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By Arturo Rosales writes from Caracas. Axis of Logic Exclusive
Axis of Logic
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013

The current economic war against Venezuela started in November 2012 with the engineered shortage of several basic products of the daily shopping basket such as milk, corn meal, coffee, cooking oil and so on. Next came speculative price rises and the sharp devaluation of the local currency on the parallel market sparking inflation. Since that point there has been no let-up in food hoarding and speculation designed to point the finger at the government for mismanagement, upset the population when in fact this has been engineered by opposition politicians conspiring with food distribution companies and speculators.

The attack on the government, institutions, the military and individual ministers has been unceasing in the private media – radio, TV and printed press – in order to undermine the government and discredit the National Electoral Council (CNE) after Nicolás Maduro’s presidential election victory on April 14th.

On April 15th Capriles Radonski unleashed his “attack dogs” in the street leading to the homicide of 11 chavistas, injuring more than 100 and sowing terror in the population by burning local health clinics, schools and regional offices of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) headquarters in three states.

Now, almost two months after their election defeat the opposition is upping the ante by planning other violent acts in its dirty war against the Bolivarian Revolution.

On Monday June 10th, President Maduro spoke on live TV about intelligence information concerning negotiations to purchase 18 military aircraft by the Venezuelan opposition in San Antonio, Texas, to be stationed in a US base over the border in Colombia. He also gave more details about the two paramilitary groups captured by Venezuelan security forces in the states of Táchira and Portuguesa.

The original denouncement about the 18 military aircraft was made on Sunday by journalist José Vicente Rangel and Maduro commented, “this is a real situation and behind this is the group called Gente del Petróleo (People of Petroleum). These people are now based in Bogotá and the US and it is they who are negotiating the purchase of these aircraft”.

Gente del Petróleo is made up of ex-managers of the Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA, who were fired by President Chávez for being instrumental is organizing the crippling oil lock-out and sabotage of 2002 – 2003. Maduro stated that they are the main financiers behind the conspiracy to destabilize the country and foment violence against the Venezuelan population to be carried out by paramilitary groups contracted for that specific purpose. “Later on I will give the names of the people involved but the first thing I must alert us all to is that this financing is in millions of dollars,” stated Maduro.

He added that the two groups captured had a series of political objectives to fulfill: the assassination of the President of the Republic; confrontations with the military implementing the National Security Plan of the Homeland; and to increase the number of murders and insecurity in various cities and towns across the country.

“The captured paramilitaries had weapons, information, maps, objectives, coordinators in Caracas and we are on the point of making more arrests. Throughout all this the Venezuelan right wing opposition has been silent”.

Maduro had already alerted the population that there was a plan afoot to assassinate him and that the anti-chavista groups had two aims to take power in the country: "a social explosion or a coup d’état." President Maduro responded:

“But this will not happen since you need the people for a social explosion and the people are chavistas and for a coup you need the military  - and the military is revolutionary, anti-imperialist and above all chavista.”

Regarding the Colombian paramilitaries who were captured by Venezuelan security forces, Maduro stated flatly:

“The captured paramilitaries will not be returned to Colombia but will serve their jail time here in Venezuela. We will employ all our intelligence services to unravel this situation and I ask the opposition if there are there any democratic factors or even democratic thoughts remaining among them?”

Since these declarations from President Maduro on June 10th, there are reports that the Venezuelan opposition is due to have a meeting with sinister right wing elements of the Álvaro Uribe faction of the Colombian opposition on Thursday in the Hotel Casino International in Cúcuta, just over the border in Colombia. The Venezuelan delegation will be headed by Julio Borges, a well-known coup organizer and Maris Corina Machado, another right wing fascist who will stop at nothing to discredit her own country in the eyes of the world.


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