Hugo Chavez : The Victorious Resistance in Latin America

[Heba]

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Defeating all US backed covert challenges Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has comfortably won a fourth consecutive term in office.

US wants to overthrow Chavez since his government moved to take control of the state-owned oil company PDVSA from US corporations and the Venezuelan capitalist class. The first attempt at a US-backed business-military coup successfully overthrew Chavez on April 11, 2002, but it was defeated two days later by a mass insurrection of workers and soldiers that defied the military high-command. Chavez then purged the military of those who supported the coup, leaving the capitalist politicians and their US-backers without control over the core institution of state power.

In December 2002, Carlos Ortega, the corrupt Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) leader, PDVSA executive Juan Fernandez and business federation chief Carlos Fernandez led a crippling shutdown of the oil industry, hoping this would financially cripple the Chavez government and cause Venezuela’s working people, including the ranks of the military forces, to turn against Chavez. But with the pro-capitalist officers having been purged from the military, Chavez was able to mobilize the army in alliance with the oil production workers to break the capitalists control over PDVSA.

Having taken control over PDVSA, Chavez’s working peoples' government has used its revenues and administrative resources to create a series of "social missions" to meet the health, education and other needs of Venezuela’s working class. In alliance with socialist Cuba, Venezuela’s socialist revolution presents a renewed threat to US imperialism’s interests in Latin America. 

When, in February 2008, General Mike McConnell, the US Director of National Intelligence, issued his "annual threat assessment," he classified the Chavez government as the "principal threat against the US in the [western] hemisphere."

Washington is using covert operations with the Colombian military and its extensive paramilitary forces which conspire with the Venezuelan opposition.

There are many destabilisation and spying operations against the governments of Venezuela ("Operation Falcon"), Cuba ("Operation Phoenix"), and Ecuador ("Operation Salomon") financed by the CIA through the US embassy in the Colombian capital of Bogota.

Washington is seeking to use its "war on drugs" as an excuse to intervene in Venezuelan politics by presenting the Chavez government as an obstacle to this "war."

[Thinker_Truth_Seeker]

This was excellent news.  Despite his illness in the recent past, Allah Almighty granted him a quick recovery.  Chavez was able to battle not only his cancer but also this tough election with courage and win a landslide victory.  White House must be shedding tears of grief.

Very good write-up summary. 

Chavez is a strong supporter of Iran and Syria.  Let's hope, InshAllah, his victory puts more pressure on the mischief mongers against Syria.

Thanks sister Heba.