John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY BEN CHU IN THE INDEPENDENT
"This is what happens when an economy and a society disintegrates due to economic mismanagement and populist folly"
The author sounds like an echo of the kind of stuff you may easily find on Alt-right Internet sites.
This "analysis" just happens to leave out some desperately important things at work.
While it isn’t featured in the mainline press, we know to a certainty from many bits of information that the CIA has conducted an intensive campaign for several years against this popularly elected government.
It is under the auspices of a larger program, I believe started in 2008, to keep Latin American free from the kind of influences CIA does not like. It had another big operation back in the 1970s called Operation Condor which saw a great deal of violence across a number of states.
Many dirty tricks and and manipulative efforts. I wouldn’t doubt counterfeiting the country’s currency, something CIA has done against targets many times, has been one of them. Good quality counterfeits – and CIA produces the best on Treasury Department presses – can inflate and destroy a country’s currency.
They have been very active in trying disrupt Venezuela’s markets and create uncertainty everywhere as well as in funding opposition interests.
But the strength and intelligence of this leader and his popularity have continued to foil their intentions. It reminds me of the early 1960s in Cuba when the CIA tried everything, spending vast amounts, to hurt Castro’s Cuba and literally to kill Castro, but Castro’s wiliness combined with the deep affection in which most Cubans held him, defeated all the CIA’s efforts.
That’s why Trump has mumbled a couple of times, “Maybe we should invade Venezuela.”
Charming.
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Response to another comment:
Yes, exactly.
This article tries to kill two birds with one stone.
Discredit the government of Venezuela and, by implication, discredit Jeremy Corbyn.
And it makes that effort ignoring some mighty large facts.
