| By William Camacaro (National Co-Coordinator and Venezuelan geopolitical analyst) The outcome of the elections in Venezuela has enormous geopolitical importance during a time in which the United States has spent its oil reserves and involved itself in very serious conflicts on a planetary level. In the Middle East, a conflict of enormous dimensions could break out between Iran, Israel, the U.S. and other nations. The United States requires cheap oil to continue its sponsorship of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, to expand NATO’s frontiers in Ukraine, to sustain its policy of aggression against the Russian Federation and to maintain its ongoing confrontation with China. Access to Venezuela’s oil reserves is key to the continuity of perpetual wars for the preservation of U.S. geopolitical hegemony. All the while the United States is approaching its next presidential election, a dire situation for the self-proclaimed global beacon of democracy. While budgeting billions in taxpayer funds to finance wars abroad in the name of national security, an unpopular Biden Administration struggles to justify its legitimacy as it attempts manage an economy at the brink of crisis. President Biden has withdrawn from the campaign, for which Vice President Kamala Harris has stepped in as the new presidential candidate. At no point was the U.S. electorate consulted on this decision. At the same time, former president and Republican opponent Donald Trump has said that he will not recognize his electoral defeat. In this ocean of foreign conflicts and neglect at home, the State Department has proclaimed its support of CIA asset and far-right Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González – who, like Trump, has refused to accept the results of the country’s July 28 presidential elections unless he wins. During his time serving second to command to then-Ambassador to El Salvador Leopoldo Castillo in 1979-1985, González played a direct role in facilitating the U.S.-backed massacre of over 13,000 civilians and other war crimes perpetrated by right-wing death squads under Castillo’s joint execution of the CIA’s Operation Centauro, according to ex-combatants. It’s no surprise that the U.S. has taken such a strong interest in Venezuela’s elections in the midst of its own domestic political crisis and continues to ally with far-right elements in the country. Since the discovery of its oil reserves, Venezuela has remained a strategic center of interest for U.S. geopolitical ambitions in the Western Hemisphere. In its premeditated refusal to accept its defeat in Venezuela’s presidential elections, the far-right opposition backing González’ candidacy called for mass mobilizations in and outside of Venezuela on August 17. To their dismay, they were overshadowed by national and international mobilizations of historical proportions in support of the Bolivarian Revolution. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans flooded the streets of Caracas and hundreds of cities across the country in defense of Maduro’s election. (Read full) |
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