10TH SPECIAL BULLETIN - ENGLISH VERSION

Bulletin

Special

Bolivarian Government Ministry of People’s Embassy of the Bolivarian of Venezuela Power for Foreign Affairs Republic of Venezuela

volume 10, 2019

-- HISTORICAL CRISIS IN GLOBAL KEY --SYRIAN WAR:THE LARGEST OPERATION OF THE CIA IN HISTORY --RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE CONTAINING THE US TO RESHAPE THE WORLD ORDER -- GUAIDÓ LOSES THE BATTLE FOR "HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION" -- OBJECTIVE OF SANCTIONS TO IRAN: TAKE OIL EXPORTS TO ZERO

Content 1) EDITORIAL 2) CHINA IN LATIN AMERICA: US LOSES ITS "BACKYARD" 3) RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE CONTAINING THE US TO RESHAPE THE WORLD ORDER 4) RUSSIA-VENEZUELA MILITARY COOPERATION: A HEADACHE FOR THE USA 5)THE FRAME BETWEEN A SWEDISH JOURNALIST IN VENEZUELA, ABRAMS AND TRUMP 6) GUAIDÓ LOSES THE BATTLE FOR "HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION" 7) SYRIAN WAR:THE LARGEST OPERATION OF THE CIA IN HISTORY 8) COMMUNIQUES 9) HISTORICAL CRISIS IN GLOBAL KEY 10) OBJECTIVE OF SANCTIONS TO IRAN: TAKE OIL EXPORTS TO ZERO

Editorial Fortunately the world today is very different from that of 2003, Washington's decrees are less effective in determining the world order. But in spite of this new, more balanced division of power amongst several powers, Washington appears ever more aggressive towards allies and enemies alike, regardless of which US president is in office.

China and Russia are leading this historic transition while being careful to avoid direct war with the United States. To succeed in this endeavor, they use a hybrid strategy involving diplomacy, military support to allies, and economic guarantees to countries under Washington’s attack.

The United States considers the whole planet its playground. Its military and political doctrine is based on the concept of liberal hegemony, as explained by political scientist John Mearsheimer. This imperialistic attitude has, over time, created a coordinated and semi-official front of countries resisting this liberal hegemony. The recent events in Venezuela indicate why cooperation between these counter-hegemonic countries is essential to accelerating the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar reality, where the damage US imperialism is able to bring about is diminished.

CHINA IN LATIN AMERICA: US LOSES ITS "BACKYARD" China formally invited Latin America to participate in the Strip and Route Initiative (IFR) in January 2018, during its meeting with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Santiago de Chile, where the Chinese and Venezuelan Foreign Minister shook hands as a main photograph of the event.

Since then, 16 countries in the region have expressed their intention to be part of this commercial connectivity project and have already agreed to agreements in this way.

In addition to Venezuela, which is Beijing's strategic ally in the construction of the multipolar world, other countries signed agreements: Panama, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Chile and Guyana.

The global plan that began in 2013 with the public announcement of President Xi Jinping, contemplates the strengthening of infrastructures, trade and investments between the Asian giant and approximately 65 countries, involving 62% of the world's population and 75% of the world's population. Known energy reserves.

In that sense, Latin America comes to form a large transoceanic line of transport on the Route because it shares with China the PaciďŹ c Ocean, being this the natural extension that connects the two economic zones, as China said in its meeting with the countries of CELAC at the beginning of 2018. Right there he emphasized the fundamentals of the continental bloc in the international cooperation plan.

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However, the investments to realize the IFR do not start from scratch. Bilateral projects with different nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean go back to the year 2005.

In that year, they received 4.7 billion dollars in Chinese investments. By 2018, this figure had an increase of 425%, closing at 20 billion dollars.

In the last eight years, the commercial exchange also increased 22 times, exceeding 280 billion dollars in 2017. Data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), provided by its secretary Alicia Bárcena, position the Asian country as the second most important trading partner for the region, and the first for South America, supplanting the United States.

The intent to globally interconnect national economies through the IFR and under the emerging Chinese leadership, formalizes and gives a name to more than a previous decade of commercial relations.

PROJECTS AND PLANS OF THE SILK ROUTE IN LATIN AMERICA The complex Sino-Latin American relationship that until the 1990s focused on investing in mining products and natural resources for its transfer to China, entered the new century with the aim of consolidating high-impact transport infrastructures, including road construction, sea ports and railways.

According to the China-Latin America finance database prepared by The Dialogue, the US political research center, there are 150 projects linked to transport, of which almost half are in the construction stage.

In addition, in recent years it has diversified into the energy sector, investing 96.9 billion dollars in the transmission and generation of electricity.

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By number of projects, Bolivia, Brazil and Jamaica are the main destinations for Chinese investment in physical communication channels. In the Andean country, more than 20 works have been developed between roads and bridges, while in Brazil, where the total amount exceeds 28 billion dollars, 13 agreements have been discussed in relation to transportation infrastructure, as well as In Jamaica.

China has placed special emphasis on the port areas of both the Pacific and the Caribbean and the Atlantic. In fact, it has greater success in the acquisition or construction of this type of facility. Around 20 projects have already been completed or are in the implementation phase in Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Chile. On the other hand, the port facilities in Colombia, Peru and Uruguay are being discussed.

Of these ports, the 19 cooperation pacts on trade and infrastructure that were agreed around the Panama Canal have special relevance. Here highlights the Panamanian diplomatic move to deepen its political relationship with China in the framework of the Strip and the Road, being the first country to sign a project that is officially part of the project: the execution of a high-speed railway between the zones urban In June 2017, Panama broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan, opening giant projects such as the construction of the fourth bridge over the Panama Canal, a cruise port at the entrance to the Pacific and a container port located near the Atlantic entrance.

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has led to a trade deficit of 64 billion dollars. Other trade agreements with Colombia, Chile, Peru and Central America are in the sights of US business decisions.

Because of its geographical condition, Chile is also considered as a natural access to the region via the Pacific. In addition to the port areas, China invests in telecommunications through the proposal to build a submarine fiber optic cable that traverses the ocean with a length of 24 thousand kilometers. This means will allow a better exchange of information between Asia and Latin America.

In terms of results, the figures are quite eloquent.

Foreign Trade data from the US Census Bureau show that, from 2017 to 2018, Latin American exports and imports had a 7.13% and a 6.54% increase.

THE GEOPOLITICAL RESPONSE OF THE UNITED STATES It is striking that many of the countries that are commercially affiliated to the most emblematic projects of the IFR are those that the United States considers to be allies or its strongest partners in the Latin American region.

On the contrary, for the Sino-Latin American alliance, imports and exports of that same year increased by 30% and 23%, respectively. States flee from unilateral measures that make them negotiate in a disadvantaged position to embrace the plans that offer complementary economic policies, anchored in this moment with China and the countries of the multipolar order.

The omnidirectional cooperation of its economic rival, which ultimately does not seek to impose or modify the national political visions of the countries with which it is related and, on the other hand, strengthens the common development of the blocks of the Global South, has been a serious obstacle. The establishment of Washington to hold a position of dominance in the region.

Does the American decline accelerate with each step towards the line of the Monroe Doctrine?

The German political scientist Wolf Grabendorff says it this way: "The declared Chinese intention to establish itself as an alternative power in the international system has not met critical voices in Latin America, and that reaffirms the geopolitical fears in the United States."

China is challenging US hegemony amid the debacle of the liberal world order led by the Trump Administration, which seeks to mitigate its effects by unleashing an aggressive tariff war on a global scale that Latin American countries do not escape.

VENEZUELA, THE CHINESE COMMERCIAL PARTNER THREATING THE "BACK PATIO" The triumph of the projects that cover the nascent relations between China and Latin America is linked to the political stability and governability of the territories, as well as to the regional integration of the continent.

By comparing what each economic model offers, China's global openness on equal terms contrasts with the supposed US protectionism that has no intention of caring for national interests but the economic interests of private business groups.

Beyond the constant tours of high political officials to impose on satellite countries to escalate the conflict in Venezuela and military trials in border areas under the justification of national security, there are no tempting projects that compete with China's immersion in the economic agendas of Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the last two years, that violent "take it or leave it" attitude that the United States promotes will have serious consequences in trade relations with nearby countries. Mexico has already felt the shock of evaluating the conditions of the Free Trade Agreement, which

In principle, the consolidation of the regional bloc was forged during the first phase of the Hugo Chávez government. In the project, the transfer of the center of power from the West to the Eurasian axis was envisioned, so the efforts to create solid diplomatic ties with sister nations to present themselves as another multipolar force was a voluntary disposition of the early years of Chavismo.

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Hence, the configuration from Venezuela of organizations such as ALBA, Petrocaribe and CELAC, multilateral platforms that brought together the diverse national interests of the region, accompanied that objective.

For the same reason, there have been attacks in recent years on these integration mechanisms and on the political actors that run it, with US "partners" such as Colombia leading Prosur initiatives.

Each aggression to the Venezuelan economy through financial instruments or irregular operations to make the territory ungovernable, seeks to damage (among other points) the Asian trade agenda in which the country is involved, China being an "existential threat" to the interests of the Pentagon .

However, Venezuela, which is the main gateway for the IFR's entry into what the United States considers its "backyard," as well as other proposals opposed to neoliberalism, has contained attempts to change the national political order while countering with the approach to the multipolar world that worries Washington so much.

Necessarily, the government of President Nicolás Maduro is the main focus of the aggressions for being vanguard in the region against the Monroe Doctrine of the 21st century, proposing an international trade scheme with other emerging nations, away from the hegemony of the dollar and using its resources energy and mining for the cause.

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Russia and China Are Containing the US to Reshape the World Order Fortunately the world today is very different from that of 2003, Washington's decrees are less effective in determining the world order. But in spite of this new, more balanced division of power amongst several powers, Washington appears ever more aggressive towards allies and enemies alike, regardless of which US president is in office.

political scientist John Mearsheimer. This imperialistic attitude has, over time, created a coordinated and semi-official front of countries resisting this liberal hegemony. The recent events in Venezuela indicate why cooperation between these counter-hegemonic countries is essential to accelerating the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar reality, where the damage US imperialism is able to bring about is diminished.

China and Russia are leading this historic transition while being careful to avoid direct war with the United States. To succeed in this endeavor, they use a hybrid strategy involving diplomacy, military support to allies, and economic guarantees to countries under Washington’s attack.

Moscow and Beijing lead the world by hindering Washington

Moscow and Beijing, following a complex relationship from the period of the Cold War, have managed to achieve a confluence of interests in their grand objectives over the coming years. The understanding they have come to mainly revolves around stemming the chaos Washington has unleashed on the world.

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launched against Syria, and has also drawn a red line that Israel cannot cross in its efforts to attack Iran. The defeat of the United States in Syria has created an encouraging precedent for the rest of the world. Washington has been forced to abandon the original plans to getting rid of Assad.

The guiding principle of the US military-intelligence apparatus is that if a country cannot be controlled (such as Iraq following the 2003 invasion), then it has to be destroyed in order to save it from falling into Sino-Russian camp. This is what the United States has attempted to do with Syria, and what it intends to do with Venezuela.

Syria will be remembered in the future as the beginning of the multipolar revolution, whereby the United States was contained in military-conventional terms as a result of the coordinated actions of China and Russia.

China’s economic contribution provides for such urgent needs as the supply of food, government loans, and medicines to countries under Washington’s economic siege. So long as the global financial system remains anchored to the US dollar, Washington remains able to cause a lot of pain to countries refusing to obey her diktats.

The Middle East is an area that has drawn global attention for some time, with Washington clearly interested in supporting its Israeli and Saudi allies in the region.

Israel pursues a foreign policy aimed at dismantling the Iranian and Syrian states. Saudi Arabia also pursues a similar strategy against Iran and Syria, in addition to fueling a rift within the Arab world stemming from its differences with Qatar.

The foreign-policy decisions of Israel and Saudi Arabia have been supported by Washington for decades, for two very specific reasons: the influence of the Israel lobby in the US, and the need to ensure that Saudi Arabia and the OPEC countries sell oil in US dollars, thereby preserving the role of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.

The effectiveness of economic sanctions varies from country to country. The Russian Federation used sanctions imposed by the West as an impetus to obtain a complete, or almost autonomous, refinancing of its main foreign debt, as well as to producing at home what had previously been imported from abroad.

Russia’s long-term strategy is to open up to China and other Asian countries as the main market for imports and exports, reducing contacts with the Europeans if countries like France and Germany continue in their hostility towards the Russian Federation.

The US dollar remaining the global reserve currency is essential to Washington being able to maintain her role as superpower and is crucial to her hybrid strategy against her geopolitical rivals. Sanctions are a good example of how Washington uses the global financial and economic system, based on the US dollar, as a weapon against her enemies. In the case of the Middle East, Iran is the main target, with sanctions aimed at preventing the Islamic Republic from trading on foreign banking systems. Washington has vetoed Syria’s ability to procure contracts to reconstruct the country, with European companies being threatened that they risk no longer being able to work in the US if they accept to work in Syria.

Thanks to Chinese investments, together with planned projects like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the hegemony of the US dollar is under threat in the medium to long term. The Chinese initiatives in the fields of infrastructure, energy, rail, road and technology connections among dozens of countries, added to the continuing need for oil, will drive ever-increasing consumption of oil in Asia that is currently paid for in US dollars.

Beijing and Moscow have a clear diplomatic strategy, jointly rejecting countless motions advanced by the US, the UK and France at the United Nations Security Council condemning Iran and Syria. On the military front, Russia continues her presence in Syria. China's economic efforts, although not yet fully visible in Syria and Iran, will be the essential part of reviving these countries destroyed by years of war inflicted by Washington and her allies.

Moscow is in a privileged position, enjoying good relations with all the major producers of oil and LNG, from Qatar to Saudi Arabia, and including Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria. Moscow’s good relations with Riyadh are ultimately aimed at the creation of an OPEC+ arrangement that includes Russia.

Particular attention should be given to the situation in Venezuela, one of the most important countries in OPEC. Riyadh sent to Caracas in recent weeks a tanker carrying two million barrels of oil, and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has taken a neutral stance regarding Venezuela, maintaining a predictable balance between Washington and Caracas.

China and Russia’s containment strategy in the Middle East aims to defend Syria and Iran diplomatically using international law, something that is continuously ridden roughshod over by the US and her regional allies. Russia’s military action has been crucial to curbing and defeating the inhuman aggression 9

Washington loses military influence in the region thanks to the presence of Moscow, and this leads traditional US allies like Turkey and Qatar to gravitate towards a field composed essentially of the countries opposed to Washington.

These joint initiatives, led by Moscow and Beijing, are aimed at reducing the use of the US dollar by countries that are involved in the BRI and adhere to the OPEC+ format. This diversification away from the US dollar, to cover financial transactions between countries involving investment, oil and LNG, will see the progressive abandonment of the US dollar as a result of agreements that increasingly do away with the dollar.

Washington's military and diplomatic defeat in the region will in the long run make it possible to change the economic structure of the Middle East. A multipolar reality will prevail, where regional powers like Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran will feel compelled to interact economically with the whole Eurasian continent as part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

For the moment, Riyadh does not seem intent on losing US military protection. But recent events to do with Khashoggi, as well as the failure to list Saudi Aramco on the New York or London stock exchanges, have severely undermined the confidence of the Saudi royal family in her American allies. The meeting between Putin and MBS at the G20 in Bueno Aires seemed to signal a clear message to Washington as well as the future of the US dollar.

The basic principle for Moscow and Beijing is the use of military, economic and diplomatic means to contain the United States in its unceasing drive to kill, steal and destroy.

Moscow and Beijing's military, economic and diplomatic efforts see their culmination in the Astana process.

Turkey is one of the principle countries behind the aggression against Syria; but Moscow and Tehran have incorporated it into the process of containing the regional chaos spawned by the United States. Thanks to timely agreements in Syria known as “deconfliction zones”, Damascus has advanced, city by city, to clear the country of the terrorists financed by Washington, Riyadh and Ankara.

Qatar, an economic guarantor of Turkey, which in return offers military protection to Doha, is also moving away from the Israeli-Saudi camp as a result of Sino-Russian efforts in the energy, diplomatic and military fields. Doha’s move has also been because of the fratricidal diplomatic-economic war launched by Riyadh against Doha, being yet another example of the contagious effect of the chaos created by Washington, especially on US allies Israel and Saudi Arabia.

From the Middle East to Asia

Beijing has focussed in Asia on the diplomatic field, facilitating talks between North and South Korea, accelerating the internal dialogue on the peninsula, thereby excluding external actors like the United States (who only have the intention of sabotaging the talks). Beijing's military component has also played an important role, although never used directly as the Russian Federation did in Syria. Washington’s options vis-a-vis the Korean peninsular were strongly limited by the fact that bordering the DPRK were huge nuclear and conventional forces, that is to say, the deterrence offered by Russia and China. The combined military power of the DPRK, Russia and China made any hypothetical invasion and bombing of Pyongyang an impractical option for the United States.

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As in the past, the economic lifeline extended to Pyongyang by Moscow and Beijing proved to be decisive in limiting the effects of the embargo and the complete financial war that Washington had declared on North Korea. Beijing and Moscow’s skilled diplomatic work with Seoul produced an effect similar to that of Turkey in the Middle East, with South Korea slowly seeming to drift towards the multipolar world offered

by Russia and China, with important economic implications and prospects for unification of the peninsula.

The United States seems to be losing its imperialistic mojo most significantly in Asia and the Middle East, not only militarily but also diplomatically and economically.

The situation is different in Europe and Venezuela, two geographical areas where Washington still enjoys greater geopolitical weight than in Asia and the Middle East. In both cases, the effectiveness of the two Sino-Russian resistance – in military, economic and diplomatic terms – is more limited, for different reasons. This situation, in line with the principle of America First and the return to the Monroe doctrine, will be the subject of the next article.

Russia and China – through a combination of playing a clever game of diplomacy, military deterrence, and offering to the Korean peninsula the prospect of economic investment through the BRI – have managed to frustrate Washington’s efforts to unleash chaos on their borders via the Korean peninsula.

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RUSSIA-VENEZUELA MILITARY COOPERATION: A HEADACHE FOR THE USA The military operations orchestrated by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria at the dawn of the current century have left not only high economic and logistical costs, but also political, in terms of the sense of defeat shown by the world power before the rest of the world and the progressive look of the Arab countries to the Eurasian powers.

interpreted as the search for a much safer front than Iran or North Korea, in the race to demonstrate strength that the considered North American hegemony must do to the emerging multipolar world.

Since the installation of the illegitimate parallel government presided by Juan Guaidó, the announcements of an escalation of the conflict with US military participation do not cease in the statements of President Donald Trump and his closest officials, without it crystallizing in the facts.

On the contrary, to overthrow governments considered obstacles to hemispheric security has required smaller technical-military operations by the Southern Command and they are able to encapsulate in the objective site.

Considered its backyard, the countries of the south to which the United States manages to have unrestricted access (after returning to the Monroe Doctrine as foreign policy) become platforms to install military bases that protect the area of influence reached.

Colombia is the best example, but they do not stop mentioning Peru, Paraguay, Panama, and soon Ecuador.

But at the same time this is happening, the United States has made efforts to develop a plan that focuses on eroding the unity of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) in order to create the ideal conditions to enter the Venezuelan territory more comfortably. The campaign, which is managed between loss of prestige, blackmail in the form of amnesty, public calls for insurrection and penetration of factions to carry out destabilization operations, seeks a breaking point between the main military components.

If the recent military threats against Venezuela are observed under the geopolitical prism, it can be

It is what is observed if a recount is made of both the covert operations to push the agenda in a coup, 12

In addition, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López announced that the Kalashnikov factory, an agreement initiated in the same year and resumed in 2016, will be inaugurated this year. In its facilities, models 103 and 104 of the AK assault rifles will be manufactured, in addition to the ammunition.

dismantled in 2018, as well as the concurrent public invitations to ignore the legitimate government of President Nicolás Maduro, by the US State Department. the FANB. Why is the country with the highest military expenditures in the world taking these forecasts before going to a direct confrontation against a nation that supposedly has limited capabilities to defend itself?

Recently, President Nicolás Maduro told Sputnik in an interview that the most modern equipment in the world is coming to Venezuela, in reference to permanent military cooperation with the government of Vladimir Putin.

MAIN RUSSIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR THE VENEZUELAN OPERATIONAL APRESS Since the arrival of Hugo Chávez to power, Venezuela has allocated part of its public spending to a successful investment in the defense sector through alternative routes to the US military industry, after Washington denied it in 2006 the acquisition of former fighter aircraft. F16 bombers.

From there, bilateral relations were established with Russia to equip themselves with rifles, tanks, vehicles, combat aircraft, warships, transport helicopters and anti-aircraft missile systems, a techno-military vanguard over Anglo technology.

This list of equipment, far more advanced than that of the nations of the Middle East region facing the United States, is only the technical aspect of the FANB. To complete the data, it would be necessary to recognize the integration of 1 million 600 thousand civilians to the Bolivarian National Militia, for example, as the vital human component for the integral defense of the territory.

Of the latter, a long, medium and short range staggered air defense system was formed, as Rubén Castillo details in a previous investigation for Misión Verdad. It is comprised of ZU-23 anti-aircraft guns, Iglas-S portable missiles, Pechora 2M anti-aircraft systems and Buk-M2E mobile missile systems.

To close this defense block, there is the S-300VM mobile anti-aircraft system. The most sophisticated weapon to deactivate air missiles in the Latin American region, acquired by the national government in 2013.

Suffice it to mention that Colombia, a country that has been militarily equipped with US advice, does not have a similar antiaircraft defense.

Likewise, the insertion of Russian armament in the Bolivarian military doctrine to face every possible scenario of military intervention is key at the time of a hot scenario and in search of territorial and population defense of the country.

GEOPOLITIC KEYS OF THE MILITARY BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

In relation to the attack capacity, Russia supplied the famous Sukhoi 30-C and 50 fourth-generation aircraft, which are part of the national air force. This fighter aircraft is considered the most advanced of its kind, including American fighters.

The alliances forged by both nations are not limited to commercial agreements for the purchase and sale of defense equipment. The countries carry out activities on the principles of foreign non-intervention. The Russian-Venezuelan dynamics built is far removed from the formation of military colonies that the United States coordinates in subordinate countries.

The geopolitical turn that Venezuela took led him to deepen military cooperation with Russia in other links of arms production, aiming at the transfer of technologies and the technical training of Venezuelan personnel. In 2006, an agreement was signed to build a Russian helicopter maintenance and repair center, completed in 2013.

The year 2018, loaded with multiple operations against the Venezuelan State, with the attempted assassination as the summit, also had a greater rapprochement with the Russian Federation in order to dissuade Washington in deepening the siege of the country.

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For the beginning of last December, joint maneuvers were carried out with the "White Swans", supersonic bombers of the extinct Soviet Union, with the purpose of exchanging experiences between both aviations.

Along with these aircraft Tupolev 160, arrived the Russian delegation, composed by a hundred military personnel.

The degree of commitment manifested now that openly launched threats of military intervention against Venezuela, Russia participated as a diplomatic actor to accuse US interference in the internal affairs of the country at the meeting of the Security Council of the UN, developed at the end of January .

The subsequent denunciations by the Russian Foreign Ministry, about the "determinations that Washington shows in dividing the Venezuelan army and overthrowing the constitutional government of Venezuela," ratifies the cohesion of diplomatic relations at a time when US actions are excessive and violent. .

The Kremlin, the decisive agent to de-escalate the war in Syria, came to counteract the aggressions of Ukraine in the Sea of Azov to provoke a naval conflict, a movement that was backed by the United States and its NATO allies.

The anti-Russian propaganda conceived these joint actions as a "waste of public funds", in the words of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The truth is that the maneuver sent a strong message condemning any attempt to change the political situation in Venezuela.

The activity was preceded by a meeting of Minister Vladimir Padrino with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigú, in the framework of an official trip made by President Nicolás Maduro to the Russians. Agreements were signed on energy, commercial, telecommunications and arms issues.

The Venezuelan State, understanding that war is not reduced to armed confrontation, developed a consequent multipolar strategy in its foreign policy, including heavy factors of the Eurasian bloc that today shows results in the face of the intensification of foreign aggressions.

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The frame between a Swedish journalist in Venezuela, Abrams and Trump

"I am being deported without cause," Annika Rothstein wrote on Twitter shortly before leaving for Paris on the same Air France plane that had taken her to the Maiquetía International Airport, located on the outskirts of Caracas. Immediately, the name of the Swedish journalist was replicated by the corporate media, related NGOs and anti-Chavez journalists, as a new attack on freedom of expression.

Rothstein visiting the country these days was one of the most active journalists in favor of the anti-Chavez operation led by Juan Guaidó. A brief panning on her Twitter account, carried out by @Gotpropaganda on Twitter, reveals the journalist's closeness to opposition leaders such as Guaidó himself, deputy Renzo Pietro and other figures.

His belligerent role against Venezuela was seen even two days before arriving in Venezuela on his second trip when he participated in the event "Venezuela, Hezbollah and Iran", along with the special representative of Guaidó in the United Kingdom, Vanessa Neumann, who worked for the Department of Defense and the Department of State, according to the investigation of @Gotpropaganda.

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, informed that journalists must be accredited before arriving on Venezuelan soil as in all countries of the world. "We have in the country more than 50 correspondents whose staff has been debited," Arreaza tweeted, emphasizing that Rothshein did not respect this protocol.

WHO IS ROTHSTEIN? "Venezuela deports a journalist who denounced Chavista groups", was the title that was most used in the foreign press on the subject. Thus, reference was made to an alleged act of aggression suffered by the Swedish journalist in the days prior to February 23, date in which a large-scale operation was organized from Cúcuta, Colombia, to enter "humanitarian aid" by force.

Venezuela without the consent of the Venezuelan government.

The event was also organized by the Middle East Institute, a think tank financed by the Chevron and Exxon Mobil oil companies, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, all with many specials in Venezuelan oil and minerals.

The interventionist role of the Swedish journalist in Venezuelan internal affairs, on the other hand, was reflected in a video where she participates in an opposition march in Venezuela. According to the legislation of 15

most countries, the interference of foreigners in the internal affairs of the countries in which they are visiting is prohibited. This has repeatedly led to the expulsion of journalists in countries such as the United States, Russia, China and various European countries.

However, the most public and notorious fact about this behavior occurred on February 27 when in an act of provocation he gave a political statement in a session of the National Assembly in contempt. Based on the alleged act of aggression of the collectives, the Swedish journalist said that "although it can not be anywhere if it is in the freedom."

A few days before, on February 10, he wrote: "I feel genuine hatred for this regime and those who helped build a myth that is now slowly killing these children, because this is genocide, and nothing else." Tens of thousands of children die in the name of socialism and nobody bothered to cry in his graves his name. " WHAT DOES THIS SWEDISH JOURNALIST HAVE TO SEE WITH ELLIOTT ABRAMS? Annika Rothstein works as a contributor to Israel Hayom, The Jerusalem Post, Ricochet and Washington Examiner. The proximity of Israel Hayom to the Trump Administration is also evident, and even its editorial leader, Boaz Bismuth, publishes photos of himself with the president of the United States on the front page of the newspaper.

The newspaper was created by billionaire Sheldon Adelson with the aim of bringing "the Israeli public opinion of the political center to the far right in order to make Benjamin Netanyahu prime minister of Israel," according to Ynetnews.

Adelson, owner of the newspaper, is also one of the main financiers of Senator Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor, John Bolton, and Donald Trump himself.

Rothstein claims to have been formed by the Tikvah foundation, which works in "close relationship with thought tanks and neoconservative media to promote a Zionist policy economically oriented to the free market."

The foundation was founded by financial magnate Sanford C. Bernstein, and is currently run by its business partner, Roger Hertog, who is related to the American Institute of Business and the Manhattan Institute, among others, who receive funding from Adelson and Paul Singer, owner of the Elliot Management vulture fund.

Thus, the Swedish journalist belongs to a circle of think-tank relationships and neoconservative media, financed by the most stale of the Zionist lobby, which currently controls the geopolitical orientations of the Trump Administration.

So much so that even Elliott Abrams receives a salary of 12 thousand dollars for being a member of the board of directors of the Tikvah foundation that formed Rothstein, while John Bolton is a member of the faculty of this institution.

Very far from the objectivity and impartiality that the Swedish journalist claims to have with Venezuela. www.misionverdad.com The opinions expressed in these articles are of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Embassy

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GUAIDÓ LOSES THE BATTLE FOR "HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION"

The covers of the newspapers of the world echoed the fire of the "humanitarian aid" that sought to enter the force by Cúcuta. Immediately the Venezuelan government was classified as responsible. "The international community, which has been able to see, with its own eyes, how the usurping regime violates the Geneva Protocol, where it is clearly said that destroying humanitarian aid is a crime against humanity," said Juan Guaidó one day before surrounded by the Colombian President, Iván Duque and OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro.

attempt by the opposition to undermine President Maduro's support bases in the delivery of food."

According to the political scientist, Dimitri Pantoulas, that delivery was "99% of the military and 1% of the humanitarian aspects" and if it failed, the image of the "interim presidency of Guaidó" could be damaged. The result was that no important military soldier complied with the call of Guaidó and the United States had to stop talking about the burned trucks when The New York Times published videos showing that they had been burned by anti-Chavez militants.

The same line was repeated by spokesmen like John Bolton or Mike Pompeo, in addition to senator Marco Rubio, who wounded in his personal pride presaged that in the future Maduro would be lynched just like the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

However, the delivery of humanitarian aid continued to be used as a form of pressure against the Venezuelan State to influence its internal affairs. In this context, the issue was one of the most named by the coalition of Latin American and European countries led by the United States at the last session of the UN Security Council.

Six days before, the antichavism in the mouth of Guaidó said that the aid would go "yes or yes" in a humanitarian avalanche mobilized by 600 thousand registered volunteers for this task. Finally, the number of volunteers was much smaller than expected in an operation that The New York Times described as "an 17

THE RED CROSS, THE GOVERNMENT OF VENEZUELA AND THE FIRST DELIVERY Ten days before February 23, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, met with Red Cross authorities to "review cooperation mechanisms [aimed] to strengthen the Venezuelan health system", after signing in 2018 agreements with this organization and the Pan American Health Organization with the aim of circumventing the blockade of medicines and supplies by the United States.

At the beginning of February, the Red Cross had been clear with its decision not to participate in the delivery of humanitarian aid from the United States to nearly 40,000 people, or 0.13% of the Venezuelan population.

"In order to guarantee the fulfillment of its exclusively humanitarian mission and in accordance with the fundamental principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence, it can not participate in the assistance delivery initiatives proposed for Venezuela from Colombia," said the organization. He also requested that said delivery be agreed with the Venezuelan government.

So it was that after delivery of food and medicine by China, Russia and PAHO; the Red Cross announced in mid-March that in April it would bring to Venezuela supplies, medicines and food for 650 thousand people.

For his part, President Nicolás Maduro reported on an agreement between the Red Cross and the Bolivarian government to "work with the UN agencies in order to bring to Venezuela all the humanitarian aid that may be brought."

ian emergency." According to this thesis, in Venezuela it is necessary to attend to seven million people according to the figures of the Secretary of Humanitarian Affairs of the UN, who elaborated this number without consulting with official organisms.

Although Valencia asked not to politicize this delivery, Juan Guaidó quickly pointed out that the delivery of "humanitarian aid" is an achievement of the Venezuelan opposition struggle. In this sense, he asked his followers to control the delivery so that it is not used as "a political blackmail". In this way, he avoided referring to the fact that if he had not tried to force trucks into Venezuela, in an operation directed by a foreign force, the arrival of these shipments would have been coordinated well in advance between the National Assembly and the national Executive.

Fnally, the first shipment of the organization arrived at the Maiquetía International Airport, located in the coastal state of Vargas. During its delivery, the Minister of Health, Carlos Alvarado, explained that 24 tons of supplies, medicines and 14 power plants are treated, among other elements, which will be distributed in one half to the eight Red Cross hospitals and in the other half to hospitals of the public health service.

While Elliott Abrams, who led the failed operation in Cúcuta on February 23, warned: "that aid will not solve the problems that Venezuelans face, the kind of help that is needed for a general recovery is to replace the regime." The statement, by bombast, can not hide that the Venezuelan government has undermined the humanitarian narrative as a way to push the doors inside the country.

"We ask that this great achievement not be politicized," said the Venezuelan representative of the Red Cross, Mario Villarroel, during the unloading of the plane. It is expected that more landings of this type will arrive in Venezuela for a period of two years, according to the authorities.

CONTROL OF DAMAGES, APPROPRIATION AND ISOLATION OF THE VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION

The intention of Guaidó to treat the arrival of the cargo as an achievement, in addition, reveals how he intends to attribute it to his "interim presidency". That, instead of strengthening its narrative, contributes to broaden the perception that Guaidó has completely lost the

One of the main promoters of the humanitarian channel in Venezuela, Francisco Valencia, of the NGO Codevida, maintained that the delivery "alleviates suffering, but does not completely solve the humanitar18

initiative in the local scene in front of the Venezuelan government In that sense, the political fact that celebrates the self-proclaimed is that Nicolás Maduro found a new way to alleviate the blockade of medicines and supplies suffered by Venezuela. The blockade that Guaidó requested and made him arrive where he arrived.

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SYRIAN WAR: THE LARGEST OPERATION OF THE CIA IN HISTORY The claim comes from Maxime Chaix, author of the book War in the Shadows in Syria, who in an interview with GlobalGeoNews pointed out that the name of the operation was Timber Sycamore and was authorized by Barack Obama in 2013 through a secret executive order. According to The Washington Post, the war in Syria was the "largest CIA covert operation."

According to Chaix, the operation actually began in 2011 when, through the British intelligence service MI6, it organized an arms trafficking network, also operated by the services of Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in order to supply weapons to the jihadists. Syrians from the Libyan arsenal.

Two years later, the CIA directly linked the secret services of Qatar and Saudi Arabia with weapons manufacturers from the Balkans (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Croatia, among others) to accomplish this task. These arms manufacturers, in addition, were backed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which controls its exports through a body known as EUFOR, according to Chaix.

While the injection of these weapons into the local Syrian terrain was monitored by two Operations Rooms that were installed by NATO in Turkey and Jordan with the participation of fifteen foreign intelligence services. Until Trump eliminated the program in 2017, this operation supplied weapons to terrorist militias and Islamic fundamentalists, including the Islamic State itself, which Washington later declared a strategic objective in Syria.

According to Chaix, since 2012, the intelligence services of France alerted their authorities that those who, in reality, were mobilizing the "rebellion" against President Bashar Al Assad were fundamentalist groups such as Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.

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COMMUNIQUES Venezuela sympathizes with the Sri Lankan People and Government and condemns the terrorist attacks that took place in the City of Colombo

strengthen the security and stability of the region, jointly with the attacked independent nations.

Venezuela rejects any form and manifestation of terrorism and expresses its heartfelt condolences to the People and authorities of Sri Lanka, specially, to the families and friends of the victims left by this act of barbarism, and also affirms its faith in the actions announced by the Government of Sri Lanka aimed at determining and punishing, under the law, those responsible for such horrendous crime.

Bolivarian Government rejects aggression and economic war induced by the US government against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

In this light, Venezuela expresses its solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran and urges the international community to condemn such unilateral actions, demanding respect to the UN Charter as well as the cessation of the obsessive imperialist attack against independent peoples and governments that pursue peace, prosperity, wellbeing and defend their sovereignty.

President Nicolas Maduro Moros, on behalf of the Government and People of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, strongly condemns the terrorist attacks occurred on April 21st, Easter Sunday, in the city of Colombo, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, leaving at least 207 dead civilians and more than 400 injured people in hotels and catholic churches of that country.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela strongly rejects the new obsessive and joint acts of aggression and economic war by the US government against the peoples of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, this time under the threat of implementing illegal mechanisms of extraterritorial prosecuting, with the purpose of retaliating against entities making foreign direct investment in Cuba.

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reiterates the bonds of friendship that unite us to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, as well as the commitment to continue working together for justice, peace and the prosperity of our Peoples.

As announced by Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the entry into force of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, next May 2nd, represents an escalation of the criminal blockade that, for sixty years, has affected the Cuban people’s sovereignty and human rights and has been condemned, year after year, by an overwhelming vote in the UN General Assembly.

Venezuela repudiates US statement that qualifies the Islamic Revolution Guardian Corps as terrorists The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects the illegal decision made by the United States of declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as an international terrorist organization.

This political decision, masked under a fraudulent legal instrument nature, is a judicial aberration aimed to expand extraterritoriality of the unilateral and illegal measures to affect Cuba and third countries, in a new flagrant violation of International Law and the United Nations Charter.

Apart from being an open violation of International Law, this unilateral and interfering action is also ethically aggravated by the application of a double standard in the field of the antiterrorist struggle, by attempting to penalize an organization which is precisely known for its important contributions in the fight against such problem.

The announcement was made on the occasion of the anniversary of the invasion in Playa Giron and reveals the spirit of revenge of the US ruling supremacist elite, who, in complicity with the mafia-like Cuban-American lobby, seeks to go back in history to restore the terrible opprobrium and abuse times of the pro-imperialist dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Hence, apart from the above infamous announcement, they threaten to resume restrictions on flights and funds remittances to Cuba against American citizens.

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The People and Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela express their strong support and active solidarity to the Cuban People and Government, with the conviction that the US attempts to break the dignified, sovereign and successful Republic of Cuba shall fail again.

Such new inhuman attack is directly aimed at the whole Venezuelan people, by infringing upon its peace and stability. The United States do not pursuit democracy in Venezuela. Instead, the US infringes upon it, for it to collapse to undertake a recolonisation.

Venezuela rejects such measures and reiterates that we shall not bow down to any aggression, destabilization project or attempt to plunder the resources of the Venezuelan people. In this sense, the Institutions of the Venezuelan State shall face, with strict respect for International Law, these new arbitrarily sanctions and shall guarantee the full functioning of its economy. The outdated elite ruling the US is quite wrong to think that they can gain in Venezuela the victory courageously taken by the dignified people of Cuba in Playa Giron in 1961. Venezuela is the cradle of the American freedom and shall be free forever.

As occurred in Playa Giron, US imperialism shall be defeated once more by the unity, conscience and patriotism of the People of Cuba leaded by the immortal legacy of Jose Marti and Fidel Castro.

Venezuela shall continue exercising the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace to demand the cessation of the unilateral coercive measures as an instrument of colonial domination, in defense of Peoples independence and self-determination and making vows for the triumph of Multilateralism and International Law. Caracas, April 18th, 2019

Venezuela denounces illegal unilateral coercive measures against the Central Bank of Venezuela by the government of Donald Trump

Caracas, April 2019 www.mppre.gob.ve

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces to the international community another aggression against the Venezuelan people by Donald Trumps’ Government, through the arbitrary, illegal, unilateral and coercive measures applied against the Central Bank of Venezuela (CBV), which affect Venezuelans’ security and wellbeing.

The CBV, as other national central banks in the world, has the task of providing with the main financial services of the Republic, centralizing and managing the international monetary reserves, formulating and implementing the country’s monetary policy; therefore, it plays a fundamental role for the purchase of medicines, food and other essential goods intended for the Venezuelan people’s consumption, without exception. In recent months, the CBV has been playing a major role for the economy stabilization in the face of the constant siege by the US government. The intention is clear: to get this tool of the Venezuelan people out, by impeding operations and relation with US and global financial service providers.

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HISTORICAL CRISIS IN GLOBAL KEY

Process that seems to be reissued against Chavism, as the ideological orientation of the coup against the country seeks its disappearance from the political, electoral and spiritual map. From the moment Chávez survived the coup d'état in 2002, the door was opened for an idea of extermination to take shape in language and in political practice.

2019 is a reminder of the present tense of how bad it all came out when Washington put its hands together for the first time.

The temptation to explain the crisis in Venezuela because of its immediate past, because of a management crisis, because of the money that was stolen from some and not others, always leads to loss. To fatigue.

We have never been so sure of what happens, of the solutions to get out of this situation at once, and in turn so insecure of the next day or of what will become of our lives. There we all look at each other's faces without the possibility of lying.

The irrefutable point of definition of this era is the future of Chavism within the Venezuelan nation. The symbol of Orlando Figuera, in whom in body and soul they applied the ideology of Leopoldo López's "Best Venezuela", with all the arrogance of whoever brings Harvard as alma mater, resonates to be the reminder in the present tense of what it implies war.

Our reality, as rich as it is complex, has made unclassifiable some of the phenomena we face.

"All options are on the table," as part of his public discourse, while the country is hanged for sanctions.

A process of "Palestinianization", following the coordinates of Alfredo Jalife Rahme on the planned destruction of an intermediate power like Mexico, making a comparison with the state of exception imposed by Israel against Palestine.

In part, the intellectual parochialism and the setbacks of our truncated history of ideas, given the precarious level of articulation of Venezuela with the world-system, left us with a partial view that probably leads to the forgetting of a central aspect: how history Venezuelan, its body of ideas and social practices, narrates the perverse impacts of the industrial revolution and imperialism.

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"Imperialism" in terms of how it is reconstructed by the researcher Alex De Waal for the Boston Review: imperialism (cultural-gringo) after the (European) Empire.

the damage that implied that the poorest country on the continent began to operate under the principles of freedom and equality , but within the framework of a non-industrialized and oil-dependent society.

*** The Venezuelan question, today geopolitical boiling point framed in a great world reorder to define who will be the new monarch of international relations, is in turn a reflection of the current tensions of the world and how the socio-economic engineering of the West went terribly wrong . And on a global scale.

*** Social relations as a mathematical operation, inclined to risk, to profit and to the eternal and unlimited circulation of everyone and everything, failed gravely and made the world a disaster. But even more, in the countries that joined late.

The failure is due to a failed understanding of the world. In the 19th century, says Karl Polanyi, "land, work and money were considered real goods, instead of fictitious products governed by human values."

Against the logic of the market, they can not be valued according to the offer and the price. demand, and any attempt to do so would ultimately make human society incoherent: a desert. "

The West separated fascism and liberalism after the Second World War, placing them as separate destinations where humanity had already made its final decision. But the collapse of this analytical framework is reflected in the turbulent global policy, the ecological crisis, the illegal wars outside the (trampled) United Nations Charter and the weakening of human discourse before the technological leap of our chaotic and sick It was informational.

This is the paradigm that would be globalized and experienced in different societies, marked by an unequal development of customs, traditions and hierarchies destroyed by contemporary capitalism.

The heavy psychic burden of breaking this sociohistorical model, practiced on a global scale on the traces of colonialism and the expansion phases of world capitalism, is also amalgamated with the contradictions generated in Venezuela by the passage of the industrial revolution and capitalism. of insertion in the international oil market. When the boundaries of Western civilization within the territory were definitely extended.

Thus, modern society, born in the form of a contract, today witnesses signs of collapse by a logical contradiction of its own ethical approach: a commercial society based on narcissism and vanity as the only reason for existence, collides with an asymmetric capitalist order that it produces a tendency towards widespread resentment.

And from that brutal clash between a disintegrated, peasant society, hurt by years of internal war, and an industrial and commercial imported by the US oil companies, we did not get away unharmed. The amnesia was the result of the myth of the rich country, of the "tabarato, give me two", and to think that it was all a matter of the oil rent disguising the atrophy born of the same income.

The insertion of the paradigm of modern society, specifically in Venezuela, introduced new variables of chaos in a country marked by the territorial and political disintegration of the 19th century.

Oil colonialism rethinked our social life under unsustainable principles: to live solely on income, abandoning production and importing everything, would make the State and an artificially buoyant society an unstable project, built on the quicksand of the international market of raw materials.

The sociocultural consequences of cultural imperialism in Venezuela, applied to a population resigned to the montoneras and peace interrupted in the most absolute disintegration and isolation in the countryside, are measured in daily behavior, our way of speaking and reacting to certain events.

The effect of this on the social and production relations of Venezuelan society is brutal. The start of a disintegrated population that was incorporated into modernity, solely because of the flow and expenditure of money, has resulted in a lack of clear rules and a scale of values.

This six-year war has been the unveiling of our collective unconscious, showing us acts of solidarity that tend to mitigate the commercial logic, and at the same time, currents of social fascitization and disintegration that place hatred as the exit ticket for the national common story. In the reinvention of Venezuela posed

by Guaidó, Chavismo does not exist.

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In the soul and mind of Venezuelan society, these dissimilar historical trends collide and give us a difficult result to shed. It is the dislocation between the mentality of absolute trust to the income institution, where we outsource all collective responsibility of our current situation, and the penetration of neoliberalism that made the State one more company and the society one against all.

The story presented as a linear fact, in constant and unlimited progress, and in our case as a branch of Miami on the rise as in the 90s, today reflects its terrible effects. The tearing apart of the categories that make us operate in a capitalist society (freedom and equality), disturbed in such a way the social life that its base of support is the individual looting poured into general structures such as the State and income.

In a disordered and chaotic manner, fascist tendencies such as that of María Corina Machado, the cruel and colonial geopolitics of the Monroe Doctrine, the consequences of believing ourselves rich in a peripheral country, the caudillo imaginary still in vogue, the traumas of the middle class and enriched impoverished again and again, they shape our political and cultural landscape of late capitalism.

Modernity came to Venezuela in the form of a seesaw and an oil field, in the form of luxury products, misery and territorial expropriation. In the form of amnesia from what we were until 60 years ago.

The stormy thing of the matter makes that the hegemony is a matter of days, the State a provider of services in permanent crisis, the financial blockade a silent bleed and that the threats of war are part of the daily speech.

Historical experience indicates that the first bomb of a war is aimed at the unifying story of the victim society.

That said, the exhaustion of any minimally computer account is given by logical consequence and in global proportions.

country. Obviously this question remains open and opening wounds.

It is almost the same big problem that Bolívar assumed in his Republic projects: how to build a (collective) citizenship without (individual) citizens in a premodern

This problem is political, but also cultural as the displacement also produces the mass base for the currents of hatred that today seeks to define the minds of Venezuelans, under the fratricidal route of which to be the XXI century Panama, where we are supposedly going to win all, it is necessary to exterminate millions that impede progress.

The Venezuelan crisis is geopolitical but not within the scope of its definitive resolution. Thus, the main nerve of historical time is, in the same scale of importance, the geopolitical location in the framework of a rising multipolar world, but also the discourse that will give continuous and as stable as possible to events and the reality political country inside.

The disorientation of modern global society, at unequal levels of breakdown and weakening according to the privileges or punishments that the world-system distributes, is expressed in Venezuela more than in the atrophy of its economic model, in the problematic of reinterpreting its present knowing its own past.

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An erroneous version of the functioning of society falls with all its weight and shows the disastrous and cruel socio-economic engineering of the market, which is manifested in Venezuela with high prices adrift, rampant dollarization, crisis of public services and all the rest of vulnerabilities grounded in our chaotic history within late capitalism, agitated by a high voltage intervention agenda.

The keys that emanate there have all the possible readings, being the general features, as well as the lines of recomposition and fracture along 200 years, which indicate that the Venezuelan society is still in formation, dragging all its pending matters without resolve in the economic, technological, intellectual and cultural fields.

The collapse of neoliberal globalization, which moves at the pace set by a new expedition of the US Empire, complicates the scenario further. It causes the decomposition of the liberal international order, based on the relationship between national states that domesticate market forces, to be translated in Venezuela in the form of electric sabotages, punitive sanctions against the Venezuelan economy and an induced collapse of social and economic life as a tool of geopolitical power.

Without rules that operate in politics, society becomes a gigantic concentration camp.

Perhaps the least distressing fact is the opportunity of reinvention in the application of a flexible thought that feeds on the built cultural substrate, reinvented or deformed by past generations, with all the problems that we can detail. And that, renouncing the permanent forecast of an uncertain future, organize the variables of war in favor of the country.

The challenge is to build a discourse that, speaking from there, brings us together in another new cycle of disintegration. Because if we are still alive it is because the trace of the past continues to remind us of our pending matters in all fields. The urgent need to rebuild ourselves.

Not being history a linear fact, the only way to reinvent ourselves in the midst of the strong waves of the capitalist crisis, is to explore the keys of our present to have a reliable reinterpretation of our past. Reducing the importance of history, ultimately what gives our actions and common experience with others meaning, brought us here.

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The debacle of everything and everyone at this time, also part of that we have nowhere to return for a reinvention. Without hierarchies or social institutions stripped of income, in the midst of the great tearing of neoliberalism, has resulted in everything to derive in a great odious and bellicose consensus for individual salvation.

There, the current of social fascitization prevails in the face of the breakdown of our main common story: a truncated independence, a "failed" oil country; our deformed and chaotic demography, economic geography and bases of support as a nation. To rethink this happens to stop seeing us as guilty, and consequently, to act as responsible for our becoming as a society.

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OBJECTIVE OF SANCTIONS TO IRAN: TAKE OIL EXPORTS TO ZERO

Taking into account its new geopolitical strategy in relation to oil, the United States decided to announce that there will be no more sanctions exceptions for any country that imports Iranian oil.

The objective is to coordinate an extensive network of embargo on oil made in Iran, the largest source of income for the Islamic Republic. "This decision is aimed at zeroing Iran's oil exports," the Washington statement said.

The government of the United States has been applying a strategy that allows it to decide where oil markets are inserted based on sanctions. The journalist Thierry Meyssan wrote about it: "According to the Pompeo doctrine, it is not convenient to reduce world production to the level of demand by establishing production quotas, as OPEC + did two years ago, but by closing the doors of the market to several large exporters - Iran, Venezuela and Syria - whose gigantic reserves have recently been discovered and have not yet entered the exploitation phase ".

In this way, the United States directs its forces at the international level to prevent major OPEC producers and affiliates from limiting their commercial circulation of oil, becoming the main producer and decision-maker of export flows in the world.

Adds the White House statement: "The United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three of the world's major energy producers, along with our friends and allies, are committed to ensuring that world oil markets continue to be supplied adequately". www.misionverdad.com The opinions expressed in these articles are of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Embassy

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VENEZUELA IS USED TO DEFENDING ITSELF ..... AND FIGHTING IMPERIALISM President Hugo Chรกvez

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