{"id":135082,"date":"2019-06-10T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=135082"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:13:06","slug":"u-s-and-allies-wage-hybrid-war-against-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/06\/u-s-and-allies-wage-hybrid-war-against-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Allies Wage \u2018Hybrid War\u2019 against Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bolivarian Army, Venezuela. August 2017. Rosana Silva<\/p><\/div>\n

6 Jun 2019 – <\/em>Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution have become a central focus of the neoliberal and imperial offensive that is unfolding in Latin America. At the center of this offensive is a strategy of hybrid warfare that aims at exploiting the political, military, and economic weaknesses and limits of governments considered to be hostile to a world order driven by the interests of global capital. These interventions seek to ensure not only the control of common goods but also control over their markets, the main commercial routes (via land, rivers, and seas), the transportation routes of these goods (oil, mineral, and gas pipelines), the generation and supply of energy, and even the population that inhabits these areas, in order to support the interests of global capital.<\/p>\n

The immense oil reserves located in Venezuela place it in a strategic position in Latin America and at the crux of global geopolitical disputes. In addition to oil, Venezuela has large deposits of gold, nickel, iron, and diamonds that have piqued the interest of China, Russia, and\u2014of course\u2014the United States and Canada (the latter two of which play a leading role in the Lima Group, a network of countries that came together in 2017 with the express purpose of regime change in Venezuela).<\/p>\n

The hybrid wars waged by imperialist interests to undermine governments that challenge their interests have a wide range of characteristics\u2014among them, economic and financial asphyxiation, economic destabilization, diplomatic and media blockades, the instigation of internal violence, the generation of chaos by attacking essential services, and pressures attempting to create institutional fractures or a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, and even the threat of military intervention.<\/p>\n

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research\u2019s seventeenth DOSSIER<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cVenezuela and Hybrid Wars in Latin America,\u201d discusses the various dimensions of the hybrid war that is currently being unleashed against Venezuela and across Latin America\u2014from Colombia to Haiti\u2014as well as the reasons motivating it.<\/p>\n

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research launches new DOSSIER,<\/a> \u201cVenezuela and Hybrid Wars in Latin America\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVenezuela\u2019s political reality and its planners, intellectuals, and supporters are deeply impacted by the actions of the White House. But the White House is not the same as it was under Reagan. We are not talking about the empire in its hyper-hegemonic phase, but rather about an empire in decline. In the face of this reality, the Chavista revolution has had to learn how to confront these kinds of coups. If we had to write a \u2018counter-manual\u2019 of hybrid wars, Venezuela is doing this in its own way, as is Colombia. We have seen this throughout the last year as the coup attempts have unfolded.\u201d \u2014William Serafino, Chief Editor of Misi\u00f3n Verdad<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Venezuela, February 24, 2019. Courtesy of Rafael St\u00e9dile<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cOur seventeenth is one of our richest studies of the mechanisms of power in our time. A hybrid war is not fought necessarily on a battlefield, with conventional armies. It is an ideological war, a war to shape the way reality is seen, a war of position to define what is happening that leads eventually to a war of manoeuvre to overthrow a government.\u201d \u2014Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Key information from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n