U.S. war with Venezuela? (1 Viewer)

Latex lizzie

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..crazy as it may seem this has been building for a while..an oil rich nation having it's own trade ideas right on the doorstep of the U.S will never do...miami press already racheting up the "war" lingo.


CIA Classifies Venezuela as Top "Potentially Unstable Country"

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2005


By: Eva Golinger - Venezuelanalysis.com

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1378

Porter Goss, the Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) named Venezuela as the leading Latin American nation to be alarmed about in 2005. In testimony before the U.S.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding “Global Intelligence Challenges 2005: Meeting Long-Term Challenges with a Long-Term Strategy”, Goss classified Venezuela as a “potential area for instability” for this year. Considering Venezuela as a “flashpoint” in 2005, the CIA Director alleged that President Chávez “is consolidating his power by using technically legal tactics to target his opponents and meddling in the region.” Goss also raised alarm that Chávez is “supported by [Fidel] Castro.”

The other four Latin American nations named as areas of concern for 2005 are Colombia, Haiti, Mexico and Cuba, but Venezuela is at the top of the list. The CIA makes specific reference to upcoming elections in Colombia, Haiti and Mexico as the reason for the “potentially unstable” classification. In the case of Cuba, Goss refers to concerns over President Castro’s “declining health and succession scenarios” as the cause of alarm.

Venezuela is the only country referred to in this list of five as a cause of concern because of actions the Government is pursuing. Goss’s choice of the wording “technically legal tactics” evidences the U.S. administration’s push to label Venezuela as an “authoritarian democracy” or an “elected dictatorship.” Various State Department officials and communications media have been fiddling with implementing this change in semantics regarding Venezuela’s “peculiar situation” over the past year. Recently, Miami Herald columnist Andrés Oppenheimer began referring to Venezuela as an “authoritarian democracy” a term contradictory in itself.

Furthermore, the use of the term “technically legal tactics” demonstrates the Bush Administration’s conundrum with Venezuela. While the U.S. Government has on numerous occasions publicly acknowledged that President Chávez has been democratically elected twice and won a transparent recall referendum by a landslide in August 2004, it has also launched a well coordinated campaign to isolate Venezuela internationally, labeling Chávez as a “negative force to the region” and a “threat to democracy.” The “technically legal” also shows that the CIA is struggling to find a way to justify regime change in Venezuela: “technically” Chávez’s actions are “legal”, but... [fill in the blanks].

Top Secret CIA documents declassified late last year and made public by this author evidence the CIA was involved in the April 2002 coup against President Chávez. The U.S. Government has also given millions in financing to over twenty anti-Chávez groups in Venezuela during the past few years, in an apparent attempt to support Chávez’s ouster. [see www.venezuelafoia.info].

Over the past few weeks, the U.S. has rigorously augmented its aggression towards Venezuela. Yesterday, Robert Zoellick, the new Deputy Secretary of State, referred to the Venezuelan Government as a “new breed of authoritarianism,” claiming “You win the election, but you do away with your opponents, you do away with the press, you do away with the rule of law, you pack the courts.” He also declared in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “Chávez is carrying out anti-democratic activities, in the same way that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori did in the 1990s.” In 1992, ex-President Fujimori dissolved the Peruvian congress, purged the judiciary and suspended the Constitution in order to implement his policies authoritatively. He later
was charged with a massive corruption scandal and fled to Japan in self-exile.

Venezuelan President Chávez has not once suspended constitutional guarantees nor infringed on the separation of powers enumerated in the Constitution, despite a coup d’etat that briefly ousted him in April 2002 and a debilitating strike in the oil industry later that same year.


In an interview yesterday with Colombia’s El Tiempo, Marc Gossman, Sub-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, reiterated Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s declarations confirming the Bush Administration considers President Chávez “a negative force in the region” and is a cause of concern. Rice made the exact same statements in January during her confirmation hearings.

Media outlets in the U.S. have been incorporating such sentiments into editorials, opinion pieces and news stories over the past month, evidencing a coordinated campaign between the State Department and the media. FOX News Channel ran a three-part documentary at the beginning of February entitled
“The Iron Fist of Hugo Chávez” that portrayed Chávez as a “brutal dictator” who is “threatening U.S. interests.”

This past Saturday, February 12, the Miami Herald ran a front-page story declaring “Chávez Arms for Attack by U.S.” and alarmingly stated on the inside page, “Chávez Arms for War with the U.S.” The Herald story is the first to mention the world “War” regarding the tensions between Washington
and Venezuela.

The CIA’s latest classification of Venezuela as a leading cause of concern in Latin America could indicate an escalation of conflict between the two countries. President Chávez and members of his cabinet have made clear on numerous occasions that Venezuela wishes to maintain “respectful” relations with the Bush Administration. Apparently, Washington does not share this desire.
 
I saw this documentry at the weekend:
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/

I'd read loads about peak oil already but 'End of Suburbia' really puts it all into perspective. Strips another layer away from the geopolitical motives of the US.
 
On the subject of Venezuela:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4282603.stm

Chavez says US plans to kill him

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he believes the US government is planning to assassinate him. "If they kill me, the name of the person responsible is [President] George Bush," Mr Chavez said.

Mr Chavez - who offered no evidence to back his claim - said any attempt on his life would backfire and threatened to cut off oil supplies to America.
 
Latex lizzie said:
The other four Latin American nations named as areas of concern for 2005 are Colombia, Haiti, Mexico and Cuba, but Venezuela is at the top of the list. The CIA makes specific reference to upcoming elections in Colombia, Haiti and Mexico as the reason for the “potentially unstable” classification.

This is classic stuff isn't it? The problem with these pesky elections is they might elect someone we don't like goddammit!!

I especially love the bit about "elected dictatorship" and "authoritarian democracy".

Anyway, they're not going to to war with Venezuela . They'll just keep funding the opposition groups in the hope that eventually they'll overthrow Chavez. Or they might ratchet things up by funding armed guerrillas to start a civil war. The handy thing about democracies is that if you make life hard enough for people they will eventually turn around and vote for whoever it is you want. See Nicaragua in the late 80s. And, who of course, is the new chief security advisor (or something like that) to Bush but John Negroponte who knows a thing or two about sorting out the Latin Americans ...
 
Latex lizzie said:
..that looks deadly where did you see it?QUOTE]

you can buy it from cultivate in temple bar. They also have a few copies in their members library. if you're lucky to catch it.
 
Latex lizzie said:
Nice one!

just got this in me inbox


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Arguing on Joe Duffy about the contents of this article:

'Venezuela is a different place to the one you read about in international press'


Lookleftmagazine says@
Comrades - far-right activists in the Venezuelan community in Ireland have bombarded RTE following the broadcast of the interview with the SIPTU Organiser yesterday morning which undermined their tales concerning the country - they are going on Joe Duffy to spread their regime change propaganda today from 1.45 p.m.
 
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