Day: January 24, 2019

Is foreign military intervention in Venezuela imminent?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By James Jordan

 January 24, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — According to conventional wisdom, there should be no serious talk of foreign military intervention in Venezuela. But these aren’t conventional times. The conventional playbook would adopt a strategy of foreign coordination of the Venezuelan opposition, economic sabotage, infiltration of the military, and manipulation of popular movements against the elected government. All this is being done, but, so far, unsuccessfully. The frustrations of the Bolivarian movement’s enemies are palpable. Does this mean intervention is imminent? And what would such an intervention look like?

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Juan Guaido: the ‘kid’ taking on Venezuela’s Maduro

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

My notes: They boycotted the election, then decided to announce that the election was illegal!

Guaido did not set out to supplant Maduro, the socialist president who has presided over a spiraling political and economic crisis in Venezuela. US President Donald Trump immediately recognized him as Venezuela’s interim president, followed by a string of countries across the region.
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Russian companies get green light to mine gold in Venezuela [2018]

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

My Notes: Russia’s going to want to protect it’s investments!

*Venezuela has gold, to buy food, etc, for their citizens, but The Bank Of England won’t let them withdraw it!

Published time: 26 Dec, 2018

Venezuelan authorities have offered Russian companies to take part in gold exploration and gold mining in the country, according to Russian Ambassador to Venezuela Vladimir Zaemsky.

“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.

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