Economic war: more power to the military

There is only one way, according to president Maduro, to defeat the economic waged by the Empire and its local lackeys against Venezuela, by giving almost total powers over the economy to the military.

“The time has come, military brothers” said Maduro yesterday, “the time has come, compatriots, to win the unconventional war, by using production, work, peace, and the establishment of a new social and economic order, based on the culture of work and with one objective: solidarity, coexistence, peace, social happiness, in one word, socialism.”

This new order, explained the president, “is a virtuous system which will replace the savage and capitalist chaos imposed by parasitic factors of commercial capitalism, which have done so much harm to our people and our country.”

To lead in the construction of this new order, Maduro has named the Minister of Defense, general Vladimir Padrino López, as the commander of the new Great Mission for Sovereign and Secure Supply, which will be in charge of all matters related to production and supply in the country. Padrino López has been granted powers to make economic decisions in “real time”, and will respond solely to the also new Presidential Military Command, headed by Maduro.

State media through the eyes of a BBC correspondent

Former BBC correspondent in Venezuela, Juan Paullier, was back in the country for some days last week and decided to only watch the public TV channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

Paullier was subjected to a 24 hours fare of conspiracy theorizing. This is part of his account:

[To watch only VTV] was to wake up in the morning listening to talks about “induced scarcity” and “non-conventional warfare,” to spend the afternoon seeing a conspiracy by the international right against the country, and going to bed with a discourse about an attempt to force a foreign intervention in Venezuela.(…)

At night the presenters of the program Zurda Konducta speak of Chavez’s “assassination” by the United States, and of a strategy by the opposition and business owners to “starve the people to death” and to force a foreign “invasion.”

You don’t have to be in Venezuela if you want to try Paullier’s experiment yourself: Watch VTV live via internet.  

Tactical Looting Commandoes

The Venezuelan government is blaming opposition leaders for the serious looting incidents which took place in the city of Cumaná last week.

PSUV leader Diosdado Cabello claims that the opposition is mobilizing what he calls Tactical Looting Commandoes, organized by opposition party Voluntad Popular.

“Voluntad Popular is arming commando groups that start looting, but we have unveiled the structure and the modus operandi of these armed groups,” said Cabello. “Their objective is to create shock groups to light the spark of chaotic violence which would force repression from security forces, they then take pictures [of the repression] in order to continue feeding the spiral of distress,” he added.

As evidence Cabello showed a video of a truck, he claims belongs to another opposition party Primero Justicia, allegedly transporting people to a looting site.

President Nicolas Maduro also accused the opposition of behind the looting incidents in Cumaná. “It was a group of payed criminals taken there in trucks,” said the president of the looters. He also said that several “instigators belonging to opposition parties” had been arrested.

In his public television program Con el Mazo Dando Cabello presented an infographic, later republished by state media, explaining how the Tactical Looting Commandoes operate.

  

Madrid funding conspiracy

President Maduro has accused Madrid of being behind a conspiracy against his government.

“The oligarchic political, economic and media powers of Spain are financing destabilizing groups of the Venezuelan ultra-right,” said the President. “They have nowhere to hide. There is illegal funding from Spain to destabilize Venezuela,” he added.

Here is the report in Spanish published by the Venezuelan Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Comunicación e Información:

Desde Madrid se financia la conspiración en contra de Venezuela

Publicado: 14/06/2016

El jefe de Estado venezolano, Nicolás Maduro Moros, denunció que hay financiamiento de las oligarquías políticas, mediáticas y económicas de España hacia grupos desestabilizadores de la ultraderecha venezolana.

“Ya no tienen pudor en esconderse. Hay financiamiento ilegal desde España para desestabilizar a Venezuela en su obsesión por acabar el proyecto bolivariano y además porque el 26 de junio tienen elecciones, asunto de ellos, y están como locos desesperados buscando que en Venezuela pase algo y meterlo en la campaña interna de ellos”.

Hay un factor de la ultraderecha venezolana que tiene a Madrid como el centro de las operaciones financieras y políticas conspirativas en contra de Venezuela. “Tienen grandes fortunas, grandes casas, se están enriqueciendo, les dieron la nacionalidad a algunos de ellos” detalló.

El Presidente denunció que este grupo está haciendo de la causa anti bolivariana y anti chavista un gran negocio y abogó para que las autoridades españolas hagan una investigación sobre los negocios turbios que hace la ultraderecha venezolana en España utilizando ese país como una plataforma para conspirar contra una tierra de paz, como lo es Venezuela.

Es derecho de los venezolanos construir el modelo social, económico y político que mejor considere, a pesar de las dificultades, sentenció Maduro y refirió que España también tiene sus problemas en los cuales el gobierno venezolano no tiene injerencia alguna.

“Desde Madrid se conspira contra Venezuela y se financia la conspiración (…) La corrupción política de España se unió a la corrupción política de la ultraderecha venezolana” insistió durante la emisión 59 de su programa Contacto con Maduro.

Ante ello los venezolanos son los hijos, herederos directos del hombre de las dificultades: Simón Bolívar; y la Revolución Bolivariana seguirá cabalgando el siglo XXI como fue fundada: en paz, democrática, popular y por los caminos del socialismo.

Por: Bianca Borrero

Meet Mr. CIA Mole

By TeleSUR

This video explains what the “Technique of the Moles” is all about about: “Moles are journalists, politicians, and informants recruited and paid by the CIA to erode the structures of the State.”