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Random (Guy)aido Returns to Venezuela! Announces Plans For Subversion Tour Around Country!

Vesti News
Gepubliceerd op 11 mrt. 2019

The fugitive impostor and false president Guaido returned to Venezuela. The official cause for his absence is a foreign tour. Guaido left the country despite the ban by the Supreme Court. Many people now expected that the court would arrest him. However, it didn’t happen in order to preserve peace in the country and not to give a reason for a foreign invasion.

Intervention? Guaido can see only one solution for Venezuela

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Blackout blame-game in Venezuela

RT America
Gepubliceerd op 11 mrt. 2019
RT America’s Sara Montes de Oca joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss Venezuela’s failing power systems. Power outages are common, but previous ones didn’t approach the scale of the current blackout and its origins remain mysterious. US officials and Maduro point fingers at one another as unrest roils the country.

US aims to ‘make Venezuelans suffer’ – Dan Kovalik

RT America
Gepubliceerd op 11 mrt. 2019
Dan Kovalik, author and professor of international human rights, joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss the fatal power-outage in Venezuela, how much worse things may become for the country, and the continuing US efforts to undermine President Maduro’s government.

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Russia To Defend Its Venezuela Oil Assets In ‘Toughest Way Possible’

While the global superpowers spat over the handling of the crisis in Venezuela, the Latin American country’s oil industry has been hit hard by the US sanctions against it and its state oil firm PDVSA. Venezuela struggles to find buyers for its oil, after the sanctions essentially ban exports to what was its largest market until recently, the US, as well as imports from the US of naphtha, which the country uses to dilute its thick heavy oil to make it flow.

Russia’s Rosneft is reportedly coming to the rescue with shipments of naphtha to Venezuela to help it make its heavy oil suitable for processing and exports. Two Rosneft tankers will be sending 1 million barrels of heavy naphtha to Venezuela in the next few weeks, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing shipping reports and a source with knowledge of the plans. These naphtha shipments could bring some immediate relief, but they would be lower than Venezuela’s typical monthly heavy naphtha imports of 2-3 million barrels, according to Bloomberg.

“Lights Out!” Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

Even as the Venezuelan government blamed the recent power outage on U.S.-led “sabotage,” the U.S. has long had a plan on the books for targeting the civilian power grid of adversarial nations.

By Whitney Webb

March 11, 2019 “Information Clearing House” –

For nearly four days, much of Venezuela has been without power, bringing the country’s embattled economy to a near standstill. Though power is now returning, the outage saw U.S. officials and politicians blame the Venezuelan government for the crisis while officials in Caracas accused the U.S. of conducting “sabotage” and launching cyberattacks that targeted its civilian power grid as well as of employing saboteurs within Venezuela.

Although many mainstream media outlets have echoed the official U.S. government response, some journalists have strayed from the pack. One notable example is Kalev Leetaru, who wrote at Forbes that “the United States remotely interfering with its [Venezuela’s] power grid is actually quite realistic.”

Leetaru also noted that “timing such an outage to occur at a moment of societal upheaval in a way that delegitimizes the current government, exactly as a government-in-waiting has presented itself as a ready alternative, is actually one of the tactics” he had previously explored in a 2015 article detailing U.S. government hybrid warfare tactics “to weaken an adversary prior to conventional invasion or to forcibly and deniably effect a transition in a foreign government.”

Another reason Nitro Zeus is notable, particularly in light of U.S. efforts to meddle in Venezuela, is the motive for its creation. Indeed, although Nitro Zeus became the “enormous, and enormously complex” program detailed by the Times during the Obama administration, work on the program had actually begun during the George W. Bush administration. According to a report in the Daily Beast, Bush had considered Nitro Zeus “a necessary tactical alternative after the Iraq War sabotaged his chances of starting another Middle East invasion.” In other words, after the Iraq War debacle made it more difficult for the U.S. to launch unilateral military interventions, the Bush administration opted to develop “non-kinetic” military tools that would avoid angering the U.S. public and U.S. allies abroad.

There are more than a few indications that many of the more aggressive “contingency plans” have moved to the top of the toolbox under the Trump administration. For instance, key former Bush officials that are now in the Trump administration, particularly John Bolton and Elliot Abrams, are known for their aggressive stances and willingness to promote extreme policies targeting adversaries, even those policies that harm or kill scores of innocent civilians. Thus, voices like those in the Obama State Department and National Security Council, who had warned of the potential adverse effects on civilians that a Nitro Zeus blackout could cause, are unlikely to influence the likes of Bolton and Abrams — who have an outsized role in creating the administration’s Venezuela policy.

With Bush-era warmongers now dominating Trump’s Venezuela policy, it seems increasingly likely that efforts to revive the Bush/Obama-era Nitro Zeus program have taken place. Indeed, with such an enormous and complex program already on the books and the likely existence of spin-off programs that have developed over the past decade, it was likely the easiest route for another “aggressive” U.S.-backed measure targeting the Venezuelan government.

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What’s Behind US-Backed Electricity Blackout in Venezuela

The sabotage was intended to leave Venezuela without light for several days, according to Rodriguez. He said that Marco Rubio, U.S. Republican Senator from Florida, who has been actively seeking to destabilize the Bolivarian government, is one of the promoters of the attack.

According to the Venezuelan communication minister, U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo and opposition deputy Juan Guaido were also implicated in the attack.

“The electric war announced and directed by U.S. imperialism against our people will be defeated,” President Maduro posted on his Twitter account and added “nothing and no one will be able to defeat the people of Bolivar and Chavez. Maximum unity of the patriots!”.

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US withdrawing last of its embassy personnel from Venezuela

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https://thegrayzone.com/2019/03/11/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event-for-galvanizing-public-unrest/

The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs”

By Max Blumenthal

A September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate.”

The memo has special relevance today as Guaido moves to exploit nationwide blackouts caused by a major failure at the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant at Guri dam – a crisis that Venezuela’s government blames on US sabotage.

Venezuela’s Top Prosecutor Probes Juan Guaido over Electric Grid Attack

Venezuela’s Attorney General Tareck William Saab said that his Venezuelan Public Ministry has started an investigation against Juan Guaido, the lawmaker of the country’s National Assembly, which has been in contempt since 2016, over his alleged participation in the recent sabotage to the electric grid system in Venezuela.

The measure, which was reported to the Supreme Court of Justice, is meant to investigate whether the opposition lawmaker has acted as the mastermind behind the electric outage in the country that began last Thursday.

Venezuela: Attack to Electricity System to Be Investigated

Nicolas Maduro reported that he will ask for the support of the United Nations and countries with experience in cyber attacks such as China, Russia, Iran and Cuba.

Restoration of Drinking Water in Venezuela Done Progressively

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Venezuela demands answers for blackout duurt 13 minuten.

RT America
Gepubliceerd op 12 mrt. 2019
Amid US State Secretary Mike Pompeo’s rebuke of the “deteriorating situation” in Venezuela and the days-long crippling blackout affecting more than 80 percent of the country, the US has recalled all diplomatic personnel from Venezuela. RT America’s Rachel Blevins has the details for News.Views. Hughes. Then RT America’s Sara Montes de Oca reports on Tarek William Saab’s investigation into opposition leader Juan Guaido over suspicions that he was involved in the power grid attack that the Maduro government says is behind the blackout. Finally, journalist Lucas Koerner joins Scottie Nell Hughes live from Venezuela to report the latest on the blackout. The government says that the return of running water in Caracas is imminent but much remains to be done to restore electricity and water throughout the country. Koerner reports that despite US allegations, looting has been mostly sporadic and isolated while calm and displays of solidarity prevail.

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Venezuela Blackout: Cyber Attacks, Sabotage And Mighty Cuban Intelligence

South Front
Gepubliceerd op 12 mrt. 2019

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Electricity System 100% Restored In Venezuela

CrossTalk on Venezuela: Pitching Propaganda duurt 25 minuten.

RT
Gepubliceerd op 13 mrt. 2019
Whether you are for or against the Venezuela government, for or against socialism – it is obvious the mainstream media are committing a lot of journalistic malpractice. Once again, mainstream media echo the policy preferences of those in power. If it comes to still another military intervention, will the media be held responsible?

CrossTalking with Alan Macleod and Temir Porras.