Tag: Opposition Party

Chavistas march against imperialism: what is the next step in Trump’s coup?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Even though the ongoing imperialist coup in Venezuela has not yet succeeded, the impression one gets is that there is an inexorable march forward in its implementation, which is pushed mainly from forces abroad rather than from within Venezuela itself. The next step in the plan is the use of “humanitarian aid” as a provocation on the border with Colombia.
— Read on www.marxist.com/chavistas-march-against-imperialism-what-is-the-next-step-in-trump-s-coup.htm

Venezuela: The U.S.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 U.S. regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994).  Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/06/venezuela-the-u-s-s-68th-regime-change-disaster/

Holy Cow!

Since Killing Hope was published in 1995, the U.S. has conducted at least 13 more regime change operations, several of which are still active: Yugoslavia; Afghanistan; Iraq; the 3rd U.S. invasion of Haiti since WWII; Somalia; Honduras; Libya; Syria; Ukraine; Yemen; Iran; Nicaragua; and now Venezuela.

Venezuela: Maduro creates ‘socialist enterprise system’, collectives protest food giant’s hoarding [2016]

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the creation of a National Productive Corporation on February 22, as part of a new socialist enterprise system aimed at coordinating efforts among existing state, communal and mixed firms. Speaking from the Ana Maria Campo Petrochemical Complex in Zulia state, the socialist leader said the new entity would be tasked with unifying
— Read on www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-maduro-creates-socialist-enterprise-system-collectives-protest-food-giants