The struggle of Venezuela against ‘a common enemy’ – John Pilger interview

The struggle of Venezuela against ‘a common enemy’

17 February 2015 – John Pilger interview

With a “slow motion coup” under way in Venezuela, John Pilger is interviewed for Telesur, the Latin American TV network, by Mike Albert.

Albert: Why would the United States want Venezuela’s government overthrown?

Pilger: There are straightforward principles and dynamics at work here. Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives. Venezuela remains a source of inspiration for social reform in a continent ravaged by an historically rapacious US.  

An Oxfam report once famously described the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua as ‘the threat of a good example’. That has been true in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez won his first election. The ‘threat’ of Venezuela is greater, of course, because it is not tiny and weak; it is rich and influential and regarded as such by China.

The remarkable change in fortunes for millions of people in Latin America is at the heart of US hostility. The US has been the undeclared enemy of social progress in Latin America for two centuries. It doesn’t matter who has been in the White House: Barack Obama or Teddy Roosevelt; the US will not tolerate countries with governments and cultures that put the needs of their own people first and refuse to promote or succumb to US demands and pressures.

[Read more: http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-struggle-of-venezuela-against-a-common-enemy]

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Coup Plot in Venezuela

[Links compiled by the Saint Stanislaus College, Georgetown Blogsite]

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-foiling-of-a-coup-plot-in-venezuela/5433713

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/world/americas/venezuela-mayor-is-accused-of-us-backed-coup-plot.html?_r=0
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/venezuela_detains_american_pilot_for_coup_plot.html
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Coup-Plot-in-Venezuela-Thwarted-20150212-0030.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2952525/Venezuela-officials-say-ex-general-13-coup-plot.html
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/28691-behind-the-coup-attempt-in-venezuela
http://www.iacenter.org/Venezuela/venez_uprising.htm
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/11239
http://www.infowars.com/details-on-an-alleged-us-backed-coup-in-venezuela-come-to-light/
Of Interest
http://venezuelanalysis.com/