The U.S has tried several times to stage a coup against Venezuela, especially during the outsized life of the late President Hugo Chavez. It was April 2002 when US backed corporate and military forces ousted Chavez and tried to install a puppet regime. Within days, the streets of Caracas came alive to bring back Chavez and restore him to the presidency. Here we go, again. Right wing and corporate backed forces are now trying to spark popular revolts against the Bolivarian successor to Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, and guess who’s backing them? Members of America’s millionaire Congress.
Using right wing claims of government attacks on peaceful protests and on a free press, members of the US corporate Congress are trying to scare up sanctions against the socialist government of Venezuela. We saw no congressional action when peaceful protests were waged in cities across America: The Occupy Movement, peacefully protesting corporate greed and the brutal tyranny of the 1%, got first, slimed in the corporate press, and when the media turned out the lights, they got beaten by police, their tents and property seized and destroyed. Mayors across America conspired with Homeland Security to run their encampments off the streets. Some protesters were shot by cops and injured badly. From Congress, came nothing but silence.
Now the 10% Congress, at the behest of several anti-Castro Cubans, are attacking Venezuela’s democracy, again, on behalf of the 1%. This is nothing but another attempted coup with American money and backing. Their noses are so busy poking into others’ business, that it ignores the cancer at home, which may explain its now epic low levels of support—10%. From in prison nation, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
These commentaries are recorded by Noel Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
