Franco Vielma — The Obama’s decree: what’s behind it?

The Venezuelan right lost even more its already slender political ground in an electoral year, prompting the US State Department throw the Venezuelan opposition leadership under the bus, knowing that 90% of the Venezuelan population (according to Hinterlaces’s study published in early March 2015) rejects US intervention.

We must ask ourselves, would it be logical to believe that the US intelligence have overlooked this detail? That would be absurd. So, why has the White House decided to destroy the political base of the Venezuelan opposition? The answer should be obvious: it no longer believes the electoral-democratic scenario is a “viable” way to produce a change of government in Venezuela.

What they might be considering – and it is very likely that this is – is the camouflaged US intervention in Venezuela, ushering in a period of a prolonged civil conflict. If such an approach in Venezuela has support or not is irrelevant. Surveys in Iraq in 2003 showed that 87% of the Iraqi population (including opponents of Saddam Hussein) rejected US intervention, yet it was executed, under the cover of various pretexts. The second most important – after of the alleged weapons of mass destruction – was “the release of a subject people.” So if the Venezuelan opposition population begins to reject the US intervention, as the chavistas have done for 15 years, it will be irrelevant; the “restoration of democracy” in Venezuela as an excuse is no longer in the hands of the opposition, is in the hands of Obama.

United States has crossed the threshold of the open intervention against the Bolivarian Revolution, or in the words of President Nicolas Maduro: “Obama has personally undertaken the task of intervening Venezuela and overthrow me”. The decisive hour has arrived.

The Vineyard of the Saker
The Obama’s decree: what’s behind it?
Franco Vielma