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US
corporate-financier funded think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
declared in its "post-Chávez checklist for US
policymakers," that the US
must move quickly to reorganize
Venezuela
according to US interests. Upon its checklist were "key demands":
The ouster of narco-kingpins who now hold senior posts in
government.
The respect for a constitutional succession.
The adoption of meaningful electoral reforms to ensure a
fair campaign environment and a transparent vote count in expected presidential
elections; and
The dismantling of Iranian and Hezbollah networks in Venezuela.
In reality, AEI is talking about dismantling entirely the
obstacles that have prevented the US and the corporate-financier interests that
direct it, from installing a client regime and extracting Venezuela's wealth
while obstructing, even dismantling the progress and geopolitical influence
achieved by the late President Hugo Chavez throughout South America and beyond.
The AEI "checklist" continues by stating:
Now is the time for US diplomats to begin a quiet dialogue
with key regional powers to explain the high cost of Chávez’s criminal regime,
including the impact of chavista complicity with narcotraffickers who sow
mayhem in Colombia, Central America, and Mexico. Perhaps then we can convince
regional leaders to show solidarity with Venezuelan democrats who want to
restore a commitment to the rule of law and to rebuild an economy that can be
an engine for growth in South America.Of course, by "Venezuelan democrats,"
AEI means Wall Street-backed proxies like Henrique Capriles
Radonski and his Primero Justicia (Justice First) political front, two entities
the Western media is already gearing up to support ahead of anticipated
elections.
West Has Positioned Proxies to Strip Venezuela to
the Bones After Chavez' Passing
Primero Justicia (Justice First) was co-founded by Leopoldo
Lopez and Julio Borges, who like Radonski, have been backed for nearly a decade
by the US State Department. Primero Justicia and the network of foreign-funded
NGOs that support it have been recipients of both direct and indirect foreign
support for at least just as long.
Image: US State Department document (archived) illustrating
the role National Endowment for Democracy (NED)-funded NGOs play in supporting
US-backed opposition figures in Venezuela.
The US
regularly fails to transparently list who is included in extensive funding NED
provides opposition groups in Venezeula, so documents like this give a rare
glimpse into the names and dynamics actually involved. As was suspected, NED
money is going into networks providing support for current presidential
candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski. In this particular document, NED-funded
Sumate's legal trouble is described in relation to its attempted defense of
Radonski. At the time this document was written, Radonski was in jail pending
trial for his role in facilitating the 2002 US-backed failed coup against
President Hugo Chavez. The document may still be online at the US State
Department's official website here.
All three co-founders are US educated - Radonski having
attended New York's Columbia University (Spanish), Julio Borges attending
Boston College and Oxford (Spanish), and Leopoldo Lopez who attended the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government (KSG), of which he is considered an alumni
of (and here).
The Harvard Kennedy School,
which hosts the notorious Belfer Center, includes the following faculty and alumni of
Lopez, co-founder of the current US-backed opposition in Venezuela:
John P. Holdren, Samantha Power, Lawrence Summers, Robert
Zoellick, (all as faculty), as well as Ban Ki-Moon ('84), Paul Volcker ('51),
Robert Kagan ('91), Bill O'Reilly ('96), Klaus Schwab ('67), and literally
hundreds of senators, ambassadors, and administrators of Wall Street and
London's current global spanning international order. Harvard's Kennedy School
of Government (KSG) is clearly one of several universities that form the
foundation of both creating corporate-financier driven globalist-international
policy, as well as cultivating legions of administrators to execute it.
To understand fully the implications of Lopez' education it
helps to understand the leadership and principles guiding Harvard's mission
statements, best exemplified by KSG' Belfer
Center, which to this
day, lends its public support to Lopez and his Primero Justicia opposition
party.
Image: John P. Holdren (bearded, left), an advocate for
population reduction through forced sterilization overseen by a "planetary
regime," is just one of many "colorful" characters to be found
within the halls of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government from which Primero
Justicia co-founder Leopoldo Lopez of Venezuela graduated. To this day, KSG
provides forums in support of US-backed opposition bids at seizing power in Venezuela.
Named after Robert Belfer of the Belco Petroleum Corporation
and later, director of the failed Enron Corporation, the Belfer Center
describes itself as being "the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School's
research, teaching, and training in international security affairs,
environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy."
Robert Belfer still sits in as an International Council Member.
Belfer's director, Graham Allison provides an example of
self-serving corporatism steering US policy. He was a founder of the
Trilateral Commission, a director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a
consultant to the RAND Corporation, Director of the Getty Oil Company, Natixis,
Loomis Sayles, Hansberger, Taubman Centers, Inc., and Belco Oil and Gas, as
well as a member of the advisory boards of Chase Bank, Chemical Bank,
Hydro-Quebec, and the shady International Energy Corporation, all according to
his official Belfer Center bio.
Other questionable personalities involved as a Belfer
alumnus are Goldman Sachs, CFR member, and former-World Bank president Robert
Zoellick. Sitting on the board of directors is CFR member and former Goldman
Sachs consultant, Ashton Carter. There is also former director of Citigroup and
Raytheon, former Director of Central Intelligence and CFR member John Deutch,
who required a pardon by Clinton
to avoid prosecution over a breach of security while fumbling his duties at the
CIA. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Rothschild of Atticus Capital and RIT Capital
Partners, Paul Volcker of the Federal Reserve, and former DHS Secretary Michael
Chertoff all serve as Belfer
Center's
"advisers."
Last but not least, there is John P. Holdren, also a Council
on Foreign Relations member, science adviser to both President Clinton and
President Obama, and co-author with Paul Ehrilich, of the now notorious book
Ecoscience. When Holdren isn't brand-building for "Climate
Disruption," he is dreaming of a Malthusian-fueled totalitarian global
government that forcibly sterilizes the world's population. He feared,
erroneously, that overpopulation would be the end of humanity. He claimed in
his hubris filled, fact deficient book, The No Growth Society, that by the year
2040, the United States would have a dangerously unsustainable population of
280 million he called "much too many." The current US population
is over 300 million, and despite reckless leadership and policies, it is still
sustainable.
One could argue that Lopez' education is in his past,
independent of his current political activities, however, the interests driving
the agenda of the Belfer Center are demonstrably still backing his Primero
Justicia party's bid for seizing power in Venezuela. Lopez, Radonski, and
Borges are to this day still receiving substantial funding and support through
NGO networks funded directly by the US State Department's National Endowment
for Democracy, and is clearly favored by the Western press. Furthermore, the
CFR, Heritage Foundation, and other corporate-financier driven think-tanks have
all come out in support of Radonski and Primero Justicia, in their bid to
"restore democracy" American-style in Venezuela.
With Chavez' passing, the names of these opposition figures
will become mainstays of Western reporting ahead of anticipated elections the
West is eager to have held - elections the West is well positioned to
manipulate in favor of Lopez, Radonski, and Borges.
Whatever one may have thought about Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez and his policies, he nationalized his nation's oil, forcing out
foreign multinational corporations, diversified his exports to reduce
dependency on Western markets (with US exports at a 9 year low), and had openly
opposed corporate-financier neo-imperialism across the globe. He was an
obstruction to Western hegemony - an obstruction that has provoked overt,
depraved jubilation from his opponents upon his death.
And while many critics are quick to claim President Chavez'
policies are a "failure," it would be helpful to remember that the
US, on record, has arrayed its vast resources both overtly and covertly against
the Venezuelan people over the years to ensure that any system outside the
West's sphere of influence inevitably fails.
Dark Days Ahead.
Dark days indeed lay ahead for Venezuela, with the AEI
"checklist" foreshadowing an "uprising," stating:
As Venezuelan democrats wage that struggle against chavismo,
regional leaders must make clear that Syria-style repression will never be
tolerated in the Americas.
We should defend the right of Venezuelans to struggle democratically to reclaim
control of their country and its future. Only Washington
can make clear to Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and Cuban leaders that, yes, the United States does mind if they try to sustain
an undemocratic and hostile regime in Venezuela. Any attempt to suppress their
self-determination with Chinese cash, Russian arms, Iranian terrorists, or
Cuban thuggery will be met with a coordinated regional response.
US military contractors and special forces had been caught
operating in and around Venezuela.
Just as there were warning signs in Syria
years before the 2011 conflict began, the US'
intentions of provoking bloodshed and regime change in Venezuela
stretch back as far as 2002. Just as Syria
is now facing a Western-engineered proxy war, Venezuela
will too, with the AEI already declaring US plans to wage a Syria-style proxy
war in South America.
The AEI also reminds readers of the West's faux-human
rights, "economic development," and "democracy promotion"
racket Hugo Chavez had ejected from Venezuela
and displaced across parts of South America,
and the West's desire to reestablish it:
US
development agencies should work with friends in the region to form a task
force of private sector representatives, economists, and engineers to work with
Venezuelans to identify the economic reforms, infrastructure investments,
security assistance, and humanitarian aid that will be required to stabilize
and rebuild that country. Of course, the expectation will be that all the costs
of these activities will be borne by an oil sector restored to productivity and
profitability.
Finally, we need to work with like-minded nations to
reinvigorate regional organizations committed to democracy, human rights,
anti-drug cooperation, and hemispheric solidarity, which have been neutered by
Chávez’s destructive agenda.
As the US openly funds, arms, and backs Al Qaeda in Syria,
conducts global renditions, operates an international archipelago of torture
dungeons, and is only now wrapping up a decade of subjugation and mass murder
in Iraq and Afghanistan that is still claiming lives and jeopardizing the
future of millions to this day, it is difficult to discern just who the AEI's
target audience is. It is most likely those who can read between the lines -
the corporate-financier vultures waiting for the right moment to strip Venezuela to
the bone.
The fate of Venezuela
lies in its people's hands. Covert destabilization must be faced by the
Venezuelan people, while the alternative media must do its best to unravel the
lies already being spun ahead of long-planned operations in "post-Chavez Venezuela."
For the rest of us, we must identify the corporate-financier interestsdriving
this agenda, - interests we most likely patronize on a daily basis, and both
boycott and permanently replace them to erode the unwarranted influence they
have used, and will continue to use against the Venezuelan people, as well as
people across the globe.
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