President Obama Declares Venezuela “A Threat to National Security”, Seeks Regime-Change

By Eric Zuesse



The Obama Administration, which in 2009 provided the crucial assistance that
enabled the progressive democratic President of Honduras to be overthrown and a
junta of oligarchs to replace him; and which in 2014 perpetrated a bloody coup
that replaced the corrupt but democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych, replaced by a rabidly anti-Russian equally corrupt Government, and
thus sparked Ukraine’s civil war against the area of Ukraine that had voted 90%
for Yanukovych; is now again trying to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically
elected President, Nicolas Maduro.

Reuters on Monday March 9th headlined “U.S. Declares Venezuela a National
Security Threat, Sanctions Top Officials,” and their report gives its closing
word to an opposition politician, whom Obama supports and who says: ”It’s not a
problem with Venezuela or with Venezuelans; it’s a problem for the corrupt ones”
(i.e., Maduro and his Government).

In other words, yet again, the idea Obama is pushing is: we’re just trying to
replace a ‘corrupt’ elected head-of-state.

The White House explains its Executive Order on March 9th by saying: “President
Obama today issued a new Executive Order (E.O.) declaring a national emergency
with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security
and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela. …
Specifically, the E.O. targets those determined by the Department of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Department of State, to be involved in …
actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions.”

The Executive Order itself declares that the existing Government of Venezuela
limits rights and is corrupt, which “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I
hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.”

On 14 February 2015, President Maduro had thwarted a coup-attempt against him by
the Governments of Canada and the UK. This followed almost exactly a year after
he had already thwarted such an attempt by the U.S. Government. In December
2013, the Maduro Government presented detailed evidence that the U.S. was
planning a coup against him.

On 15 January 2015, Maduro met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the
Kremlin. The Obama Administration is, of course, especially trying to bring down
President Putin.

President Obama is also trying to bring down Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
In 2011, he had bombed away the regime of Libya’s President Muammar Gaddafi.
Both Assad and Gaddafi also are/were allies of Russia, as is Iran. The Obama
Administration is now assisting ISIS in its war against Assad, even while
bombing ISIS.

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not
Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of
CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

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GLOBAL RESEARCH
http://www.globalresearch.ca/president-obama-declares-venezuela-a-threat-to-national-security-seeks-regime-change/5435615
March 10, 2015

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