Venezuela : Leadership Crisis

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Venezuela, once again proving that socialist control of the means of production is very good for the economy.....if you're an undertaker.
 

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Venezuela, once again proving that socialist control of the means of production is very good for the economy.....if you're an undertaker.
Of course it does, Dear.

For the rest:
http://patriotrising.com/coincidenc...o-mine-gold-days-later-us-attempts-overthrow/
Coincidence? Venezuela Green Lights Russia to Mine Gold, Days Later US Attempts Overthrow

For those who may be unaware, the proven oil reserves in Venezuela are known to be the largest in the world, totaling 297 billion barrels. In December, Caracas and Moscow signed a $5 billion investment deal to raise Venezuela’s oil production by one million barrels per day. This move was done to counter the effects of US sanctions which have been crippling the country and raised many neocon eyebrows.
What’s more, aside from their proven oil deposits, Venezuela is also known for its extremely rich gold deposits. Also in December, Caracas gave the green light to Russia to begin mining gold inside their country.
“As for Russia’s participation in gold-mining or other mining projects, Venezuela has made a wide range of interesting proposals that are currently under consideration by interested Russian operators,” the ambassador said.
Because of their rich deposits and need to subvert US sanctions and a weaponized US dollar, Venezuela has become the 25th largest holder of gold in the world making them a direct threat to the global banking system.
To think that the US interests in Venezuela are purely humanitarian is not only asinine but it blindly ignores decades of US interventionism highlighting the contrary—especially considering what happened in Libya.
As TFTP has previously reported, on October 20th, 2011, the West took it upon itself to use NATO to overthrow Gaddafi — not for any humanitarian threat to civilians as had been repeatedly claimed and is the alleged impetus behind the coup in Venezuela — but because his planned roll-out of a new currency to be used across Africa posed a palpable existential threat to central banks at the heart of the Western financial and political system.
In fact, before Washington’s endorsement of Guaido, Venezuela was carrying out a similar plan. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently launched a gold trade with Maduro. But this was not simply moving gold from one place to another. Maduro announced that he was moving his entire refining operation directly to Turkey in a direct move against the Western monetary controlled sanctions.
Now, we find ourselves on the precipice of an all out invasion of their country. Go figure.
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https://sputniknews.com/latam/201901251071799259-US-Withdrawing-Diplomats-Venezuela-Embassy/
The US State Department has ordered non-emergency employees in Venezuela to leave the country and urged US citizens there to "strongly consider" doing so, the US Embassy in Caracas has told Reuters.

On Wednesday, following US recognition of the virtually unknown Juan Guaido as Interim President of Venezuela, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gave all US diplomatic personnel 72 hours to leave the country. The following day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said before the Organization of American States that as the US no longer recognized Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, US diplomats weren't obliged to obey his dictates.
 

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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/255642-backed-by-military-venezuela-s-maduro-hits-back-at-rival
The Trump administration says Maduro's order isn't legal because the U.S. no longer recognizes him as Venezuela's legitimate leader.
"They believe they have a colonial hold in Venezuela, where they decide what they want to do," Maduro said in an address broadcast live on state TV. "You must fulfill my order from the government of Venezuela."
Meanwhile, all eyes were on Guaido whose whereabouts have been a mystery since the 35-year-old was symbolically sworn in Wednesday before tens of thousands of cheering supporters, promising to uphold the constitution and rid Venezuela of Maduro's dictatorship.
Speaking from an undisclosed location, Guaido told Univision he would consider granting amnesty to Maduro and his allies if they helped return Venezuela to democracy.
"Amnesty is on the table," said Guaido, who just weeks earlier was named head of the opposition-controlled congress. "Those guarantees are for all those who are willing to side with the constitution to recover the constitutional order."
Besides the United States, much of the international community rallied behind Guaido, with Canada and numerous Latin American and European countries announcing that they recognized his claim to the presidency. Trump promised to use the "full weight" of U.S. economic and diplomatic power to push for the restoration of Venezuela's democracy.


https://sputniknews.com/latam/201901251071819274-us-citizens-venezuela-alert/
On 23 January, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the interim president of the country. His claims for presidency was supported by around a dozen countries, including the US.

US citizens residing in or traveling to Venezuela should strongly consider departing, the US Embassy in Caracas said in a statement.
READ MORE: Russia Warns Military Scenario in Venezuela Would Be Catastrophic
"US citizens residing or traveling to Venezuela should consider leaving the country. Commercial flights are still available," the State Department said.
"The US administration has limited ability to provide emergency assistance to US citizens in Venezuela," the statement says.


https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201901251071818639-venezuela-just-latest-us-meddling-analysis/
The US has recognised Venezuelan National Assembly chief Juan Guaido as the country's "acting president", prompting President Nicolas Maduro to accuse Washington of trying to stage a coup. Sputnik looks at a few other times the US forgot about democracy and supported would-be leaders who attempted to gain power by circumventing the ballot box.

According to ex-State Department officer and respected historian William Blum, the US has intervened to overthrow or attempt to overthrow foreign governments, including those of its own allies, over fifty times since 1945.
To prevent the current article from turning into a thousand-page opus, here are a few examples of US efforts to meddle, either politically or militarily, in the affairs of other nations over the last decade, with these efforts having disastrous consequences.
 

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PHUKK the criminal Zionists. This time the camps are going to be for real!!!


Are you out of you mind?


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What the hell do the JOOS have to do with Venezuela?


For the other readers, as you are far too stupid, and too insane to understand the connotations of this:


According to the Latin American Jewish Congress, Venezuela's Jewish community had an estimated 22,000 people when Chávez took office in 1999.[8] In the early 2000s, emigration of Venezuelan Jews to Israel grew steadily.[9] The Algemeiner Journal stated that this emigration from Venezuela occurred due to "the country’s economic crisis ... as well as the anti-Semitic rhetoric that has marked the left-wing regime’s support for Iran, Syria, and Palestinian Islamist organizations like Hamas" and that "first Chavez and now Maduro have found political uses for anti-Jewish rhetoric".[10]
By 2007, amid concerns of rising allegations of antisemitism[4][11][12][13][14], emigration saw Venezuela's 20,000 Jewish population drop by 20%[15] to 45% [8]. For instance The Latin American Jewish Congress estimated that in 2007, only between 12,000 and 13,000 Jews still resided in Venezuela.[8] By November 2010, more than 50% of Jewish Venezuelans had left the country since Chavez came to power, with some of those remaining behind complaining of "official antisemitism".[16] By early 2013, only 9,000 Jews lived in Venezuela and in early 2015, it was reported that under 7,000 lived in the country.[10]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Venezuela
 

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Boggles my mind that people are still believing this shit. They lied about Hussein, Qaddafi, North Korea, just about every conflict they ever got involved in. It has always been about money and oil, nothing else. Oh, and empire building: with over 750 military bases in 105 countries. They are not fighting for freedom, they are fighting to support the industrial takeover and theft of resources. Anywhere socialist governments were elected in countries that the US coveted, they would assassinate and/or support a coup and install a right wing dictator who was friendly to the US. The US is backing the coup in Venezuela right now and filling the air waves with BS propaganda, as usual, and the sheeple are eating it up like manna from heaven. Fukk, I see no future for the human race as most are too dumb to realize they are being had.
 

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What the hell do the JOOS have to do with Venezuela?
From the bit posted most bailed when big oil became state owned. Is that being called anti-Semitic?? 45,000 is the number given on a different site. That is a lot of people to be not involved in anything like what was going on in Iran between 1953-1979.
 

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https://www.blacklistednews.com/art...rity-contractors-to-venezuela-to-protect.html
As the international community splits along governments who continue to back embattled Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro and governments, led by the US, who have officially recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's legitimate head of state, Reuters reported that a group of Russian mercenaries with ties to the Kremlin have been sent to Venezuela to provide security for Maduro as he struggles with the biggest threat to his rule in his six years in power.

The contractors are believed to be from the Wagner Group, a group of private contractors who have performed secret missions on behalf of the government, including fighting in Syria and the Ukraine (which brings to mind this incident from last February when US-backed forces killed 100 Russian mercenaries in what was the closest thing to a direct proxy conflict between Russia and the US in Syria). It's unclear when the contractors arrived, or when they intend to leave. Russia has offered to mediate the conflict between Maduro and Guaido, while joining with China to criticize the US for interfering in Venezuelan affairs.
Russia, which has invested billions of dollars in the Maduro regime, pledged to stand by the embattled socialist leader this week. Yevgeny Shabayev, leader of a local chapter of a paramilitary group told Reuters he had heard the number of security contractors in Venezuela is roughly 400. Russia's defense ministry and Venezuela's information ministry haven't responded to requests for comment. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said we have "no such information" when asked about the contractors.

The contractors traveled to Venezuela on private chartered flights that first landed in Cuba. The contractors have been charged with stopping opposition sympathizers or members of Maduro's own forces from detaining him.
"Our people are there directly for his protection," Shabayev said, in light of the attempted revolt staged by rogue military officers earlier this week.
One source said a group of contractors had arrived in Venezuela before elections last year where Maduro won a second six year term, but another group had arrived "more recently."
Public flight tracking data suggests the latest batch of contractors arrived some time betwee mid-December and this past week.
Asked if the deployment was linked to protecting Maduro, the source said: "It's directly connected." The contractors flew to Venezuela not from Moscow but from third countries where they were conducting missions, he added. The third source, who is close to the private military contractors, said there was a contingent in Venezuela but he could not provide further details. "They did not arrive in a big crowd," he said. Publicly-available flight-tracking data has shown a number of Russian government aircraft landing in or near Venezuela over past weeks, though there was no evidence the flights were connected to military contractors. A Russian Ilyushin-96 flew into Havana late on Wednesday after starting its journey in Moscow and flying via Senegal and Paraguay, the data showed.
The aircraft, a civilian jet, is owned by a division of the Russian presidential administration, according to a publicly-available procurement contract relating to the plane.
Between Dec. 10 and Dec. 14 last year, an Antonov-124 heavy cargo aircraft, and an Ilyushin-76 transport aircraft, carried out flights between Russia and Caracas, flight-tracking data showed. Another Ilyushin-76 was in Caracas from Dec. 12 to Dec. 21 last year. All three aircraft belong to the Russian air force, according to the tracking data.