ULTIMATUM TO MONETARY USA: OCTOBER 18TH WILL START THE END OF petrodollar.

BRICS LAUNCHES THE MONETARY ULTIMATUM TO USA: OCTOBER 18TH WILL START THE END OF petrodollar.

10/18/2017 - This early date is the central committee of the Chinese ruling party meets is the deadline for the US to abide by the order that Russia and China sent "Uncle Sam" on your date recent meeting of September 4 .

According to unofficial source Russian "Faal Sorcha" , the guidelines were: stabilize the dollar and not increase the country's debt over 20 trillion dollars, which Trump has done since raised the current debt ceiling . If it does, China (and the countries that follow) will start to buy oil only in its currency and gold, which, in fact, resurface the gold standard, repealed by Nixon between 1971 and 1973.

Ultimately, the Russian sources inform Sorcha Faal fully confirm we approach the peak, (...) the value of this information comes from the Russian government, clearly including the phrase "overcome forever the petrodollar".

The most original of this approach (which curiously Venezuelan television is openly explaining) is extending the implications of these facts. Not only from 18 October the dollar ceases to be accepted in buying oil for many countries is that, since the companies and the US government (see his own army) can not be oil supplies unless they buy Chinese currency, which will accelerate the destruction of the currency.

Other relevant information (already anticipated Jim Wille months ago) is that, due to debts War Yemen, Saudi Arabia has put on sale 5% of its oil company, Aramco, being the only buyers in the market ... China and Russia. Which would explain the Saudi approach to Russia in recent weeks, which has stopped supporting terrorists in Syria and, ultimately, would leave US petrodollar ... definitely not without oil.

Conclusion: Invade Venezuela is the only solution left to them to subsist, since the allied countries such as Mexico (approaching the BRICS) and Brazil (in a deep institutional crisis) are unable to supply the North American market. Russia, China and Iran, in return, Venezuela will defend to death, because in that country the global chess game is decided.

The war is global and is economical, redundant

In terms of resources who have gold or oil under the ground it should be able to determine geopolitics or the hegemony of a coin, but the military power is also a determining factor in this reshuffling of leadership amid the collapse of the capitalist system. 

Many countries seek to take their gold reserves deposited in vaults at the Bank of the Federal Reserve, even more so in 2013 after the bank refused to return the German gold reserves to its respective owner.

Seeing that the world does not want to depend more on their dollars, Washington opts for regional destabilization to lead to any possible rival weak, experts say there is little hope that the US survive the own wave of chaos that has sparked worldwide .

Meanwhile the  US debt  of nearly 20 trillion  dollars is almost as large as that of the 28 members of the European Union and more than what the US produces in a year. 

The message gives the Debt-to-GDP ratio gives investors is that the country might have trouble paying what you owe, Obama and Bush emptied state coffers and destroyed the social security funds, among others, financing the "War Terrorism "erogando expenses and other departments

The World According debt of their countries. Via @VisualCap pic.twitter.com/xboxlBDf5l

- elOrdenMundial S.XXI (@elOrdenMundial) 24 июля 2017 г.

Even if  Russia,  in the voice of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev  has acknowledged that the  US has led to an economic scale war , Russian debt is low compared with that of Europe. 

Economic growth before 2011  was higher than the US, Germany, France, Japan and other G8 countries. 

Putin  paid almost the entire foreign debt by selling oil during times of high prices.

Global control mechanisms installed in power wrecked the US relationship - Russia  by intrigues and campaigns that ended in a battery of sanctions against the Russian people. 

In addition, before the  blockades that NATO  has made the Russian natural gas through conflicts in  Ukraine and Syria,  the government of  Putin has been able to dodge by the Turkish project  South Stream  and the imminent  defeat of the Islamic State in Syria.

De - dollarization of the Eurasian Union would bring crises to the Western world, especially when Europe is moving around a banking crisis and the US Senate decided to temporarily raise the debt ceiling for US authorities to allocate more than 15,000 million dollars help victims of hurricane Harvey. 

On the horizon "futures"

Venezuelan oil market is facing the opportunity of so- called  "futures contracts" yuan oil  that promotes  China. 

This type of contract  requires the parties to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price determined in advance. 

It could become the new standard  for those doing the buying and selling of financial instruments in equity markets and could be the newest benchmark for traders to be China's largest oil importer in the world. 

According to the Venezuelan vice president also  China  has shown interest in Venezuelan oil pay in yuan.

Only contracts for  West Texas Intermediate  (WTI) and  Brent  traded in the world market for futures and both are valued in US dollars but allow exporters such as  Russia, Iran, Qatar and Venezuela to avoid using the dollar because buyers could pay for its oil with yuan or gold after converting the Chinese currency in ounces of the precious metal.

According believes  Michael Snyder  on his blog portal  The Economic Collapse , with the economy and finance  Beijing  has been playing chess and  West checkers, and unfortunately for  Washington  we have reached the point where  checkmate is already on the horizon . 

Venezuela  takes place in order to preserve their self - determination and sovereignty in peace at a time of geopolitical definitions that will determine the economic course of the world in the coming decades.

Source: Truth Mission

What does the sale of Venezuelan crude in currencies other than the dollar?

The petrodollar  is more important to US global domination  that the export of arms or the Hollywood culture,  because it allows the US is the largest exporter of dollar bills that everyone needs to buy oil. 

Venezuela has decided to take steps in the desdolarizarización of its economy,  to understand the implications is required to look at the geopolitical context in which this occurs.

Energy agreement between #Rusia and #China , the deal of the century (+ VIDEO) http://t.co/RvI0ffW67N

- Telesur TV (@teleSURtv) 22 мая 2014 г.

Last August, during his visit to Crimea, Russian President  Vladimir Putin announced that  "the system of petrodollars should become history" , while  "Russia is discussing the use of national currencies in mutual agreements with several countries "  because of the sanctions policy of the West.

In recent months, China  has signed agreements with  Canada and Qatar  in the exchange of national currencies, making  Canada the first center  offshore  for the yuan in North America  and doubling (or tripling)  trade with China  in an estimated 200 000 million yuan. 

Exchanges of direct exchange between China and the newly sanctioned Qatar amount to 5 billion 700 million dollars, which has become  the basis for the use of the yuan in the Middle East markets  where there is little confidence in the dollar due to the export inflation. 

It is hoped that  other OPEC countries sign agreements with China.

The Chinese yuan entered the basket of reserve currencies International Monetary Fund (IMF), a basket ... https://t.co/AP4ky17d9s

- Sott.net Spanish (@SOTTnetES) 12 декабря 2016 г.

China  has also promoted the establishment of a clearing house in  Kuala Lumpur,  which will promote greater use of the yuan in Southeast Asia, this less than a month after  Singapore, the main financial center of  Asia , became a center yuan exchange through direct exchange  Singapore dollar and the yuan.

Iran  has recently announced its reluctance to use US dollars in foreign trade, the president of  Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev , has recently commissioned the National Bank  the dollarization of the economy of his country,  the  UK plans to release debts denominated in yuan  while the  Bank European Central  is discussing the possibility of including the yuan in its official reserves.

While in the real world this trend and increase inflation in the US, in the press is growing anti-Russian propaganda.

Venezuelan oil policy, geopolitics and rising geoconomía

Pdvsa,  being the main economic and financial player in  Venezuela,  is actively involved in policy making at all levels in order to deepen the country 's oil industry and its possible conversion into various areas of national life. 

Participation  in the National Constituent Assembly  (ANC)  within five research carried out by the  Commission of Economy  is a key itself as to what referral.

Pdvsa proposals to the ANC  are framed in a situation of economic and financial unprecedented siege. 

Emily Glazer for  The Wall Street Journal   and  available on the Morningstar website , focuses its analysis on the actions of US financial blockade and tankers with Venezuelan oil in the US: 

"Some US refineries have struggled to buy Venezuelan crude, as US banks refused to extend letters of credit that buyers need to complete imports of Venezuela" .

Consulted  Mission Truth , oil industry expert  Carlos Mendoza Potellá  claims that  the actions of Pdvsa this year  do not have to do entirely with the aggressive measures of the Administration Trump. 

"However, they have to do with an upward trend in the oil business expansion of the state enterprise. 

We no longer sell crude as before the US, and India and China have been two of the Venezuelan export destinations barrels. They are the second and third respectively, with a view to industrially develop two refineries in China ".

When asked about alliances and agreements Pdvsa has developed  in the months of 2017 and its effectiveness,  Mendoza Potellá  said ... 

"If they are not sufficient, they are necessary. 

It has become urgent,  amid the geopolitical climate,  diversification of sources , trade ties and suppliers linked to the Venezuelan oil industry. 

Especially if we take into account the deficit regarding the sale of crude to the US, the low prices have caused as a country have an entry of 100 million recently to 40 billion dollars in the last year. 

In addition industrial work 40% of extra - heavy crude extract is necessary, of which 40% is also linked to the  Orinoco Belt . "

Therefore,  Pdvsa has sought funding for the development of this kind of crude refers Mendoza Potellá under the Deep Conversion Project , in which different capitals are present. 

A point also shows that ... 

Venezuela is not isolated: 

It is one of the most important players in the energy world map  with the countries of OPEC and the BRICS, including Russia and China.

Confirms the recent financial measure of the Bolivarian Government announced by President Maduro to the ANC, with the implementation of a new basket of international payments which would include the Indian Rupi, the Russian ruble, the euro (if the EU did not support the US blockade the Venezuelan finance) and Chinese yuan. 

A measure that extends to geopolitics and geo - economics with the news that China, the largest importer of oil in the world, "is ready to launch futures contracts for oil in yuan with possible conversion into gold , "  said Sputnik Mundo , which would avoid the use of the dollar as financial transaction for these businesses globally.

Pdvsa responsibility  in that geopolitical and geoeconomic conflict with natural resources in the center of the dispute, together with the right balance in terms of international oil prices, has much to do. 

It is because the relevant actions and outlined in this special report, understood not as technical value of the industry but as a geopolitical asset.

Threats, interference and blockages  are the current resources of a US-European elite trying to collect for himself what Pdvsa sovereignly manages his successful foray in 2017 into a long - term alternative geoeconomic project. 

At this historic moment the Venezuelan state is attacked from all sides, take the appropriate decisions to develop local oil industry despite the circumstances and plays a heavy role in the global geo-economic plane. 

It is then understood the responsibility that comes as the main generator of the economy and the country's finances and to represent Venezuela in the great international concert.

Agreements: the false isolation of Venezuela and its oil industry

Several players willing to play in the Venezuelan oil sand, and there are few production agreements, refining, oil export and import of industrial materials that Pdvsa has carried out in 2017.

• Venezuela this year assumed the presidency of the Association of Caribbean States. Held in March I Cooperation Conference that body, which Petrocaribe took the opportunity to strengthen relations of cooperation with member countries. Alexander Yánez, executive secretary of Petrocaribe,  said at that time  that "while the arm leverage cooperation, complementarity and solidarity is oil, it is essential to develop the social matrix, economic diversification and cultural".

• Rosneft, in April, made an  advance payment to Pdvsa of 1 000 million dollars  for future oil supplies after Igor Sechin, CEO of the Russian company said its investment plans in Venezuela's oil industry would be held.

• Venezuelan Minister Nelson Martínez then flew to the Islamic Republic of Iran in April this year to meet with the oil minister of that country, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh. He reported that during the meeting with his Iranian counterpart discussed the Summit of Heads of State producing countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non proposal OPEC President Nicolás Maduro, in addition to strengthening the commitments in the energy field.

• The first barrel of oil  was extracted  by Petrovictoria the joint venture, with 40% of the Russian oil company Rosneft whose production operations are in the Carabobo 2 North Block.

• In June, the Venezuelan state energy maximum  signed a new agreement  with the Russian company Rosneft for forming a new joint venture in Anzoátegui, called Perforosven. Pdvsa said that it "strengthens relations with Russia and created to provide oilfield services, including drilling, rehabilitation and refurbishment of wells, well related to the acquisition of equipment, devices, services and materials drilling south of Anzoátegui state activities" .

• The Bolivarian Government signed in July a memorandum of understanding with the Company Horizontal Well drillings (HWD Production LLC), whose project is "to drill about 200 new wells in the Orinoco Oil Belt in order to increase production by 150 thousand barrels in three years ", according to the Venezuelan state, which would end with the creation of a joint venture.

• Despite the siege of Venezuela, Vice President Shell gas area for South America and Africa, Mounir Bouaziz, he said that the Anglo - Dutch company "has many reasons to participate in projects with Venezuela and that the country has a unique position in terms of reserves and its geographical location, which allows distribution to the Caribbean, Europe and Asia ". This  he said in a meeting with Nelson Martínez , now president of Pdvsa, recently August.

• Martinez, acting Minister also met in August "with Benoit de la Fouchardiere, CEO of the company (French) Perenco and CEO Nicolás Serre, to evaluate the participation of that company in the Venezuelan oil industry, through joint ventures Petrowarao and Baripetrol. Perenco showed interest in making an investment in the order of $ 400 million, through the expansion of the joint venture Petrowarao, with the addition of new production areas in the Lake Maracaibo ". In  press release  the possibility of creating a joint venture with Petrochemical Venezuela, SA (Pequiven) for gas production, also in Zulia state was also stuck.

• Another French oil company, Total, and has investments in Venezuela in the form of joint venture, Petrocedeño name, and looking with Pdvsa increased production and incorporate more technology. In addition raised more involved in heavy oil projects in Petrocedeño and Camp Yucal Placer (Guarico state) in the gas area. The meeting between Nelson Martinez and senior vice president for American oil company said Michel Hourcard,  occurred in August .

• The presidents of PDVSA and Rosneft Russia  held a meeting  in the Morichal District of Monagas state in the framework of a meeting with workers of the oil industry last August, which reviewed the progress of energy projects being developed in joint ventures PetroMonagas and Petrovictoria, of Carabobo and Improvement Divisions Orinoco Oil Belt Hugo Chávez. The two companies more than 500 thousand barrels per day are produced. They talked about the expansion of PetroMonagas projects and implementation of a Strategic Operational Plan Petrovictoria.

Pdvsa also reported in the same month that the new oil minister, Eulogio Del Pino, and the Russian ambassador to Venezuela, Vladimir Zaemskiy, "strategically reviewed joint investment plans for the different Russian companies The meeting included a review of the production and investment plans in the Petrozamora joint venture, where Gazprombank is a 40% shareholder, and the meeting was attended by Igor Gitman, Business Director of Gazprombank and who defined actions that will guarantee the fulfillment of the plan of development of this mixed company ". In addition, "issues related to the next Monitoring and Coordination Committee of the countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Non-OPEC, which will take place in Vienna, Austria, on September 22" will be discussed. strategy for the recovery of oil prices.

• "As part of a roundtable discussion held by the China-Venezuela High Level Joint Commission agreed to monitor the entire investment portfolio from the point of marketing of products from Venezuela to the Asian nation, as well as strategic agreements cooperation in oil and other opportunities that are emerging between the two nations, "said the Venezuelan state. The expansion of China's stake in the Sinovensa joint venture, which operates in the Orinoco Oil Belt Hugo Chávez, is practically a fact. Vice President of Planning and Knowledge and external director of PDVSA, Ricardo Menéndez, said that "we have a portfolio of investments with China in oil in the order of 9 billion dollars" and that "the Chinese oil company is interested in participating in the reactivation of 800 wells in the belt, which will generate an increase in production of 42 thousand barrels of crude oil per day. " Likewise, Minister Eulogio Del Pino reported on the development of a new and second refinery in China in the Nanhai District, which "is opening up a space for our oil, added to the market in the Asian area. very aggressive marketing that has been developing with a joint venture with China that offers us a cost reduction advantage in the transport of crude. " He explained that the periodic review of agreements "is accompanied by visits to the operational areas to monitor the processes live and to follow up the good progress of the investment projects, leveraged by the China Development Bank." Nelson Martínez, President of PDVSA, stressed the importance of "the benefits of these cooperation agreements that are not only quantified in economic terms, but are also reflected by the growth in the technological field. country is reflected in the high level of technology that our workers are getting: it is largely an invaluable investment in the future in terms of human potential. "

• The national oil company reported on September 5 that President Nicolás Maduro held a working meeting with Chevron's president for America and Africa, Clay Neff, and with Ali Moshiri, an adviser to Chevron's CEO, "in order to explore mechanisms that allow to continue the relationship "between PDVSA and the US company" before the blockade decreed by the United States government against the financial operations of the joint ventures they have in Venezuela. "

The agreements outlined dismantle the myth that Venezuela is isolated.

The agreements with this new international block go hand in hand with the industrial investment carried out at the Puerto La Cruz Refinery in Anzoátegui state, in order to optimize and expand the processing of the heavy and extra-heavy oil reserves of the Petroleum Strip of the Orinoco.

This project is called Conversión Profunda, whose major foreign investors are Japan's Hyundai Engineering & Construction and China's Wison Engineering.

Dong Hua, vice president of Wison, said: "The import of crude from Venezuela occupies 10% of all imports from China. Our demand is increasing daily.

Wison is a company that is prepared to continue investing in Venezuela for a long time. "

Wison would also participate in gas processing in eastern Venezuela through access to Asian financing funds (China Development Bank and Asian Infrastructure Bank), in order to boost the production of hydrocarbons and gas in the Latin American region .

The Untold Story of Pdvsa in 2017 (Special Report)

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 What does the sale of Venezuelan crude in currencies other than the dollar?

In recent years  we have witnessed a brutal onslaught on  Petroleos de Venezuela SA  (PDVSA), the state company that  "earned an integral gain of 1 billion 592 million dollars into the financial and operational end of the year 2016". 

Falling oil prices  produced that Venezuelan crude was located "at $ 35.15 per barrel, or $ 9.5 below the average of 2015, when it closed at 44.65 per barrel, representing a fall of 21% of "information outlined in the press release  of the national oil company. 

The start of  2017 brought  a series of legal battles at international level of transnational corporations against  Pdvsa,  including litigation filed by  Crystallex  before the  Federal Court of the State of Delaware, Helmerich & Payne  before the  Supreme Court of the United States and ExxonMobil before the  International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes  (ICSID), all favorable to the Venezuelan state oil results.

Third party interests in the oil  still lies in Venezuelan subsoil  are remarkable if we consider that  the proven reserves of so - called black gold are the most voluminous of the planet  in this corner of Latin American Caribbean (316 billion barrels counted so far) . 

Pdvsa means for the corporate world a sign of sovereignty and solvency plays against those same private interests seeking the breakdown of the Venezuelan company, and consequently the nation-state, in order to directly control the natural resources of the territory without any mediation.

The  siege of Pdvsa ,  the main financial and economic engine of  Venezuela , has been in the hands of rating agencies (governed by  Wall Street, the City of London, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank ), the manipulation of information on the debt of the company and the attempted sabotage of the national Assembly constitutional contempt (which bet on the collapse of the country as a political strategy) to sovereign decisions regarding the bond exchange, international investment and formations of joint ventures to develop the domestic oil industry .

Markets and resources of the globe  are in dispute between various players:  US, EU, Russia or China. 

In this context,  Pdvsa creates new agreements and shields relevant partnerships  in  favor of the Venezuelan oil industry.

Consider some cases, the most representative in recent months, ending in decisive actions to the interests of the company and accordingly to the financial and economic coffers of Venezuela. 

An unprecedented year for Pdvsa in terms of strategic partnerships with the emerging bloc, which underpins within a geoeconomic architecture on a global scale (led by Russia and China) as a form of response to US sanctions aimed at blocking its external financing as the Ejectuva Order signed by Donald Trump on 25 August. 

Weapons to the polls, the Joint Revolutionary Alternative Force (FARC) constitutes

Katu Arkonada

La Jornada

After 5 days of Congress and deliberations, the Congress of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People's Army (FARC-EP) closes to make way for the new party political revolutionary alternative Joint Forces (FARC).

The days of the Congress in the Convention Center Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, located in downtown Bogota within 3 kilometers in a straight line Narino Palace, official residence of the President and government headquarters of Colombia, have reflected the intensity of different political cultures that come together in the same game. Mainly two of the guerrillas of the different blocks (through which the guerrillas exercised territorial control of part of the country) and militants of the Clandestine Colombian Communist Party (PC3), the political expression of the FARC in urban areas .

After the committee work, the last day of debate was opened by Ernesto Samper, former president of Colombia. Also a former secretary general of the Unasur welcomed politics to the already former guerrilla, in a speech in which I opted for socialism Good Living (with references to Bolivia and Ecuador) which will give added value natural resources, the rural economy and land distribution be boosted, and relationships under a south-south horizon have.

The final day of the Congress had several moments of discussion. One of the central points was the ideological and political orientation of the new party that would be born. The final definition adopted in a vote was that of an organization that reflects the principles and theoretical derived critic and libertarian thought elaborations as well as experiences from them have been developed both globally and in Latin America, especially those made by the founders of the FARC-EP Manuel Marulanda and Jacobo Arenas. All with clear guidance aimed at overcoming the existing capitalist social order.

Another moment of important vote was to define the new name and logo of the party. In this case and although the alternative of Nueva Colombia is shuffled, it was decided by a majority to keep the acronym FARC, a historical acronym, in a decision that tries to maintain internal cohesion of the hitherto political-military organization, though probably have a negative cost in urban perception. Next to the name, a new logo that symbolizes a modern pink with a red star inside, and criticized social networks for its resemblance to the traditional rose of social democracy.

But the highlight of the Congress was held when the thousand 100 delegates to the Congress voted for the leadership of the new political party. Before them, the decision to choose the 111 people who must integrate the management, an urn, and two flyer; one red with 111 names submitted by the Central Staff of the FARC and another green with more than 50 names that had been proposed during the Congress days. The result, beyond the number of votes each candidate, consolidated the address 111 proposed by the Central Staff with leading political cadres of the secretariat of the FARC-EP at the top: Iván Márquez, Timoleón Jiménez, Pablo Catatumbo, Joaquín Gómez, Ricardo Téllez or Pastor Alape, among others.

The very moment the vote was historic for many of the participants of the Congress, as claimed excitedly in his decades of life, and membership in the FARC, was the first time in its history that deposited a vote an urn. From now on, they will be many times I have to do in a party that is insured by the agreements Habana 5 senators and five MPs in the House of Representatives for the 2018-2022 legislature.

Once closed the founding congress of the new party with the election of its leadership, and presented the fledgling organization into a political-cultural event at Bolivar Square in Bogota ─nada is casualidad─ where the main speaker was the prior Commander in Chief Timoshenko, today Timoleón Jiménez, the FARC face a number of challenges they face in this new stage of political and electoral struggle.

The principal, establish itself as a political reference not only in certain rural areas of the country, but especially in the urban, where hundreds of social and political organizations in various fields, the human, civil and political rights work; gender and sexual identity; alternative economies and endless turf wars.
For this they have some acceptance in certain sectors of Colombian society, a survey 1  of Gallup Colombia reported during the Congress days stands at 12%, 2 points above the 10% acceptance with the traditional parties between Colombian society, while the negative image, 84% is somewhat lower than the 87% of the matches.

That discredited traditional political parties is an opportunity, but also entails many risks, political normalization and institutionalization, the FARC will have to face in the near future; including breaches of government at various points of the Agreements of Havana, and the passage of thousands of guerrillas into civilian life, many of them without being able to enjoy their youth because of the war.

And, as we commented the former guerrilla Isabela, by the veredal area Antonio Nariño, during a visit to the territory of peace in Icononzo, Valle de Tolima, building peace it is often more difficult than making war.

 www.jornada.unam.mx/2017/08/28/mundo/022n1mun  

If Venezuela falls, humanity falls

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John Pilger is a well-known Australian reporter and documentary filmmaker who received the UK Journalist of the Year award twice and two other UN Media Peace Prize awards.

Interviewed recently by TeleSur said: "the decent world must support Venezuela, now subjected to a virulent propaganda that is warfare through the media. If Venezuela falls, humanity falls. "

The Australian journalist's warning is far from disproportionate. What is at stake today in Venezuela is similar to the dilemma that humanity lived during the Spanish Civil War, or to which Latin America suffered as a result of the coup in Chile against President Salvador Allende.

In the first case, the triumph of the Franco regime opened the way to the expansion of Nazism and fascism in Europe. In the second, the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet was the turning point for the establishment of varied gorilatos and the wild expansion of neoliberalism in Latin America.

If the Venezuelan opposition allied with the United States triumphs in its attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro, the door will open to a new, brutally reactionary wave in the world.

The affinity of important sectors of the Venezuelan opposition with the Francoism and Pinochet is public, however much its image designers try to hide it. The two-time defeated presidential candidate by the MUD, Henrique Capriles, declared in July 2013 that "Pinochet was a Democrat in the service of the Chilean people." And Lilian Tintori, wife of Leopoldo López wrapped by the international right, justified "that Venezuelan opponents cheer Franco, it is normal: if he lived would support us like Rajoy."

Those who support this part of the Venezuelan (hegemonic) opposition unambiguously support both openly fascist forces and the interests of the United States in the region.

Without going any further, just last August 11 Donald Trump threatened to invade that nation militarily. "We have many options for Venezuela. And by the way, I will not rule out the military option.

We have many options for Venezuela. This is our neighbor. You know, we are all over the world and we have troops all over the world in places that are very, very far away. Venezuela is not far away and its people are suffering, and they are dying.

We have many options for Venezuela, including a military option if necessary, "he said.
And MUD, instead of confronting the explicit interventionist threat of the United States, not to mention Donald Trump, chose to denounce that "Venezuela has for years intervened militarily and politically for Cuba, not only affecting our sovereignty and independence, but also constituting one of The main causes of violence ". It could not be otherwise. His real bet is to a foreign war intervention.


According to Pilger, "the threat of a military invasion of Venezuela by Donald Trump is typical of US threats to the world in the past 70 years." And it's not even new. "The United States has already invaded Venezuela with subversive groups like the NED, which support a so-called 'opposition', which seeks to overthrow an elected government by force: a high crime under international law."

Interviewed also by Telesur about the bravado of the US president, linguist Noam Chomsky described Trump's statements as "shocking and dangerous." He added: "The best hope is that some of the generals around them, who presumably understand the consequences, manage to control it."

Trump's fears were preceded by the confessions of Mike Pompeo, head of the CIA. On June 20, at the Aspen Security Forum, the head of the agency said: "Every time you have such a large country, and with the economic capacity of a country like Venezuela, the United States has deep interests in ensuring that The country is as stable and democratic as possible. So we are working hard to do that ... we are very optimistic that there may be a transition in Venezuela ... I have just been in Mexico City and in Bogota, the ancestor week, talking about this precisely, trying to help them understand The things they could do to achieve a better result for their corner of the world and our corner of the world.

As the philosopher Slavoj Zizek recently recalled, the economic war that Venezuela suffers and that precedes recent threats of military invasion was designed and implemented in Washington. This was acknowledged in an interview with Fox News Lawrence Eagleburger, who was George W. Bush's secretary of state. "If at some point the economy starts to go badly," said the former official, "Chávez's popularity will begin to decline. These are the weapons we have against him, and that we should be using.

 That is, the economic tools to make the Venezuelan economy worse, so that the influence of Chavismo in the country and the region will go down ... All we can do to make the Venezuelan economy in a difficult situation It's well done; But we must do it in such a way that we do not enter into a direct confrontation against Venezuela, if we can avoid it. "

No matter how their intellectual allies pretend to present the Venezuelan opposition as modern fighters for freedom (as they did with the Nicaraguan counter or with the Taliban who fought in Afghanistan to the Soviet Union), that opposition, which admires Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, represents, plain and simple, the interests of the United States in Venezuela.

John Pilger is right. If Venezuela falls, humanity falls.

P.S. To the memory of Jesus Aranda, exceptional journalist and magnificent companion. He always learned something from him.

Source: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2017/08/22/opinion/012a2pol

Everyone should take your hands off Venezuela

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Latin American Summary / La Jornada, August 8 , 2017.


The attack yesterday registered against Fort Paramacay base of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Army) in the city of Valencia, in the north of Venezuela, I -perpetrado by those who identified themselves as a civic-military group and was described as paramilitary terrorist by the government headed by Nicolas Maduro realizes the coup virulence which have reached some sectors of the opposition in the South American country .

It may be recalled, as immediate antecedent, which in late June stealing a helicopter last took place in Caracas by a police deserter, which he used the aircraft to attack with grenades and gunfire headquarters of the Supreme Court and the Ministry of Interior, fortunately without causing casualties.

Yesterday's action in Valencia, however, left a toll of two dead among the ranks of the attackers and eight arrested, while an unknown number of assailants managed to flee.

Thus, after the hectic preceding days when the regime organized the election of a National Constituent Assembly returned to prison dissident leader Leopoldo López and subsequently dismissed Attorney General Luisa Ortega, all with the backdrop of violent street protests in various cities, seems to open a new and dangerous way to resolve the confrontation between the Bureau of Democratic Unity (MUD) and the Bolivarian government: attempts to fracture the military, which so far have remained loyal to Maduro, and bring to a sector them to undertake a coup.

Efforts to drive the Venezuelan political crisis in such a direction could desembo-car, however, in the creation of a civil war and even a regional destabilization of unpredictable proportions.

It must be noted that the persistent meddling of Washington and its allies and the desire to discredit the Venezuelan government and take sides in favor of opposition groups, far from contributing to a peaceful resolution of acute polarization by passing Venezuela, feed violent and undesirable perspectives mentioned, in which the Venezuelan people would be exposed to suffering exponentially greater than those suffering today.

It is relevant in this respect remember, keeping the differences in Iraq, Libya and partly in Syria, following the American obstinacy in destroying governments considered hostile, settled power vacuums and territories one in which quickly mushroomed barbarism, chaos and terrorism.

Destabilization of Venezuela from the outside could lead to the emergence of a similar scenario in Latin America, and it is inevitable to ask whether this is the purpose of governments that accompany the White House- that of Mexico, in first place in their zeal isolate, delegitimize and destroy the Bolivarian regime.

Must demand therefore that external state actors draw the hands of the beleaguered South American country, lay down their meddlesome wanderings and adhere to theprinciple of nonintervention, whether because in the not so long run could experience firsthand the undesirable consequences of a much more serious and widespread conflict which today suffers from Venezuela and whose genesis would be jointly responsible.

Brazil, calls for actions across the continent of Solidarity with Venezuela and against foreign interference

ALBA MOVEMENTS Brazil, calls for actions across the continent of Solidarity with Venezuela and against foreign interference

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We are all accompanying the seriousness of the social and political crisis in Venezuela. We are following the degree of violence adopted by the rightist forces have already killed many people. the audacity to attack a barracks was trying to cause more victims, civilians, trained in Miami and Colombia, by right-wing forces. 

The Maduro government and the progressive forces in Venezuela sought in the Constituent Assembly a way of writing social arrangements of the country, which showed broad support of the Venezuelan people with the participation of more than 8 million voters in the elections of July 30, all the difficulties. 

Right deputies publicly said their tactic is to produce more violence, more mayhem, with extensive international media coverage, to provoke foreign intervention in the country. 

This tactic was also spelled unfortunately by former Spanish President Mr. Felipe González. 

Trump Government, without any moral or legitimacy, is trying to influence the directions of Venezuela, decreeing sanctions eleven people Maduro government, including the President himself and several ministers, forbidding them to visit the United States and blocking personal property, if they have Dependencies US. 

The coup Brazilian government hastily called a meeting of Mercosur to suspend the rights of Venezuela. An illegitimate and supported by only 3% of the Brazilian population government dares to punish the Venezuelan government for lack of democracy.

Above all that, made consultations between various movements in Brazil and Latin America, proclaim:

1) ALL BRAZILIAN POPULAR MOVEMENTS, LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD A manifest unconditional solidarity for the Venezuelan people, its government and the process of the Constituent Assembly, as a sovereign and legitimate right of the Venezuelan people to define the directions of their country;

2) ORGANIZE "COMMITTEES FOR PEACE IN VENEZUELA": a national level in Brazil, and began the process of foundation (still evident in annex). 

We suggest that committees be organized in the Brazilian states and municipalities, in line with the participating organizations of the Frente Brasil Popular, which also already positioned itself nationally on the matter. In addition, it will encourage Committees also organized in other countries.

3) ORGANIZE AGAINST PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS US GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN MATTERS OTHER COUNTRIES: 

Julian Assange denounced as the Trump government to create a new Iraq in South America, we can not remain silent before this

3) USE DIFFERENT FORMS OF MOST DEMONSTRATIONS: doing get this message in the government and people of the United States, through street actions, political events, cultural events and communication actions in all possible vehicles.

4) PROPOSE DAY AUGUST 22, "INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA" 

In which we perform simultaneous actions in cities around the world, addressing embassies, consulates and to deliver our letter and express our outrage at the actions against the government and the Venezuelan people companies.

5) Public LETTER FOR COLLECTION OF SUBSCRIPTIONS: see attached the letter to the Government, Parliamentarians and organizations in the United States. We have the support of all for: 

5.1. widely known in their print and web / social networks 

5.2. Sign and pick up new accessions: Popular Movements, Political Organizations, Parliamentarians, intellectuals, artists 

5.3. Send Full Name, Organization / profession and country of subscribers until the day August 20, 2017 to the email: alba.moventos.brasil@gmail.com

We have the contribution of everyone in this work will require of us a lot of effort and generosity to maximize the process of unitary construction focused on the defense of the Bolivarian Revolution, the government of Nicolás Maduro and the new Constituent National Assembly installed in the country.

Fraternal and bolivarianos Hugs!

Joao Pedro Stédile 
by the Operative Secretariat of People 's Movements of ALBA - Brazil

Jaime amorim 
MST - Via Campesina International

Paola Estrada 
by the Secretariat of the International Assembly of Peoples