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Latin America is coming back to the old days of coup d’tat and urban and jungle guerrilla fighters and military
violenceThey have not mentioned that several civilian neighbourhoods were attacked, buildings and family residences were destroyed, and more than 40 human beings died, including elderly peoples
The guerrillas were never defeated; they are dormant, and the FARC and the ELN are planning to reactivate their operations again
I do not think the US is going to be able to control the Venezuelan workers; they are scared of a popular revolt.
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Heavy gunfire erupts near presidential palace in Caracas – media (VIDEOS)
Soldiers and armored vehicles were seen in Venezuela’s capital amid reports of a coup attempt
Heavy gunfire erupts near presidential palace in Caracas – media (VIDEOS)
A pro‑government militia member patrols the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, on January 4, 2025. © Jesus Vargas / Getty Images
Heavy gunfire was reported outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Monday, just days after President Nicolas Maduro was abducted during a US Special Forces raid.Videos posted on social media show armed soldiers and armored vehicles outside government buildings.
There are also reports of explosions and the activation of air-defense guns. Citing its sources in Venezuela, AFP said “the situation is under control.”
AFP’s sources added that security forces opened fire in response to unidentified drones flying over Miraflores.
Troops were mobilized after US commandos captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Saturday and transported them to New York, where both were indicted on drug-trafficking charges. Maduro’s close ally, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, has been appointed interim president. She condemned the US operation as an “imperialist attack.”
Maduro denied all charges when he was brought before a US judge on Monday, describing himself as “a prisoner of war.” Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said the US had launched “a colonial war” to pillage Venezuela’s natural resources. “Today, it was Venezuela. Tomorrow, it can be any other country that decides to exercise its sovereignty,” he added.
Moscow and Beijing have also condemned the US raid, with Russian UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia calling it “international banditry.”
They have opened a can of worms, and some of those governments backed by the US are shaky, too. The USA has never won a war by itself, they always needs a secretaryhttps://www.jpost.com/international/article-882323
The USA has not said anything about Edmundo Gonzalez and Machado, but they are temporarily supporting the vice president of Venezuela. The USA was claiming that Gonzalez was the real president of Venezuela
I can’t see the US releasing Maduro, though Russia has insisted it do so. Will this bugger the talks with Putin over Ukraine, too?
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Donald Trump is selling presidential pardons
The Maduro case will revive a legal debate over immunity for foreign leaders. The USA does not have jurisdiction over the Maduro case, only the international court, and there are not any evidences that he was dealing with drugs.
The USA might say that he is not a legal president, but in Venezuela, he was certified as president, and he has been certified by other governments around the world, and the USA has no jurisdiction over the electoral system of Venezuela.a
Chávez was elected several times by more than 75%, probably with more approval than Trump, Biden and Obama. He was removed by a coup, and they had to place him back, and the USA always said that he was an illegal president
Venezuela has an enormous amount of gold, silver and precious metals, which can save or sink the dollars from its death; it also has diamonds, which are used for rockets and spaceships.
Billions of dollars in gold were stolen by the Bank of England. If the price of gold continues going up, the dollar will sink, and they want to take Venezuela’s gold from the Orinoco basin before China take possesion of all of them and the Yan might become a world currency.
The USA stole all the assets from Gitco, which is the international petroleum company of Venezuela, and during the time of Chavez, their gas stations were selling gasoline at a lower price in the USA, and Chevron and Exxon were getting nervous.
The petroleum reserve in Venezuela is enough to pay the debt of the USA; it is more than 45 trillion dollars.s
The minerals and rare earth that it has can create an industrial boom in the USA in electronics, chips, military hardware, and machinery due to the large deposits of iron and copper. Haiti has a large reserve of rare earth and petroleum. The Chinese are drilling for petroleum in Cuba.The Orinoco has a large extension of fertile land and fresh water, and a large army of unemployed agricultural workers.
The whole continent of the east coast of South America has rare earth and lithium, which is more attractive than Iraq. Colombia and Mexico have petroleum and rare earth elements.
Some experts have confirmed that the whole Caribbean basin has oil and gas.
Venezuela is one of the richest country of the world, and it has more wealth than Ukraine, and the USA has placed an embargo to stop Venezuela from becoming a superpower in Latin America like Argentina was in prior years. Argentina used to be called a first-world country.
Venezuela was extending its capitalist tentacles to other countries in Latin America, creating cartels, trusts and banks, such as Banco del Sur and Mercosur.
China is planning to build its own canal in Nicaragua, and the Panama Canal will no longer be needed, but they have Peru megaport and Mexico is building an enormous train superstructure to transport chinese commodity.
The USA would not care if the drug cartels infest the whole USA as long as they could grab all those resources; the war on drugs is just a pretext.
All US capitalists are salivating like dogs to take the resources of Venezuela, but to take them, they are going to need a big army on the ground, and the resistance is going to be bigger than the vietcong and ISIS; they are trying to avoid a popular revolt.t
China has large investments in Latin America, and they do not want to lose them. There are predictions that China might become the first trading partner of Latin America, and it will replace the USA. Several countries have joined the BRICS, which is bigger than the G7
32 members of the Cuban government were killed in this operation protecting Nicolas Maduro. Probably, the Cuban government knows what really took place in Venezuela
It was just a palace coup. They removed the president and left the same structure, but administered by individuals easier to control. They are making a lot of noise, but it’s just a political theatre. It was not the first intent to remove or kill Nicolas Maduro; the same gangs also tried to remove Hugo Chavez, and they had to place him back again. Some peoples suffers historical amnesia.
The cancer that Hugo Chavez had can be produced with radioactive poison, and there are rumours that he was poisoned, which is the reason why he received oncologist treatment in Cuba, and his bodyguards were Cubans from the G2. Salvador Allende’s bodyguards were Cubans, too.
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They are going to create a triumvirate as they did in the Dominican Republic and Argentina.They sacrificed 40 human beings as part of the spectacle. They have done the same thing several times in Latin America; they are experts on those manoeuvres.
The USA has always been governed by gangsters, from the bottom to the top and vice versa, the sicilian mafias are altar boys compared to them.
Nothing new. Juan Bosh on his history book titled De Cristobal Colon a Fidel Castro, explains all that. Howard Zinn on his book A People’s History, of a people expalains that too. Galeano, Juan Isidro Jimenez Grullon, more books about the real history of the USA gangsters have been written outside than inside, and inside, most people are reading comic books and worshipping leaders.
The drugs traficcking is nothing new either, the USA government has supported several drug dealers, and they have used drug dealers to protect their corporate interests, including Colombian presidents, all of them have legal immunity, it was widely covered by the journalist Gary Webb and a Mexican journalist. In Colombia, they say: If you do not give your commission to the DEA, you are a dead man. They have accused Nicolas Maduro of weapons trafficking, but who provides military guns and military vehicles to the Mexican cartels and to the right-wing guerrillas?
Donald Trump is a Boy Scouts compared to the other US presidents, including Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter; he was the one who established the Carter Doctrine in the Middle East, and Obama was the one who overthrew Zelaya in Honduras to stop the flow of Venezuelan oil toward the Panama Canal.
This situation is going to bring the Latin American region back to the old days of guerrilla fighters, more deaths, more chaos, more drugs, and more instability. Wherever the USA place its boots, it creates more chaos and destruction, and now it is more desperate than before because it is a declining empire, and Russia and China will also compete in the region, and they are weapons
dealers, too, and they have a lot of influence in the region.People are celebrating on the streets the removal of Maduro, but they do not know the future consequences; it is only a placebo, it was the same situation when the CIA removed Rafael Trujillo, afer JFK told him, leave or we will kill you, he did not leave and they kill him, and they let his assasins to be killed, and he was planning to request the protection of the Soviet Union and he was an anti commuist. Everything has been written; they can fool the fools.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-rubio-cuba-mexico?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=e60364c6f1-Top+News+%7C+Sat.+1%2F3%2F26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-601439995. Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba could be next. They are just warming up. Marco ( Narco ) Rubio spent his whole life opposing the government of Cuba, but he is now supporting something worse than the government of Cuba. He belonged to one of the most reactionary political parties, known as the Tea Party
https://www.rt.com/news/630476-maduro-us-interventions-latin-america/. The same old thing
I believe there is some truth to the speculation that he was betrayed by internal elements of the military, that Trump was given a way out, and that this was followed by a government of national unity bringing together elements of the old oligarchy or bourgeoisie with the new one. If that is the case, then perhaps nothing more will happen. As for the leftists who speak of the end of the United States, that is something I have been hearing since my youth, and so far, the country continues to do whatever it wants in this region.
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The same situation took place in Chile, where the military collaborated with the USA to overthrow Salvador Allende, and the social democrats who helped Allende to be elected also collaborated with Augusto Pinochet.
They used the same tactic in Iraq, and some of the military high commanders collaborated with them, and they also did it in Libya. The US has never won a war or a conflict without a secretary or an assistant; they always need ‘cipayos” ( lackeys ).
If you watch the videos when the US was doing the bombing and the attacks, there was no resistance from the Venezuelan air force, and they have modern Russian aircraft; it is similar to the atomic bombing of Japan. It was easy for the usa to drop both atomic bombs, It is all a fabricated lie by both sides
Zelaya was overthrown while he was sleeping, and they took him wearing his pyjamas, as they did with Nicolas Maduro, and the location of his whereabouts was provided by the Venezuelan militaries
Cuba, which has a professional spying agency, told Maduro that he could have been betrayed by the military, and he was using Cuban bodyguards like Salvador Allende.
PS The type of cancer that Hugo Chavez had can be produced by radioactive poison. And he received his treatment in Cuba because he did not trust anybody, and he was a military man, and his bodyguards were Cubans from the G2
Anti-imperialism is not anti-capitalism. Any ruling class can ally itself with any other ruling class. Anti-Yankeeism is not anti-capitalism.
The so-called socialism of the XXI Century is just a Latin American nationalist trend, like Castroism, some Argentinian leftwingers call it Caribbean Peronism.
Most of those radical nationalist trend at the end have allied with the USA and the European ruling class. The Partido Revolucionario Moderno is a split of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, which was a radical leftwinger organization ( part of the 1965 revolt ), and it supported the invasion of Venezuela, and they confiscated Maduro’s presidential aeroplanes.
Linea Roja ( ex 1J4 ), which was a radical Maoist group and became the Partido De los Trabajadores, fused with members of the oligarchy to form a political party known as Fuerza del Pueblo, which is now a social democratic organisation, and they survived the last election, obtaining a second place
The sad situation is that many young people, union leaders, died for those organizations and now they are collaborating with the capitalist class
In Brazil, Lula had to make an accord with the right-wingers to obtain a majority of votes in the last election, and the populist Brazilian right wings are tied to the USA and to the reactionary Brazilian capitalist class
Curiously, the Puerto Rican who used to be called pro-yankees or pitiyankis formed a leftwings coalittions, and they obtained a second place in the last election
https://dev.nacla.org/puerto-rico-left-alliance-imperialism.
PS: Adam Stephane is doing a very good job on the internet and Facebook, and he is running a Facebook website with Latin American participants, and they are getting acquainted with the Socialist Party case
Aristides was forced to resign and he was kidnapped and sent to Africa and he was not allowed to return to Haiti,
Juan bosh was forced to resign
it looks like maduro was betrayed by the military top commanders and kidnapped for the USA forces
The USA warplanes easily penetrated the Venezuelan air space without any resistance and they have modern airplanes
They had already a kangaroo court in New York ready for him
Trump has said that Washington is going to run Venezuela from now on
All that prior administrations denied they are doing it openly
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bombs-venezuela
US bombs VenezuelaThe mouthpiece of the US capitalist class, elected by millions of workers, said that he was going to take back everything that was stolen from them, which means that the USA is the owner of Latin America and the whole world and its resources.
The real story is that the Rockefeller family and Chase Manhattan Bank were built from all the resources that they stole from Venezuela
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