Boggart Abroad: 03/15/15

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Venezuelan Social Movements Take to the Streets to Oppose U.S. Aggression

by Arthur Foxake

"A lot of balls and ovaries there are here to defend this land. Yankees of shit." An anti-imperialist refrain inspired by a popular Chávez slogan. (Credit: Lucas Koerner/venezuelanalysis.com)

During his first Presidential election campaign in 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was sold as the great conciliator, the peacemaker and joybringer who would unite the world and lead it to an era of peace and prosperity. Some of us did a little digging into Obama's background and found he didn't have one. he was a creation of the Corporate Cartel.

Enough Americans bought into the PR narrative however to ensure that when their votes were combined with the ethnic minorities and those white Americans who were too scared of being thought racist to oppose a black candidate, to get the man many of us warned would be the ultimate divisive figure, elected. And so the USA, the world's more powerful nation according to media commentators, was saddled with a warmonger and bully on the international stage, a partisan promoter of racial and religious tension in domestic policy, and a corporate lackey through and through, as their President.

And all the predictions made by bloggers and commentators such as myself and many others in alternative media and a few writers in mainstream media came true. Middle eastern nations were engulfed by civil conflict as Obama sponsored and equipped ~~terrorists~~ freedom fighters to overthrow democratically elected governments or replace stable, secular dictatorships with insane fundamentalist theorcracies, by constant provocation that eventually brought a response, he brought us to the brink of war between the west and the Russian - Chinese alliance.

And now, with the security situation more dangerous that any time in the past fifty years, the peacemaker and joybringer, Barack Hussein Obama, The Obamessiah, is looking to start yet another civil war and plunge another nation into failed statehood. This time, as we reported a few days ago, his target is Venezuela.

Earlier today we learned Venezuelan social movements had converged in Plaza Venezuela in the center of the capital on Thursday to manifest their firm rejection of the latest round of U.S. sanctions.

On Monday, President Obama issued an executive order sanctioning seven top officials of the Venezuelan government as well as declaring the Bolivarian nation an "unusual and extraordinary national security threat," a step that could pave the way for possible economic sanctions.

This latest move by the U.S. administration has been roundly condemned by a host of nations and regional bodies, including Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, UNASUR, CELAC, and most recently China and Russia.

Among the movements assembled in the center of Caracas on Thursday were various collectives such as the Pioneers Encampment, government-affiliated social missions such as the Great Housing Mission and Barrio Tricolor, as well as a plethora of people representing their neighborhood communal councils.

Chanting "Yankee go home" and "Venezuela respects itself", thousands of Venezuelans of all ages filled the streets with their characteristic red shirts, exhibiting national pride and indignation in response to the White House’s announcements.

"We are here to defend the motherland left to us by Chávez, Bolívar, Zamora, and all of our heroes and heroines, because we've also had many heroines, many barefooted women who defended this country. We're following in the same legacy as all of them," Lies Guzmán of the Socialist Environmental Workers' Front told Venezuelanalysis.

"We are steeled, knee to the ground, for anything that happens, with the women in the vanguard, prepared on all fronts, including the diplomatic, military, and guerrilla fronts if necessary."

In his executive order, President Obama expressed concern for alleged human rights violations in Venezuela. Sadly, as we well know, this hypocritical piece of smeg does not give flying fuck andout the human tights of Americans. Unless of course they are black or gay.

Source: Venezuelanalysis

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