The economic war will be fought militarily

President Maduro is convinced the “economic war” is a real war that it should be defeated militarily. He has announced for today a meeting of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB), the “militancy of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and “members of the executive” in order to debate a new “especial pilot plan to defeat the economic war.”

According to Maduro this meeting should be the basis of a “Civic-Military High Command” which will “definitively defeat the structures that propitiate scarcity, usury, and speculation.”

The military character of the war was stressed by the president: “The National Guard has a special structure for these types of battles, to fight against smuggling, the bachaqueo, and the economic war in all its forms. (…) We are focused on the economic war and in the defeat, once and for all, of the economic coup under way in Venezuela.”

Maduro asks congress to investigate the “economic war”

Maduro addressed a crowd a followers today and asked them to be on the lookout for conspirators whom he claims are waging an “economic war” against the country.

The war has lately turned into an “economic coup” warned the president: “In Venezuela there is an ongoing economic coup. I call the people to a battle to face this coup.”

He said that in the next few days he will make public new evidence of this conspiracy and will ask the National Assembly to launch an investigation on the issue: “We will open an investigation on the coup and the actors that have been planning it,” he told the crowd.

Maduro also referred to an announced visit by three Latin American ex-presidents: Sebastian Piñera (Chile), Felipe Calderon (México), and Andrés Pastrana (Colombia). This group of ex-president plans to meet prominent opposition leaders in a forum organized by Maria Corina Machado. The group also plans to visit Leopoldo López in military prison of Ramo Verde, where he is being held for allegedly instigating the violence during the opposition protest of 2014.

Maduro told the ex-presidents that they are free to visit Venezuela but that they should be aware that they will be meeting with an “ultra-rightist” group and that therefore they are complicit in the coup against him: “they should be clear as to the fact that they are coming here to support a coup d’état,” he said.

He also said that this “ultra-rightist” group had plans to assassinate him.

Note how the Agencia Venezolana de Noticia frames Maduro’s declarations on its report. La Salida is considered a “coupist group” and it is responsible for all the 43 death during the 2014 protest. In fact AVN states that the group murdered the 43 in “terrorist acts”:

Ex presidentes de derecha apoyan a grupo golpista

Durante su alocución, el presidente Maduro denunció que tres ex presidentes de derecha vendrán a Venezuela para apoyar a un grupo golpista, responsable de actos terroristas en el año pasado denominado "La Salida" que asesinó a 43 venezolanos.

Sebatián Piñera, (ex presidente de Chile), Felipe Calderón (México) y Andrés Pastrana (Colombia) vendrán al país a un foro que organiza un sector de la ultraderecha del país, que promueve abiertamente un golpe de Estado y el camino de la violencia para llegar al poder.

"Ustedes deberían estar preocupados por las crisis de sus países, y no meter sus narices en Venezuela", dijo el Jefe de Estado.

Denunció que este grupo golpista, encabezado por la ex diputada María Machado, organiza un foro, financiado con recursos del narcotráfico y la ultraderecha estadounidense.

El Presidente dijo que a los ex presidentes "le debe quedar claros que vienen a apoyar un golpe de Estado".

Asimismo, anunció que en los próximos días presentará nuevas pruebas sobre conspiraciones de la derecha, que buscan desestabilizar al país e intentar derrocar al legítimo Gobierno.

Diosdado Cabello: A conspiracy of disenchantment

The president of the National Assembly and vice-president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, warns that “the destabilization plans pushed by the Venezuelan right seek to generate disenchantment in the population, [with the aim of] making it oppose the national government.”

According to the Agencia Venezolana de Noticias, Cabello told followers at a party workshop that the directives the opposition are following come directly from a manual written by the Special Forces of the United States which defines the strategies of “unconventional war.”

The objective of this disenchantment campaign, according to Cabello, would be to make the people blame the government for the effects of the “economic war” that the government claims is being instigated by the right.

Here is the complete note by AVN (including two more AVN link to revelations by Cabello):

Cabello: Planes desestabilizadores buscan desencantar al pueblo para enfrentarlo al Gobierno

Caracas, 22 Ene. AVN.- El primer vicepresidente del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (Psuv), Diosdado Cabello, alertó este jueves que los planes desestabilizadores impulsados por la derecha venezolana buscan generar desencanto en la población venezolana, como una vía para oponerla al Gobierno Nacional.

Tales acciones, de acuerdo con Cabello, se inscriben en la guerra no convencional, definida en un manual escrito por las Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales de Estados Unidos—publicado en abril de 2011—como "aquellas actividades desarrolladas para hacer posible que un movimiento de resistencia o una insurgencia coaccionen, alteren o derroquen a un gobierno o potencia ocupante operando mediante o con fuerzas clandestinas, auxiliares y guerrilleras en un territorio enemigo".

En un taller del I curso de propulsores del partido revolucionario, efectuado en el estado Miranda, refirió que actualmente se promueve una guerra contra el pueblo, que lo lleve a culpar al Ejecutivo de los efectos de la guerra económica impulsada por la misma derecha. "Por eso, a nuestra gente hay que hablarle claro. Si hay colas, vamos a asumirlas, porque ellos (sectores antichavistas) dicen que van a asumir las colas, ¿para qué? Para generar disturbios".

En transmisión por Venezolana de Televisión, Cabello manifestó que la guerra no convencional, estrategia aplicada por Estados Unidos, busca un objetivo político: derrocar a la Revolución Bolivariana sin la intervención militar directa, y con una inversión económica menor.

Este mecanismo de intervención pretende empujar una mayoría pasiva y neutral "hacia posiciones en contra del gobierno a derrocar y apalancar la subversión y la insurgencia", haciendo creer que existen tres pedazos de la población, dos minorías no representantivas y un gran centro, para así crear una gran campaña para empujar para quienes estén en el grupo mayoritario "contra del gobierno".

En el contexto venezolano, estas acciones de guerra no convencional también incluyen ataques a la imagen de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (Fanb), relacionándolos con el narcotráfico, con la violación de los derechos humanos, y así colocar a la nación en contra de uno de los pilares centrales de la democracia venezolana, advirtió el también Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional.

Un historial intervencionista

En su participación, Cabello también recordó que el imperialismo norteamericano tiene un amplio historial de intervenciones militares en diversos países, entre ellos Afganistán, en las que no solo ha utilizado a soldados, sino también a mercenarios, conocidos como contratistas, para atacar a los pueblos.

Para ello, Estados Unidos usa su poderío económico, militar y mediático para adaptar las situaciones a su conveniencia. "No cometamos el error de subestimar al imperialismo norteamericano. Ellos tienen formas de obtener información que a veces uno se queda pasmado. Quien crea que el teléfono celular que tiene en su bolsillo es un instrumento seguro está total y absolutamente equivocado", expresó.

Recientemente, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, señaló que su nación continuará con el dominio militar en otros países como Iraq, Siria y Afganistán, pese a reconocer políticas intervencionistas fracasadas de este tipo como el bloqueo contra Cuba, sostenido por más de 50 años.

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 AVN 22/01/2015 19:29

Maduro addresses the National Assembly

Unsurprisingly last night’s speech by Maduro was rich with the conspiracy claims that have become the official rhetoric of the Venezuelan government.

He began his speech by reiterating that the young deputy Robert Serra was murdered by the enemies of the revolution: “Everything was prepared from Colombia. Paramilitary groups introduced by Venezuela’s extreme right in order to influence the political development of our country.” Maduro added that this version has been “fully proven,” even as police investigation has so far only linked Serra’s own bodyguards to the crime.

As usual he linked the opposition protests at the beginning of 2014 to a “subversive script”, and insisted several times that the opposition is waging an “economic war” against the country.

“No force, no political option that pretends to reach political power in Venezuela in the twenty first century will be able to do so under counter-revolutionary banners, [under the banners] of destabilization and of conspiracy. And much less through the political, human, moral, and economic destruction of our country,” warned the president.

As evidence of the multiple conspiracies he is facing, Maduro played audios of intercepted phone conversations between retired and exiled general Iván Carratú Molina and active militaries planning acts of violence.

Notably absent from Maduros speech was the claim of a plot to kill him and other government officials. The magnicidio plot played an important role in the government’s discourse in the first half of 2014, but has been progressively dropped since June.

(Image AVN)

Economic war revisited, again and again…

It’s a tribute to the force of the aggressive propaganda campaign in public media by the government, and to the power of conspiracy theories when they become the official rhetoric, that there is even a need to debate in serious forums on if the “economic war” is real and actually happening.

Here is an excellent debate posted by David Smilde in Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights.

(“You go to the beach and you can’t find tanning lotion?” asks Telesur. “I do,” answers the “hoarding devil”)