"Zero
Day" for Violent Regime Change in Venezuela
By Moon
Of Alabama
July
18, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- The U.S. supports the right-wing opposition in
Venezuela against the socialist government of
President Maduro.
Since April the opposition tries to dislodge the
government by instigating a regime change by
force. Its protests and street fights with the
police are led by
violent, militarized gangs:
Venezuela’s ongoing street protests are
increasingly looking like outright warfare.
As security forces shoot rubber bullets,
tear-gas canisters and sometimes live rounds
at the churning crowds, increasingly restive
mobs are responding with lethal slingshots,
homemade mortars and Molotov cocktails.
This week, seven National Guard members were
injured in Caracas when a roadside bomb
exploded as they drove by on motorcycles.
Leading the opposition shock-troops are
loose-knit groups of young men and women
that have names like The Templars, The
Warriors and The Arcadias. Collectively,
they’re known as the Chamos de la
Resistencia or, roughly, the Youth
Resistance.
This is not just by chance a similar development
as was seen during the U.S. instigated
color revolutions by force
in Libya, Ukraine and Syria. Para-military
forces hiding behind "peaceful protesters"
attack police, military and civil government
institutions to provoke an escalation towards a
civil war. Last week the opposition in Venezuela
announced that
today is the "zero day" for another violent coup
attempt against President Maduro:
The
fugitive police pilot who allegedly stole a
helicopter and used it to attack Venezuela's
Supreme Court has appeared at an opposition
rally in the capital, Caracas, attendees
tell CNN.
Oscar Perez, an officer in the country's
investigative police force, addressed the
gathering, urging the opposition to continue
protesting.
...
"A general walkout for July 18,
walkout
with no return. The zero-hour will
start on Tuesday. The referendum
we'll do it, with dignity, we'll be in the
street defending the people."
The date was
confirmed
yesterday:
Venezuelan opposition leaders have called
for their supporters to escalate street
protests and support a 24-hour national
strike later this week after more than 7.1
million people rejected a government plan to
rewrite the constitution.
...
A coalition of some 20 opposition parties
assembled in its headquarters Monday to call
for a “zero hour” campaign
of civil disobedience in the two weeks
leading to the government vote.
On
Sunday the opposition held a private poll in
which less people attended than the opposition
had hoped for. No results but the number of
attendees was announced:
The
opposition released only turnout numbers
Sunday night, not tallies of responses to
those questions, although virtually all who
voted were believed to have answered “yes”
to the central rejection of the
constitutional rewrite.
There
are some 19 million registered voters in
Venezuela. A seven million turnout for a private
poll, if real, is significant but neither
decisive nor relevant. The hiding of the results
lets one assume that the answers to the poll
questions were not in favor of the opposition's
plan.
It is difficult to ascertain what the real
opinion of people in Venezuela is. Polls in the
country are traditionally skewed. Maduro's
economic polices, restricted by falling oil
prices, sabotage by rich im- and exporters and
U.S. sanction, was not successful. But the 2015
National Assembly vote won by the opposition was
more a protest vote against the economic
problems than a vote for the opposition's
vague program.
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It is obvious that the opposition in Venezuela
is heavily supported by the various regime
change institutions of the United States. Some
of its operatives have deep ties
with DEA and
the CIA.
U.S. media is
-as usual- completely on the side of the U.S.
regime change program. It has long
agitated
against the socialist government of Venezuela.
An official
Trump statement
on Venezuela released yesterday is noticeable
for its lack of facts:
Yesterday, the Venezuelan people again made
clear that they stand for democracy,
freedom, and rule of law. Yet their strong
and courageous actions continue to be
ignored by a bad leader who dreams of
becoming a dictator.
The
United States will not stand by as Venezuela
crumbles. If the Maduro regime imposes its
Constituent Assembly on July 30, the United
States will take strong and swift economic
actions.
Would
Trump write a similar statement about the will
of the "American people" if Democrats held a
private poll against him with an assured
multi-million strong turnout?
The
Maduro government has called for a July 30 vote
to elect members of an upcoming constitutional
assembly. There is nothing "imposed" with that.
The opposition will try to sew chaos in the
streets up to that date and likely has planned
for some culmination point of action.
The
government has so far reacted passively to the
violent protests. The police protects some
government buildings and removes some road
blocking barricades. But no arrest wave or more
assertiveness for government control has been
ordered. One wonders at what point such measures
will become inevitable.
This
article was first published by
Moon Of Alabama
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