Tensions between Caracas and Washington show no sign of abating. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has denounced his US counterpart Donald Trump for authorizing CIA operations in Venezuela.
Maduro said the CIA has been active in Venezuela for the past 60 years and interfered in the South American nation’s internal affairs. He added that the US central intelligence agency had conspired not only against him but also against former President Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan leader further warned that Washington is waging psychological warfare to intimidate and demoralize the Venezuelan people. However, he asserted that Venezuelans remain united and capable of defeating conspiracies against the country’s peace and stability.
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PressTV: How do you see the situation, Mr. Koenig?
Peter Koenig (PK): Well, under President Trump, the Monroe Doctrine is again alive and kicking. But this time Latin America will no longer fall for it. Those times are gone.
As to Trump’s constant aggressions – expand this to the US governments over the last few decades – it is not just Trump and the US who are continually aggressing Venezuela.
It is the entire west. It is a typical puppet reaction. What the Emperor does must be right. Besides, if we don’t support him with deadly sanctions on Venezuela – as is the case on Russia – he may punish us.
This political anti-Venezuela game is played out all the way to the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded to Madame Maria Corina Machado, who is known to be a Venezuela troublemaker, committed to Trump’s wars, officially supporting them, also a strong supporter of Netanyahu’s genocide – openly spoke about her support for Bibi the butcher.
Ms. Machado has already on several occasions attempted a coup against the Maduro government, and already in 2002 supported an attempted CIA regime change against then President Hugo Chavez.
Ms. Machado comes from a wealthy industrialist family, is a conservative neoliberal and – guess what? She is also a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader.
She is surely getting help from an international forum for her attempts to take over the Venezuelan government – and privatize all the countries riches, mainly the trillions worth hydrocarbon resources.
She has recently said so in an interview with Trump, that if she is made President of Venezuela, the benefits for the US will be enormous. She is absolutely NO peacemaker or even peace-seeker.
The Nobel Peace Prize is as usual highly politicized, you could say weaponized. It is a War Prize rather than a Peace Prize.
It will give Trump more power to eventually attack Venezuela.
He knew it. That is why he most likely knowing in advance the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Commission, accepted it with pleasure, as it will help what is really behind the American aggression against first Chavez, then Maduro, namely the enormous wealth of hydrocarbons, in the trillions of dollars-worth. The largest reserves worldwide.
Trump and his predecessors could not care less about Venezuela having a socialist government. Although it is at Trump’s doorstep, it is not, never has been, a threat to America.
Similarly, Trump could not care less about the “drug trafficking”, for which he accuses Maduro’s government. Trump knows quite well that the biggest drug trafficker worldwide is the United States. Period. The world must know that too.
Will President Trump succeed with regime change in Venezuela? I doubt it. Though the media talk about the enormous US Navy vessel strength stationed in the Caribbean, ready any moment to attack Venezuela. What they do not say is that China has quietly also sent a military flotilla to the Caribbean. China, Venezuela, and Russia are close allies. Trump knows it. So, he better be careful what he is risking.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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