US Aggression Towards Venezuela:Black Propaganda & Dirty War Tactics Again

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U.S. Aggression towards Venezuela: The Rise of Black Propaganda and Dirty War Tactics (Again)

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2005
By: Eva Golinger - Venezuelanalysis.com

Washington’s efforts to discredit the Venezuelan Government have increased over the past few weeks. Tactics and strategies applied in prior years attempting to overthrow the Chávez administration through a coup d’etat, an illegal oil industry strike that crippled the Venezuelan economy and a constitutional recall referendum on Chávez’s mandate infused with illegal campaign contributions by the U.S. government to the Venezuelan opposition, all failed miserably. After a brief period of reevaluation, the Bush Administration has recently launched a new strategy intended to isolate and eventually topple the Venezuelan Government. The new aggression towards Venezuela is direct, open, public and hostile. The Bush Administration, through its Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and her spokesmen, its Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his spokesmen, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Porter Goss, has made clear that Venezuela is a target for Washington this year.

This time around, the strategy is clear: turn President Chávez into an international pariah in the world media and justify an intervention to save democracy. Even more transparent are the mechanisms utilized to implement the strategy. Since early January 2005, major U.S. publications and television stations, including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Fox News Network and CSNBC, to name a few, have published or broadcast well over 60 articles and programs regurgitating State Department accusations that President Chávez presents a “negative force in the region,”<1> is a “threat to democracy,” a “semi-dictator,” or that the Venezuela Government provides refuge and collaborates with “terrorist” groups, such as the Colombian FARC and ELN. Such accusations are dangerous in today’s world, where the Bush Administration is omnipotent to act preemptively to “spread liberty” and implement “regime change” where and when it sees fit.

The new strategy applied towards Venezuela represents a major policy shift for the Bush Administration. While prior actions were more subtle, clandestine and low profile, the revised plan is confrontational. Washington is now trying to openly intervene in Venezuela to remove Chávez from power, but attempts to excuse such actions by branding Chávez as a dictator and a major threat to U.S. national security. Several recent articles in U.S. media have demonstrated such objectives.

The April 11, 2005 edition of The National Review, an ultraconservative magazine representing right-wing views similar to those of Washington’s ultraconservative right-wing government, presents a cover image of President Chávez, in military fatigues, a red beret and a face ten years younger, alongside President Fidel Castro of Cuba, with the byline, “The Axis of Evil…Western Hemisphere Version”. The feature article, by rabidly anti-Castro Cuban-American Otto Reich, former Special Advisor to George W. Bush on Latin American Affairs and former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, along with a list of other top positions in the Reagan, Bush I and II administrations, presents an attempt to terrorize readers into believing Venezuela has become the primary threat to U.S. national security in the region. Reich also claims that the U.S.’s most “pressing specific challenge is neutralizing or defeating the Cuba-Venezuela axis.”<2>

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1409

[EVDebs]

1. Has anyone in Bush's admin heard 'You get more with honey than vinegar?"

They got oil, we need it, let's deal like adults...huh ? But noooooooooooooooooooooo.

[bemildred]

2. Same old shit.

These people must be backward.
They have already done this now many times? Three? Four?
And they got their asses handed to them every time.
When do you cut your losses?

[struggle4progress]

3. kick

[PATRICK]

4. heavy handed arrogance

against the leaders of SA seems quite possibly to be backfiring with absolutely no hope or concession that Bushamerica will do other that treat all of them like a brutal fiefdom.

Distance and disperse these polarizations.
Band against Chavez to placate the US with oil.
Band with Chavez and face down the insanity from the north.

I think the threat of Negroponte gives them no choice but some combination of the first and third and some timorous stalling techniques and actions in other areas like trade organizations.

In fact the "omnipotent" US can't invade everyone OR do without trade cooperation. the bully must be universally faced down or it will get ugly for everyone. Everyone loses.

Sadly, I am betting for ugly.