After losing a number of its strategic positions in Latin America, Hugo Chávez coming to power in Venezuela and the formation of the ALBA bloc around Venezuela, the tip of which was directed against US imperialism, with the participation of a number of other progressive Latin American states, this imperial key regions of the world.
Hugo Chavez was most hated by the US imperialists because he declared a struggle for national independence and for socialism and established a close friendship with socialist Cuba, rallied the anti-American bloc in the underbelly of the United States.
On May 20, 2018, Hugo Chávez’s successor as president, Nicolas Maduro, was elected for a second presidential term, and more than 67% of voters who took part in the vote voted for him. The new presidential term Maduro began on January 10 - until 2025. In this regard, the United States stepped up subversive activities in Venezuela in order to overthrow the Chavist regime.
Not only funds from the arsenal of “color revolutions” that the USA has spent in the countries of the Middle East and in Ukraine are involved. The United States has formed a political anti-havoc bloc "The Group of Lima" from among a number of Latin American countries. On 4 January, the countries of the “Group of Lima” demanded that Maduro give up his presidential powers and transfer power to the opposition parliament, which is guided by the United States, before the new presidential elections.
“A coup d'état, organized from Washington, through the Lima Group, is being carried out against the constitutional government I head,” President Maduro said at a press conference on January 9.
Imperialism provokes a diplomatic blockade of Venezuela. A number of Latin American countries and even friendly Venezuela Ecuador refused to participate in the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro on January 10 (held in the Supreme Court, and not in the National Assembly, controlled by the opposition). The European Union, following the shouting of the United States, refused to send representatives to the inauguration.
After the inauguration, Paraguay broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela. The government of Peru has withdrawn for consultations the temporary charge d'affaires in Venezuela. Most members of the Organization of American States (OAS), controlled by the United States, did not recognize the new presidential term Maduro. The United States announced increased pressure on Venezuela.
The Bolivarian Republic breaks blockade. Bolivian President Evo Morales and Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, leaders of El Salvador and Nicaragua, Sánchez Séren and Daniel Ortega personally attended the inauguration. Representatives for the inauguration sent Russia, China and several other states.
Earlier, the US special services attempted to eliminate the Venezuelan leader in order to achieve their revanchist goals.
In early August 2017, an attempt was made on Maduro during a parade in Caracas. To the podium, where he was, were sent drones with explosives. The attempt was organized by the opposition with the support of the United States and former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. Prior to this, the Venezuelan authorities announced the disclosure of numerous conspiracies that were prepared against the country's leadership. In the summer of 2017, 14 soldiers were arrested in Venezuela on charges of preparing a mutiny. In April 2016, President Maduro announced plans to kill him, hatched by right-wing forces through training militants in the paramilitary camps in the state of Miranda.
Along with the activization of the US-oriented and supported by the local oligarchy, the anti-Communist opposition that seized power in parliament (the National Assembly, which is outlawed, headed by Juan Guayido (Guaydo), according to Maduro, “puppet, US intelligence "; instead, the National Constituent Assembly was created in the Bolivarian Republic), US intelligence agencies are actively working on a military coup scenario, a plan to eliminate the president and his subordinates to-military structures.
According to Maduro, not far from the border with Venezuela, Colombia is currently preparing a group of more than 730 mercenaries who can start fighting at any moment to commit provocations. The purpose of their actions is to neutralize a number of military bases in Venezuela. The authorities of Colombia have made available to the participants of the plan an air force base on their territory.
Maduro has already said that Venezuela will respond to such actions by the United States with decisive diplomatic and military measures.
Over Venezuela, the clouds are gathering. Imperialism is straining to overthrow the Chavistic regime at all costs.
Venezuela fights for its political independence. Progressive people of the planet support it in this fair struggle.
But history teaches that the achievement of such independence is inextricably linked with the struggle of the working masses for the abolition of capitalism, for the transfer of power into the hands of the working people. China, Cuba, Vietnam and a number of other countries that won true independence in the 20th century achieved this through the organization and implementation of a socialist revolution. On the other hand, many countries, although they formally gained independence, remained dependent on the advanced imperialist powers, while the working people still groan under the yoke of their own and foreign bourgeoisie. The Venezuelan bourgeoisie is afraid of a truly national revolution, is closely associated with US imperialism and will go to any betrayal of the motherland in order to preserve its capital.
Would Cuba be an island of freedom if Fidel Castro had not announced the transition to a socialist revolution?
And the military coup in Chile under El Salvador Allende? Ignoring the laws of class struggle is cruelly avenging itself.
A revolution is only worth something if it can defend itself, said Lenin.
Socialism or death! - such is the slogan of revolutionary Cuba, the first to raise the banner of socialism in the countries of Latin America, which today is an example for the countries of Latin America fighting for their national freedom.
A.V. Denisyuk
