by
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Part
1
Speaking
at his alma mater, the University of Texas, on February 1, Secretary
of State Tillerson suggested a potential military coup in Venezuela.
Tillerson then visited allied Latin American countries urging regime
change and more economic sanctions on Venezuela. Tillerson is
considering banning the processing or sale of Venezuelan oil in the
United States and is discouraging other countries from buying
Venezuelan oil. Further, the US is laying the groundwork for war
against Venezuela.
In a
series of tweets, Senator Marco Rubio, the Republican from Florida,
where many Venezuelan oligarchs live, called for a military coup in
Venezuela.
How
absurd — remove an elected president with a military coup to
restore democracy? Does that pass the straight face test? This
refrain of Rubio and Tillerson seems to be the nonsensical public
position of US policy.
The US
has been seeking regime change in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was
elected in 1998. Trump joined Presidents Obama and Bush before him in
continuing efforts to change the government and put in place a
US-friendly oligarch government.
They
came closest in 2002 when a military coup removed Chavez. The
Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan military announced Chavez had
resigned and Pedro Carmona, of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce,
became interim president.
Carmona
dissolved the National Assembly and Supreme Court and declared the
Constitution void. The people surrounded the presidential palace and
seized television stations, Carmona resigned and fled to Colombia.
Within 47 hours, civilians and the military restored Chavez to the
presidency. The coup was a turning point that strengthened the
Bolivarian Revolution, showed people could defeat a coup and exposed
the US and oligarchs.
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