...is in progress right now.
A memo from CIA officer Michael Middleton Steere, addressed to CIA Director General Michael Hayden in Washington DC, has been intercepted by Venezuelan counter-intelligence; and it shows that the US plans to attempt another coup d'etat against the democratically elected government of Venezuela on the eve of a historic constitutional referendum that will democratize political power to the grassroots of the majority more thoroughly than anything we have seen in this hemisphere... ever. This outcome by a major oil producing nation that has confronted the US government is intolerable to the American political class, not merely the Bush administration. It is part of a continental drift of Latin America away from US domination; and it has world historic significance.
It is very important that this CIA plot get maximum exposure immediately across the net, because the US media, the Republican and Democratic Parties, and the US dominant class, will do everything in their power to assist the desired outcome of this illegal and immoral interference by the United States government in the democratic self-determination of Venezuela.
Widespread, rapid distribution via alternative media has the potential to expose and disrupt this CIA plot. You can do something right now. Get the word out.
Read more here, and stay abreast of developments. A Google News search of "Michael Middleton Steere" will help keep you updated.
Be part of a real politics of resistance. Help expose this international malfeasance now. Be an ally to the Venezuelan people, whose government was democratically elected (unlike our own).
However, while I appreciate your good will to spread the word on any CIA involvement with Venezuela’s elections, I too feel compelled to get the word out, though from an entirely different perspective. Assuming the CIA is truly involved, I highly doubt they’re the sole reason behind the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting and chanting “Venezuela Si, Cubazuela No” in regards to Chavez’s direction toward completely socializing Venezuela’s economy and slowly but surely establishing perpetual absolutist rule as did Fidel Castro, whom Chavez openly lauds as a mentor. It’s not too far fetched to believe that perhaps enough Venezuelans are realizing that they can’t be bought with Chavez’s seemingly benign intentions that hardly mask his shameless grasp at totalitarianism.
As a Cuban American whose relatives have spent decades in Castro’s prisons for mere political “suspicion to conspire” after being tried by tribunals of their “peers”, I’m willing to be proved wrong that Chavez is not following this same path. If you truly are interested in getting the word out or having an open dialogue, feel free to shoot holes through any of my past articles before I get the next one out this week in NYC’s Metro. You can find them at www.theliberalconservative.com.
Do let me know if I’m just spreading disinformation by pointing out how history is repeating itself in the form of another populist exploiting the poor for his own political gain while using our own government’s blunders as a poor excuse to suppress the rights of his own people.
I am certain that the US government would prefer to see Hugh Chavez leave as president. But this memo reeks of a complete fabrication. To me the writing style is educated Spanish, and does not read like a translation of something a US diplomat would say. It has all the buzzwords being used in the campaign for the referendum on December 2.
I believe that Chavez is throwing all his weight behind the referendum, because its popularity is evaporating. Many polls predict a "NO" vote on Sunday.
For discussions of Chavez and the Constitutional reforms (in English), see these links:
http://vzlanpolitics.blogspot.com/
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112900005.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Looks like the global corporatist Empire behind the facade of our own 'Vichy America' is now trying to franchaise its scheme of setting up phony governments throughout the Empire's territories.
Throughout various territories of the corporatist Empire they can get away with simply setting up an obvious stooge govenment (like the Nazi empire did with the old fashioned 'Vichy France'), but in other parts of the world where web-media lights shine more light the corporatist Empire has to go to all the trouble of setting up a very sophisticated 'vichy' scam --- sometimes even setting up pre-arranged phony opposition parties, with contrived 'power sharing' parties --- as the Empire recently orchestrated in Pakistan.
However, the global corporatist Empire never goes to the extreme of setting up in countries other than the US all the mechanisms of a complete 'Three Card Monte' scheme of 'Vichy government' like the US itself, which includes two completely controlled phony national political parties, which actually shift back and forth to confuse the rubes, and a complete national MSM scam which reports this 'vichy' political facade as being a democratic government over long periods of time.
It will be interesting to see if the global corporatist Empire, because of the focus of web-media on Venezuela, has to go as far as it did in Pakistan in building a fairly complete model of 'believable' multiparty phony conflict, or whether the Empire can still get away in Venezuela with a more traditional and simplistic, blunt 'regime change' and ousting of Chevaz without structuring the full charade of a surviving two-party image.
We have such a stellar record of successful outcomes whenever we interfere. Plus our loyalty is beyond reproach... well except for that Osama thing... oh, and Sadaam... and oh yeah, then there was..__________. Fill in the blanks.
Those of you who seem to think its a good ideaand hope it works then I suppose it is OK for other countries to impose their views on us and find a way to overthrow our own dictator... I mean President... no, no, wait... the idiot king and would be dictator. So right, someone could look over here and decide that hey... they are screwing with the Constitution, they are abusing the rights of innocent Americans, they are interfering with the civil rights of others ... they practice "extraordinary rendition " and disappear people, and they make unprovoked war on others... hmmm, looks like they are becoming a rogue nation, we better go in and take them down before they screw with what we want to happen in the world. Lets go get 'em.
Yeah, right, that's the ticket.
Right now the vile Fox news site is doing their part with an inflammatory photo and story about students rioting against Chavez.
I will do as you suggest and send info to all my email contacts.
Also don't forget about local independent media all across the nation.
I know there aren't many left, but those that do exist will often run stories that big fascist outlets won't.
It will be very interesting to see how huffington post factors in all of this.
Peace.
"I'm sorry for whatever it is you think I've done that has resulted in your calling me names. We clearly got off to a bad start, and we need to try to fix that because we really are neighbors. What exactly do you want for your country that we in the United States could try to help you with. I mean, if you're willing to talk to your buddy Fidel about allowing a free election in Cuba, you and I might be able to work something out. By the way, just why do you think it's so important to do away with term limits on you job. You're not really trying to become a dictator are you."
And then if that doesn't start to clear the air between the two of them, little Gerogie could publicly challenge him to a fair and open debate on the issues to be broadcast to the world. Our principles and positions can stand up to that kind of scrutiny, can't they?
(By the way, does anybody think that "coup attempt" looks as hairbrained as I do? I don't really see media manipulation bringing Chavez down at this point.)
I don't think the point is whether one thinks Chavez is a good guy or a bad guy- the point is he was elected by popular vote. (Unlike Bush).
The point is the CIA spending millions of (our)dollars making plans to disrupt the democratic process in another country. As they have often done. What astonishes me is that even with all the documentation from Chile etc. of this kind of activity being business as usual for the agencies, that people would doubt the veracity of the reporting.
The US is not the keeper of who should be in power where, and has no moral authority to judge since we do not even have a functioning democracy adhering to our own constitution and treaties these days. In case you hadn't noticed...
If Hayden and his band of loonies brings down Chavez government, we will have two millstones around the neck of the carribean, rather than just Cuba. Let the man sink under his own weight and keep our damned hands out of the man's mess! Chavez will fail, unless we make him a martyr like we did Che Guevara, and the Castro Brothers.
The upper class, of course are not happy about it-but they are a minority.
The unemployment numbers are down since he's been in.
While he may be-(ok-is)a bit of an egomaniac-he is not stupid-and he does have a vision for his country. The CIA have been involved in numerous coups to get rid of him-because he wants to go to the euro-which would be a good move for his country. The US wants to make sure as many countries as possible (most OPEC countries-decided by Nixon in 73)use the dollar becasue it means they have to reinvest a portion into the US economy. This may also explain why GW has had little to say about business/jobs going overseas-GW/Cheney think they can recoup it by making other countries use the dollar.(btw.Saddam had gone to the euro in late 2000-the most likely reason for invading Iraq).
The euro magnifies the problem of the GW oil cabal putting all of their eggs in one basket-economy-wise, thinking they could use military strength to keep OPEC and smaller countries in line with this thinking. This is why we no longer are exporting anything anymore-it was a dangerously flawed policy/economic decision to make.
Socialism is already causing food shortages, and Caracas has no Milk or Eggs.
Socialism doesn't not need any help at failing.
Now Chavez can use the US as a scapegoat.