The #Obama administration is probably not stupid enough to push for a #Venezuelan #coup this spring or summer. The context is not propitious from a pragmatic #imperial perspective. #Washington has a few other things to take up its attention on the global stage at present. And administration planners no doubt remember how ridiculous the George W. #Bush administration looked when it supported the 2002 Venezuelan coup, which was rapidly undone by a giant popular mobilization. Long term, however, Washington and its right wing allies can be expected to continue a prolonged #war of attrition and #sabotage designed to increase the costs to ordinary Venezuelans for supporting a #socialist and #democratic government in their country – for trying to “follow their own path to development” beyond the supervision of their supposed North #American superiors. That was the strategy that finally compelled endlessly besieged and harassed #Nicaraguans to vote out the #Sandinista Party in the early 1990s. Those of who oppose the counterrevolutionary activities of the #US #Empire in Latin America must not rest easy as the current crisis winds down and loses momentum in Venezuela.-Paul Street
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:45:48 +0000
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