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Title: How today’s crisis in Venezuela was created by Hugo Chávez’s ‘revolutionary’ plan
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URL Source: https://theconversation.com/how-tod ... avezs-revolutionary-plan-61474
Published: Jul 5, 2016
Author: Pedro E. Carrillo
Post Date: 2019-02-23 16:55:32 by BTP Holdings
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How today’s crisis in Venezuela was created by Hugo Chávez’s ‘revolutionary’ plan July 5, 2016 9.05pm EDT Empty grocery store shelves in Venezuela’s capital. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo Author Venezuela is a nation rich with natural resources such as oil, gold, diamonds and other minerals. Yet, it is experiencing a crisis in which most people cannot find food or medicine. In the past several months, there has been great social unrest in Venezuela. Venezuelans are going out on the streets demanding their basic needs, and storming delivery trucks and stores to get their hands on supplies. Their daily activities are disrupted by water rationing and electricity cuts, which have resulted from long-term neglect of basic infrastructure. Most people would take this as a sign that the government has simply failed. Many onlookers may assume Venezuela’s leaders are just incompetent. Why else would they not able to provide the people with the basic necessities like water, electricity, security and opportunity? As a Venezuelan expat having served in the Venezuelan foreign service for two decades and directing a program for the Inter-American Development Bank, I know the crisis is the result of an effort to gain and maintain power, just as the Castro brothers have successfully done in Cuba. Call for revolution Chávez came to power, after unsuccessfully attempting a coup, by winning an election in 1998. He won by selling the idea of giving power to the people, and ending the corruption of the traditional political parties that had governed Venezuela for the last quarter-century. He won the election by a convincing margin. He started his presidency with the support of the people and a barrel of oil going for more than US$100. His original popularity and success permitted him to accomplish many of his goals that in other circumstances would have been very difficult. In 2012, a member of the former Venezuelan president’s inner circle went public, alleging details of a plan he did not want to be a part of and rejected. Guaicaipuro Lameda, a former general under President Hugo Chávez, shared details of how Chávez and his supporters allegedly intended to carry out the Bolivarian Revolution he campaigned on. Chávez’s call for revolution expressed a rejection of imperialism that sought to establish democratic socialism for the 21st century. But, Lameda claimed, Chávez’s plan to accomplish this involved taking control of all branches of power – the executive, legislative, judicial and military. Consolidating power
Pedro E. Carrillo
Professor of International Business, Georgia State University
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
The economic crisis in Venezuela is our doing via sanctions that have been there for about a decade, and recently jacked up to destroy Venezuela. Chavez wouldn't play ball with the US, so we tried to topple him, that didn't work. Now his successor Maduro has been made out to be the bad guy so we can finally steal all their oil, just like in Libya and Iraq. Sanctions of Mass Destruction: America’s War on Venezuela Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens A bit of info on Elliot Abrams... Yes in the background there are likely some CIA operatives lurking about. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
www.facebook.com/Redfishstream/videos/288952411755326/ That is an interesting vid on Abrams. I know well about the Contras in Nicaragua. They were running that op out of the airport in Mena, Arkansas while Bill Clinton was Governor. Do you think the Feds would run an op in any state without informing the governor of what was going on? BTW, who killed Barry Seal? ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
What it comes down to is the deep state wants to steal every drop of oil from the largest oil deposit on earth, and of course they're going to make it out to be we wish to spread love and happiness to the people we are about to kill, but to those who can see through such theatrics it is revolting. That Trump appoints Mr. Death Squad himself as the "Special Representative to Venezuela" appears to have opened some eyes, but not enough apparently.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
Trump has enough neocons around him to make this seem extremely possible. Elliot Abrams is an old time skunk who surfaces when there is dirty work to be done. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination 
#3. To: All (#2)
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#4. To: ghostdogtxn (#1)
this "crisis" has all of the hallmarks of a CIA coup to grab VZ's oil.
#5. To: FormerLurker (#3)
A bit of info on Elliot Abrams...
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#7. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
#8. To: FormerLurker (#6)
That Trump appoints Mr. Death Squad himself as the "Special Representative to Venezuela"
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