DEMOCRACY KILLED AGAIN...! VENEZUELA : a Déja vu...
Foreign Press Foundation - Henk Ruyssenaars | 13.04.2002 14:40
Given that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, it is distinctly clear that the U.S. government is going to reap the profits after intervening covertly. This means that the current crisis in Venezuela
is very probably a planned conspiracy toppling the Chavez government with the support of the U.S.
is very probably a planned conspiracy toppling the Chavez government with the support of the U.S.
NETHERLANDS NEWS AGENCY the FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
The Dutch author of this article was accredited as Latin America correspondent among others in Santiago de Chile from 1971 to July 1974, when he was declared Persona non Grata by the military junta of General Augusto Pinochet.
DEMOCRACY KILLED AGAIN...! VENEZUELA : a Déja vu...
Given that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, it is distinctly clear that the U.S. government is going to reap the profits after intervening covertly. This means that the current crisis in Venezuela
is very probably a planned conspiracy toppling the Chavez government with the support of the U.S.
FPF - HR - Saturday April 13th - 2002 - Again an aspiring Latin American democracy has gone down the drain. Foreign diplomatic observers and other
eyewitnesses in Venezuela and surrounding countries have seen the Chilean Drama take form again. The coup by the Venezuelan military, supported by the CIA and Venezuelan "momios" - the right wing "upper class" - was this far identical with the killing of democracy in Chile (sept.'73) during the few years of president Salvador Allende's reign.
Anybody with normal memory functions remembers the way president Allende was blamed for everything evil on earth. Marxist - friend of Fidel Castro - etc.etc. In reality Allende was a warm-hearted children's doctor. The same smear campaign by the mainstream media as was going on in Venezuela where president Hugo Chavez has been described as communist-marxist- leftwing-crazy-anti-american and so on. The usual
vilifying of a country, a people or somebody important who has te be exterminated when American commercial interests are endangered. Documents in
abundance in the US Library of Congress now proof how the CIA campaign against - to name one country out of many - democracy in Chile was concocted and overseen by Henri Kissinger, the NSA and CIA. And in Europe lawsuits have been filed against General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger concerning their war-criminal and murderous role in the whole affair.
Quote from a foreign observer in Caracas : "It appears that the strategy of President Chavez's opposition is to create as much chaos and disorder in Venezuela as possible, so that Chavez is left with no other choice than to call a state of emergency. This, in turn could either lead to a military coup or U.S. military intervention."
Exactly the same as in Chile : I've seen how transportation within the country was stopped by the bribed "transportistas". In a country where 90%
of all goods are transported on the roads that's quite a disaster for people and animals concerning food for instance. And here we see the same happening again in Venezuela, while the global media are too silent again...
Venezuela's labour union federation, the CTV, decided to join the strike, supposedly out of concern for the harm the laws did to the business sector and thus to employment in Venezuela.
OIL AGAIN !
Anybody interested saw it coming : -
The conflict between president Chavez - who was democratically elected - and the old elite, caught fire when Chavez passed different laws, which, among
many other measures, were supposed to increase the government's oil income via Opec too, and redistribute land. The chamber of commerce vehemently opposed these laws and decided to call for a general business strike on December 10. After an immense campaign with TV commercials every ten minutes calling for a strike, the strikers were led to Miraflores, the presidential office building. Whom the people have been that started the shooting we'll know when the US Congress decides to publish secret files again in 50 years or so.
In Chile it was the same : when Salvador Allende decided that the profit of the huge copper mines in the country should be shared with the Chileans, ITT, the NSA-CIA, the socalled democratic US Congress and Kissinger decided to snuff Chilean democracy in the bud and in very much blood...
Venezuela ? Déja vu...!
Foreign Press Foundation
Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands.
P.S. Eyewitness * : "Although Chavez originally had a popularity rating of around 80%, this had steadily declined in the past year, supposedly reaching the low 30's now. Whether the reason for this decline was the slow pace of his promised reforms, the lack of significant progress in reducing corruption and poverty, or if it was because of the incessant media assault
on his government, is not clear : most likely it is because of a combination of these factors."
* Gregory Wilpert lives in Caracas, is a former U.S. Fulbright scholar in Venezuela, and is currently doing independent research on the sociology of development.
The Dutch author of this article was accredited as Latin America correspondent among others in Santiago de Chile from 1971 to July 1974, when he was declared Persona non Grata by the military junta of General Augusto Pinochet.
DEMOCRACY KILLED AGAIN...! VENEZUELA : a Déja vu...
Given that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, it is distinctly clear that the U.S. government is going to reap the profits after intervening covertly. This means that the current crisis in Venezuela
is very probably a planned conspiracy toppling the Chavez government with the support of the U.S.
FPF - HR - Saturday April 13th - 2002 - Again an aspiring Latin American democracy has gone down the drain. Foreign diplomatic observers and other
eyewitnesses in Venezuela and surrounding countries have seen the Chilean Drama take form again. The coup by the Venezuelan military, supported by the CIA and Venezuelan "momios" - the right wing "upper class" - was this far identical with the killing of democracy in Chile (sept.'73) during the few years of president Salvador Allende's reign.
Anybody with normal memory functions remembers the way president Allende was blamed for everything evil on earth. Marxist - friend of Fidel Castro - etc.etc. In reality Allende was a warm-hearted children's doctor. The same smear campaign by the mainstream media as was going on in Venezuela where president Hugo Chavez has been described as communist-marxist- leftwing-crazy-anti-american and so on. The usual
vilifying of a country, a people or somebody important who has te be exterminated when American commercial interests are endangered. Documents in
abundance in the US Library of Congress now proof how the CIA campaign against - to name one country out of many - democracy in Chile was concocted and overseen by Henri Kissinger, the NSA and CIA. And in Europe lawsuits have been filed against General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger concerning their war-criminal and murderous role in the whole affair.
Quote from a foreign observer in Caracas : "It appears that the strategy of President Chavez's opposition is to create as much chaos and disorder in Venezuela as possible, so that Chavez is left with no other choice than to call a state of emergency. This, in turn could either lead to a military coup or U.S. military intervention."
Exactly the same as in Chile : I've seen how transportation within the country was stopped by the bribed "transportistas". In a country where 90%
of all goods are transported on the roads that's quite a disaster for people and animals concerning food for instance. And here we see the same happening again in Venezuela, while the global media are too silent again...
Venezuela's labour union federation, the CTV, decided to join the strike, supposedly out of concern for the harm the laws did to the business sector and thus to employment in Venezuela.
OIL AGAIN !
Anybody interested saw it coming : -
The conflict between president Chavez - who was democratically elected - and the old elite, caught fire when Chavez passed different laws, which, among
many other measures, were supposed to increase the government's oil income via Opec too, and redistribute land. The chamber of commerce vehemently opposed these laws and decided to call for a general business strike on December 10. After an immense campaign with TV commercials every ten minutes calling for a strike, the strikers were led to Miraflores, the presidential office building. Whom the people have been that started the shooting we'll know when the US Congress decides to publish secret files again in 50 years or so.
In Chile it was the same : when Salvador Allende decided that the profit of the huge copper mines in the country should be shared with the Chileans, ITT, the NSA-CIA, the socalled democratic US Congress and Kissinger decided to snuff Chilean democracy in the bud and in very much blood...
Venezuela ? Déja vu...!
Foreign Press Foundation
Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands.
P.S. Eyewitness * : "Although Chavez originally had a popularity rating of around 80%, this had steadily declined in the past year, supposedly reaching the low 30's now. Whether the reason for this decline was the slow pace of his promised reforms, the lack of significant progress in reducing corruption and poverty, or if it was because of the incessant media assault
on his government, is not clear : most likely it is because of a combination of these factors."
* Gregory Wilpert lives in Caracas, is a former U.S. Fulbright scholar in Venezuela, and is currently doing independent research on the sociology of development.
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