US backs coup in oil-rich Venezuela, right-wing opposition plans mass privatization and hyper-capitalism
The
US has effectively declared a coup in Venezuela. Trump recognized
unelected right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaidó as new
“president,” who plans mass privatization and neoliberal
capitalist policies.
by
Ben Norton
Part
2 - Region’s Right-Wing Countries Join US in Recognizing Coup
Canada’s
Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Brazil’s
new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro; and the overtly pro-US
Organization of American States (OAS) and its Secretary General Luis
Almagro have joined Trump in endorsing this diplomatic coup in
Venezuela.
Likewise,
the right-wing, US-allied countries in Latin America, including
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador have joined Trump
in anointing Guaidó as leader.
The
region’s few remaining leftist governments, Bolivia, Cuba, and
Nicaragua, have continued recognizing Venezuela’s legitimate
government, as has Mexico’s newly elected left-wing President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Bolivian
President Evo Morales warned that “the claws of imperialism
again seek to fatally wound the democracy and self-determination of
the peoples of South America,” adding, “No longer will we
be the backyard of the US.”
U.S. aligned states Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia & Costa Rica reportedly back U.S. led "diplomatic coup" and cease recognizing Maduro as president of Venezuela and swap to U.S. backed opposition figure Juan Guaidó. Bolivia, Cuba, and Mexico stay with Maduro. https://t.co/2AbGa817tB— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 23, 2019
The US
government, its right-wing allies, and an obeisant corporate media
have repeatedly referred to Venezuela’s actual president, Nicolás
Maduro, as an “authoritarian dictator.” What they have
failed to mention is that Venezuela still has regular elections, but
the US-backed right-wing opposition, which is notoriously disunited
and incompetent, has chosen to boycott these elections, preferring to
call for foreign-backed military coups instead.
One of
the only elected officials in the US who has spoken out against the
coup is left-wing California Congressman Ro Khanna. Other progressive
and anti-Trump US politicians, including self-declared “democratic
socialists,” have remained silent on Trump’s effective
declaration of a coup in Latin America.
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