Coordinated
attacks, which resembling periods before US coups and military
interventions, have been taking place recently by the US political
and media establishment against Venezuela.
White
House officials have warned openly for an expansion of the economic
embargo, which is already causing suffocation to the Venezuelan
economy, making it even more difficult for the country to import
basic food and medicines.
New
threats concerning sanctions related to the Venezuelan oil sector may
result to even complete banning of imports into the US. At the same
time, the possibility of prohibiting insurance for the oil tankers
from Venezuela is being examined, meaning complete prohibition of oil
shipment.
As the
American economist and analyst Mark Weisbrot reveals citing
well-informed sources in Washington, the White House is now
threatening even opposition executives, such as Henri
Falcón, in order not to take part in the
presidential election - thus preventing them from legitimizing the
process.
Knowing
that the right-wing opposition is about to be dissolved, Washington
is attempting in every way to intensively undermine government's
contacts with the opposition, and therefore, to harm the validity of
the elections. And this, despite the fact that, according to
opposition poll companies, 77.6% of the respondents say they will be
involved in the process and only 12.3% stated that they will not
participate.
Key
Inspirator of the new US strategy is the senator for Florida, Marco
Rubio, who, through a Twitter message, openly called the Venezuelan
army to overthrow the democratically elected president of the
country. A few weeks earlier, Trump himself had left open even the
possibility of a military invasion.
At the
same time, American news agencies such as Reuters and Associated
Press, as well as humanitarian organizations funded by the State
Department, present Venezuela as a picture taken from Dante's hell.
Reuters, in an unprecedented distortion of reality, has come to
compare immigrants' exit (due to the economic crisis), with the
chaotic pictures on the borders of Myanmar with Bangladesh.
Indicative of the US media policy was the derogatory attitude against
the UN independent observer, Alfred de Zayas, who, after an on-site
investigation in Venezuela, said that the country is experiencing
great difficulties, but not a humanitarian crisis.
The
attempt of depicting Venezuela as a country in a state of
humanitarian crisis originates directly from Washington, which hopes
to activate international law, like the so-called "responsibility
of protection," with which the invasion of foreign powers could
be "legalized" under the pretext of the protection of the
population.
Article
by Aris Chatzistefanou translated from the original
source
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