Introduction
The conspiracy of the United States and the internal factors against the Bolivarian political process began in the first period of President Hugo Chávez. They were able to execute a coup d'état in 2002, carry out an oil strike and other attempts at force to overthrow the government.
The plot has been continuous and has doubled its bad intentions against President Nicolás Maduro since he assumed his first term in 2013.
Is the United States using Venezuela as a laboratory to experiment with its coercive methods, then use them against other governments that do not obey their interests?
Some analysts and military experts have called this persecution and harassment against the Venezuelan political process, "low intensity war", where a lot of elements and events are mixed together to destabilize, cause chaos, discontent, weakening and anguish. psychological among Venezuelans.
To do this, they use propaganda in the media, the blockade and commercial and financial sanctions, blackmail through international organizations or political means for bribery and aggression.
President Nicolás Maduro is perhaps, within contemporary history, the most besieged and attacked presidential figure.
The enemies have not had any tools to try to overthrow their government or assassinate them. Since 2015 (the year that the Venezuelan opposition won the parliamentary elections with a large majority), putting aside the brutal demonstrations in Venezuela carried out by the opposition in 2014, people have been burned for "looking like" Chavistas, because of their skin color, of dressing or coming from popular areas.
At least, eight fundamental facts of international conspiracy (without adding the expulsion of Venezuela in 2017 from Mercosur) have sought the overthrow of the government, destroy the Bolivarian political project or weaken the bases of the Venezuelan State.
Chronology of unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela.
- On March 9, 2015, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, (extending the sanctions issued by the United States Congress of December 10, 2014), signed an executive order in which he declared Venezuela as a " unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. " Consequently, he ordered economic and coercive sanctions against the high government and progressive against the whole country.
According to the explanations of the Obama administration at the time, the sanctions were due to the commitment "to advance respect for human rights, to protect democratic institutions, and to protect the financial system of the United States from the illicit financial flows of public corruption." In Venezuela".
This executive order, year after year, has been extended by the government of Barack Obama and the government of Donald Trump, representing a pretext to sanction and block Venezuela's economy and limit the movement of Venezuelan government officials.
The executive order issued by Barack Obama in 2015 represents an aggression that undermines the development and peace of Venezuelans. This executive order has been the basis for expanding the sanctions against Venezuelan companies and officials and the pretext to interrupt transactions, commercial and financial negotiations.
- In December of the year 2017, President Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of El Petro cryptocurrency, while reporting in parallel on the formal creation of the Blockchain Observatory in Venezuela.
President Nicolás Maduro told the media: "Venezuela announces the creation of its cryptocurrency, the Petro will be called (...) this will allow us to move towards new forms of international financing for the economic and social development of the "(...), and will be backed by reserves of Venezuelan gold, oil, gas and diamond wealth." On March 19, the United States government issued an executive order to prohibit US citizens or persons in its territory from acquiring or trading any digital currency or digital asset issued by the Government of Venezuela.
- On August 4, 2018, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, suffered a terrorist attack when two drones loaded with explosives exploded near the presidential platform. Although the images were captured by the media present, where there were wounded, affected homes and the arrest of the perpetrators, many governments misrepresented and doubted the attack that could have ended the life of the Venezuelan president and the high authorities present.
The aforementioned attack was frustrated by the timely action of the presidential Honor Guard to use signal inhibitor equipment that managed to disorient "both units, which resulted in the explosives being activated outside the planned perimeter." However, he could not avoid that some people in the act did not fall wounds and the affectation of a house reached by the explosion of one of the drones.
The New York Times, on September 8, 2018, revealed that the Donald Trump government held secret meetings with Venezuelan ex-military to talk about his plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, which demonstrates the link with the attack against the Venezuelan president. orchestrated, and that this would not be the only time.
The US media CNN broadcast a report that would prove that a group of deserters from the Venezuelan Army was behind the drone attack to assassinate the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in August 2018.
Days after the CNN revelation, a spokesman for the US State Department limited himself to pointing out to the US network that his country's policy is "to support a peaceful transition in Venezuela."
- On January 23, 2019, an attempt was made to usurp public powers by the deputy of the National Assembly in contempt, Juan Guaidó, who in the presence of some supporters of the Popular Will party, proclaimed himself President of the Republic Bolivariana de Venezuela, an action that recalled the coup d'état against Hugo Chávez in 2002, when Pedro Carmona Estanga, president of the federation of Fedecámaras and Venezuelan opponent, was sworn in as president of Venezuela.
Minutes after the autojuramentación the vice president, Mike Pence and the own president of the United States, Donald Trump, recognized to Juan Guaidó like "interim president" of Venezuela: "Today, I am officially recognizing the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, as the interim president of Venezuela In his role as the only legitimate branch of government duly elected by the Venezuelan people, the National Assembly invoked the Constitution of his country to declare Nicolás Maduro illegitimate and, therefore, vacant the presidency "Trump pointed out.
In that same speech, Donald Trump, openly stated that he will use "all the economic and diplomatic power of the United States to achieve the restoration of democracy in Venezuela" and invited other governments of the continent to recognize Guaidó as president in charge.
- Within the coercive measures imposed against the government of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people, on February 1, 2019, the United States, through the Department of the Treasury, issued a new order which prohibits negotiations with the bonds of the Republic of Venezuela in North American territory and with citizens of that country.
The resolution states that the papers or bonds may continue to be marketed "provided that any divestment, facilitation of divestment, transfer or any participation in said bonds" are carried out far from the North American market.
President Donald Trump had already signed an executive order in August 2017 that "prohibits negotiations of new debt issued by the Venezuelan government and his state oil company PDVSA, and also prohibited transactions in certain existing bonds owned by the Venezuelan public sector, as well as Dividend payments to the government of Venezuela. "
The new measure of February 2019 is an adjustment to the resolution issued on August 24, 2017 and other coercive resolutions in the economic and commercial sphere to limit negotiations and foreign exchange inflows to the Venezuelan State.
More recent and within this illegal framework of extraterritorial sanctions of the United States against Venezuela, which are part of a series of "crimes against humanity", the Department of the Treasury issued on April 17, 2019, sanctions against the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), which prevents it from obtaining, trading or negotiating with the dollar currency or more specifically as affirmed by the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton: "aimed at limiting US transactions with this bank and close access to US dollars. "
The measure, as well as others imposed previously, limits the social, educational, economic and human development of all Venezuelans.
- On February 23, 2019, the United States attempted to introduce from Colombia a supposed "humanitarian aid" without the consent of the government of President Nicolás Maduro and without the participation of the United Nations Organization that its entities have to facilitate the delivery of "aid humanitarian "in accordance with the receiving country or countries.
Organizations of low credibility, such as the United States Agency for International Development USAID and the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management in Colombia, were in charge of managing, controlling and managing the operation of the collection center.
Not being able to introduce "humanitarian aid" into Venezuelan territory, the protesters chose to burn the contents of the first three trucks on the Colombian side of the border.
Days after the event, the United States convened the United Nations Security Council to discuss the case of Venezuela.
On April 10, 2019, the Trump administration, for the second consecutive time, returned to the Venezuelan issue in a session of the Security Council seeking to impose a resolution to intervene in the internal affairs of Venezuela or perhaps to initiate a military aggression .
That same day, April 10, 2019, President Nicolás Maduro held a meeting with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, where they agreed to the entry of humanitarian aid to Venezuela.
- On March 7, 2019, the Venezuelan government reported on the attack on Venezuela's electricity system, specifically El Guri, the main power generation plant, which left the entire country without electricity for five days. The attack was carried out in three phases: A cybernetic attack on the Automated System of the El Guri Hydroelectric Power Plant; another electromagnetic attack with mobile equipment with high frequencies; and finally, a physical attack against substations and sensitive electrical stations.
Situation that was repeated at the end of that month, with the introduction of computer viruses in the computerized systems that regulate the electric service and several physical attacks using war weapons to the transmission lines.
These aggressions, of multiform characteristics, produced significant levels of destruction of equipment and interruption of coupled processes necessary for the constant provision of the service.
Forbes, a magazine specialized in the world of business and finance, published in the United States, affirmed that not only was it possible, but there was a cyber attack against the electrical system: "the idea that a foreign nation state manipulates the An adversary's electrical network to force a government transition is very real. "
On March 26, 2019, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order to defend against attacks or occurrences of events using electromagnetic pulses that have the potential to interrupt, degrade and damage technology and infrastructure systems. Electromagnetic pulses of human or natural origin can affect large geographic areas, altering critical elements for the security and economic prosperity of the nation, and could negatively affect trade and global stability.
- On April 9, 2019, the Organization of American States (OAS) approved "substitute" the legitimate representative of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, for an opponent proposed by the United States, even knowing that the Permanent Council of The OAS does not have the authority to recognize governments, nor does it have the power to choose who should occupy the membership of a country within the multilateral organization, since no one can impose on a State the recognition of another State or government. That is a non-transferable sovereign right.
The OAS Charter, in none of its articles, states that an authority appointed by a sovereign government can be supplanted by a decision of the Permanent Council or by a "resolution" submitted to a vote to be approved by the majority of its members. These legal figures are not collected or represented, nor is there an article or document to recognize a "self-proclaimed" president.
The coercive action joins all the other elements of low intensity war, which they have been experimenting to overthrow the legitimate government of President Nicolás Maduro. Happily, on April 27, 2019, Venezuela ceased to belong to that multilateral organization, a procedure that had begun in 2017 with the denunciation of the OAS Charter.
Conclusions
The conspiracy, the plots, the blackmail, the pillage and the measures of coercion of the United States against Venezuela in the economic, political, social, military, technological and communication will not stop in the short term. They have put "all options" on the table, including the military.
The strength of the revolutionary process is the cohesion that exists between the people, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the government. This union should not be neglected.
The governments of the United States, Europe and part of Latin America, are unaware of the strengths of unity that exist within Venezuela, they do not know that there is a National Armed Forces and a militia (which is the people in arms) that cohabit and jointly develop programs to solve their problems through community councils, major missions and other social assistance programs.
Unlike the policies of progressive governments and governments of the right worldwide, in Venezuela there are policies where the people themselves elaborate, control and execute them.
The governments of Commander Hugo Chávez and President Nicolás Maduro have made possible the visibility of a people that was subjected to oblivion and marginality. This popular sector was included in a social whole and participates in equal conditions in the development of the programs, policies and actions of the government or the proposals of the communities themselves.
That people, the one who denies seeing the governments of the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Venezuelan bourgeoisie itself, is the one that maintains a civic-military bond of union with the revolutionary government of President Nicolás Maduro.
The media, the police intelligence groups of the United States and Europe, the landowners and the bourgeoisie of America, have sought ways to divide that civic-military union, which they have disparagingly called "collectives."
They have experimented with all their tools to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro, they have wanted to promote a "civil war", they have used the media to create negative opinion matrices to detract credibility from the structure of the government and the National Armed Forces Bolivarian, they have elaborated laws and they have dictated extraterritorial resolutions to interfere in the internal affairs of Venezuela.
In the same way, they have plotted within the international organizations to sanction and attack Venezuela, they have created a parallel government directed from abroad, they have stolen millions of Venezuelan assets, they have sabotaged their oil, gas, mining, and other industries. electricity, water, food and medicine, have caused the migration of an important professional sector. But inside Venezuela, a sector of the town remains unscathed, resisting.
Who does not believe that a new generation war with sophisticated weapons is under development in Venezuela, such as the use of electromagnetic pulses to interrupt the supply of electricity to the country, the massive theft of its national currency, the blockade for the acquisition of raw materials for the production of food and medicines, obstruction for their imports and exports, the freezing of their bank accounts abroad, the infiltration of "mercenaries" to create divisions in the population, the purchase of military and diplomats to generate opinion matrices in the media?
The elements used in this fourth-generation war are developed in parallel to create chaos, make state structures vulnerable and create uncertainty and discontent among the population.
Venezuela has suffered all these attacks and many are still to be overcome.
The government of President Nicolás Maduro has sought alliances and help from friendly governments to solve and overcome the continuous attacks, both in the economic, industrial, financial, social, military and diplomatic.
Venezuela does not need "humanitarian aid", Venezuela has the resources and infrastructure; what it needs is that they release the frozen, frozen and stolen economic resources. It needs the United States to abandon the policies of interference in internal affairs. It needs the Colombian State to contribute to the control of its border in order to avoid the infiltration of paramilitaries and drug trafficking.
In Venezuela there is no "humanitarian crisis", as they want to see through the media, what exists are coercive measures, economic and financial blockade that prevents the free development of economic and social policies of the government towards the Venezuelan people.
Venezuela is not willing to accept foreign interference nor will it fall into the provocation of generating a civil war. He does not want to repeat his experiences in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya or Syria, where the wounds are not yet closed.
Venezuelans know that the road, in the face of any adverse circumstance, is peace