Venezuela: Ex-US ambassador outlines intervention plans

[jdhoch]

In an extraordinary paper released in September, former US ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, outlined a range of military, financial and diplomatic measures that the US should be prepared to take against the Chavez government after the October 7 elections.
In the paper, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Duddy’s recommendations include (http://www.cfr.org/venezuela/political-unrest-venezuela/p28936) that in the event of “an outbreak of violence and/or interruption of democracy” the US should use various means to “to communicate to the Venezuelan military leadership that they are obliged to uphold their constitution, respect human rights, and protect their country’s democratic tradition” and “organize a coalition of partners to limit an illegitimate Venezuelan administration’s access to government assets held abroad as well as to the international financial system”.


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[sixdollarchampagne]

Great Leader Chávez, who once told large landowners in Venezuela, "If it is yours, it is yours," has been respectful of private ownership of the means of production for his entire time in office, nearly a decade and a half by now. It is supremely unlikely that there will be any "interruption of [bourgeois] democracy." Chávez has never even interrupted the sending of oceans of oil northward to the US, which makes him a faithful friend and supplier, of US power in the world. The US is not going to invade, and Chávez, the milli vanilli of the world left, an individual who is completely BS, is not going to do anything that could in any way be mistaken for expropriating the exploiting classes. If he hasn't done it by now, he's not gonna.