The U.S. Government Destroyed Venezuela not Socialism
It's horrifying when the U.S. Government decides to target your government, and dictate what constitutes democracy. In the case of Venezuela almost 20 years of covert warfare, destabilization, and heavy economic manipulation has destroyed the country without ever sending in U.S Troops. Most in the U.S. revel over the fact that Socialism failed in Venezuela. How did the choice of Venezuela's style of Government have any hope of success with the weight of the U.S. Government on it's head. What Government could survive with Billions of dollars spent against it to destabilize society and destroy it's economic ability to thrive?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-led-coup-in-venezuela-the-plot-thickens/5667526/amp
Without writing a book, I couldn't possibly in a short blog detail 20 years of the U.S. Government's plan to destroy Venezuela's Government for not bending the knee to the Economic Hitman and U.S. Corporate interests.
It would take a book alone just covering what has occurred during the Trump Administration.
As a matter of fact I almost regret writing about Venezuela, because to open eyes to the truth of recent events can't be done in one sitting.
I would guarantee you that 99% of Venezuela's critics in the U.S. have never even spent 5 minutes researching the truth behind Venezuela dating back to President Hugo Chavez nationalising Venezuela's oil supplies, the very same event that destroyed Iran's Democratically elected Government in 1953. It was Hugo Chavez nationalising Venezuela's oil supplies that set up Venezuela for destruction by the U.S. Government not socialism.
I'm going to post several links that summarize almost 20 years of the U.S. Government's war on Venezuela and it's people. From CIA sponsored Coup d’état's against both 21st century leaders of Venezuela Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, including funding political parties that opposed Chavez and Maduro, the very crime Social Media has used to mass censor free speech and the U.S. Government has wasted millions of dollars with fictitious claims that the Russian Government has been meddling in U.S. elections. The absolute height of hypocrisy, I might add! Plus an assortment of highlights that absolutely destroys the Mainstream Media's and the U.S. Government's official narrative on the Government of Venezuela.
The very reason Venezuela has been made to suffer. Hugo Chavez nationalising Venezuela's oil supply. This was the beginning of the U.S. Government's vendetta against Venezuela.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.globalresearch.ca/who-was-hugo-chavez/5327259/amp
Sanctioning a Countries Economy into the Stone age is the first U.S. Attack before the hammer falls and is key in destabilizing the targeted society, it generally makes the common people suffer rather cruelly in an effort to craft a Coup D’état against the targeted nation.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/sanctions-mass-destruction-americas-war-venezuela/5666969/amp
The most obvious nail in Venezuela's coffin was dropping the U.S. Dollar. Most people reading this, all 2 of you, already know what happens when you drop the U.S. Dollar in oil trades. Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi are examples of what happens when you cross the U.S. Dollar, and soon you might add Nicolas Maduro to that list.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-drops-petrodollar-us-sanctions-drug-trafficking/232056/
China and Russia have invested heavily in Venezuela. That is one way to get on the short list of the U.S. Government. Letting China and Russian interest's in while taking out 120 Billion dollars in loans from China and Russia without going into slavery through the IMF is a major F.U. to Washington and Corporate America.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-01/coming-us-china-proxy-war-venezuela
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14213
U.S. Social Media Corporations are even being weaponized in the propaganda war against Venezuela. Twitter has purged well over 2,000 accounts that were Pro Maduro. The Trump Administration repeatedly has threatened Venezuela with Military action through the use of Twitter. Every avenue of communication has been used to publicly spread the word of the U.S. Government's narrative on the Venezuelan Government.
Before the die hard anti-socialists spam the comment section, this post is not in defense of Socialism. This is about the U.S. Government intentionally spending 20 years of untold Billions of dollars interfering in a sovereign nation's ability to self govern. The rationality behind wasting resources forcing a leadership change in Venezuela is outright appalling and not very democratic. The fact that this really began with Hugo Chavez Nationalising Venezuela's oil supplies and dropping the chains of the IMF is what this attack on Nicolas Maduro today is all about. If you hate socialism so much quit supporting Corporate America the largest Socialist theives in the known Universe. Quit buying Chinese goods and supporting Corporate American Companies that have off shored American job's to the largest still Communist nation on Earth.
I leave you with countless more links proving that the U.S. Government destroyed Venezuela's economy and society. The only way you could say Socialism destroyed Venezuela is if the U.S. Government actually allowed Venezuela 20 years ago to manage their own destiny free from the Tyranny of Washington DC. We will never know how bad Socialism is in Venezuela, because it was never even given an opportunity to fail without the full weight of the U.S. Government's manipulative hand.
https://popularresistance.org/venezuela-what-activists-need-to-know-about-the-us-led-coup/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-14/deep-hurt-lessons-american-coups
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-led-military-coup-in-venezuela-modelled-on-chile-1973/5668038/amp
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-must-venezuela-be-destroyed/5667397
https://www.globalresearch.ca/50-truths-about-hugo-chavez-and-the-bolivarian-revolution/5326268/amp
https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-oil-behind-washingtons-venezuela-coup-madness/5667411/amp
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The Western world is so conditioned to be scared of the red menace they swallow MSM propaganda whole. Socialism alone could not have destroed such an oil-rich country so thoroghly and so quickly. For the US, spending money to destroy this country is nothing but investment in future oil revenues. As I've already been flagged for my opinions on Venezuela, I just want to add that I do understand the frustration of the people as many are probably desperate at the moment. Desperate people are ready to believe anything, they want to believe the US care for them. A very sad illusion as nobody cares how much people suffer. Not the Americans, not even Chinese or Russians.
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I got so sick and tired of people claiming to be Alt right constantly using Venezuela as an example of failed Socialism, Corporate America is an example of failed Socialism. A billionaire wants a new football stadium. If the taxpayers don't pay for the cost of building a new stadium the Billionaire moves the team. Boeing gets around 8 Billion dollars in tax breaks. Wall Street socializes their losses and privatizes their gains. Most Western Countries have either socialized medicine, transportation,or education, the right wing which isn't very alternative, why they don't just call themselves full blown Republicans never criticize anything that Corporate America does, but good help someone if they get a nickel from the state. You are right, they are scared of a fictitious red scare.
The government of chavez and mature, expropriated all the productive industry of Venezuela and left bankrupt these large productive enterprises, in 20 years the corrupt chavizmo, have plundered large sums of millions of dollars, towards banks zuisos and andorra, this country is broken by the granrobo of his riches, by the dechavez government and mature, imagine that the son of chavez lives in united states and has a fortune of more than 4500 million dollars, perhaps we are stupid to continue believing in an economic war? here in venezuela the relatives of mature have a lot of money, they buy mansions and palaces outside the country, and the town going hungry, here the big problem was that people of Chavez and Maduro, they finished with venezuela, that is the true story, greetings.
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Yeah, you are right, it is not just the typical destruction that socialism brings, but also the fact the current regime has been looting the country for years (in the order of hundreds of billions stolen) and also destroying private industries by following their socialist doctrine.
Are you defending these totalitarians?
I have heard a lot of this argument that Venezuela is in crisis because the regime looted the country. I have no doubt the elite there is living quite comfortably and they have money stashed abroad. Yet I am certain the rumors are wildly exagerated and this is not the reason people are hungry. Personally, living in Romania, I have intimate knowledge of socialism, totalitarian regimes and the leaders living in luxury. When the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled in 1989, we were told the dictator had golden toilets and golden water taps and what not. He did not. Just a rumor meant to infuriate the people. Afterwards, people waited in lines to visit the amazing villa where the dictator used to live. For the ordinary folks lacking basic stuff, it was indeed outrageous. By today's standards in my country, that house was just ordinary.
Some of the democratic leaders we've had since stole much more, but you know what? They had US politcal support...
How can you be certain? Because some people in Romania lied about the bathroom of a corrupted politician?
Understand Venezuela is a country with oil and for the past 2 decades the oil revenue has been extremely high, but somehow, the FX reserves have been decreasing, the same can be said about the standards of living and the economy.
That’s very sad, but again, how can you be sure if you don’t know how much they steal or how much the dictator from the past stole?
In Venezuela the current totalitarians looted the country like never before, and due to their socialist ideology, they also introduced laws that weaken the economy even further.
How do you know for certain how much the elite stole in Venezuela? Have you counted for yourself every dollar they have in foreign accounts? My guess is you read it somewhere, in the free western media...
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I am not certain how much they stole, but taking into account this government received more oil revenue than all of the previous governments combined, and knowing the country is bankrupted, it is easy to assume these looters are the worst.
No, the hundreds of billions in stolen money is an estimate by Venezuelan economists, but either way, would you prefer to read some media backed by Maduro or other totalitarians regimes? What's the media you like to read?
I tend to read what both sides have to say and believe very little...
I'm so annoyed that more people aren't speaking about this blatently obvious truth. A while back I got into an argument with someone claiming to be from Venezuela about this topic. They basically claimed the obvious reason I was wrong was because they were from Venezuela... like... really?
Your location on the globe doesn't increase knowledge regarding geopolitics.
How many more countries does America need to fuck over before it becomes more obvious?
Of course living here gives you a bigger picture. You KNOW what is actually happening. You can't give an opinion based on what the news says, this goes with either sides. I've been witness of how maduro manipulates media, I'm a photojournalist and I have colleagues in jail, friends in jail, many others have had to flee the country. So I'm not talking based on media, I'm talking from personal experience.
I'm not saying that the other side is transparent in what happens.One thing is what is said in the media, and another is to actually live it and suffer it. Venezuela is hell right now. And let me tell you something, we are not so stupid to believe the US is "helping" just because they are kind. No one in politics is kind. Everything they do is with a hidden agenda. But hey, I mean, me already have 3 countries sucking everything from us, russia, china and cuba. It comes down to the least worst.
Just don't base your hypothesis on media. You have to understand one thing first of all. This right here, is NOT SOCIALISM. So. If if you take away the whole "left" thing out of the picture, would you still think the same way? Cause every time I come across someone backing up Maduro, it's because of an idealism.
I don't care about left or right. This is about real people! I care about people dying and not being able to eat. And Maduro denying it even happening.
I'm not sure why you think I would disagree with anything you just said. The pressure America is putting on Maduro is no doubt making him act even more corrupt than normal.
I consider him a greedy fool. He had the chance to make a real decentralized crypto that could have saved the whole country, but instead he went full greed made made that Petro garbage and shoved it down everyone's throats.
Now people are resorting to the barter system in the 21st century... there's so much unacceptable and needless suffering going on.
Maybe because you wrote this:
It has always been easy to defend socialism while living in a non socialist country.
You also mention:
Do you think conspiracy nutjobs are good references when understanding geopolitics?
Socialism always ends in totalitarianism, Venezuela is not the exception, besides, the regime is involved with Hezbollah and other criminal organizations.
You claim to defend blockchain and all the freedom it can bring, but you defend a regime that imposed a currency exchange control over its people and has been expropriating (stealing) companies for years? Socialism is anti freedom, just because America (a great country in many ways, btw) are their enemies, you shouldn't do mental gymnastics to defend these totalitarian murderers.
Also, Venezuelan people are kidnapped, they cannot get rid of these totalitarians by their own because guns are forbidden by the government, and elections are completely rigged.
Luckily the rest of the freedom lover countries understand this and soon enough they will destroy these people by force.
Yes, I would consider a "conspiracy nutjob" to have a better understanding of geopolitics than most people. These people are naturally global thinkers. They know that money rules the world and they extrapolate that knowledge to explain how the world works.
The problem with extrapolation and global thinking is that you can often assume incorrect foundations and find yourself in a place where you are building conspiracy theories on very little fact.
No, I don't.
America doesn't have enemies. America has slaves, and some of those slaves resist and need to be put back into their place. The financial bonds of debt-slavery surround 99.9% of the population.
You sound like a walking talking propaganda bot. America financially enslaves as many countries as it can and calls it freedom. We have destabilized country after country in the name of "freedom". It's sad so many people believe these lies and even propagate them.
You can't fight the government with guns. They have tanks and planes and drones and surveillance spy networks. Guns are laughable. The second amendment of the US constitution is a laughable joke under the purpose of its original intent.
You don't sound like a Venezuelan.
You sound like a brainwashed pro-war American.
No? Have you ever say something against maduros regime?
What is sadder is seeing people pretend they support freedom while defending a totalitarian regime. Of course America has a lot of issues that should be discussed, but you aren’t recognizing that the Venezuelan people have been kidnapped by a criminal organization for years. How do you think this problem can be solved?
If you think Venezuelans can fix this disaster by their own, they can’t, there is simply no solution without international help. Individuals should be able to own guns if they wish, don’t you agree?
Sure, it is a much better idea having the government controlling all of the guns. Every totalitarian regime forbids its citizens the ownerships of guns, you should know that.
Brainwashed you say? Answer this, how would you fix the Venezuelan problem? Prove how ignorant you are about this issue and propose your solution, if you have any... which I know you don’t.
If the U.S.Government never interfered with Venezuela, and didn't infringe on this Countries Sovereignty through sanctions, coup's etc. and Venezuela was in the state it is today naturally, that would be the only truthful way you could say Socialism destroyed Venezuela. There Alt media has been strangely co-opted and quite a few people are parroting lies on Venezuela without addressing the truth that it was the U.S. Government that destroyed this country the same way it destroyed Iran's in 1953! Thanks for the comment Edicted.
Are you aware the Maduro's regime stole billions of dollar from Venezuela through the oil company and through the currency exchange control?
Are you aware that's why some sanctions were applied to the people involved in those crimes? Sanctions aren't against Venezuela, but against selected government officials.
For example check the previous oil minister of Venezuela, he has to pay more than 1 billion dollars due to fraudulent activity https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-ramirez/u-s-judge-rules-former-venezuelan-oil-minister-owes-1-4-billion-idUSKCN1Q401J
As always, defending socialists regimes is easy while living in a non socialist country.
Thank goodness the necessary measures will be taken soon and freedom should be restored, just like what happened in Panama.
At least the remaining few without a central bank...
Absolutely Paradigm, just followed you, thanks for commenting.
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I don’t remember where I heard, but I think it was a movie....
“The Devil’s greatest trick is making the World believe he doesn’t exist.”
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Google knows it's Keyser Söze:
Watch From Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo on youtube. 9/11 & the fascist war on terror and the destruction of the constitution/world economy has all been orchestrated by the Illuminati and The Rockefellers/Rothschilds.
That is a great film Mangoose, great suggestion!
Imperialistic motherfuckers, they have intervene in almost every country that didn't follow the rules established by US, IMF or banksters. Remember Gaddafi? Iran? Iraq?
And yet people tend to believe its all about conspiracy theory, ignorant hypocrites...
Although I personally don't believe socialism is good form of governance I also don't believe socialism made Venezuela so unstable. It's hard to go against big boys...
ok know all you know come to venezuela and scream maduro pussy of your mother to see what happens, shout to a national guard. Smarty
lo absurdo de todas estas sanciones internacionales en contra según al gobierno de venezolano, lo cual hipotéticamente hablando sabemos que en contra de todo el pueblo venezolano, los perjudicados somos el pueblo de Venezuela, porque el presidente maduro y su tren ejecutivo seguirán comiendo churrasco en el negocio del tipo que le e cha sal con el codo, mientras nosotros morimos enfermos y con hambre, de paso bloquean las cuentas venezolanas con por miles de millones de dolares, y vienen con una ayuda humanitaria de 20 millones de dolares, por Dios santos.
Por Dios, esa frase no tiene sentido alguno, tratas de parecer más intelectual poniendo la palabra "hipotéticamente" y no sabes ni usarla de manera correcta. Las sanciones son contra individuos del regimen criminal del narco Maduro, no contra la nación, no tienen impacto para la nación.
Las bloquean para que el narco regimen no se robe esos recursos, Venezuela está secuestrada por socialistas totalitarios (valga la redundancia) y el nuevo gobierno tendrá control sobre esos recursos a su debido momento.
Por cierto, que hace un triste chavista en Steem si ustedes deberían de estar a favor de un control de cambio donde solo los bolivares devaluados son usados? sin mencionar que esto es un proyecto blockchain originario del "imperio"...
Como siempre chavistas hipócritas.
I'm sorry to disagree, but I don't think so. Chavez did not nationalize the oil industry in Venezuela, in fact, the oil is controlled by the State since 1976, when the then President Carlos Andrés Pérez officially nationalized it. Those who governed at that time, are those who today oppose the government, the "opposition", which is also socialist, like Chávez and Maduro, although less radical. So it is false that the United States is against Chávez for the nationalization, because Chávez did not nationalize oil in Venezuela.
Nor is it true that the United States has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, on the contrary, the invasion of Iraq and sanctions against Iran helped raise the price of a oil barrel by giving Venezuela an amount of money never seen before in history of the country. The "chavismo" in 20 years had more income for oil than the whole country in the previous 40 years.
The Venezuelan government had a lot of money, and because of its absurd administration, as is to be expected of a socialist government, the crisis was created. The crisis in Venezuela began, slightly, in 2010, before the United States did anything, and it became completely aggravated for 2013, and US interference in the country, which is regrettable, began, with minor actions, in 2015.
It is worth mentioning that the United States was the largest buyer of Venezuelan oil throughout the Chavez government.
I am opposed to the intervention of the United States in Venezuela, because I believe that it is totally harmful, however, the collapse of Venezuela is solely due to the government, its mismanagement, its corruption, its ineptitude, its incapacity, but above all, the absurd failed system that they tried to implement.
Bravo! Great pull together of information. Resteemed.
I guess you can expect an attack by the pro-US-Venezolanos who seem to be pretty active on Steem.
There's an interesting documentary about the 2002 'coup', filmed by an Irish TV crew who got caught up in events from the inside:
Thanks for the comment! I expected more negative comments and am actually surprised at the positive feedback, I believe based on the evidence, which is 20 years of U.S. Government manipulation, sanctions and financing opposition coups it's a hard argument to make armed with the facts.
Agreed 🔆
You pair of busters will pay for promoting criminal maduro on internet! Venezolanos are millions outside and on net! I hope someday you get a good lesson! Steem it is Freedom and Venezuela so is too! GET OUT MADURO! Viva Venezuela Libre!
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You are those who were paid by maduro for promoting him on net!!! Get a job! do not depend on Chavism money!!! Nobody is paying me! I got nothing in my fridge that's why i'm here facing you and saying the truth about Venezuela! SOS Venezuela HUMANITARIAN AID NOW!!!
Shame on you! using memes when it come to a serious humanitarian emergency and crisis! Get and buy a pair of... glasses and a critical thinking brain! There is no Cuban revolution anymore!
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Hello there. I'm Venezuelan and currently live here, and it's gonna take me some time to refute some of your arguments so I'm going to make a full post about it, will let you know when it's ready. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment, I look forward to reading your post.
Espero tu respuesta porque no quiero perder mi tiempo jajaja
Good to see you here mate, so disappointing seeing these clueless people defending the narco regime...
Don't worry dude, almost a week has passed since that post, and I'm taking My time fixing my vast answer.
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One only needs one argument to completely defeat socialism as a viable alternative which is the moral argument that it is theft by coercion. One cannot build a sound community based upon theft from which its participants are violated against their will, destroying personal sovereignty. Without the freedom to opt in, comes slavery.
One cannot be a socialist by choice either because if one opts into the arrangement, then it's no longer socialism, but voluntarism.
I would say that the US greatly hastened Venezuela's demise, but when a nation is built on theft through the means of coercion, the violence that it must commit to force people into uncomfortable arrangements (for the "greater good" whatever that is) will eventually tear itself apart anyway.