VENEZUELA: THE 2016-2020 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY - PART OF THE PLAN
By Pasqualina Curcio, Resumen English.
September 19, 2020 | EDUCATE!
Above photo: Noticias al Dia.
It's hard to decide which of all the actions of the Venezuelan opposition
representatives was the most shameful. Was it Ramos Allup giving the
legitimate elected President Nicolas Madura a 6-month deadline to leave
office while removing the portraits of Simon Bolivar and of Comandante
Chavez from the Federal Capitol? Or Julio Borges spreading letters
throughout the world in which he called for an increase in the economic
blockade against the Venezuelan people while he labeled us a plague in the
region? Or Juan Guiado self-proclaiming himself president of the republic in
a Caracas plaza while he was signing contracts with mercenaries for the
assassination of Venezuelans? Or Freddy Guevara calling for roadblocks
while he gave instructions to armed demonstrators in the streets and called
for an economic boycott? .Or Juan Resquesens trying to justify the armed
intervention of the U.S.?
The facts are that all these actions make up part of a plan whose main
objective was, and continues to be, to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution
in Venezuela. Said plan was not written by the opposition representatives -
they are following their instructions just as they were set down for them,
and carrying out their task. The plan was written by US Navy Admiral Kurt
W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command in February of 2016 (Operation
Venezuela Freedom-2) and later carried out in February 2018. (Plan to
overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution - "Masterstroke.")
In the White House plan, we have read "With political elements of the
"Democratic Unity Roundtable" party, we have agreed on a common agenda,
which includes an abrupt scenario that can combine street actions and
measured armed violence. Of course, we have to continue using as cover the
referendum or amendment based on the text of the constitution in order to
enlist, mobilize and organize a critical mass for the confrontation. Under
the focus of a "surround and choke" policy, we also have made agreements
with the members nearest to the "Democratic Unity Roundtable" to utilize the
National Assembly as a pincers to obstruct the government by convening
events and mobilizations, questioning government officials, denying credit,
and repealing laws."
They arrived at the National Assembly with the slogan "this will be your
last line." Framed in a fraudulent campaign, the opposition candidates took
advantage of the long lines to which the Venezuelan people have been
subjected since 2013 when they buy food. In the context of an economic war,
transnational agricultural-industrial monopolies changed their distribution
channels for their goods in order to introduce shortages that would
translate into long lines, even though they maintained their previous
production levels. They deceived the people and tried to confuse them.
They succeeded. They got the majority of the seats in the assembly.
They took their seats in January of 2016, and that was when Ramos Allup gave
Nicolas Maduro 6 months to resign from the presidency. In the Southern
Command Plan, it reads "To arrive at this end stage, we are planning a short
term action plan (6 months with the finish of phase 2 around July-August of
2016). As we have indicated, we have proposed to apply pincers now to choke
and paralyze, preventing the Chavista forces from being able to recover and
re-group."
They declared a supposed humanitarian crisis in terms of health and food
supply - which is unsurprisingly similar to Admiral Tidd's Plan: "It is of
particular importance in these current circumstances to present a context
depicting Venezuela as being in a humanitarian crisis for lack of food,
water and medications; we must continue to manage a scenario in which
Venezuela is "near collapse and imploding" as we demand a humanitarian
intervention from the international community to save lives and maintain
peace. we must consistently maintain a doctrine that the government and
those who control it are the causes of this economic stagnation, inflation,
and shortages."
In parallel, they carried out other actions of this Plan: Luis Almagro tried
to activate the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the OAS against
Venezuela. The attempt to approve a constitutional amendment to shorten the
term of office of the president and the "convening" of a referendum revoking
power in 2016 were also part of the assigned tasks carried out by the
representatives of the opposition.
The year 2017 began with street mobilizations, roadblocks, and general civil
stoppages called for by the opposition representatives, as well as
demonstrations using an armed force, just as planned. The total cost of
these actions included 131 dead, of whom five were lynched and burned alive.
We will never forget Orlando Figuera. At the same time Representative Julio
Borges traveled the world calling for a tightening of the blockade against
the Venezuelan people. Disaster after disaster; in 2018 Washington
unleashed their most potent weapon of the economic war - the attack on the
bolivar currency. They induced a hyper-inflation of 130.60% in that year,
which in its turn caused,- and continues causing because they have not
ceased their attempts to overthrow the Revolution - a decay in the buying
power of the Venezuelan working class, and with this a decrease in national
production. At the same time, they strengthened the financial blockade and
the commercial embargo against the Venezuelan people.
This economic strategy forms part of the Plan. Here is a quote from it:
"To stir up popular dissatisfaction by increasing shortages and prices of
food, medicines, and other essential goods for the population. To increase
the flight of capital from the country, the flight of hard currency and the
deterioration of the monetary base, causing the application of new
inflationary measures that will augment this deterioration." In the same
year, 2018, they also made an attempt to assassinate President Maduro.
Not to mention 2019, when they tried to constitute themselves as a parallel
government. Juan Guaido self-proclaimed himself president of the Republic
of Venezuela and the gringos gave him administrative legal authority over
all the Venezuelan assets located in the United States. They robbed CITGO
from us; they attempted to invade with a supposed humanitarian aid mission
across the Colombian border; they tried to carry out a coup d'etat; they
left Venezuela in the darkness causing a nation-wide power outage; they
dared to try to coerce the National Bolivarian Armed Forces with an amnesty
law. All, absolutely all, of these were assignments set out clearly in the
Southern Command plan. It is recommended that you read it.
They began 2020 signing contracts with mercenaries to assassinate leaders of
the revolution. In the Tidd plan it reads, "Recruit paramilitaries to
intensify the destabilizing actions." Meanwhile, the attorney general of
the U.S. accused Nicolas Maduro of being a narco-terrorist. Naturally, that
was in the plan also: "Make use of generalized corruption and of benefits
derived from illegal drug trafficking to do away with their image in front
of the world and their domestic followers."
Without a doubt, the most shameful aspect of all this is that the
representatives of the National Assembly, taking advantage of their
positions, act as agents of the government in Washington, afflicting "their
own people" and threatening the sovereignty of our country.
On the eve of the parliamentary elections scheduled for December 6, 2020, we
cannot allow ourselves to be confused. That day, we will vote and we will
stand in line to do so with full consciousness, feeling our country stir
deep inside us, as Comandante Chavez told us.
Source: Ultimas Noticias, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North
America bureau.
