Petras: U.S. does not have the support to ignore Venezuela's election results [View all]

[Catherina]

Petras: U.S. does not have the support to ignore Venezuela's election results
4/24/13


APORREA.ORG - For the American sociologist James Petras, professor at several U.S. universities, who studies development, class struggle and conflict in Latin America, the US Department of State has no proposed strategy to recognize the election results of April 14, which was declared Nicolas Maduro the winner.

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"We must consider what levers Washington can use at this juncture, first, the US has lost the ability to launch an attack from Colombia, at least for the moment, since the relations between the two countries are fairly quiet, and second, it's unable to launch a Latin American boycott because Venezuela is well integrated in this region, and thirdly, they can't organize a boycott outside because Venezuela is an OPEC member and has a range of correlations ( correlational relationships) with other powers such as China, Russia and Latin America ... its diplomatic efforts showed weakness and lack of support. "

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The United States sociologist noted that the U.S. government only has the internal opposition left. "Most of the media are in the hands of extremists and the powers associated with Washington. So we think that Washington will channel their opposition using their colleagues in the media. "

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Professor Petras is convinced that in Venezuela tolerance is very high, so, for him, there must be a greater effort to enforce the law and punish those who killed eight people during the violence last week. "Punish strongly the political terrorists involved ... in the United States a terrorist killed three people and most of the city (Boston) was locked down, there are widespread calls for the electric chair and suspension of constitutional rights."

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