It's
all about ... oil
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Iran 1953
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Venezuela today
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Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized the
Iranian oil and kicked out the British. An act which was heralded
by the people. He promised to fight poverty and let the country
benefit from their huge potential wealth in black gold.
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Although oil was nationalized back
in 1976 in Venezuela, the country has to this day the largest
proven oil reserves in the world. Under the democratically elected
government of Hugo Chavez, huge strides were taken to use the
nationalization of its oil to fund social programs and alleviate
poverty.
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Britain responded to Mosaddegh by
imposing economic sanctions and worldwide boycott of Iranian oil.
As a result of the extreme economic embargo, the people began to
question his leadership and started blaming him for the economic
crisis that was beginning to plague the country.
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President Trump's new administration
has slapped sanctions on Maduro and other members of his
government. Western media propaganda reinforced by the US and its
allies, has stirred, discontent and channeled anti-government
sentiment within the country, together with a fierce economic war,
including an organized plan around the shortage on basic goods.
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With paid agents infiltrating his
parliament and an attempted assassination, Mosaddegh took to
dissolving parliament in an effort to take back control of the
political turmoil that had taken grip. The move led to calls of
"dictatorship" by his opponents, which was amplified by
the CIA's sponsored propaganda.
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After months of anti-government
protesters, which has seen people burned alive, grenade attacks on
government buildings and mass street blockades, the Venezuelan
government called a vote to re-write the constitution in order to
stem the violence and try to restore peace. "Maduro is a
dictator" motto has been amplified across Western media.
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On August 19th, a mercenary mob,
paid for in US dollars, took down the democratically elected
government of Iran, an event which changed the course of Iran's
history and left the first ever democratically elected prime
minister to be confined to house arrest where he later died.
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The US empire ready to stage another coup against Venezuela |
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