US Initiates Coup Against President Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela – An Appeal to Russia, China and all Unaligned Countries for Support of Sovereign Venezuela
By Peter Koenig
January 18, 2019 "Information Clearing House
" - On 23 January 2018, the United States has initiated a coup against President Nicolás Maduro and his Government, by encouraging and fully supporting the “self-proclaimed” opposition leader, Juan Guaido, as interim President. Already days ago he had received the full support of President Trump, and today, in a special televised speech, US Vice-president Mike Pence declared that Venezuela’s Freedom begins with the new interim president, Juan Guaído.RT reports that “the Venezuelan military will not accept a president imposed by ‘dark interests’, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said after Washington and a number of its allies recognized a lawmaker [Juan Guaído] as the new leader in Caracas.”
“The army will continue to defend the constitution and national sovereignty, Padrino said on Wednesday afternoon, hours after opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido was proclaimed interim president by the National Assembly, in a direct challenge to President Nicolas Maduro.”
Washington’s immediate
recognition of Guaido as Venezuelan’s
legitimate leader, was instantly followed by
the Organization of American States (OAS),
as well as Canada and France. Mexico
apparently has declines to do so “for now”.
Is the “for now” an indication that
Lopez Obrador’s actions are already being
controlled by Washington?
This is an appeal to Russia
and China and to all unaligned nations that
love their freedom and sovereignty – to
stand up in defense of Venezuela’s freedom
and sovereignty.
May they use their diplomatic leverage, and if that does not work on Washington’s ‘savages’ – use other means that the empire understands. Keeping Venezuela free from the yoke of the US and its vassal allies – is essential for all the people in Latin America who have already been subjected to US implanted subjugating and abusing dictators, who not only have ruined their countries’ economies, but created extreme poverty where there was prosperity before, i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay - and Chile, which is well on her way to an economic and social demise.
Venezuela must stay and remain tall.
President Putin and Jinping – please do whatever you can and whatever you must, to stop the US bulldozer from overtaking Venezuela!
Ongoing unrest in the streets of Caracas and major Venezuelan cities, all inspired and fueled on by the United States, and also the OAS (Organization of American States), the Club of Lima (except for Mexico), its European puppet allies, is confusing and dividing the people and has already killed at least 16. It is not clear who is responsible for the killing, but undoubtedly opposition forces funded by outside sources and / or the Fifth Column (inside Venezuela) have a bloody hand in the Venezuelan violence. A western instigated civil war is a real risk.
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This coup attempt is an abject illegal interference in another country’s sovereignty, with the ultimate violent and vicious goal that Washington has been practicing over the past 100 years around the globe – and ever with more impunity – of “regime change” to steel a non-conform, non-submissive government’s resources, and of course, to reach eventually the ultimate goal of full spectrum world dominance. Venezuela has by far the world’s largest known hydrocarbon (petrol and gas) reserves which is two days of shipping time away from Texas oil refineries, versus the Arabian Gulf from where today the US imports 60% of its petrol – a shipping time of 40-45 days, higher shipping costs, plus the risk of having to sail through the Iran-controlled Gulf of Hormuz.
In addition, Washington cannot tolerate any socialist country, let alone, one that is located in what Washington considers its backyard, like Venezuela, or, for that matter Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia. The other left-leaning South American country, Ecuador, has recently been “converted” with an internal “soft” coup, aka fake or manipulated elections. Those are usually operated through strong Fifth Columns funded from abroad – and with substantial menaces, including death threats.
So, Washington is dead set, especially with Trump and Pompeo at the apparent helm, who openly propagate a US (and allied, including NATO) invasion of Venezuela to “free” their “oppressed” people; to bring them from one of the only true democracies in the world (quote by Chomsky and the international election supervising US Carter Institute, among others) under the usurping dictatorship protection of the United States of America. Venezuelans will not tolerate such a farce. The 6 million Venezuelans who stood solidly behind Nicolas Maduro when they voted for him in May 2018, have already stood up – and will continue defending their freely and democratically elected President, despite the western media’s fake images of “tens of thousands” in the streets of Caracas demonstrating against legitimate President Maduro and for the self-proclaimed “interim president”, Juan Guaído.
He is, in fact, a criminal who acts totally against Venezuela’s Constitution on which he swore his allegiance to the country when he took up a seat in the Venezuelan parliament. It is clear that this “mass-movement”, as depicted by western media, was organized from outside, possibly paid for by US sponsored “NGOs” – and Venezuelan “insiders”, covert or openly from the opposition, trained by the CIA and other infiltrated US secret service groups. Clearly the Fifth Column is and was at work in Venezuela for years, bringing about the downfall of the economy by monetary and oil price manipulation from outside and from within; and by diverting food and medicine shipments from being delivered to supermarkets and instead being transferred as contraband into Colombia, where they are sold at dollar-manipulated inflated local currencies.
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This coup attempt reminds so
much of another US State Department
instigated but failed overthrow in April
2002 against President Hugo Chavez. The coup
was botched by the Venezuelan military and
the people of Venezuela. President Chavez
was reinstated within 2 days. And the
present coup so far has also failed.
President Maduro’s decision to break
diplomatic relations with the US is
therefore, not only logical, but totally
legal. He has given all US diplomats 72
hours to leave the country. Now comes the
other ‘coup’ – the US refuses to accept the
legal expulsion of their diplomats from
Caracas, because the self-proclaimed and US
recognized “interim president” has called
for all diplomats,
first of all those from Washington, to stay
in the country. Pompeo is threating
Venezuela for any harm that may happen to US
citizens, including diplomats during this
upraising and what they consider “change of
government”.
Here is Pompeo’s statement with regard to diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
Stay tuned to how this crisis will unfold.
May Venezuela’s
friends and allies put all their might,
diplomatic and other, at the support of
Venezuela’s freedom and sovereignty.
Peter Koenig is an economist
and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water
resources and environmental specialist. He
worked for over 30 years with the World Bank
and the World Health Organization around the
world in the fields of environment and
water. He lectures at universities in the
US, Europe and South America. He writes
regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT;
Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st
Century; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker
Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and
other internet sites. He is the author of
Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War,
Environmental Destruction and Corporate
Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30
years of World Bank experience around the
globe. He is also a co-author of
The World Order and Revolution! - Essays
from the Resistance.
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==See Also==
Trump backs Maduro rival in Venezuela
U.S. rejects Maduro decision to sever diplomatic ties
Venezuelan armed forces refuse to recognize Guaido as interim president — defense minister
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