with the State Dept, countermanded Maduro’s decree, declaring that he, as “interim president,” was asking Pindo boxtops in the country to remain in place. The State Dept has responded that it will ignore Maduro’s order, setting the stage for a confrontation that can be used as the pretext for Pindo intervention. In statements to reporters on Wednesday, Trump made it clear that military intervention is under active consideration. Asked by reporters whether he was contemplating sending Pindo troops to Venezuela, he responded:
All options are on the table.
A Pindo boxtop told reporters that if the Maduro government acted against Guaidó and his supporters, their “days will be numbered,” while media reports indicated that Faschingstein is considering a naval blockade of Venezuela to stop its oil exports and the seizure of Venezuelan assets in Pindostan on the supposed behalf of the “interim president.” Maduro, for all of the rhetoric about “Bolivarian Socialism,” heads a capitalist government that defends private property in Venezuela and has imposed the full burden of the country’s deep-going economic crisis onto the backs of the Venezuelan working class, whose strikes and protests have been brutally repressed. Under Maduro and his predecessor Chávez, private control of the country’s economy actually grew and the profits of the financial sector soared, as the government diverted vast social wealth to meet debt payments to Wall Street and the international banks. Nonetheless, the claims from the Trump administration that this government is “illegitimate” and that Faschingstein is standing for “democracy” are nothing short of obscene. This same administration, it should be noted, has no problem with the legitimacy of the murderous police state monarchy of the Toads under MbS in Arabia, the Sisi dictatorship of in Egypt or the various similar regimes that constitute Faschingstein’s principal allies in the Middle East. On less specious grounds than Faschingstein is using to declare Maduro an “usurper,” any government in the world could claim that Trump’s own government, elected with less popular votes than those of his opponent and opposed by the majority of the Pindo sheeple, is “illegitimate” and should be overthrown. Moreover, any regime that emerges from the Pindo-backed operation in Venezuela will be a right-wing dictatorship of the banks, big business and foreign capital that will organize a bloodbath against the Venezuelan working class that will far eclipse the massacre carried out in 1989 against the Caracazo, the popular revolt of the country’s workers and poor against IMF austerity.
The principal pillar of the bourgeois nationalist government headed by Chávez and Maduro has been the military, with senior officers controlling key sectors of the government and the national economy. Faschingstein is hoping that this will become the government’s Achilles’ Heel, with senior commanders persuaded to change sides and carry out a coup. It was revealed last year that Pindo boxtops repeatedly met between the fall of 2017 and the beginning of last year with a group of Venezuelan military officers seeking Pindo support for the overthrow of Maduro. These contacts failed to reach fruition because Faschingstein believed that the conspiracy was insufficiently prepared. These calculations may now have changed. An isolated uprising by a group of national guardsmen who seized arms and police stations on Monday has been followed yesterday with a video statement from division Gen Jesús Alberto Milano Mendoza, appearing together with other officers, declaring that the army should revolt against Maduro and that the high command should not serve as “the armed branch of the government for its personal benefit.” Milano Mendoza had previously served as the chief of Chávez’s presidential guard. It is not just Trump and the CIA supporting the Venezuelan coup and the sharp lurch to the right in Latin America. This was made abundantly clear at the World Economic Forum which opened this week in Davos, bringing together global billionaire CEOs, bankers, hedge fund managers, celebrities and government leaders and officials. Davos rolled out the red carpet for Jair Bolsonaro, the fascistic ex-army officer who was inaugurated as Brazil’s president at the beginning of the year. Bolsonaro delivered a bizarre and stunningly short keynote speech to open the forum. Investors present were described as “excited” by the prospect of increased profits under a new government headed by an individual who has voiced his support for the former Brazilian military dictatorship and its murder and torture of left-wing opponents, and who has packed his government with generals and right-wing ideologues. Bolsonaro cast himself as part of a continent-wide crusade for political reaction, declaring:
The left will not prevail in this region, which is good, I think, not only for South America, but also for the world.
He received a positive response from the representatives of financial oligarchies and their respective governments that all feel themselves besieged by intensifying economic crisis and a resurgence of the struggle of the working class on an international scale. All of them are looking towards methods of dictatorship, authoritarianism, repression, censorship and outright fascism as a means of defending their wealth and rule. Within Pindostan itself, despite the internecine political warfare in Faschingstein, there are no disagreements about the unfolding Venezuelan coup. Senate Demagog Whip Dick Durban issued a statement Wednesday hailing the State Dept stooge Guaidó and his supporters as “brave patriots who see a more hopeful and democratic future for the Venezuelan sheeple.” And, on the day that Guaidó declared himself president, the NYT published a glowing tribute to the right-wing political operative under the headline “As Venezuela crumbles, a new voice of dissent emerges.” It did not bother to inform its readership that this “new voice” is a paid mouthpiece for the State Dept. The same newspaper, the erstwhile voice of bourgeois establishment liberalism in Pindostan, praised the abortive CIA coup against Chávez in 2002, declaring that “Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened” after an elected president had been dragged from his office and arrested and a military-backed business association leader had been proclaimed president.
The unfolding coup in Venezuela has implications for the whole of Latin America and the entire planet. It is part of the shipwreck of the so-called “left turn” that began at the beginning of the millennium, the advent of a number of bourgeois nationalist governments that diverted a share of booming commodity revenues into modest social welfare programs and utilized a rising China to offset Pindo influence in the region. Promoted by various pseudo-left tendencies internationally as a new form of socialism, this “Pink Tide” only served to politically disarm the working class in the face of the inevitable turn to reaction and repression. Moreover, it is inseparable from a turn by the international bourgeoisie toward reaction and dictatorial forms of rule, from Trump’s threat to impose a state of emergency, to Macron’s embrace of Pétain, the emergence of the fascistic AfD as the main opposition party in Germany and the consolidation of the extreme right’s grip over the government in Italy. Everywhere, the domination of a narrow financial oligarchy is incompatible with democratic forms of rule. The political crisis in Venezuela can only be resolved in a progressive manner by the independent intervention of the working class. What is required is not the intervention of the military, but rather the arming of the masses. The resolution of the country’s underlying economic crisis is possible only through the seizure of bourgeois property and the placing of Venezuela’s vast oil wealth under popular control. Popular assemblies must be established to carry out such a program, while appealing to the workers and oppressed throughout the Americas for support. The working class in Pindostan must oppose the reactionary intervention of the Trump administration and fight to unite its struggles with those of the workers in Venezuela and throughout Latin America against the common enemy, the capitalist system.
Nations recognizing Guaidó as acting president in green;
Nations recognizing Maduro as acting president in red
Pindostan Again Tries Regime Change In Venezuela
Moon of Alabama, Jan 23 2019
Pindostan has been intervening in oil-rich Venezuela since at least the early 2000. Several Pindo-backed attempts to oust the elected socialist government, first under Chavez and then under Maduro, failed. But the economic sanctions by Pindostan and its lackeys have made the life for business and the people in Venezuela more difficult. With access to international financial markets cut off, the government did its best to work around the sanctions. It, for example, bartered gold for food from Turkey. But the Bank of England, which is custodian of some of Venezuela’s gold, has now practically confiscated it. The Trump administration is launching another attempt to kick the elected government led by Pres Maduro out of office. Today the usually hapless opposition in Venezuela is set to launch another period of street riots against the government. It calls on the military to take over:
Opposition leaders are also urging Venezuela’s powerful armed forces to withdraw their support for Maduro. And they are taking their campaign abroad by lobbying foreign governments to cut diplomatic and economic ties with Caracas. On Tuesday, Pindo Vice-Pres Pence said that Faschingstein would support any effort by the opposition to form a provisional government to replace Maduro, adding: “We stand with you and we will stay with you until democracy is restored.”
President Trump is now expected to recognize the opposition leader in the National Congress Juan Guaidó, who does not have a majority in the country, as the nation’s president. But the National Congress no longer has legal power. In 2017 that role was taken over by the elected Constitutional Assembly, which supports the Venezuelan government. The Venezuelan Supreme Court ratified the change. That Guaidó may be called president by Trump does not make him such. Juan Guaidó, the self declared ‘opposition leader,’ is just a telegenic stand-in for the right-wing leader Leopold Lopez, who in 2014 was jailed after inciting violent protests during which several people died. Lopez, now under house arrest, is a Princeton and Harvard educated son of the political and financial nobility of Venezuela, which lost its position when the people elected a socialist government. Lopez is the man Pindostan wants to put in charge even while he is much disliked. A Pindo diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks remarks that he “is often described as arrogant, vindictive, and power-hungry.” The poor were the winner of the socialist changes. The socialists, first under Hugo Chavez and now under Nicolas Maduro, used the profits from oil exports to build housing for the poor and to generally lower their plight. These masses will be called upon to protect their government and gains. The military, which Pindostan already secretly tried to instigate stage a coup, is unlikely to do so. It does well under the socialists and has no interest in changing that. Pindostan also tried to incite Brazil and Columbia to invade their neighbor. But neither country is capable of doing such. Pindostan itself is also unlikely to invade. At the UN, Venezuela has Russia’s and China’s support. Like in 2017, we can expect several weeks of violent protests in Caracas, during which tens or hundreds of police and protesters may die. There will also be a lot of howling from the Pindo-aligned media. But unless there is some massive change in the political and power configuration, the demonstrations are likely to peter out. Has the Trump administration a consistent game plan to achieve such a change in the balance of power? I for one doubt that.
Kremlin accuses Pindostan of trying to usurp power in Venezuela
Andrew Osborn, Robin Emmott, Reuters, Jan 24 2019
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS – Russia accused Pindostan of trying to usurp power in Venezuela and warned against Pindo military intervention there, putting it at odds with Faschingstein and the EU which backed protests against one of Moscow’s closest allies. Juan Guaido declared himself interim leader on Wednesday, winning the support of Faschingstein and parts of Latin America and prompting Pres Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to sever diplomatic ties with Pindostan. The prospect of Maduro being ousted is a geopolitical and economic headache for Moscow which has lent it billions of dollars as its economy implodes. Moscow has also provided support for its military and oil industry. Russia on Thursday accused Faschingstein of stoking street protests and of trying to undermine Maduro, whom it called the country’s legitimate president. Putin spox Peskov said:
We consider the attempt to usurp sovereign authority in Venezuela to contradict and violate the basis and principles of international law.
He said Russia had not received a Venezuelan request for military help and declined to say how it would respond if it did. Maduro, who met Putin in Moscow in December, was the legitimate president, said Peskov. The Russian Foreign Ministry weighed in too, complaining that Faschingstein was seeking to determine the fate of other nations by using a well-tried strategy of trying to depose an undesirable government. It told Faschingstein not to intervene militarily, warning outside interference was the path to bloodshed. It said:
We warn against such adventurism which is fraught with catastrophic consequences.
Pres Erdogan offered support for Maduro too. Erdogan spox Kalin, writing on Twitter, quoted Erdogan as saying:
My brother Maduro! Stand tall! We stand by you!
China, a major lender to Caracas, also voiced its support for Maduro, saying it opposed outside interference in Venezuela and supported efforts to protect its independence and stability. The EU, which has imposed sanctions on Venezuela and boycotted Maduro’s swearing-in for a second term earlier this month, took a different tack. Although it stopped short of following Faschingstein and recognising Guaido as interim president, it called on the authorities in Venezuela to respect his “civil rights, freedom and safety” and appeared to support calls for a peaceful transition of power away from Maduro. The EU said in a statement:
The people of Venezuela have massively called for democracy and the possibility to freely determine their own destiny. These voices cannot be ignored.
Pres Macron saluted the courage of Venezuelans marching for freedom and called Maduro’s 2018 election victory illegal. A spokesman for PM Theresa May said the election has been neither free nor fair and expressed support for Guaido as national assembly head. PM Pedro Sanchez planned to call Guaido after talks with Latin American leaders in Davos, a Spanish government source said on Thursday.
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