[ Originally published on May 12th, 2014 ]
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Bolivian
President Evo
Morales
has warned that Washington D.C. [District
of Columbia]
is pushing Venezuela towards a civil
war
in order to gain access to the country’s rich oil reserves, as well
as fomenting a coup
d’état.
Addressing
over 3,000 young people at a Latin American youth summit in the
Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, Bolivian
President Morales
branded the U.S. [United
States of America] an empire
with its eye on Venezuelan oil wealth. Morales
said that Venezuelan President Nicolas
Maduro
was blameless
in the recent
wave of unrest
in the country.
“I
believe
[that
the
U.S.]
are trying to incite, if not a coup d’état, then a
civil war, from their empire,”
said
Bolivian
President
Morales, adding:
“They
are always going to sponsor internal conflict, so that they
can interfere and invade us, [in
order]
to
take control of our oil reserves.”
The world needs an
“anti-imperialist,
anti-capitalist and anti-colonial youth,”
said Bolivian
President Morales,
urging Latin Americans to stand together in solidarity with
Venezuela. Morales
said that there was no danger of a coup
d’état in Bolivia since the government had ejected
U.S. Ambassador Phillipp
Goldberg
in 2008 after he was accused of collaborating in a plot
to overthrow the Bolivian
government.
Venezuela
has been gripped by a wave of anti-government protests since February
which has left at least 41
people
dead
and over 600
more
injured.
The Venezuelan government has recognized the peoples’ right to
demonstrate, but has accused
foreign-backed, right-wing extremists
of hijacking the protests in an attempt to oust Venezuelan
President Maduro.
At present, Venezuelan
President Maduro’s government is in dialogue with some of the
members of the opposition movement, trying to find a peaceful
solution to the conflict. The opponents of the government complain
that Venezuela is experiencing massive inflation and shortages of
basic food products, as well as frequent power cuts.
Venezuelan
President Maduro
recently announced that Venezuela was facing an economic
war, and as
such, his government intended to fight back with a new offensive to
combat capitalism. He set out the main aims of the new initiative,
including the encouragement of supply and production, and the
stabilization of prices in Venezuela.
“This new economic offensive should bring prosperity to the people and [to] the country. Neo-liberalism speaks of growth, but growth for whom? For those that always had wealth, not the have-nots,” said Venezuelan President Maduro.
Venezuelan President Maduro has previously blamed the strife in Venezuela on Washington D.C., saying that the U.S. is orchestrating the unrest in order to overthrow his government. In March of 2014, Caracas’ Foreign Minister Elias Juau accused U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry of inciting murder and violence in Venezuela. Washington D.C. has denied all links to the ongoing unrest and maintains that the Venezuelan government is terrorizing its own people.
Stay conscious my friends.
~ Merit Freeman
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