The expectation is that tomorrow’s action in Venezuela will either spark a civil war, or a type of maidan, or a complete war to attempt to take-over and topple the Venezuelan elected government to institute Guaidó, or, in the best case, will fizzle into nothing and life will go on.
This morning Maria Zakarova in her briefing warned that provocation is planned for tomorrow, the 23rd. There are 2 actions planned, a Pro-Maduro or Pro-Free-Venezuela march on the Venezuelan side of the border. On the Colombian side of the border, an erstwhile type of live-aid (refer the Roger Waters video) organized by the unelected opposition and those that recognize Guaidó as president. The objective of the opposition is to force the USAid into Venezuela. These opposing groups will be only 300 meters apart.
Previously Maria Zakarova (on the 15th February) warned: “We have evidence that U.S. companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of acquiring a large batch of weapons and ammunition in an Eastern European country for their subsequent transfer to Venezuelan opposition forces,” the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said. “The batch will reportedly include heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, portable missile launchers and ammunition for light weapons and artillery systems. So this is what they mean when they talk about delivering humanitarian aid.”
Russia has already delivered tons of medical supplies which Venezuela will pay for and other welcome aid is expected.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Announces-Arrival-of-7.5-Tons-of-Medicine-20190221-0024.html
This is an open thread for Sakerites to continually report the facts for all of us, what they find while this tension is ongoing and much information is being generated. Let us kindly not make it a drive-by link shooting, but explain your link and why you think the information is valid, as we have seen much misinformation in the past week to either manufacture further consent, or to pretend that the Maduro military is wavering in their support to their constitution and their Commander in Chief. Please stick to facts and please do NOT use this thread to post off-topic comments, please do NOT use it just to post your opinion and please do NOT use this thread to argue against what others have posted. Thank you!
So please post any info you have. This thread will remain open until Sunday evening.
The Saker
PS: you can post your comments in any language including Spanish and Portuguese!
I will add this comment to express my support of the Venzualan Bolivaran state.
When Pompeo, Bolton, et. al. claim they are trying to overthrow the elected Maduro government for ‘humanitarian reasons’, given they and their predecessors have put the poorest Venzualan citizens into dire straits themselves via crippling sanctions, they are only exposing their own contempt for the concept of democracy.
Yankees can’t cope with the concept of socialism, which to them is the next best thing to communism. Yet some 44 million-odd of their own citizens are on food stamps.
Jobs are become increasingly scarce, given the advance of technology and automation. That is clearly becoming the trend. Socialism is inevitable, even for the glorious US of A.
On the CBC program “The Current” the narrative being pushed this morning was that there is a health crisis in Venezuela, and this will lead to contagious diseases making their way across the borders and infecting neighboring countries. Of course, only removing Maduro will stop this crisis…
Laurenty, the health scare has already been mentioned by Ted 99 and by Ross A in part 1 of this open thread. I have read the Lancet Report, and it is indeed true that since 2013 there has been a sharp rise in disease in Venezuela. What the reporter does not mention is, that in that same period the country has suffered a blockade of food and medicine as well as financial strangulation and outright brazen robbery of its gold reserves by the EU$A, similar to what Iraq suffered. Iraqi people were weakened by disease and starvation before they were invaded by Bush, BLiar and their 27 Nation Coalition of the Killing in their anti-Muslim Clash of Civilizations and War Against Terror. Operation Enduring Freedom triumphed against a weakened Iraq, and a million Iraqi died under the Anglo Zio Capitalist Terror Machine.
Remove the blockade on food and medicine, remove the financial noose, remove the threat of war — and Venezuelan standard of health will once again be higher than that of the U$A (where Infant Mortality in the City Centres is at Third World Level). The Lancet, which is a reputable Medical Journal begins by acknowledging that Venezuela had an excellent standard of health care until recent “financial difficulties and shortage of medicines”. But that extremely respectable Medical Journal, not wishing to become “Political”, does not ask why there are these recent financial difficulties and these shortages of medicine.
Fortunately Russia (having got wise from what followed after NATZO bombers dropped Democracy and Freedom onto YugoSlavia, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and now Syria) has begun to deliver genuine aid. Among which was a 7 ton consignment — which does not sound like much — but I caught the word “medicamentos” on the news video.
But it will not be such a happy ending for the AZC against Venezuela. “You cant fool me twice”. It took a long time for the world to get wise, but it is happening.
Already gave a definitive solution : Cauterization.
https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/new-nuclear-blast-videos-2017-3
Venezuela should defend its economy, its land and people against gangsterism.
Matter is vile and need to be cleansed once for all.
Depletion. A Texas fracked well gets 1 year of oil production. An equivalent well for Suncor ( Canadian integrated oil producer) gets 30 years of production. Venezuela oil resources are similar to Canada. The numbers speak for themselves. Follow the money. Buffett is investing in Suncor, not US fracking oil companies.
ITOS!
“A senior European Commission economist has warned that a Third World War is an extremely “high probability” in coming years due to the disintegration of global capitalism. ”
Well, it does look like Venezuela may be the focal start…https://orientalreview.org/2019/02/22/the-disintegration-of-global-capitalism-could-unleash-world-war-iii/
Hey everybody! Bribes!!!
Pence offers $56 million to those who “help.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/colombia-vice-president-pence-announce-clear-actions-against-venezuela-s-n975621
From Moon of Alabama:
The National Guardsmen who crossed the bridge in Tachira and “surrendered themselves” to Colombian immigration were heard saying “Somos nosotros!”, meaning, “It’s us!.”
These “desertions” were staged like all else courtesy of Potemkin Nation USA.
Posted by: Allen | Feb 25, 2019 12:57:02 PM | 69
All right: Now that Guano has turned to s**t, how about sending in Poroshenko? He will have to leave his utter Abomi-Nation very soon, and the Empire always has a place for its has-beens. Coming to think of it, it might be the perfect swap: Poroshenko to Caracas and Guaidó to Kiev.
So I’m blogging on some Dutch blog defending the standpoint of the Maduro ‘regime’ :-)
And then suddenly I get a response that left me speachless.
I don’t know the right answer.
Probably because there is some truth in it.
It’s about the newest sanctions that Pence just anounced.
roughly translated:
“But don’t you ask yourself the question why these governors have miljons of dollars on their foreign bank accounts?”
So far I responded with:
“Yeah, they look like Poroshenko.”
But that is a silly answer, for honestly I agree with the critisism.
How come ‘socialist governors have foreign bankaccounts?
And how come there is even miljons of dollars on it.
Poroshenko I can understand.
That’s the way criminals are supposed to be.
Hopefully somebody here can help me out.
Rik, Let me try to help by example:
“Rik has 20 million dollars US in offshore bank accounts!” See how that works?
Whomever the PTB attack with such claims, they don’t name the bank, it is always “offshore”, nor do they say when the most recent deposits went in or from where such deposits came. Do they provide supporting statements from bank officials and the like? No and further even if they did provide such supporting info, consider how easy it is now for govts to access bank records and to modify them. Hope this helps:)
I forgot to thank you.
It helped, :-)
Haas of CFR evil has been bellowing about regime change in Venezuela for some time;now, he has “stumbled” upon one of the favorite pretexts of one of obama’s war mongering harpies, samantha power, that is R2P. This obscene pretext was used to destroy libya and murder gaddafi.
Haas has resurrected it but this article points out how obscene this “idea” really is:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/02/venezuela-no-the-responsibility-to-protect-does-not-apply.html
The only instance where the Responsibility to Protect was honestly applied was in the case of Crimea, where Russia accepted the near unanimous appeal of Crimeans to be protected from the neo-Nazi death-squads of the US-installed fascist putsch regime in Kiev.
R2P: Not only Crimea, also South Ossetia, as well as Abkhazia before that…
Jeez, this one is out of the blue; maybe, just maybe, some cajones are developing in Europe:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/25/not-every-option-table-eu-leaders-reject-idea-us-led-military-intervention-venezuela
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The European Union and the Spanish government on Monday both rejected calls by the Trump administration and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to keep “every option on the table” to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power—saying they do not support, nor would they would participate, in military intervention.
“Not every option is on the table,” Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell told the Spanish news outlet Efe on Sunday. “We have clearly warned that we would not support—and would roundly condemn—any foreign military intervention, which is something we hope won’t happen.”
We must avoid a military intervention,” a spokeswoman for E.U. diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, agreed. “What is explicitly quite clear, from our point of view, is that we need a peaceful political and democratic and Venezuelan-owned resolution of this crisis. This obviously excludes the use of force.”
I was wondering how the European leaders who voted yes on replacing Maduro with Gweedo would deal with the apparent fiasco of this plan. Surely they have mud on their faces, also before their own citizens, many of whom do not support any kind of regmine change in Venezuela. I wonder whether the stupid yeses to regime change in Vz could have domestic ripples.
Could these new statements against an invasion be an attempt to pull out of the deal and save a little bit of face?
Katherine
Branson and Bernie get on board with Venezuela regime change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMk-qqv6eCM
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a look at U.S. Secretary of
State, Mike Pompeo’s comments on Fox News Sunday, that the Maduro regime’s days are “numbered”
and that “every option” is on the table toward making that happen.
Meanwhile globalist billionaire Richard Branson, and 2020 US Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, j
umped into the Venezuela debate with Sanders tweeting his support for the neocon “humanitarian aid”
looking to destabilize the country, and Branson going even further by sponsoring a “Live Aid” for Vene-
zuela regime change concert, which ended up drawing a paltry crowd of supporters across the border
in Colombia.
The plans evidently, as the Imperial spokesman have said, is to “do” (as criminal say) three states, and evidently in a series of overlapping phases. Cuba is about to be included with Venezuela with the embargo more than doubled in a totally freaking nutty way, and the author ties it all operationally with the entire theater Caribbean. She’s a solidly smart lawyer, I have been a careful reader of her long time.
>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-a-second-embargo-of-cuba/
Then recalling what FDR said – that there are no coincidences in Politics – Simultaneously, MI6 spirits off to meet with Jewish nazis in the israeli deepstate juna… >
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-report-mi6-intel-chief-makes-secret-israel-trip-amid-new-iran-nuke-activity/
Evidently they’re coordinating “attackplan R”, or something, on Iran. Iran, Persia, thev’e been round the block…
This is looking really bad.
The British Empire’s state broadcaster gets its just desserts:
Venezuela crisis: Univision team ‘briefly detained’ after Maduro interview
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47366679
A really good commentary from Jake Jake Morphonios on the last week in Venezuela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6EGefs9_mo
@ https://blackagendareport.com/articlelist/radio-podcasts there is a thoughtful report primarily focused on the OPLAN-V, ie the slow coup against Venezuela.
Nearly an hour long, but I found it solidly valid. This is significant because of the intended audience – Socialish and Communish US “colored”, eg Negro or Black . (I do not know, nor care, what terms are PC these days) . Significant because the group audience is not deceived by the MSM campaign to create consent for war, not are the black intellectual activists.
Russian is stating the obvious truth here:
By deploying troops and special ops forces to Puerto Rico and Colombia, Washington is getting ready to intervene in Venezuela and topple its leader, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council said.
The US is “preparing for a military invasion” in Venezuela, Nikolai Patrushev told Russian media on Tuesday.
Planning wars of aggression are a war crime.
From the Nuremberg Transcript>
“30 Sept. 46
the major war criminals of the European Axis countries shall have the power to try and punish persons who, acting in the interests of the European Axis countries, whether as individuals or as members of organizations, committed any of the following crimes:
“The following acts, or any of them, are crimes coming within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal for which there shall be individual responsibility:
“(a) Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing:
“(b) War Crimes: namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment, or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity:
“(c) Crimes against Humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation. of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
“Leaders, organizers, instigators, and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any persons in execution of such plan.”
These provisions are binding upon the Tribunal as the law to be applied to the case. The Tribunal will later discuss them in more detail; but, before doing so, it is necessary to review the facts. For the purpose of showing the background of the aggressive war and war crimes charged in the Indictment, the Tribunal will begin by reviewing some of the events that followed the first World War, and in particular, by tracing the growth of the Nazi Party under Hitler’s leadership to a position of supreme power from which it controlled the destiny of the whole German people, and paved the way for the alleged commission of all the crimes charged against the defendants.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JHTzoPntxg
TEXT:
На подводной лодочке с атомным моторчиком
Да с десятком бомбочек под сотню мегатонн
Пересек Атлантику и зову наводчика:
«Наводи, говорю,- Петров, на город Вашингтон!»
Тру-ля-ля, тру-ля-ля,
Все могу за три рубля!
Здравствуй, новая земля
Неприятеля!
И на самолетике сверху друг мой Вовочка
Не с пустыми люками в гости прилетел,
На подводной лодочке да с атомным моторчиком
Экипаж веселую песенку запел.
Тру-ля-ля, тру-ля-ля,
Можем все за три рубля!
Ты гори, гори земля
Неприятеля!
Сладко дремлют в Норфолке огоньки по берегу,
Спят усталые игрушки, негры тихо спят,
Ты прости, Америка, хорошая Америка,
Но пять сотен лет назад тебя открыли зря.
Тру-ля-ля, тру-ля-ля,
Все могу за три рубля!
Пополам гори земля
Неприятеля!
The number of Venezuelan army defectors to Colombia reached 326 members in the last hours according to the Director of Migracion Colombia, Christian Kruger, and the number is growing. Some of the military personnel flee wearing their uniforms and with their armaments other on civilian clothes accompanied by their families.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9bzZsZQMI
Here one the most recent events, a sargent of the Bolivarian National Guard, fleeing using one of the irregular border crossing pass along the Tachira river. Another ‘staged’ defection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dWuS-psVhE
What we are seeing here are the first serious fissures in the Venezuelan military body, and more are coming, many people may say this figures are insignificant compared with the size of the Venezuelan army, but nobody leaves their professions, careers and even their families for nothing and this defections are a very clear sign of the inner crisis of that dictatorship. First de fissures, then the cracks and finally the collapse of that rotten house.
How can the same events be both staged defections and serious fissures?
A more likely combination, it would seem to me, is staged defections of some who were already opposition supporters, maybe getting out while the getting is good or even one step ahead of being kicked out. (If someone can point to references of such cases, please do so. I’m not in a situation right now to follow up easily on my recollections. My apologies.)
Last data from Migracion Colombia until yesterday February 27, 411 Venezuelan military personnel had defected to Colombia, and growing by the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_UAvxa26M
Colonel Cassad has a brief report and photos of an attack from the Colombia side against a border outpost.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/4805500.html
Looks like they were not interested in recruiting the Venezuelan military personnel.
Lots of bullet holes
“More than 60 well-armed actors attacked with grenades at a border point “Mulatto” between the state of Tachira and Colombia”, – reads the statement of the armed forces. It is noted that the attack occurred on Sunday morning,
In turn, Freddy Bernal, the designated Central authorities for a post called “defender” of the state of Tachira, said that arrived, a detachment of 20 military helped repel the attack.
News of this slow to be reported outside. 48 hours delay. Communications may be an issue.
Telesur has something on topic here>
The CIA’s View of Venezuela: What We Learn from Archives >
https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/The-CIAs-View-of-Venezuela-What-We-Learn-from-Archives-20190227-0019.html
(some is pretty recent)
Did anyone read the article about Freddy Superlano,parliament member for Guado’ party,being drugged with scopolamine,the jihadi war drug?
https://www.panorama.com.ve/sucesos/Diputado-Freddy-Superlano-grave-por-intoxicacion-en-Cucuta-su-asistente-murio-20190224-0009.html
This happened the day of the concert.Now it seems clear that all those enraged youth were using scopolamine,from the american medical aid.