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The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela

Ex-CIA Agent Reveals how Venezuelan “Students” Get Putschist Training

"In a recent interview in Havana, a former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, revealed the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create the kind of destabilizing opposition student movement the country is currently facing. "

WATCH: New Paths Require a New Culture on the Left [Spanish]

Speech accepting the 2013 Libertador Prize for Critical Thought, awarded for A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism, Caracas, Venezuela, August 15, 2014

Terrorism franchise: The Gene Sharp Method

"This coup protocol has been applied several times around the world against governments that oppose Washington’s rulings with different levels of success. It is clear that in Venezuela this plan is currently in its fourth stage, the most powerful of all since it includes violence by means of armed actions and permanent provocation towards the police forces in order to promote repression."

USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba

"One particular favorite has been the NGO Súmate and its leader Maria Corina Machado, who has made headlines over the past two months for her role in the protest movement."

How Oppositionist Organizations Act Worldwide – From Egypt to Venezuela

In his TV show, late Hugo Chávez accused the group as being a Coup D’Etat group, and for being under US orders. “It’s called a soft coup”, he said.

FLASHBACK: Um espiao indiscreto contra Chavez

Between 2002 and 2009, USAID has distributed approximately U.S. $ 95.7 million dollars to Venezuelan opposition organizations through its Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI, in English), which opened in the country two months after the failed coup against Hugo Chavez .

Internazionale: In Venezuela, Otpor e Javu

U.S. funded Otpor, once again, rears its ugly head in Venezuela.

Venezuela Beyond the Protests: The Revolution is Here to Stay

"The youth taking to the streets today in Caracas and other cities throughout the country, hiding their faces behind masks and balaclavas, destroying public buildings, vehicles, burning garbage, violently blocking transit and throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at security forces are being driven by extremist right-wing interests from Venezuela’s wealthiest sector."

U.S. Turning into Latin America’s Backyard

"At the forum in Miami they discussed the strategy of «promoting democracy on the continent». Among the speakers were representatives of a number of Latin America NGOs which answer to the CIA. Their speeches on the «right to uprising» stood out. The key assertion of this topic is this: if a country has a tyrannical government, the people have a right to overthrow it. The speakers explicitly mentioned governments «undesirable» to the United States - in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc."

How the West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”

"In Venezuela, the US sponsored an aborted coup, and it directly pays for hundreds of organizations, ‘NGO’s’ and media outlets, with the direct goal of overthrowing the revolutionary process and the government."