Report by Comrade Eva Golinger
Venezuelan-American lawyer
A 9 years after the coup in Venezuela, the instability continues and the perpetrators of these attacks on democracy in Venezuela are trying again to undermine the will of the people. One of them is Maria Corina Machado.
not surprising that in 9 years of the failed coup in Venezuela, with political and financial support Washington managed to get briefly to President Chavez and his government from power, the same perpetrators are still active with their destabilization plans. Funding billionaire U.S. agencies and some foundations and European governments and Canadians to the anti-Chavez has reached more than $ 50 million annually, and everything indicates that these Large investments are being directed towards the electoral process in 2012 when the South American country faces presidential and regional elections again.
The United States government, who publicly supported the coup against President Chávez in 2002 and the dictatorial government that was imposed by force in the hours after the abduction and murder of nearly Venezuelan head of state , has increased its hostile and aggressive stance against oil-producing country, seeking to place formally on its list of "terrorist states" to justify military intervention against him. And although they have yet achieved this goal, years after the failed coup, repowering its military presence in the Caribbean and northern South America, bordering Venezuela to ships and warplanes, submarines and special forces, able to act at any time, if necessary.
Despite the "disappointment" that holds Washington with leaders and opposition parties in Venezuela, as highlighted by several secret cables from the Department of State released by Wikileaks, the U.S. government remains committed to opposing alternative . Wikileaks A document dated June 2009, drawn by the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, John Caulfield, highlighted as the opposition parties "are not willing to sacrifice personal ambitions to unite" against President Chávez. The tested cable internal damage and personal conflicts between the major party leaders Primero Justicia, COPEI, Democratic Action and a New Time, and Washington expressed concern the impossibility of unity among the opposition.
In another cable, April 2006, then U.S. ambassador, William Brownfield, ranked the secretary general of the opposition Democratic Action (AD), Henry Ramos Allup as "over-confident," "unimaginative" and "repellent." He said the AD party was not going anywhere, was "rapidly" declining.
But despite the disappointment with the opposition parties, the State Department and its agencies like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Agency for International Development (USAID) have increased their funding and advice to these groups, looking to help plan a strategy to regain the power of President Hugo Chávez.
A of the main recipients of these funds has been billionaires, the now deputy, Maria Corina Machado. Nine years ago, Maria Corina Machado happily attended the Miraflores Palace during the coup, to witness and signatory of the famous "Carmona decree" that the April 12, 2002 dissolved the country's democratic institutions - from the executive body, the Supreme Court Justice, the National Electoral Council, the National Assembly itself, where she now involved, the Attorney General, and even the constitution of the Republic.
When the coup fails, Maria Corina, the assigned new mission from Washington - the creation of an organization "election" to campaign against President Chavez, trying to "reverse" its mandate in a referendum. She failed again, but the support continued. His group, Sumate, continued to lead the opposition electoral campaigns and in 2005, she was greeted with hands (and knees) by President George W. Bush in the Oval Office of the White House. With a treatment of "head of state," Bush allowed Machado gave a press conference the White House itself, something little happens to a representative of an "NGO" in Latin America.
Machado was awarded several times by the NED and the State Department, and even received a scholarship to participate in a distinguished university semester at Yale in 2007 - all in preparation for his "destiny" political in Venezuela.
Despite his public relationship with the U.S. government, testing and funding his campaign (something that violates the law of Venezuela), Maria Corina was elected to the National Assembly in September 2010 .
But since taking office 5 January 2011, the deputy has had almost no power. More time invested in your trip to the United States to strengthen their contacts and, presumably, receive instructions and strategic support of their "masters."
It's not surprising that the days of the anniversary of the coup of April 2002, Maria Corina is in the United States, a State Department accounts, issuing "conference" and meeting with different political to plan new actions against the Venezuelan government.
This April 13 - which is the day which falls on bailout of democracy in Venezuela, because it was the day when the Venezuelan people rose up in 2002 to restore its constitution and rescue his president, Hugo Chavez, hands-Maria Corina Machado coup is in Miami, in a paid event by the State Department, gave a lecture entitled "600 days to eradicate authoritarianism: Transforming Venezuela, at the University of Miami.
The event announcement was made it clear that the "financial support from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Department of State," which is a division of propaganda U.S. diplomacy. In addition to financial support from the State Department, the event at a cost of $ 20 per person, to generate more revenue for the opposition MP and his campaign against the Venezuelan government. [You can see the original poster here: https: / / www6.miami.edu / hemispheric-policy/Program_ Announcements_2011 / MariaCorinaMachado2011- Announcement.pdf ].
Cynically, Maria Corina Machado, who claims to represent "the Venezuelan people" also participated in a common event in Miami, along with a group of self-exiled Venezuelan fugitives and criminals, many of whom who participated in the April 2002 coup and other acts of terrorism and crime in Venezuela in recent years. Titled "Day of the Venezuelan exile, Machado was honored with Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, head of the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives of U.S. Congress and known member of the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.
In view of the serious violations of Venezuelan law, we must ask, how can a Venezuelan deputy travels to the United States paid by the State Department to lecture against his country, and then to celebrate with a group of fugitives and criminal coup in Miami? Will there be justice on his return to Venezuela, or the same impunity reign she has enjoyed since 2002?
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