{"id":53912,"date":"2015-02-16T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=53912"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:05","slug":"britain-and-canada-involved-in-foiled-us-venezuelan-coup-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/02\/britain-and-canada-involved-in-foiled-us-venezuelan-coup-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain and Canada Involved in Foiled US Venezuelan Coup Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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16 Feb 2015 – <\/em>Britain and Canada were co-conspirators in the latest plot to topple Venezuela\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

TeleSur provided detailed coverage of Washington\u2019s war on Venezuelan democracy. Its dirty hands manipulate violence and instability worldwide.<\/p>\n

US funded and supported key opposition fascist figures Antonio Ledezma, Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo Lopez released a joint February 11[2015] communique a day before the foiled coup.<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cA Call on Venezuelans for a National Accord for the Transition,\u201d it promoted regime change. Called for Venezuela to be handed back to monied interests.<\/p>\n

Called Bolivarian fairness \u201canti-democra(tic)\u2026inefficient and\u2026 corrupt.\u201d Run by \u201can unscrupulous elite (making) the State totalitarian.\u201d Creating \u201ca humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c(T)he Maduro government has entered a terminal phase.\u201d Claimed it\u2019s \u201cthe duty of every democrat to help resolve the current crisis, to defend freedom\u2026to make the transition\u2026(to restore) democratic order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ledezma, Marhado and Lopez want Maduro\u2019s government violently overthrown, democracy crushed.<\/p>\n

Washington, Britain and Canada hatched the latest plot to return Venezuela to its bad old days. TeleSUR reported new details.<\/p>\n

\u201cFresh evidence\u201d showing their involvement, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the individuals being charged, included a military general \u2013 whom has confessed to participating in the plans \u2013 and a retired lieutenant colonel \u2013 have indicated you (fascist Justice Party president Julio Borges) as being a key participant in meetings, which resulted in the decision to carry out a series of bombing attacks as a part of the coup, targeting the Presidential Palace, the National Assembly,\u201d key ministries, TeleSUR\u2019s offices, and other Caracas sites.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan authorities identified US embassy personnel involved. So were a Royal Canadian Mounted Police official and UK diplomatic core member, according to National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello.<\/p>\n

They sought information on airport capabilities in case needed in an emergency.<\/p>\n

Computers seized had detailed coup plans, including maps showing targets to be bombed.<\/p>\n

A video showed military officials announcing Maduro\u2019s government no longer was recognized. It was scheduled to be aired after planned bombings were launched. Either by a Venezuelan or Miami TV station.<\/p>\n

Cabello showed a 10-year visa given to one of the plotters days ahead of the planned coup.<\/p>\n

He noted Obama\u2019s recent statement about \u201cAmerican leadership at times entail(ing) twisting the arms of states which don\u2019t do what we need them to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said coup plotters planned to topple Venezuela\u2019s government forcefully on the anniversary of US-manipulated 2014 street violence.<\/p>\n

Killing 43. Injuring hundreds. Causing billions of dollars in physical and economic damage.<\/p>\n

US planned, funded, implemented and directed economic, political, and street warfare continues to topple the hemisphere\u2019s most vibrant democracy.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Maduro addressed Venezuelans a second time on national television. Following up on his\u00a0Thursday\u00a0coup plot revelations.<\/p>\n

Explaining more details of Washington\u2019s scheme to oust him forcefully. \u201cAlmost all (opposition) leaders knew about this plan, this ambush, almost all of them, including the four-time losing candidate,\u201d Maduro explained.<\/p>\n

Referring to Henrique Capriles Radonski. One of many Venezuelan fascists wanting power back the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying all of them were actively involved,\u201d Maduro said. \u201cBut it was a rumor circulating amongst them, that something was about to happen.<\/p>\n

Figures arrested confessed to the plot, Maduro explained. They provided more evidence of Washington\u2019s scheme.<\/p>\n

It involved enlisting Venezuelan political and military officials. Bribing them with large cash payments. America\u2019s Caracas embassy was coup plot headquarters.<\/p>\n

Maduro called on Obama to stop interfering in Venezuelan affairs, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn your name, they are organizing coup plots against (Venezuela\u2019s) democratically elected government\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolivian President Evo Morales expressed solidarity with Maduro saying \u201c(w)e all have the obligation to enforce respect for democracy and elections, and if we have a clear conscious, not even the empire can defeat us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maduro received numerous other messages of support. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega condemned the \u201ccriminal and futile attempts of the empire to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Mexico City, the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity expressed solidarity in an official statement. It condemned plans to topple Venezuela\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

TeleSUR reported civil and political organizations worldwide expressing solidarity with Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretary General Ernesto Samper denounced plans to oust Maduro.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan opposition spokesman Jesus Torrealba lied saying \u201c(t)he government makes up these stories about coups to avoid talking about how the country is breaking down.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki lied calling accusations about Washington plotting Maduro\u2019s ouster \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

She absurdly added:<\/p>\n

\u201c(T)he United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitical transitions must be democratic, constitutional, peaceful, and legal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen many times that the Venezuelan Government tries to distract from its own actions by blaming the United States or other members of the international community for events inside Venezuela. These efforts reflect a lack of seriousness on the part of the Venezuelan Government to deal with the grave situation it faces.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stephen Lendman<\/em> lives in Chicago. He can be reached at \u00a0lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>. His new book as editor and contributor is titled \u201c<\/em>Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a>\u00a0Visit his blog site at\u00a0sjlendman.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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