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<font size=3><a href="http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=17527" eudora="autourl">http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=17527<br><br>
</a>Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2004<br>
Bylined to: <a href="mailto:dgrosso@cantv.net">Jose Del Grosso
</a><br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">The Venezuelan
Opposition: Urban Terrorism in the Empire's
Service</font><font face="georgia" size=5> <br><br>
</font><font face="courier" size=2 color="#000080"><b>It doesn't matter
if nobility steps on your head, as long as you have someone else's head
to step on.<br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=2>-- <b>Robespierre. <br><br>
Clinical psychologist Jose Del Grosso
writes:</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3> When we speak of
clarifying the reasons for the violence unleashed by the economic and
political elites of this country, what quickly comes to mind is a large
list of complaints that appear reasonable on the surface: <br><br>
</font>
<dl>
<dd>Poverty has increased dramatically.<br><br>
<dd>Unemployment and insecurity have increased.<br><br>
<dd>Chavez has been governing for almost five years and things have gone
from bad to worse.<br><br>
</dl>These kinds of complaints get attention, but: <br><br>
</u></b>1. They try to make it seem that these kinds of things never
occurred during the democratic dictatorship from 1959 to 1999: The past
was better.We knew how to do things then.The objective of their strategy
is to wash their hands and erase their own responsibility for the lead
role they assumed in causing the social, economic, and political
disasters that they speak of. <br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>2. The reaction of the elites to situations
even more serious than those they attribute to Chavezs government never
reached the levels of violence and terrorism that they have exhibited in
recent years. <br><br>
3. Their complaints hide a truth that is larger than a cathedral, and
that is that even if Chavez and his cabinet have committed mistakes
during their government, the elite cant attribute all of the blame to
Chavez for the increase in poverty, insecurity, and unemployment. At
first glance, what jumps out is that the elitesprotest has gone far
beyond peacefulmarches, and that to remove Chavez,they have implicitly
gone to the extreme of adopting the theme of We will destroy Venezuela in
order to save it,which is to say: We will destroy PDVSA [Petroleos de
Venezuela],We will paralyze industry,We will paralyze commerce,We will
leave the people without food,We will take all of the capital out of the
country& so that Chavez leaves through the democratic process.
<ul>
<li>As we continue characterizing the supposedly rational and reasonable
complaints of the opposition, there is another class of complaint that
they make: They are convinced that they and only they are The People</i>.
</font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>As is typical of discourse saturated with the
unconscious tone of the patriarchal archetype, the national oligarchy not
only speaks as though they were the majority, but they also speak
collectively, and want us to believe that the majority is in agreement
with them, and that they have been chosen as their spokesmen. <br><br>
</font><div align="right"><font face="georgia" size=4><a href="mailto:pstinard@hotmail.com">Translated
by Philip Stinard</a>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>Thus, excluding the majority of the people
who have always been marginalized, they happily allege, as though it were
an absolute truth, that among the reasons to remove Chavez are: There
exists a national consensus for removing Chavez.Seventy percent of those
polled blame the President for the countrys problems.The failure of
Chavism is turning into public wrath that cannot be contained.Now, it is
the general belief that [Chavez] is incapable of resolving societys
problems.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>This second group of reasons for
removing Chavez,clearly is in harmony with the thought patterns of the
patriarchal archetype: Only I govern. </b></font>
<ul>
<li><font face="georgia" size=3>Only we govern& on the basis of a
single, absolute, true, unquestionable, indisputable, irrefutable,
infallible thought&.</font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>The purpose of the Venezuelan oligarchy,
then, unconsciously turns into a religious theme, to unite, to
congregate, to struggle against the evil of a different thought that
threatens the established sacred order. <br><br>
A significant part of the struggle against Chavez has as its goal, not
simply to take over the presidency, but also to place people of
confidence,to seize the sacred orderof the old patriarchal ideology of
the democratic dictatorship, that they be at the head of government, that
they do it for the benefit of the national oligarchy and their foreign
associates. <br><br>
Jason Ramoneda explained this well in his work After the political
passion,where he says that the economic elites hide behind politicians,
and that once the politicians become the government, they are at the
service of the national and international elites. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>The powerful national and foreign
elites make up the political landscape of their countries, and in order
to represent them, they brainwash the people with their ideology of
salvation. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>In recent decades, the economic
elites have, through the communications media, sowed in the minds of the
people, images and opinions favorable to the politicians that represent
them, and in this way, they create and maintain governments that are in
agreement with their own ideology and goals. This means that the majority
does not have control over national political life, and that their role
is limited to choosing among the alternatives that are imposed by the
elites. <br><br>
Beyond this, removing Chavezhas two urgent concerns: <br><br>
</u></b>1. ChavezBolivarian ideas and works are a bad example for
Venezuelans, and for other Latin American countries as well because
majorities in other countries could take power and imitate his
anti-colonialist policies; this would call into question and endanger the
sacred imperialistic ideasof globalization. <br><br>
2. To seize the Venezuelan petroleum industry, particularly in this
moment in which the US is becoming bankrupt, and is going through an
energy crisis that they thought they could immediately overcome by
invading Iraq. <br><br>
For US imperialism, Chavez is a true threat, a devil, because he has
warned us of the dangers of neoliberal thinking; that is, to be
subservient to the hegemony of the main political and economic principle
of free trade, which is to say, the nonintervention of the State in the
planning and definition of the investment of national revenues. If not
for our vigilance, it would be the elites who would decide the vital
aspects of our social life, such as education, health, agricultural
production, water, and public services. In other words, the elites would
decide how we must think, what we read, who has the right to be healthy,
what we can eat, how much water we consume, and why&. <br><br>
One of the innocentprojects of the colonialists and Yankee</i> invaders
is the FTAA. The FTAA hides behind its supposed benefits the notion that
it is the only trade model worth following, that it is the only ideology
and vision of commercial salvation for Latin America. <br><br>
To legitimize the hidden goals of the FTAA, the project is embedded in a
judicial environment that is above the laws of National Constitutions.
This erodes the sovereignty of national laws, and legally requires
countries to submit to the rules of the World Trade Organization. With
this, the Empire will no longer need to buy local politicians; they will
save a little money, and the US will be able to punish, in any way they
see fit, those countries that dont submit to their will. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Control is ours,
because we are the people <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>To understand more deeply the
Venezuela oligarchys attitudes and their alliances with the North
Americans, it is necessary to briefly review several significant
political elements. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Aristotle says in his work,
Politics,Book 8, which treats the general theory of revolutions, that all
political systems, no matter the differences, recognize certain rights
and proportional equality among the citizens, but all, in practice, dont
follow this doctrine.<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>The majority of Venezuelans during the 40 years of democratic
dictatorship were convinced that the three Constitutions written during
this period recognized and defended a series of rights for all citizens.
They were even more convinced that we lived in a harmonious and peaceful
democracy. <br><br>
</dl>However, despite that, the people, confused, asked themselves if
they really lived in a democracy. This question, now more than ever,
comes to the fore when we observe the terrorist behavior of the
Coordinadora Democratica and its allies during recent years, a space of
time during which, in the name of democracy, they have wanted to
eliminate the Bolivarian Constitution, take Chavez out of power, despite
his having won two elections with an overwhelming majority of votes, and
impose upon us a referendum, which from the beginning was corrupted, and
has only counted on the support of a reduced group of their followers.
<br><br>
They taught us in school the idea that Democracy means government of the
people.They told us, and we read in text books, Democracy comes from the
Greek word demos,which means people, and kratos,which means
government.They also told us that Venezuela was a democratic country, but
they hid from us the context in which the idea of democracy was born and
how it was understood at that time. Nor did they explain which concept of
democracy was used and put into practice in Venezuela. <br><br>
Greek culture has guided Western culture up to this day (Alfred North
Whitehead: Adventures of Ideas)</i>. Greek culture, which is a
machista[sexist]</i> culture, has always been buried in our unconscious,
influencing our way of thinking, of perceiving the world, our feelings
and actions. Thus, our accustomed manner of seeing opposites
everywhere: black/white, good/bad, male/female; and the idea that the
world has a hierarchy; came from the Greeks, and is unconsciously rooted
in our way of thinking (Ken Wilber, Consciousness without borders; José
Del Grosso, Beyond mind and conduct)</i>.
<ul>
<li>The Greek concept of a universe organized in a hierarchy reflects
psychological patterns typical of the patriarchal archetype. The idea
conceives of only one supreme god, Zeus, to which the other gods and men
are subordinate. </font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>In a similar manner, and following the
psychological patterns of the patriarchal archetype, the Greeks organized
their social life in a hierarchy, and developed the idea of democracy as
the best and only means of social coexistence. <br><br>
In the times of Classical Greece, only wealthy, free men, which is to
say, those who had the most property, the most slaves, etc., were those
who constituted the People, those who governed and were governed. They
were the only ones who counted, and it was they who determined and made
all of the decisions for the polis, or city. They considered themselves
as the only ones who could and should rule the country, and the only ones
who could prevent Greece from ever being in the hands of the poor. The
women, the artists, the slaves, and the poor were not citizens and did
not participate in the Assembly. They were also not considered citizens
with respect to political rights. <br><br>
As Aristotle explains in his work cited above, the oligarchy (government
by the few) was born in the desire to make general and absolute an
inequality that is only real and positive in certain ways, because
inequality of men in wealth implies that they must be unequal in all
other areas, without limitation&. Supported by this inequality, they
have only thought about increasing their privileges, because that would
be the same as increasing inequality.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Its not surprising to find that the
ancient oligarchy created the following oath in some Greek States: I will
be the constant enemy of the people, I will do to them all of the evil
that I can.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>The desire of the oligarchy to
make inequality absolute, and their oath, in their unconscious and in
practice, have survived through the centuries up to the present day. For
the Venezuelan oligarchs, 90% of the people dont count, are not people.
In particular, the poor are no more than vulgar, dirty people.For the
Owners of the Country, there exists no other People than
themselves.<br><br>
This is exactly the idea of democracy defended by the US Heinz Dieterich
Steffan writes, The entire political praxis of US democracy stems from
the axiom: The government of a country must always be in the hands of
owners, and never in the hands of the poor, because the owners of the
country are the most committed to preserving their patrimony, and
besides, they will execute moderate and reasonable policies.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=16707">Furthermore, as
Rai OBrien explains in his article "What democracy to expect if
opposition takes control in Venezuela?"</a>: The US political system
is indisputably and totally controlled by two political parties. These
two parties are undeniably controlled by money&. Indisputably, money
rules in the US political system&. We could extend these ideas to
mean that the present US "democratic" system simply ensures
that the minority rules& The globalized version of democracy is most
concisely defined as a system which portrays itself as a democracy, but
in reality is a system which supports the goals of the elite in the
global economy.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>The United States not only defends
within its own territory the idea that power must be in the hands of the
elite, but as globocopand champion of the idea that democracy is
supposedly good for everyone,the US imposes it on the world by force.
<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>As Guardian Of What Is Good For
Mankind, the US intervenes in all Latin American countries to make sure
that they have democracy, and to ensure that, not only are the
governments in the hands of local oligarchies, but also to ensure that
they are US allies and aid them in their fight against evil.
<ul>
<li>From the perspective of US patriarchal doctrine, Chavez doesnt
understand what democracy is. He is not a democrat, but rather a bad
example for the rest of Latin America and the world. He is a radical
leaderwho threatens the stability of the region.</font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>On the basis of the excuses given above, the
US considers it an urgent priority to get rid of Chavez by any means
necessary, including the destruction of Venezuela and legal
assassination.Consider the US participation in the coup of April 11,
2002; the Civil Strike,whose objective was the economic collapse of the
country; as well as the declarations of the proconsul and known
intelligence agent Shapiro to the effect that To assassinate a president
isnt necessarily a
crime<a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=11205">(Arrogant
US Ambassador to Venezuela Charles S. Shapiro says its not a crime to
kill a President, VHeadline.com, 09/28/2003).</a><br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Chavez embarrassed the globocop</i> in
front of the entire world, by exposing from high office the true
intentions of the US economic and political elite, and by proposing,
among other things, that democracy should be a participatory democracy
and not a democracy ruled by money and controlled by an elite. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>From the perspective of the
patriarchal archetype, the Venezuelan oligarchy, which identifies itself
completely with the democracy of the US oligarchy, has reacted violently
against Chavez and his Bolivarian ideas because Chavez has not only
instituted a true democracy in Venezuela, but has also set limits on the
oligarchs and advanced plans that are favorable to the majority of
Venezuelans. <br><br>
From its patriarchal mentality, this is not acceptable to the oligarchy
because in their unconscious mental program they have recorded messages
such as, only we rule,only we make the laws,only we are people,only we
are the owners of the country,and we are superior.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Control is, and will always be ours,
no matter what: Third and fourth generation wars <br><br>
</font><font face="courier" size=2 color="#000080">We all want peace, but
the question, unfortunately, is who will decide what peace is, what order
and security are, what is an acceptable or unacceptable
situation.</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Carl Schmitt. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>The violence unleashed by the
poorly named opposition demands attention. <br><br>
</u></font><font face="georgia" size=2>For the majority of Venezuelans,
the oppositions actions are incomprehensible, irrational. It goes beyond
what is tolerable, and for that reason calls for immediate government
intervention: The government should imprison everyone.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>I believe that we cant let
ourselves by ruled by our first impulses and react in a conventional way,
simply conforming to what our laws say, especially because the opposition
has used the laws as a weapon of war. We find ourselves in the middle of
an unconventional war, with a logic different from that to which we are
accustomed. We are talking about a collection of strategies created and
supported by the US, which have been channeled and put into effect by the
Venezuelan oligarchy and their followers. <br><br>
It is a despicable fact that the US government has been clandestinely
supporting the so-called Venezuelan opposition in its numerous attempts
to remove Chavez.Their advice and intervention in the coup on April 11,
2002 was placed into evidence by many institutions, groups, journalists,
and publications, for example: The US supported the coup in Venezuela,
affirms TransAfrica Forum; Venpres, 01/08/2004. <br><br>
Shortly before the coup, so-called opposition leaders openly met with
members of the administration of Emperor George Weed [Bush]</i> in
Washington, and it has been confirmed that the National Endowment for
Democracy has been recently financing the oppositions call for a
referendum [against Chavez]
<a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=16707">(Rai O´Brien,
What democracy to expect if opposition takes control in
Venezuela?VHeadline.com).</a><br><br>
</i></font><font face="georgia" size=2>This unconventional war is not
only supported by the US economic, political, and military elite, but
also involves many international organization that serve as fronts, and a
series of infiltrators, or fifth column,in all sectors of national life.
<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>We must not allow ourselves to be
deceived by the names of these organizations. Human Rights Watch doesnt
defend human rights, it defends US economic, political, and military
interests. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) looks to the world
like a non-profit organization that fights for liberty and democracy, but
its true purpose is to insert itself into the internal affairs of
countries like Venezuela. And as part of this interference, NED has been
financing the so-called Venezuelan opposition (Rebelion.org, Venezuela
denounces financing from the United States to the opposition coup
supporters in Venezuela, Venpres, 02/13/2004)</i>. <br><br>
The new military theories of war developed by the US consider the
objective of wars not to be the physical destruction of the enemy, but
rather his domination; and according to these theories, this objective
can presently be achieved with the help of existing technology, without
the need to sacrifice the life of even one soldier. <br><br>
<dl>
<dd>Third and fourth generation wars, in contrast with those of the first
and second generation that involve hand to hand combat and traditional
weapons of war, use culture and information as weapons designed to
control the minds and will of the people. Through this control, the US
aspires to mobilize masses of people in their favor in order to fight
against a supposed enemy. <br><br>
</dl>From the perspective of war theories developed by the US, cultural
penetration on the part of the US must be complete; it must penetrate the
enemy as intimately as possible in all social arenas of daily life:
education, health, hygiene, food, entertainment, publications, mass
media, art, music, poetry, and religious, economic, and political
organizations; with the goal of winning and manipulating the mental and
organizational system of its adversary. Evidently, this is what the US
government has been doing in Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, Chile, Iraq,
etc. <br><br>
What William Lind, Corporal Keith Nightingale (USA), Captain John Schmitt
(USMC), Corporal Joseph Sutton (USA) and Corporal Gary Wilson (USMCR) say
in Marine Corps Gazette, October 1989, pp. 22-26, is very revealing: In
the broadest terms, fourth generation wars will probably be largely
scattered and undefinable; the distinction between war and peace will be
blurred and there will not be a point of separation. It will be a
nonlinear war, to the point that one will not be able to define
battlefields or fronts. The distinction between civiland militarycould
disappear. <br><br>
Actions will occur simultaneously through all participants, including the
society as a cultural entity, but not as a physical entity. All of these
elements will be present in third generation wars. Fourth generation wars
will simply be an amplification of the above. Psychological Operations
(PsyOps)</i> could become the dominant operational strategic weapon in
the form of information/media intervention ... News broadcasts will
become more powerful operational weapons than armed forces
divisions.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>All of the strategies used by the
Coordinadora Democratica have the following in common with the theories
of third and fourth generation wars: using changing and contradictory
logic; employing invisible and volatile combatants; and clever use of the
principles and democratic rights enshrined in the Bolivarian
Constitution. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Thus, psychological war waged in
the information media is based on freedom of the press and the right to
inform. Internal sabotage in the government is based on protection of the
unions and workersrights. The marches and protests, and the Guarimba, are
protected in part by Article 350 of the Constitution, which speaks of the
disregard of any regulation, legislation, or authority that obstructs
values, principles, and democratic guarantees, or diminishes human
rights.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Psychological
Operations, or Psychological War <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>When we stop to look at how the
Venezuelan opposition, allied to US economic and political elites, has
been plotting against Chavez, what is most evident has been the use of
the information media, with the goal of winning followers by brainwashing
them. The target, or goal, of their Psychological War is essentially the
Venezuelan middle class. Their campaigns appeal to key aspects of their
unconscious, what I have referred to as the patriarchal archetype, to
release violence when it is convenient [to the opposition]</i>.
<br><br>
Psychological War waged through the media is not limited to the 90% of
the media that are in the hands of the national oligarchy, but also
involves international media like CNN. [CNN]</i> is one of the largest
media outlets employed by the White House to create international opinion
favorable to its short, medium, and long term interventions. <br><br>
CNN, as one of the four horsemen of the 'Venezuelan Apocalypse,' takes
great care not only in manipulating information and making people believe
that Chavez is a tyrant, but also hides the positive and democratic
accomplishments of this government; and tries to subtly associate Chavez
with terrorist organizations, so that any direct military intervention by
the US in Venezuela would look like a humanitarian intervention, as they
did in Haiti. <br><br>
In Venezuela, the Coordinadora Democratica has taken advantage of the
four horsemen of the Apocalypse to call for rebellion, and it has done so
more than a few times using a strategy of racism and classism to provoke
terror in the middle and upper classes, to call upon them to defend their
lives, to move to action and create direct confrontations with people of
fewer resources. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Furthermore, the [privately owned
media]</i> have been creating a favorable opinion of US intervention in
Venezuela and, notably, some individuals have openly called for US
intervention before the cameras of the private Venezuelan TV companies.
<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>When the Coordinadora uses million
dollar time slots on [privately owned]</i> television station broadcasts
to air anti-Chavez propaganda, one must ask where the money comes from to
pay for the million dollar campaigns of disparagement and Psychological
War waged against Chavez. Furthermore, where does Gustavo Cisneros, whose
businesses, according to those who know, are going from bad to worse, get
the money to wage a campaign of total war against Chavez on his Latin
American TV station chain? Could it be that the father of George
[Bush]</i> is collaborating with generous donations to the media
campaigns? <br><br>
We cannot forget that the father of Emperor George [Bush]</i> is a friend
of Gustavo Cisneros, and that they even go on fishing trips together. Nor
can we forget that George [Bush]</i> has a cabinet composed of members
from the petroleum industry, that the [Bush]</i> family possesses
important petroleum businesses, and that his family and the family of
Osama Bin Laden are associates in many deals connected to the petroleum
industry in the Orient. (Thierry Meyssan, The big lie)</i>. <br><br>
<dl>
<dd>When the Coordinadora paralyzed the entire country against its own
economic interests, one must ask, how do they keep their businesses and
companies afloat? Do they simply recover their losses by increasing the
prices of their products and by firing their employees? <br><br>
<dd>When [the police]</i> detain leaders of the Coordinadora carrying
high power rifles that even the Venezuelan army doesnt have, and which
come from the US, we cannot look away. We must ask, how did they get
them? <br><br>
</dl>The paramilitaries who have killed more than 80 campesino leaders in
Venezuela, where did they come from? Who pays them? Why dont the media
who are openly against Chavez say anything about this, and about the
military base that the US is building on our border with Colombia in the
Guajira region? <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">An invisibleenemy
<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Two strategies derived from fourth
generation wars can been seen, for example, in the marches and public
protests (called the Guarimba)</i> of the opposition. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>In the marches, the strategy
consists of the sudden appearance of certain individuals who are mixed in
with the group, and as quickly as they appear, they disappear as if by
magic. They are individuals who quickly come out of the windows or are on
the roofs of buildings, and shoot long-range weapons towards the National
Guard -- and at times against their own peopleor who come out of the
group of marchers and throw high powered bombs and molotov cocktails,
shoot guns using shells containing fragments of metal and glass, throw
rocks, sticks, and pieces of pipe, disappearing rapidly into the crowd.
Are these marches peaceful? <br><br>
Always counting (by coincidence?)</i> on the presence of TV cameras, or
the video cameras of fans,when the National Guard tries to defend itself
or when the state security bodies try to stop these terrorists,the people
in the marches pass themselves off as victims. This moment is used to
prevent the security personnel from doing their job, and simultaneously
to obtain proof of government brutality and repression.
<ul>
<li>Many times they produce media shows that supposedly are proof of
state repression. One of those shows occurred the 27th of February, 2004,
when the opposition tried to break the security barrier placed to protect
the presidents that were attending the G-15 Summit in the city of
Caracas. </font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>Coincidentally (?)</i>, the TV cameras
captured the images of a young woman who, alone, confronted the National
Guard, started an argument, took a night stick from a woman in the
National Guard, and in the confusion, fell on her back one or two meters
from where she was standing. The narrators, as was to be expected,
condemned the acts of violence committed against that poor and
defenseless woman by the National Guard -- images that Globoterror
[Globovision]</i> repeated endlessly. <br><br>
When one watches the video for the first time, because of the speed with
which the events happened, it looks like the woman was really attacked,
but after viewing it a few times, one asks, how strong must the woman in
the National Guard have been in order to pick up the supposed victim and
throw her through the air for one or two meters? Why did the victim fall
so perfectly on her back and not receive any injury? As it happens, the
supposed victim got up and walked perfectly as if nothing had happened.
<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>The Guarimba is a similar strategy,
except instead of using a large group of marchers, it uses smaller groups
stationed near secure locations, which serve as a refuge for the
fugitives once the misdeeds have been committed. <br><br>
</b></font>
<dl>
<dd><font face="georgia" size=3>That is to say, it uses the strategy of
unseen, volatile urban terrorists, who are difficult to detect, detain,
and prosecute for their illegal actions. <br><br>
</dl>The name Guarimbameans territory, a place to hide where no one can
find you. The only objective of this plan is to completely paralyze the
country, and create chaos and anarchy nationwide with the participation
of the citizenry. In order to do this, the intellectual author of
Guarimba, Roberto Alonso, proposes, among other things: <br><br>
<dl>
<dd>1. We shouldnt directly confront the forces of public order,
especially because of the overwhelming force of the responding peace
officers. Therefore, we must employ tactics similar to those used by
guerrillas against regular armies that have given the guerrillas so much
success. <br><br>
<dd>2. We must attack quickly, attack and withdraw. Attack them when they
least expect it. We must be everywhere, and we dress as we like. We will
reduce their numbers, which will destroy their ability to fight, above
all when they dont know from where they are being attacked and by whom.
<br><br>
<dd>3. We will place dark colored ropes or cables between posts across
streets at a height of one and a half meters to trip motorcyclists of the
National Guard, DISIP (State Police)</i>, and Bolivarian Circles. We will
freeze pots of Chines rice that we have as leftovers in our houses to
throw from buildings, together with glasses, bottles, cans, and trash.
<br><br>
<dd>4. We will drive slowly in our cars. If every one of us drives
slowly, little by little the city will collapse. (from Guarimba or
terrorism made in Miami?by Humberto Gomez Garcia. Temas Venezuela
03/30/2004)</i>. <br><br>
</font>
</dl><font face="georgia" size=2>The terrorist minds of the opposition
deceive their followers, making them believe that their participation
will help restore the earlier democratic dictatorship;and avoid the
establishment of Castros communism in our country. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>But what is hidden from them is
that, behind the invisibility and impunity that throwing the rock and
hiding the handgives them, are snipers or assassins that kill or injure
either their own people or members of Chavezs hordes,to create martyrsand
thereby light the wick of a bloody civil war by way of resentment and
revenge. <br><br>
By doing this, the macabre minds of the Coordinadora Democratica and the
national and international economic elites hope that the country becomes
ungovernable, and that the resulting disorder be so great that it will be
difficult to calm the people by televised appeals. <br><br>
The government will then fall into the trap of using the forces of public
order, and the opposition will achieve ulterior goals such as: <br><br>
<dl>
<dd>a) make the national government seem repressive, <br><br>
<dd>b) invoke the famous Democratic Charter so that US troops invade the
country, <br><br>
<dd>c) the national oligarchy and the government in Washington will have
the control of the country in their hands, and <br><br>
<dd>d) they will reestablish democracy on their own terms. <br><br>
</font>
</dl><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">The oil is ours
<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>For centuries, the United States has
assumed a messianic ideology,They consider themselves the chosen
people,the people called to govern the world,and they appropriate for
themselves the right to practice the only ideal international economic
and political system, which is why they disdain the existence of a
balance between national and international power. (Read the chapter on
The new world orderin Henry Kissingers book Diplomacyfor more information
with respect to this.) </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="georgia" size=2>The US has merely extended the mission
that God gave themas chosen peopleto corner the entire world; the mission
that George [Bush]</i> actually believes was given to him [by God] to
fulfill the destiny of his country. </b></font>
</ul><font size=3><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>From its position as the Grand
Patriarch, the US believes that it has the right to the resources of
other countries, for which it has waged a great variety of wars across
the entire planet. Wars that are very convenient for them, because a
large part of their economy is based on the production and sale of arms,
and because in these wars, besides colonizing the invaded countries, they
make a lot of money through their famous reconstructions.<br><br>
The interest and conspiracies of the US in taking over Venezuelan oil are
nothing new. They have a history of more than a century (PDVSA and the
coup,various authors)</i>. We cant say that this unlawful appropriation
of our oil has been done by openly using force, that is to say by a
direct invasion as has been done in Iraq, or indirectly through an
alliance with a terrorist state as occurred in Timor, a country that was
invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and later in 1999 with financial and
military support from the US <br><br>
<dl>
<dd>Rather, one of the recent strategies of the US to get our oil is
through the ideology of globalization. Globalization has, among its
founding principles, the idea of nonintervention of the State in the
economy, and the (false) necessity that governments privatize all of the
industries that they own. <br><br>
</dl>This almost imperceptible strategy consists of corrupting key
employees so that the state run industries fail and declare bankruptcy.
The responsibility for the bankruptcy is attributed to the government,
which is accused of ineptitude. The government, under pressure from
politicians and the local private business sector, is obligated to sell
the national industries at fire sale prices,and the transnational
corporations generously accept the task of buying the bankrupt industries
which later, miraculously, flourish due to their new, good and admirable
management. <br><br>
This has been one of strategies used in Venezuela to take control of our
oil. During the 1990s, almost imperceptibly, PDVSA [the national oil
company]</i> started to become a burden for the state, with elevated
operating costs and poor investments such as the purchase of abandoned
and broken down refineries, which once bought were never rebuilt and put
into production. <br><br>
However, the US started to employ more aggressive tactics due to
inspections and direct intervention in the PDVSA by Chavez, and resorted
to a petroleum coupwith the aid of the meritocracy, which was given the
task of fleecing and sabotaging it: shortages of gasoline, destruction of
installations, sabotage of contracts, etc. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=4>The petroleum coup was the perfect
macabre plan: <br><br>
</u></font>
<dl>
<dd><font face="georgia" size=3>1. By destroying PDVSA and leaving it in
bankruptcy, not only could the US take one of the most important oil
companies in the world at a good price, but they would also have free
access to oil from the country with the fifth largest known oil reserves
in the world. <br><br>
<dd>2. The [Bush]</i> familys patrimony would continue to increase.
<br><br>
<dd>3. If the oil industry, Venezuelas biggest source of revenue, were in
the hands of the US, this would allow economic coercion, leaving the
hands of the Venezuelan government tied. The US could create economic
chaos, place the blame on Chavez, and force us to submit to the plans of
the IMF. <br><br>
<dd>4. Misery and poverty would rise to such high levels that the same
people who brought Chavez into power would rebel and force him to resign.
<br><br>
<dd>5. Removing Chavez would accomplish: <br><br>
<dd>a) US desires to take control of one of the most important sources of
oil in the world, and <br><br>
<dd>b) remove the danger that Chavez represents to the US; according to
them, Chavez is a bad example because he incites other countries to
defend their resources and propose more fair economic practices.
<br><br>
</dl>For one sector of the middle and upper classes, removing Chavez from
power would accomplish their desire to: <br><br>
<dl>
<dd>a) again put their boots on the heads of low people,<br><br>
<dd>b) retake control of the country, which they consider theirs by
divine right, and <br><br>
<dd>c) reestablish the sacred patriarchal order with all that implies.
<br><br>
</dl>The Great Patriarch of the North accelerates his plans: We must
invade Venezuela immediately.<br><br>
</u>Emperor [Bush]</i>, the Great Patriarch of the North, with all of his
arrogance and egoism, is beside himself with anger because of his
inability to crush Chavez. To date, he has tried many of the tactics of
third and fourth generation warfare, but his efforts have been futile.
However, we must not become self-confident, but must instead be alert to
the possibility that he will employ military force, whether it be
indirectly through support for Plan Colombia, or directly with troops.
<br><br>
[Bushs]</i> indignation is great, and on top of that, the United States
is virtually bankrupt. The US needs Venezuelas oil desperately. Their
plans to exploit Iraqi oil are becoming remote, and without petroleum,
the US would be paralyzed in such a way that they it would feel no
recourse but to take Venezuelas oil by any means necessary. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Although the possibility that the US
would invade us horrifies us, and we invent all kinds of butsas a means
of self-denial, we cannot close our eyes or bury our heads like
ostriches.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>There are many warnings of a
potential invasion of Venezuela by the United States. Here is the most
recent one, made by James Petras, Professor of Sociology of the State
University of New York in Binghamton: According to Petras, the US
priority is the government of Venezuela. <br><br>
<ul>
The United States is not</u></b> going to invade Venezuela by themselves
... which is why they need a military ally capable of opening a second
front, which is Colombia. <br><br>
</ul>According to this sociologist, the US is treating this as a military
project, and is calculating how much resistance they would face in their
invasion of Venezuela. In my opinion, they are planning a violent
overthrow of Chavez, in combination with an internal uprising and an
invasion from the frontier by Colombia, which would open the way for the
entry of the US! (Bush is planning the overthrow of Hugo Chavez, assures
James Petras,La Jornada, Mexico, 03/28/2004). <br><br>
</i>Along with the preceding warning, we have the public declarations of
an official of the US State Department, Peter Deshazo, which reaffirm
what Petras said: The public acknowledgment by State Department official
Peter Deshazo that the CIA finances US mercenaries in Venezuela; the more
than 80 assassinations of campesino and popular leaders during the
Bolivarian government; the continuous shipments of arms to Venezuelan
paramilitaries; and the increasing attacks by Colombian paramilitaries
demonstrate that Washington is mercilessly pursuing its policies to
destroy the government of Hugo Chavez(Heinz Dieterich: Destruction
accomplished for Aristide, destruction planned for Hugo Chavez.Rebelion,
02/21/2004). <br><br>
</i>We also have the report by General James T. Hill, head of the US
Southern Command, who in [recent] testimony before the US House Armed
Services Committee warned that a new menace was emerging in Latin
America: radical populism: &the leaders& reinforce their radical
positions by inflaming anti-US sentiment. Additionally, other actors are
seeking to undermine U.S. interests in the region by supporting these
movements. He cites Haiti, Venezuela, and Bolivia as examples where
radicalleaders have promoted anti-US sentiments and seek to exploit the
fragile context of their countries to promote and reinforce their power.
Hill also indicated that the Argentine economic crisis has caused many to
question the validity of neo-liberal reforms, manifested in the Buenos
Aires Consensus signed last October by Presidents (Argentine Nestor)</i>
Kirchner and (Brazilian Luis Ignacio)</i> Lula (da Silva)</i> and
stressing respect for poor countries(Jim Carson/David Brooks, A new
menace is emerging in Latin America, according to the Pentagon: radical
populism.La Jornada, 03/29/2004)</i>. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Mr. James T. Hills testimony suggests
that these leaders are a danger to the stability of the region. This
aspect, stability of the region,is the key for understanding the
bellicose actions that the US has already unleashed on Haiti, and which
they may unleash against Venezuela and Bolivia in the future. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>To use Noam Chomskys analysis,
which is clear and revealing: & and the elements that cause disorder
in the world must know that they will pay dearly& if they dont obey
the orders of Washington, their master&. Understood in this way, a
region is stable when it is integrated in the global system which,
dominated by the US, serves the officially sanctioned interests and is
controlled by specific centers of power&. In the same manner,
Washington sees itself obligated to impose on Guatemala an extremely
cruel military dictatorship because its first democratic government
represented a growing threat to the stability of Honduras and El
Salvador, according to the State Department. The risk of instability in
the region mustnt be taken literally; whats happening is that Guatemalan
agrarian reform is a powerful propagandistic weapon. Its generous social
program is centered in helping workers and campesinos and is directly
opposed to the interests of the upper classes and large foreign
corporations. Thus, it is attractive to neighboring Central American
peoples that live under similar conditions. After forty years of
terrorism, these programs no longer exist, so now Guatemala is no longer
a risk to regional stability.<br><br>
Chomsky emphasizes: Take into account that, in the doctrinal sense, it is
not considered contradictory to destabilize with the intentions of
creating stability; thus, Nixon and Kissinger put all of their efforts
into destabilizing the Marxist government that the Chileans had chosen in
free elections, because we had decided to achieve stability, according to
a renowned expert in international relations(A new generation makes the
rules,pp. 42-43). <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Wars are won by soldiers (citizens),
not by generals or leaders alone. <br><br>
</u></b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Although Chavez is a brilliant
strategist, we cant continue acting according to the unconscious pattern
of the patriarchal archetype; that is to say, endorsing Chavez,
converting him into an all-powerful god, and the people assuming a
passive role, leaving him the responsibility to win battles alone.
<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>We must fight, and our first task is to be alert, conscious of what
is happening in the country and in the world. We must change our attitude
from a passive one to an active one, with a full vision of the world, not
one based on the biblical standard of an eye for an eye,because, as
Ghandi says, The whole world would go blind.<br><br>
</dl>Another world is possible, and we, the Venezuelans and Latin
Americans together, must create it, because our America is full of
beautiful, spiritual, loving, and creative people.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5>Jose Del Grosso<br>
<a href="mailto:dgrosso@cantv.net">dgrosso@cantv.net</a><br><br>
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