World Affairs:
Now They are Coming to Hunt Venezuela
The last week of January saw
an unprecedented move in the
Latin American country, Venezuela.
The leader of (Suspended)
Parliament Mr. Juan Guido
proclaimed himself as the President
of that country. As expected
immediately US imperialism
recognised him as the interim
President. So as nineteen
members of European Union (EU)
and other US allies quickly lined up
to back Trump’s position. Trump
warned the legitimate president of
Venezuela Nicolas Maduro for any
act of violence against the self
proclaimed president Guido and
the anti -Maduro protesters. People
in support of elected president
Maduro brought out huge rallies
throughout the country. Some Pro-
Guido rallies though small in
numbers are held since the self -
declaration.
This was followed by the US
imposing sanctions on the
Venezuela’s state owned oil
company PDVSA and seizing its
assets in the US worth 7 billion
dollar. An additional 1.2 billion
dollar in gold belonging to
Venezuela is being withheld by the
Bank of England on instruction
from US. US also threatened other
countries not to import petrol from
Venezuela. The objective is to
strangle the Venezuelan economy
into submission.
So far, the coup attempt has
not managed to get any support
from the armed forces and
Venezuela military stood firm
behind Maduro.
Meanwhile nineteen of thirty five
members of United Nations
Security Council rejected foreign
inter-ference in Venezuela while UN
General Council reiterated that
Nicolas Maduro is the consti-
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tutional president of Venezuela.
Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and
Venezuela’s allies in Latin America
such as Cuba, Bolivia spoke
against US move and condemned
US interference.
South African Development
Community (SADC), a group
consisting of 15 African nations,
issued a statement condemning the
violation of international law in US-
backed coup actions against
Venezuela.
Maduro has repeatedly called
for the resumption of talks between
the Govt. and the opposition in
order to restore peace and avoid
US-backed coup or military
intervention.
On the other side US president
Donald Trump has made several
threatening statements against
elected President Maduro, saying
that he won’t rule out military
intervention. US special envoy to
overself the matter of Venezuela
notorious war convicted criminal
Eliot Abrams claimed that time had
passed to hold a dialogue with the
govt. of President Maduro.
The whole crisis is setting the
stage for serious economic and
political crisis leading to internal
civil war. Blockade & sanctions
have been going on for a long time
that really brings havoc to the
Venezuela oil export economy.
Speculators & food super market
owners make the crisis more
worsen by short supply the food
items hence making those
expensive. Taking the plea of food
shortage, US is propagating to
provide humanitarian aid for
Venezuelan people. Tons of US aid
is piling up in Colombia close to the
border with Venezuela. Guido the
self proclaimed president vowed to
defy Maduro’s efforts to block the
supplies from entering the country.
Maduro meanwhile blames
Venezuela’s woes on US sanctions.
Maduro referring to US food aid
said that it is a booby trap, they are
putting a show with rotten and
contaminated food. They have
stolen 30 billion dollar and are
offering four crumbs of rotten food”.
“If they want to help Venezuela put
an end to the blockade, ask them
to release our bank accounts”.
In reality the so called humani-
tarian aid will be used as a political
instrument against Maduro and his
Govt.
Meanwhile Trump’s top adviser,
National Security Adviser John
Bolton openly admitted that
Washington is heavily invested in
political outcomes in Venezuela
because this country has vast
untapped oil reserves. Venezuela
has the largest proven oil reserves
in the world along with Natural gas
(4 th in the world), Gold and other
natural resources. This is the real
reason why US imperialism has a
lot of stake in Venezuela’s political
crisis. But in the name of
humanitarian crisis, restore
democracy, end authoritarian rule,
uphold human rights, end food
riots and end refugee crisis only are
some the pleas to intervene in the
internal affair of Venezuela.
Washington’s intensifying effort
at regime change in Venezuela are
part of a pivot Latin America policy
aimed at eliminating Chinese and
Russian influence and transfor-
ming the whole Latin America into
the exclusive cheap labour and
primary resources peripheral
nations for US imperialism.
In this light, we can see the
Guido- the US stooge’s economic
programme (though he is not yet
official president). Guido has
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