Video: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Chávez: Inside the Coup)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Spanish: La revolución no será transmitida), also known as Chávez: Inside the Coup, is a 2003 documentary focusing on events in Venezuela leading up to and during the April 2002 coup d'état attempt, which saw President Hugo Chávez removed from office for two days. With particular emphasis on the role played by Venezuela's private media, the film examines several key incidents: the protest march and subsequent violence that provided the impetus for Chávez's ousting; the opposition's formation of an interim government headed by business leader Pedro Carmona; and the Carmona administration's collapse, which paved the way for Chávez's return. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was directed by Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain. Given direct access to Chávez, the filmmakers intended to make a fly-on-the-wall biography of the president. They spent seven months filming in Venezuela, following Chávez and his staff and interviewing ordinary citizens. As the coup unfolded on 11 April, Bartley and Ó Briain filmed on the streets of the capital, Caracas, capturing footage of protesters and the erupting violence. Later, they filmed many of the political upheavals inside Miraflores, the presidential palace.

Video: Russia, Caribbean and Latin America to strengthen defenseties - Press TV

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has announced a plan to establish military bases in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The negotiations with the Latin American countries also include the use of infrastructure and refueling sites in these countries. The agreement is part of a series of actions aimed at increasing Russia's presence in Latin America. The US presence in Ecuador, Honduras and Venezuela and its reactivation of its fourth Fleet in 2008 to establish a base in Colombia was a significant event. The move raised regional leaders' concern and prompted initiatives such as the South American Defense Council and talks with Russia and China. To the US Southern Command General John Kelly, however, the sudden increase in Russia's military outreach merits closer attention, as he says Moscow's motives are unclear. He warned the US Senate that China, Iran and Russia have made a concerted effort in recent years to bolster their presence and influence in Latin America. For a decade now, Russia has been working consistently in forging bonds with Latin American countries in its pursuit for a multipolar world. This effort includes diplomatic visits and investments in military modernization. For instance, this partnership meant about 14.5 billion dollars in arms sales to Venezuela from 2001 to 2013.

New ambassador modernizes Canada’s hidden agenda in Venezuela

Amidst headlines dominated by the situation in Ukraine, this bit of news slipped by almost unnoticed at the end of February; Ben Rowswell replaced Paul Gibbard as Canadian ambassador to Venezuela, as mandated by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. But a quick look into the appointee’s background brings special significance to his promotion, especially as opposition protests escalate in Venezuela.

Described in 2010 as a “rising foreign service star” by the Toronto Star, Rowswell has served as Canada’s official diplomatic representative in a number of conspicuous places across the Middle East. From Kandahar, Afghanistan to Kabul and Iraq immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Rowswell has become an expert at representing Canada’s interests in the heat of conflict.

At the age of 22 he was baptized into the foreign service by fire, working in Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War of the early 1990s. He went on to work for the Canadian Embassy in Cairo from 1995-98.

A diplomat for the digital age, he held the title of "Director of Innovation" at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

VIDEO: Haiti invests in social infrastructure supported by PETROCARIBE // teleSUR English

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The Haitian government is investing in infrastructure, health, roads, education and housing, four years after the earthquake that devastated their territory. With that effort, supported by Petrocaribe, which contributed $ 5.5 million, the state is committed to the sustained growth of its economy.

From radical resistance to propagating imperialism

In recent weeks protests against the elected president Nicolás Maduro have captured the imaginations of corporate media outlets and wealthy expatriates alike. Hyper sensationalist propagandists like Francisco Toro, in his blog article “The Game Changed Last Night” that has made its way around social-media networks, regurgitated blatant falsehoods, suggesting that “state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles” were “roaming middle class neighborhoods… shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.” In reality, by February 21 a total of ten people had died in Venezuela due in one way or another to the clashes. Of these, two were due to motor vehicle accidents stemming from drivers attempting to avoid opposition barricades, another was the assassination of a brother of a Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV, Maduro’s party) parliamentary deputy, and yet another is apparently the result of “friendly fire” from the ranks of the opposition.1 The reality is a far cry from the narrative of a brutal, repressive regime clamping down violently on student protest.

The purpose of this piece is not to explore the dynamics of the student protests, which can be read about ad nauseam elsewhere. Instead, it is meant to help illuminate the role that wealthy expatriates play in propagating a narrative conducive to their own and, by extension, U.S. interests in Venezuela. It must be noted that this is by no means a definitive account. It is at best a cursory reflection based partly on personal experience, one in which I hope will encourage others to explore the role of their own local student organizations in dictating the narrative on Venezuela. However, it appears likely that the composition of Latino student organizations, given the influx of privileged Venezuelan students on U.S. campuses, has played a key role in dictating the narrative surrounding events in Venezuela.

Video: Venezuela slams U.S. over 'repressive regimes' remarks - Press TV

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is critical of the latest comments by a top American official about the situation in his country.

Maduro was reacting to US Vice President Joe Biden who called Venezuela's situation alarming and accused the South American government of using armed vigilantes against protesters. Maduro said Biden's comments are indicative of Washington's frustration over its defeat in the Organization of American States. The US-based organization has in a declaration offered its full backing to the Venezuelan government's initiative to bring peace to the country. The US, Canada, and Panama were the only nations that opposed the declaration. Venezuela celebrated the move as a diplomatic victory. Caracas argues that the anti-government protests are part of a US plot to topple Maduro's socialist government.

Washington seeks regime change in Venezuela

Both the ongoing protests in Venezuela and the economic problems that the demonstrators are protesting against appear to have been orchestrated by the opposition in order to destabilize the country and bring down the government. Unable to gain power through the ballot box, the Venezuelan opposition has turned to unconstitutional means to oust President Nicolas Maduro. With only limited support among Venezuelans, the opposition has been dependent on outside aid from the United States and Colombia, Washington’s closest ally in Latin America. The current protests appear to represent the latest tactic in a destabilization campaign that Washington has been waging against Venezuela for more than a decade, initially to overthrow former president Hugo Chávez, and now to oust his successor Maduro.

For the past month, demonstrators in several Venezuelan cities have been protesting against electricity blackouts and shortages of basic food products. More than a dozen people have died during the unrest. While the protests are being portrayed in the mainstream media as spontaneous outbursts resulting from growing frustration at government mismanagement of the economy, a strategy document that recently came to light suggests the unrest is the latest tactic in a long-running destabilization effort orchestrated by the opposition and outside forces.

Venezuela rejects need for international mediation in it's internal affairs

EFE - "Venezuela does not need an international mediation to resolve their internal problems," the foreign minister said today, Elias Jaua, when asked about the visit to Caracas special advisor for international affairs of the Brazilian presidency, Marco Aurelio Garcia.

"There is no formal proposal for mediation of any country .... Anyway, Venezuela does not need any international mediation.'s Problems we can solve among Venezuelans," he said at a press conference Jaua.

"The National Peace Conference convened by President Maduro served to find those channels of dialogue. Can solve our problems between Venezuelans and reclaim the space for democratic discourse," said the chancellor.

Several Brazilian newspapers published today morning Garcia travels to Caracas to participate "officially" in commemoration of the death of Commander Hugo Chávez, but "leverage" to meet with "senior government officials" to discuss the crisis in the country.

Video: Prof Alejandro Correa - Afro-Venezuelan History Lecture

On September 10th, 2012 Afro-Venezuelan Professor, Alejandro Correa, and three of his students visited the Nyumburu Cultural Center to discuss the history of African people in Venezuela and various aspects of life in Venezuela. This was an important event in that it dispelled a lot of myths and misinformation that are routinely put out by various mainstream "sources".

World peace rests on UN members demanding action against ‘foreign-imposed’ regime change – Oped

A Global Call is needed. It is time the world and its people woke up to some ground realities, known but ignored for far too long. In pursuit of wealth, profit and power over nations and people, a handful of nations have seen fit to use force and aggression deploying fictitious and varied manipulative systems using UN mechanisms to descend upon nations and cause chaos. Divide and Rule a feature of colonial rule is taking a new form today. There are no wars today, there are internal conflicts which have everything to do with foreign sponsored regime change programs. These covert/overt agendas are planned not by governments but by a handful of invisible industrialists who get powerful governments and their leaders to do the dirty work. If this is the scenario, it can easily be stopped so long as the world and its people are ready to stand up and say ‘no more’. It is now time for the nations of the world and their people to realize that the world is getting nowhere and none of the UN’s ‘peace initiatives’ will hold water when they know and we know that beneath the façade of peace terminologies a handful of nations are plotting to overthrow democratically elected governments and create chaos in these nations.

The United Nations was formed not to take over nations. The Preamble states its objective as being explicitly to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to protect people from conflicts and to solve conflicts. What is also clearly stated is the policy of non-intervention.

UN Resolutions are getting abused. Libya’s case is a good example. NATO intervened in Yugoslavia without any UN Security Council resolution. However, Article II para 4 of the UN charter legally rules out the use of violence (threat and/or aggression).

U.S. government supports right-wing terror in Venezuela

February 19, 2014 - The current violence by rightist forces opposing the Bolivarian Revolution , are a continuation of the siege that began when President Hugo Chavez approved 49 economic laws within the framework of an enabling law in 2001. At that time, particularly the Land Law and the Law on Hydrocarbons represented the first threat of the Revolution the economic power of the comprador bourgeoisie and its international allies . This was years before the Commander Chávez declared socialism as a route to the Revolution.

The threat was such that in December 2001 , the Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce - FEDECAMARAS - companies with private media and the pro-business Confederation of Workers initiated actions to destabilize the country, including work stoppages . These culminated in the coup of April 2002 and the oil sabotage 2002-03.

Thereafter , although the actors have changed , after the siege forces are the same: the Venezuelan oligarchy , covered with foreign forces and abetted by organizations the State Department from the U.S., primarily USAID and NED .

Solidarity with Bolivarian revolution

A rally in solidarity with Venezuela was held in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 17 demanding U.S. hands off Venezuela and solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution. The rally was initiated by the Answer Coalition and endorsed by such groups as the Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Committee, Marcha Patriotica Colombia-CA Chapter and Workers World Party. Speakers included Pierre LaBossiere, from the Haiti Action Committee. The rally was called in response to the Feb. 12 attack on peaceful marches in Venezuela to commemorate the 200th anniversary of La Victoria of the Independence war. Gunmen fired into crowds, killing three and injuring dozens more.

Barack Obama’s war against civilization

The world is learning what U.S. senatorial candidate Barack Obama meant on October 2, 2002, when he told a Chicago crowd that he did not oppose all wars. “What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.” We now know that President Obama is committed to full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet – a project he considers neither rash nor dumb. At stake is survival – not of the people and government of the United States, which face no existential threat from any quarter, but of an empire whose self-defined strategic interests encompass the entire globe. There is a terrifying logic to Washington’s frenzy: when the systemic structure is collapsing, it must be propped up everywhere.

President Obama’s contribution to the disintegration of the global order is awesome; he is a great innovator. Whereas other U.S. leaders were content to simply violate international law with regularity, Obama has rewritten the statutes. The very concept of national sovereignty has been discarded in favor of a kind of universal parole status overseen by a pyramidal “international community” with the United States at the top. National self-determination, the bedrock of international law – is now treated as a franchise, to be issued or withdrawn at the whim of any coalition the U.S. is able to assemble. For Haiti, a simple troika of the U.S., Canada and France constituted a quorum empowered to erase 200 years of independence. For Libya, the recognized government’s capital crime was its threat to quell a jihadist revolt in one of its cities. The Syria state has been condemned for resisting tens of thousands of foreign-financed killers who recognize no earthly law whatsoever. The U.S. backs a coup against the lawfully elected government of Ukraine by the direct descendants of Nazis. Simultaneously, Obama threatens the democratically elected government of Venezuela with dire consequences if it harms a hair on the head of rioters bankrolled and directed by Washington.

Protest coverage in Haiti and Venezuela reveals U.S. media hypocrisy

The media coverage of the events unfolding in Venezuela provides a troubling example of how the imperial ambitions of the United States can magnify crises—especially when contrasted with the current political situation in Haiti.

Both Venezuela and Haiti have been facing anti-government protests, with the respective oppositions citing poor leadership, corruption, electoral fraud, and a deteriorating economy as their primary motivations in calling for change. However, the international media’s escalation of the Venezuelan crisis and their complete silence when it comes to Haiti, raises some important questions about the United States’ inconsistency in upholding the values of human rights and democracy.

Haiti has been enduring a political crisis since the highly controversial election of President Michel Martelly, who received his mandate from only 16.7 percent of registered voters, and has been running the country without a fully functioning government in order to avoid dealing with constitutionally mandated checks and balances. For the third year in a row, Martelly has promised to hold elections to fill legislative and local seats without yet following through.

Soon, the Battle for Venezuela

They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe. There are so many places like that – it is impossible to list them all.

They want you back in their deadly embrace; they want you to be corrupt and hopeless, as you were before the “Bolivarian Revolution”.

They want you to be the top oil exporter, but with all those horrific slums hanging, like relentless nightmares, over your cities. They want your elites and your military top brass to speak English, to play golf, to drive luxury cars and to commit treason after treason, as they used to commit treason for decades, before your brave predecessor, President Hugo Chavez, began serving and literally saving the poor, in Venezuela and all over Latin America.

Those who are planning to destroy you, those who belong to the so called ‘opposition’, in their heads, are already portioning you; they are dividing your beautiful body – fighting over which parts should be taken where and by whom. They are arguing which pieces of you should stay at home, and what should be taken abroad – a leg, an arm, and your deep melancholic eyes, the color of the profound pools under the mighty waterfalls of Canaima. They want to sell your jet-black hair, as black as those evenings in the mountains, or like that endless night sky above Ciudad Bolivar.

Venezuela, Haiti: It’s the opposition that’s anti-democratic

"'The opposition’ has been paid from abroad, as it has been paid, in the past and now, in China, in Eastern Europe, in Syria, Ukraine and in Thailand, as it has been paid everywhere else in the world, where the West could not manage to easily strip those ‘rebellious’ countries of all their riches, while keeping them humiliated, and on their knees...The West likes it when...despots hold the reins of power. They like people like Duvalier, Trujillo, Videla and Pinochet – and their equivalents – on all the continents and in every country...It does not matter how many millions will die in the process. As long as a rebellion, or a fight for independence, can be crushed, Western imperialism and neo-colonialism will sacrifice any amount of human lives, especially the lives of those ‘un people’.." ---Open Letter to President of Venezuela Soon, the Battle for Venezuela by ANDRE VLTCHEK

How Oppositionist Organizations Act Worldwide – From Egypt to Haiti

In one of the Wikileaks leakage – in which Pública (not-for-profit investigative journalism center in Brazil, founded by a team of women journalists) had access – shows the founder of this organization communicating often with analysts from Stratfor, an organization that mixes journalism, political analysis and espionage methods to sell “intel analysis” to clients such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Coca-Cola and Dow Chemical – who monitored environmentalists’ activities who opposed them – as well as U.S. Navy.

Canvas (acronym for Centre for Applied Non Violent Actions and Strategies) was founded by two Serbian leader students, who participated in the successful uprising that dethrone the dictator Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.

Those students organized creative protests, marches and acts that culminated in the destabilization of the regime. Then, they started to spread their knowledge, teaching opposition groups from many countries on how to organize and defeat governments.

This is the way they came to Venezuela, where they started to train opposition leaders back in 2005. In his TV show, late Hugo Chávez accused the group as being a Coup D’Etat group, and for being under US orders.

Venezuela chairs committee on draconian anti-Haitian citizenship ruling

It has been four years since Haiti was struck by the January 12 earthquake of 2010. While many mainstream newspapers try to whitewash the worst failures of the international community’s reconstruction effort, the Center for Economic and Policy Research published a thorough, albeit disturbing list of figures outlining the troubled state of reconstruction in Haiti.

Many of these persistent problems are linked to the ongoing history of international intervention in Haiti, whereby the rights of international investors trample the self-determination, sovereignty, and emancipation of the Haitian people.

In contrast to the neocolonial actions of the United States, Canada, and others who have worked to undermine Haiti’s reconstruction, stands Venezuela—now one of Haiti’s key allies, and one who has broken from the anti-people reconstruction policies and aligned itself in solidarity with, rather than in domination to, the Haitian people.

Perhaps the most well known Venezuelan assistance to Haiti has come in the form of the low cost of oil that Venezuela’s PetroCaribe program has made available. During Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s first visit to Haiti in June 2013, Haitian President Michel Martelly discussed the impact of the funds generated by the PetroCaribe agreement: “I would like to say very loudly that PetroCaribe funds represent 94% of our investment funds, which means that the majority of what is being done in Haiti has been realized with PetroCaribe funds….Government buildings are being rebuilt, social housing is being built and we are talking about increasing national production, about continuing with the free tuition education program and alphabetization.”

'Whoever messes with Haiti messes with the people of Venezuela' says Venezuelan President Maduro

Finally President, Venezuela's mediation in the conflict between Dominican Republic and Haiti. What can you tell us?

Fortunately we had been working for more than a month ago with the Government of Dominican Republic and Haiti to be channeled in the best way that conflict. We are brothers stalwarts of the Haitian people, and to mess with the people of Haiti got to the Venezuelan people. They are our older brothers, they are our fellow believers, and fortunately Dominican Republic has shown wisdom and established a schedule from now. We will appoint a special envoy and am we assess who is eligible to go to truly help, and that these conditions are exceeded and be guaranteed the Haitian people their fundamental human rights, and overcoming these differences between Haiti and Dominican Republic to ensure that have to be two brotherly peoples. We have to overcome the obstacle that was us history of the old colonialism and sometimes out there, like the oligarchy, right, tries to plant permanently theme of hatred against the people of Guyana, hatred against the Colombian people, hatred against Latin America, the antibolivariano hatred. You mean, they do not form part of the army of joy? Some are part of small groups that cultivate hatred and bitterness as a way of life.

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Video: Haiti negotiating its integration to PETROCARIBE // teleSUREnglish

The government of Haiti continues to negotiate its effective integration to the agreement of PetroCaribe, an initiative that was proposed by the president Nicolas Maduro at the beginning of this year.