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<h1 id="reader-title">Ten Big Lies about Venezuela and its
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By Carlos E. Lippo on December 15, 2017</div>
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<p>For many years I have had the absolute
conviction that the only thing that the
capitalist system has managed to surpass
socialism in, over these last 100 years since
the first consolidated socialist revolution in
history took place, is in having developed a
formidable propaganda apparatus. <span
id="more-5971"></span>This propaganda machine
has been used to manipulate the public opinion
on a global scale, by accepting and even
celebrating its supposed achievements,
completely hiding its errors, failures and
contradictions. And at the same time it has
tried to do the opposite with all the socialist
societies that have existed and still exist on
the face of the planet.</p>
<p>An undeniable great achievement of the
capitalist powers, based on the immodest use of
this propaganda apparatus, has been that almost
half of the human beings on this planet identify
with their system, which is terribly unfair,
oppressive, alienating, inequitable, predatory,
cheating, xenophobic, misogynistic, etc., etc.,
etc., with freedom, justice, equality, democracy
and in general with all the highest values of
the human species. At the same time they have
managed to attribute to the governments with a
socialist ideology all their most aberrant
anti-values, in the judgment of that same half
of humanity.</p>
<p>As if this were a little thing, it is
regrettable that under the influence of this
propaganda there are a number of our comrades
who still assume as true a great number of the
fallacies widely disseminated by the capitalist
communication apparatus. Like it was in the news
about the erosive process commanded by those
malicious traitors called Gorbachev and Yeltsin,
which ended with the dissolution of the USSR in
1991. This was reported by the propaganda
machine to have its origin in a supposed
economic collapse initiated in its early 1980s,
when precisely the opposite occurred. Actually
the highest levels of production were recorded
at the end of that decade. It was only at the
fall of the USSR when it began to register a
decline in production and a decline in the
Russian economy, which fell by 45% between 1991
and 1998. Those who still believe that Soviet
Communism failed on its own should take into
consideration in 1917, Russia was one of
Europe’s most backward countries and that
between 1917 and 1991 the Soviet economy
recorded continuous growth and that production
in per capita terms and increased by 378% in
that 74 year period.</p>
<p>Another lie of more or less the same caliber is
the one that has been passed along about North
Korea for more than a half century. After the
United States had assassinated more than 2.5
million of their civilians and left another 5
million homeless, during the war giving rise to
two Koreas, the lie has been that courageous
North Korea has suffered permanent famine since
then under its socialist leadership.</p>
<p>So far, in this century we have witnessed great
deceptions widely disseminated by the Empire’s
rogue world media to try to justify their
fiercest invasions, each of which have been
subsequently disproved, although only after
immense damage has been caused. Such is the case
of, the presence in Afghanistan of Osama Bin
Laden, the alleged mastermind of the demolition
of the twin towers of the WTC; the existence of
weapons of mass destruction of all kinds in
Iraq; and the aerial bombing of civilians in
Libya by Gadhafi, all of them proven to be lies.</p>
<p>The Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela has been
widely vilified by the means of the right even
before its rise to power in 1999; an example of
this was when its top leader, Commander Hugo
Chávez, was falsely accused by Ernesto Samper,
then president of Colombia, to be behind the
infamous Colombian guerrilla attack on the
Venezuelan border naval post in 1995. This
falsehood was disseminated by the media on the
right without a shred of evidence but was not
retracted even when Chavez went to the
neighboring country to undermine such a lie. The
dirty war labs that create the alter reality
about Venezuela started to dramatically increase
to the stratospheric levels it is at now when
Chavez declared the anti imperialist character
of the Bolivarian Revolution on May 16, 2004.</p>
<p>Here we present a list of 10 of the greatest
lies lodged against Venezuela and its Revolution
in the framework of the unconventional war that
has been applied, each of them together with a
brief argument that in our opinion should serve
to counter the misinformation:</p>
<ol>
<li>Venezuela is an unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security of the United
States, as decreed by an executive order
signed by Barack Obama on May 3, 2015, an
absolutely fallacious statement that he
himself dismissed 5 days later with the
following words, <em>“We do not believe that
Venezuela is a threat to the United States
and the United States is not a threat to
Venezuela.”</em> This pronouncement appeared
in an exclusive interview with EFE, held
before he travelled to Panama to participate
in the VII Summit of the Americas. He repeated
the retraction again in a plenary meeting
before all the presidents and heads of
Government of all the OAS member nations. In
spite of this, Obama extended the validity of
that order for a year and in 2016 and shortly
before his presidential time was up, he
renewed it in early January of this year.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="2">
<li>The Venezuelan government is a dictatorship
that violates human rights. Venezuela is a
member of the UN Human Rights Council which
approved earlier this year an outstanding
grade for its second universal periodic review
(UPR), four and a half years after having
approved the first, far surpassing the United
States which remains its most persistent
detractor in this and many other subjects.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="3">
<li>Venezuela is a narco-state; what happens in
reality is that our neighborhood situation
with Colombia, which is the world’s largest
producer/exporter of cocaine, has unwittingly
made us a country of transit of this drug to
the United States the world’s largest consumer
of it. The fallacious accusation remains
despite the fact that the UN has repeatedly
declared us “a country free of illicit crops”,
most recently in August 2016</li>
</ol>
<ol start="4">
<li>Venezuela is isolated in the global context;
something that is absolutely contradictory to
the fact that Venezuela, which has recently
become a temporary member of the UN Security
Council, is occupying, until 2019, the
pro-tempore presidency of the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM), involving more than 120
countries representing more than 55% of the
world’s population. Venezuela has had many
recent diplomatic victories in the UN Security
Council, the UN General Assembly and the
Organization of American States (OAS) over the
Empire and its allies during this year with
support of many nations and a multitude of
grassroots solidarity organizations on the
world level.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="5">
<li>Venezuela suffers a humanitarian crisis in
the health sector is a fabrication promoted by
the Department of State and the Southern
Command to lay the justification of a military
invasion. We will not deny that we are
suffering from a major shortage of medicines
and medical supplies of foreign origin whose
importation must be controlled by the
Revolutionary Government but this process is
being boycotted on the orders of the Empire,
like in a recent case where the Government of
Colombia, forbade the sale of medicines
against malaria to Venezuela and another case
by the financial firm Euroclear, which for 6
weeks has been blocking $450 million earmarked
primarily for the purchase of drugs and food
abroad. Despite the terrible economic war that
the Empire and its allies have been applying
on us for years, we remain one of the few
countries in the world that has totally free
medical care for the people.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="6">
<li>The economic measures of the revolutionary
government have generated an acute food
crisis, but the truth is that during the years
of the revolution, production has increased to
85% of all the food we consume. What happens
is that this production is controlled by two
large corporations of transnational capital
monopolies that decide what they place and
what they keep out of the market that leads to
generating scarcity. It also occurs that a
large amount of the food we produce or import
is expended at very low prices because it is
subsidized by the Government for the benefit
of the people, but much of it is being
illegally diverted to neighboring countries,
as is the case of Colombia where at times food
prices have risen 40% due to the smuggling
promoted by the forces of the narco-militarism
in complicity with the Colombian government.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="7">
<li>Venezuela is part of the “Axis of Evil”,
together with Russia, China and Iran, when in
reality Venezuela, in complete control of its
sovereignty, is a firm believer in the need to
contribute to create a multipolar world. It
maintains excellent relations of a diplomatic
nature, commercial, cultural and military
cooperation with these countries. Let’s not
forget that since 2007 an official memorandum
of the United States National Security Agency
(NSA) included Venezuela among its six
“priority targets”, along with China, Russia,
North Korea, Iran and Iraq.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="8">
<li>Venezuela is in default, is only true in the
self-fulfilling prophecy of financial risk
rating companies, which have long been
suggesting in establishing indicators higher
for Venezuela than for those with similar
economies and even smaller countries like
Jamaica and Panama who are not oil exporters
nor do they have other strategic resources.
This despite our country being in absolute
peace and able to certify the largest reserves
of hydrocarbons on the planet that enjoyed
world oil prices of more than 100 dollars per
barrel. What has really happened is that
Venezuela, which during President Maduro’s
government has paid a little more than $70
billion for financial debt, is experiencing
serious difficulties in honoring the payments
in dollars due to U.S. sanctions that prevent
the repatriation of CITGO’s dividends in that
currency causing Venezuela to have to
refinance creditor debt. Likewise, the company
Euroclear in addition to improperly
withholding our funds in dollars keeps
illegally blocking securities (bonds) issued
by the Republic for an amount of $1.2 billion,
which is why PDVSA has requested a grace
period of 30 days to be able to pay the
vouchers of the bonds with maturity in the
months of November and December of this year.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="9">
<li>The Venezuelan revolutionary government
refuses to call elections; a huge lie that
produces deep hilarity when one takes into
consideration that the governments of Chávez
and Maduro have held a world record for having
had 23 elections, in the 20 years of
Revolution. It should be noted that during
that period there was only one postponement of
a regional election that was requested by the
opposition, which was a referendum to revoke
the presidential mandate that was not possible
because it did not meet the law requirements.
Such a huge fallacy has its origin in the fact
that the Empire and its allies intend to force
us to hold an early presidential election,
which by law must be carried out in December
of the year 2018.</li>
</ol>
<p>10. The Venezuelan opposition is the majority
and is democratic; which are two unsustainable
lies. First it is irrefutable fact that the
opposition has lost 20 of the 22 electoral
processes carried out until now and have been
defeated in the most recent regional process in
which the forces of the revolution obtained 18
out of the 23 disputed state governorates. In
terms of proving that this is a deeply
anti-democratic opposition, it would suffice to
say that it has participated in the following; A
successful coup d’état (April 2002); An oil
sabotage stoppage (December 2002 — February
2003); Countless failed attempts at coup
d’états; three bloody days of terrorism
resulting in countless fatalities in May 2003,
from February to May 2014, and from April to
July 2017. This opposition has only recognized
the legitimacy of the two elections; the two in
which they won.</p>
<p><a
href="http://razonesdecuba.cubadebate.cu/articulos/diez-grandes-mentiras-sobre-venezuela-y-su-revolucion/">http://razonesdecuba.cubadebate.cu/articulos/diez-grandes-mentiras-sobre-venezuela-y-su-revolucion/</a></p>
<p>Source: Cubadebate</p>
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