Victorious over phase one, Venezuelans prepare for next assault revealed in secret documents. | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |Axisoflogic.com

We bring the Axis of Logic community up to date with this report on the status of the February-March 2014 assault on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the health of the revolution here, vibrant and strong despite a very dangerous and difficult period in our history. Let us begin with an assessment of the opposition political parties and then move on to the defeat of this phase of the crawling coup’s latest terrorist attacks; finally, we will explain the next strategy, planned by the opposition and their supporters in the US government and Venezuela's preparation to defeat them again as they have in every attempt to overthrow the government over the last 15 years.

Opposition Fractures

Within MUD, the opposition's allied political parties (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática), various political parties are fighting with each other for control. Yesterday, President Maduro said the problems in the Chacao municipality of Caracas during the February-March terrorist assault were organized by Leopoldo Lopez' Voluntad Popular party (PV). Chacao's opposition Mayor Ramón Muchacho is a member of a rival political party, Primero Justicia (PJ). Two other opposition mayors in the country who supported the attacks over the last 2 months have been arrested, jailed and removed from their office by a Supreme Court decision. Yesterday, President Maduro said PV organized the attacks in Chacao to pressure the Supreme Court to arrest Muchacho (PJ) so that they can try taking back control of Chacao in what would then be new elections. This may be the reason why the government has not yet arrested Muchacho for his support of the attacks within his jurisdiction.

Government's defeat of Phase I of the 2014 coup

It appears the government has reduced the terrorist assault to very few sporadic attacks and has all but eliminated the guarimbas, gaining control of and cleaning up the streets in Chacao & Baruta in Caracas, Valencia, Merida and San Cristobal.

On Thursday, April 3, the Venezuelan military defeated Colombian paramilitaries in Tachira, captured 14 and killed one of them, William Molina. National radio reports some of those captured are giving up information on their recruiters and funding sources in interviews being carried out by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN).

On Friday, April 4: Diosdado Cabello, President of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), announced that the reform of the Anti-Terrorism Law was submitted to the National Assembly, following the firebombing of the headquarters of the Ministry of Popular Power for Housing and Habitat in Chacao where 89 pre-school children were rescued by the troops and firemen. This ministry carries out the work of Gran Misión Vivienda (Great Housing Mission Venezuela), created by President Chavez.

On VTV, National Public Television, Ricardo Molina, head of the Housing Ministry, said that attack affected 190 families and cost the mission about 30 million bolivars (about $5 million) in damages. Molina called this "a terrorist attack,"

"At about 4:30 in the afternoon the [opposition] Chacao police stopped traffic to clear the road, then came a group of terrorists to attack the facade of the building, first crashing down the windows and then throwing Molotov cocktails and other objects inside the ministry's headquarters ... to lash out against the institution and preschool where 89 children aged between three months and six years were present."

Molina said that the attacks affected the area of the computer servers where the data is stored for the National Registry of Housing, but added.

"Fortunately, that information is supported with backups but obviously lives of 1,200 workers were put at risk. It was a very dangerous situation and very high risk which demonstrates the level of madness, fascism and terrorism reaching these people. I have no doubt this attack was propelled by Voluntad Popular (Lopez' political party)."

When Diosdado Cabello announced the bill to reform Venezuela's Anti-Terrorism Law yesterday, he explained,

"Now part of the financial resources of the institution will have to be allocated to repair the building, instead of committing them to the construction of housing for people who need them. Moreover, two subjects were detained in Santa Fe (Caracas) and are in the custody of the Bolivarian National Police on Wednesday. They were on board a Toyota Land Cruiser (Machito) equipped with materials for committing terrorist acts."

Opposition March Stopped in its Tracks

Yesterday on Thursday, the opposition planned a march to the Libertador Municipality of Caracas. Libertador has the highest population of the five municipalities that make up Greater Caracas with about 2.1 million people. It is also where Miraflores (presidential palace), National Assembly (legislature), the National Electoral Council (CNE), the main offices of PDVSA (National Petroleum Company), CANTV (national communications company), the Central Bank of Venezuela, the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office are located. The mayor of Libertador municipality denied a permit for the march and government troops prevented it from taking place.

Secession - the opposition's plan for the next phase of the coup

Now that the February-March 2014 phase of the coup has been defeated, the opposition plans to engineer a separation of western states, Tachira, Zulia, Merida, Carabobo, Lara and Nueva Esparta (i.e. Margarita) from Venezuela into independent, autonomous regimes - or to be annexed by Colombia. In an address to the nation yesterday, President Maduro presented a document which outlines this plan. He compared it with what has taken place in Yugoslavia, Libya and currently in Syria. Maduro hasn't yet revealed the author of the document but he noted that the person is an oligarch and is using the same language as Lopez and Machado - "La Salida" (The Exit). Here's the video in Spanish.

Victory over terrorism over and over again

Just as in the 48 hour coup in 2002 failed, each and every attempt to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Venezuela has been defeated including the two month terrorist attacks of 2014.

Victory at a cost: This phase of the coup has been defeated but it has cost Venezuelans dearly, leaving at least 39 people dead, their loved ones in mourning; over 600 hundred injured and some disabled for life; and untold millions of dollars in damages to government buildings, public schools, medical centers, universities, the housing mission, food production & distribution centers, community councils, institutions for the arts and national parks and forests.

During this period Chavistas have sustained great losses but with rare exceptions, they have heeded the call for peace by President Maduro and have not retaliated. Instead they have continued with their work and daily activities and let the National Guard and National Police control and subdue the terrorists. Thanks to the leadership of Presidents Chavez and Maduro, they have learned that violence breeds violence and that those responsible for this terrorist assault wanted them to become trapped in a civil war.

Moreover, one must consider the cost to government resources being diverted to security forces from building houses, hospitals & medical centers, schools, highway repair and the national train system, agriculture and many other projects.

Building while under attack: There's a humorous saying among country folk in the US south, "When you're up to your ass in alligators it's difficult to

remember that your original mission was to drain the swamp." The truth of it is obvious but even so, while under heavy attack in parts of the country this year, the government has done an impressive job of restoring damaged infrastructure and replacing what has been destroyed with new facilities following each terrorist act. While under this assault the government has continued repairing damaged buildings and building new ones, city parks, outdoor exercise gyms, planting trees, continuing to provide services through all the missions for health, education and housing and even launched Misión Nevado, a nationwide program to vaccinate stray cats and dogs which are being adopted and cared for as family pets!

One of many Misión
Vivienda communities

Misión Agro Venezuela (mission to develop food sovereignty) and Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela (construction of affordable housing) have also marched on during this period. The latter is popularly known as "Vivienda" and it has already placed 560,000 thousand families (over 3 million people) living in substandard housing into new modern houses, fully equipped with appliances, in new communties with schools, playgrounds and recreational facilities across the country. The first Venezuelans to receive their new houses were the 33,000 refugee families who lost their homes in the floods of 2010 and 2011. This housing is subsidized by funds from the petroleum industry.

Another important example of the government's work while warding off the coup is its building of a new university for UNEFA students whose facilities, equipment & materials and campus were utterly destroyed by terrorist fire bombs in San Cristobal on March 18.

UNEFA before the destruction

UNEFA destroyed by terrorist attack on March 18

On March 20, President Maduro defied the terrorists when he reaffirmed his call for peace. He sent a message from his Twitter account, "People's education will triumph!" in spite of recent violent attacks on behalf of rightist strike forces against the campus of National Experimental University of the Armed Force (UNEFA) in San Cristobal." Hundreds of students lost their facilities and a semester of studies at UNEFA San Cristobal and Maduro responded,

"Fascists will pay for their crimes and we'll soon have a new University campus in San Cristobal. People's education will triumph! ... Never in the history of our country has anyone dared to burn down a university. My entire support and solidarity to UNEFA's community."

It didn't begin in San Cristobal

The corporate/government media in the US and Europe have consistently described the February-March 2014 assault as "student protests" that began in San Cristobal "and then spread to other major cities across Venezuela." This is not true. It is yet another example of their deceptive campaign against Venezuela in the media war. Plans for these attacks were in place long before with terrorist cells planted in various places across the country waiting to be detonated by opposition leaders. The evidence is clear, one example being "Plan Venezuela" which was in place to overthrow the government leading up to the PSUV's victorious nationwide mayoral elections on December 8.

Intelligence services discovered the secret document and thwarted that plan so its authors, opposition leaders, Colombian operatives and the US State Department who reset the attacks to begin on National Youth Day on February 12 under the pretext of "student demonstrations." With a student population of nearly 3 million in higher education, the great majority supporting the government, the "student protests" of 2014 were carried out by a tiny minority of students combined with the paid paramilitaries & mercenaries and domestic criminals for hire, in a word .... Terrorists.

Venezuelan Solidarity

While the terrorists were doing their best to rip this country apart, western governments and their media were depicting Venezuela as a country in flames in the midst of collapse. But the truth has been that the great majority of the people voiced their solidarity with the government in grand marches in cities across the country by the majority of university students, artists, women, the military, workers and the general public. Instead of covering those great revolutionary demonstrations, western governments and media showed photos of "peaceful student protests being put down by a repressive regime." This deceptive media coverage is reminiscent of their omission of the vast demonstrations in support of Gen. Qadaffi by the Libyan majority, and the majority support of President Assad in Syria.

Conclusion

The Bolivarian government has weathered another storm and defeated this new phase of the coup that is still underway. The enemy will not admit defeat and stop voluntarily. They will continue with their long-term objective to "recapture the palace" and the largest proven oil reserves in the world. With their 15 year long sabotage of the infrastructure and social programs backed by big money and a powerful international media campaign they think they can wear down the resolve of the Venezuelan people.

Within that arrogance lies their folly. The Venezuelan people are among the most knowledgeable and astute in the world, aware of external designs to destroy the revolution and take what they've gained through blood and sweat from the 1989 Caracazo forward.

To a large extent a new socialist ideology is embedded in their consciousness. Moreover, they have the revolutionary fire burning in their belly with vivid memories of El Comandante visiting them in their homes, on the streets and on national television and radio. They are buttressed with humility and love and if necessary they along with their military and citizen union and 500,000 strong militia will defend themselves and their country to their last breath. Three generations have only known victory and they will accept nothing less in the future.

Venezuelan women supporting President Maduro's Peace Plan

Biography, Essays and Poetry by Les Blough