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Plot to kill Maduro: Venezuela demands US explain role in assassination plan

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged US involvement in a plot to oust his government and assassinate him. The South American leader said there are hundreds of emails that prove members of the State Department were part of the conspiracy.

Venezuela has opened an investigation into a supposed plot to overthrow the government and assassinate President Maduro, reports Venezuelan state news broadcaster TeleSur. Authorities have alleged the plot was hatched by members of the Venezuelan far right with the support of the US State Department.

Plot to kill Maduro: Venezuela demands US explain role in assassination plan — RT News.

‘Venezuela is facing unconventional war perfected by the US’

IN an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Nicolas Maduro, elected last year after the death of Hugo Chavez, said what he described as a “revolt of the rich” would fail because the country’s “Bolivarian revolution” was more deeply rooted than when it had seen off an abortive US-backed coup against Chavez in 2002.

Venezuela, now estimated to have the world’s largest oil reserves, has faced continuous violent street protests — focused on inflation, shortages and crime — since the beginning of February, after opposition leaders launched a campaign to oust Maduro and his socialist government.

Maduro claimed Venezuela was facing a type of “unconventional war that the US has perfected over the last decades”, citing a string of US-backed coups or attempted coups from 1960s Brazil to Honduras in 2009.

‘Venezuela is facing unconventional war perfected by the US’ - DAWN.COM.

Venezuela: CIA and the Florida Mafia incite violence in the interest of US imperialism

If one reads the corporate American press regarding the violence and protests in Venezuela they would not be surprised to see that Chavismo and the current government of democratically elected Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, are blamed for anything and everything: from food shortages, inflation, violence, devaluation of the currency, student crackdowns, police brutality, repression and on and on.

We are told by the likes of the New York Times that those involved in the current rounds of protest, killings and violence that now plague the oil rich nation are being conducted by ordinary people who suffer under the jack boot of Communist Venezuela:

The Daily Censored » Venezuela: CIA and the Florida Mafia incite violence in the interest of US imperialism.

Why the Media Are Giving a Free Pass to Venezuela’s Neo-Fascist Creeps

The novelist, essayist, historian and playwright Luis Britto García is a titan of Latin American literature and thought, though he’s not nearly as well known on this side of the cultural border between “America” the country and América the continent. Many consider this prize-winning author the most important writer and intellectual in Venezuela. In addition to his novels and many other books on language, culture and politics, Britto García has written extensively on the role of the media in Venezuelan politics. Earlier this month, Nation contributor Roberto Lovato met with Britto García, 73, in his home in Caracas to talk about the role of the media in the current conflict.

Why the Media Are Giving a Free Pass to Venezuela’s Neo-Fascist Creeps | The Nation.

Interview with Ex-CIA Collaborator: “The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced”

Raúl Capote is a Cuban. But not just any Cuban. In his youth, he was caught up by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They offered him an infinite amount of money to conspire in Cuba. But then something unexpected for the US happened. Capote, in reality, was working for Cuban national security. From then on, he served as a double agent. Learn his story, by way of an exclusive interview with theChávez Vive magazine, which he gave in Havana:

Interview with Ex-CIA Collaborator: “The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced” | venezuelanalysis.com.

Venezuela: Political spiral of violence a threat to the rule of law | Amnesty International

Venezuela risks one of the worst threats to the rule of law in decades if the different political forces do not commit to fully respecting human rights, according to a new Amnesty International report on the current crisis in the country.

The report, Venezuela: Human Rights at risk amid protests, documents allegations of human rights violations and abuses committed in the context of the massive public demonstrations since early February.

Venezuela: Political spiral of violence a threat to the rule of law | Amnesty International.

Cold War CIA Coup Templates Back in Business around the World

The greatest collection of status quo enthusiasts can be found at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. As nations around the world attempt to distance themselves from Washington’s financial, military, and political grip, the CIA is reaching into its past playbook to deal with wayward governments. 

After helping to foment a political rebellion in Ukraine against the democratically-elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych, Washington’s propaganda apparatus, which is centered on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI), has focused on Venezuela.

Venezuela identified three U.S. embassy officials in Caracas meeting with opposition protesters and helping to plan anti-government riots throughout the country. The three U.S. «consular officers» -- Breann Marie McCusker, Jeffrey Gordon Elsen and Kristopher Lee Clark – were ordered expelled by the Venezuelan government. Last October, Venezuela expelled another three U.S. diplomats – chargé d’affaires Kelly Keiderling, David Moo, and Elizabeth Hoffman -- for involvement in fomenting domestic unrest. The six so-called diplomats were involved in activities often associated with «official cover» CIA agents.

Cold War CIA Coup Templates Back in Business around the World.

John Kerry Doubles Down on Venezuela, Despite Being Alone

Images forge reality, granting a power to television and video and even still photographs that can burrow deep into people’s consciousness without them even knowing it. I thought that I, too, was immune to the repetitious portrayals of Venezuela as a failed state in the throes of a popular rebellion. But I wasn’t prepared for what I saw in Caracas this month: how little of daily life appeared to be affected by the protests, the normality that prevailed in the vast majority of the city. I, too, had been taken in by media imagery.

Major media outlets have already reported that Venezuela’s poor have not joined the right-wing opposition protests, but that is an understatement: it’s not just the poor who are abstaining – in Caracas, it’s almost everyone outside of a few rich areas like Altamira, where small groups of protesters engage in nightly battles with security forces, throwing rocks and firebombs and running from tear gas.

John Kerry Doubles Down on Venezuela, Despite Being Alone.

US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela

The Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela

That these groups have distinct political and financial interests in Venezuela casts some doubt on the impartiality of the viewpoints their funded analysts produce. Indeed, a 2006 diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks uncovered the fact that U.S. officials were planning to implement a “5-point strategy” to undermine the Chavez government, specifically using USAID as a means to accomplish this. That USAID also happens to be a prime funder of the Inter-American Dialogue raises some serious questions about its unstated mission in the country.

The Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela - The Intercept.