Reply #5: US attacks on Venezuela: interview with Venezuela's Army Commander [View All]

Published: Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Bylined to: Toni Solo


US attacks on Venezuela: interview with Venezuela's Army Commander

VENEZUELA: An interview with General Raul Baduel, Commander of the Venezuelan army by Heinz Dieterich, translated with an introductory note by Toni Solo

Central America activist Toni Solo writes: The barbaric violation of basic legal norms revealed by British detainees lately released from Guantanamo is emblematic of US foreign policy root and branch. Open or covert illegal aggression has always been a principal tool of US foreign policy. The energy needs of the US and its allies will dictate the next likely savage intervention -- in Venezuela.

Venezuela is an obstacle to the full implementation of US plans for the region. Those plans require control of extraction and transport of Latin America's energy resources and on destroying the region's food sovereignty. Plan Colombia, Plan Puebla Panama and the “free trade” corporate welfare scams the US seeks to impose on the region are the main policy instruments to achieve those goals. Multinational European corporations are willing collaborators.

It is certainly not mere coincidence that the US now has military bases in the Dutch Antilles -- Curacao and Aruba. Like the other huge oil companies including British Petroleum and the United States oil giants, the Anglo Dutch oil multinational Shell would love a free hand in a privatized Venezuelan oil industry. It goes without saying that European Union foreign policy prioritizes European energy needs. This fact probably does much to explain why European mainstream media resolutely refuse to report the facts of political and economic events in the country,
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