Venezuela: Resistance or disintegration?

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to move towards the solution proposed (demanded actually) that the embassy be turned over to a neutral third country, without admitting or publicizing that the US has backed down. teleSUR reports that Switzerland has taken custody of the US embassy in Venezuela, but refuses to reciprocate.
Even during a break in diplomatic relations and supported by art. 45, the receiving nation, in this case, the U.S., must continue respecting foreign properties. "This type of situation should be resolved by appointing a third party state with protecting powers to maintain the sovereignty of the diplomatic headquarters," Moncada added.

As is the case of the Venezuelan government who has respected the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, and under international law allowed the Swiss government - appointed by the U.S. - to take care of the premises. However, there has not been any reciprocity by the U.S. as they deny to allow a third party state, appointed by Venezuela, to take care of their embassy in Washington.

"What happens at the Embassy in Washington is a portrait of what is happening in Venezuela: supremacist insults, blockages of food and medicine, threats of the use of force, electricity and water cuts to achieve a surrender."

The Venezuelan representative in the U.N. also pointed out that even if Juan Guaido’s people were to illegally take over the Embassy, they would be powerless lacking the authority to issue passports or any consular services, as “they have zero power in Venezuela, something the world saw during the failed coup on April 30.”

The activist explained that the reason for them to barricade inside the Embassy is due to the current attacks by the Venezuelan opposition, which he referred as “hooligans”, who have violently attacked the peaceful group. The Embassy Protection Collective was invited by the Venezuelan government to enter the building as caretakers while diplomatic due process is coordinated.

Since the activists were given the keys and security codes to the building by the Maduro staffers before they were kicked out of the country, it makes the situation a little confounding for the Man.

There hasn’t been any communication from the State Department in response to emails that Kevin published last night. When pressed, the Secret Service were unable to elucidate what charge they would use in an arrest since protectors were given the keys to the building and are here with permission of the elected government. Still, protectors know that police could come anytime and are prepared to hold the space nonviolently both as tenants/guests with the right to live here and to uphold the Vienna Convention.

A link to an article detailing how the activists got the Secret Service to back off, by patiently explaining (several times) the applicable Vienna conventions and that their action would be complicit in violating international law. It's quite the saga, but in the end the SS left, DC Metro is on patrol, and the Guaido goons have had to back off

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, from inside the Venezuelan embassy
This article describes a tense showdown and small victory that took place Monday evening between the embassy protectors and federal authorities, and concludes with URGENT ACTIONS people can take to resolve this dispute and stop a US-orchestrated coup.
(Writing on Day 36 of the campaign to prevent a US-sponsored coup by protecting the Venezuelan Embassy from illegal takeover.)
 

Once again the Trump Administration shows that it is hurting the truth and is reacting arrogantly in violation of international law. The press conference of Ambassador @SMoncada_VEN and #Love4EPC activists at the UN yesterday was a chair of international relations and courage.

Today dawns our diplomatic headquarters in Washington taken over and invaded by an unprecedented police deployment. They violate their obligations under the Vienna Convention and the Human Rights of the activists who have protected our Embassy with our authorization.

The morale of the 4 activists is more powerful than the repressive force of the dozens of armed police deployed. The Government of Venezuela reserves itself and evaluates responses within the framework of International Law, protected by the recognized principle of reciprocity.
 
U.S. federal agents arrest protesters occupying Venezuelan Embassy
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido celebrate outside the Venezuelan embassy to the United States after U.S. law enforcement officers arrested and removed the remaining activists sympathetic to embattled President Nicolas Maduro who had been part of a multi-week occupation of the embassy in Washington, U.S., May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido celebrate outside the Venezuelan embassy to the United States after U.S. law enforcement officers arrested and removed the remaining activists sympathetic to embattled President Nicolas Maduro who had been part of a multi-week occupation of the embassy in Washington, U.S., May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. law enforcement officers raided the Venezuelan Embassy on Thursday to oust a small group protesting U.S. policy toward the oil-rich country, paving the way for the diplomatic compound to be handed to the U.S. envoy of opposition leader Juan Guaido.

Since mid-April, members of three activist groups have been occupying the embassy, a red brick building in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, where they say they are “invited guests” of the Venezuelan government.

The activists oppose U.S. intervention in Venezuela to oust President Nicolas Maduro in favor of Juan Guaido, the Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of the OPEC-member nation.

Authorities arrested the last four protesters on Thursday after utilities for the building were cut off and they ignored an eviction order, the groups say.

A spokesman for Pepco, Washington’s energy utility, said the company does not discuss service to individual properties.

The U.S. Secret Service confirmed officers had helped agents from State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service execute arrest warrants against people inside the embassy.

A U.S. State Department spokeswoman said the government of Guaido, who the United States recognizes as the leader of Venezuela, asked for U.S. assistance in removing the protesters from the embassy.

“The Venezuelan government, led by Interim President Juan Guaido ... has asked the trespassers to depart the premises,” the spokeswoman said.
 
https://www.mintpressnews.com/whos-behind-the-pro-guaido-crowd-besieging-venezuelan-embassy-in-dc/258533/ said:
Who’s Behind the Pro-Guaidó Crowd Besieging Venezuela’s D.C. Embassy?

The intimidation tactics by the pro-coup embassy besiegers not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they left Venezuela’s D.C.-based opposition with a serious PR problem. After a week of hateful outbursts, a handful of marketing strategists emerged as de facto spokespeople for the mob.

by Jeb Sprague and Alexander Rubinstein

After a rough and revealing start, the reins of the campaign to seize Venezuela’s embassy in Washington are being taken over by a group of well-connected marketing and online strategists.

In this article, we will examine the backgrounds of these individuals, the platforms they use to disseminate their message, and the tactics they have employed to clamor for an embassy seizure that violates international law. We will also address how they may stand to benefit directly from an escalation of Washington’s hybrid war and a potential regime-change scenario in Venezuela.

Washington serves as a magnet for many elite and upper-middle-class professionals from countries that have been targeted by U.S. regime-change efforts. In their home countries, some of these elements may function as the shock troops or intellectual beacons of empire, forming the front lines of American-backed color-revolution-style destabilization campaigns. In the U.S., some upwardly mobile members of the diaspora also become lobbyists for regime change. They position themselves as the true voices of “the people” of their nation, while the poor and working class majorities of those countries are left behind, ignored by the corporate media and unable to travel north.

This sensibility is perfectly reflected by the crowd of pro-coup Venezuelan exiles and diaspora members that has besieged the Venezuelan Embassy in a bid to starve out the American activists who have staged a round-the-clock protest inside.

In early April, peace activists were invited by Venezuela’s government into its embassy in D.C., after the Trump administration ordered the country’s diplomats to depart. Over twenty wound up taking up residence in the embassy, hoping to prevent an illegal seizureof the building.


On April 30 – the same day self-proclaimed “president” Juan Guaidó staged a failed military coup – pro-Guaidó Venezuelans initiated their siege of the embassy. As they converged on the premises, some unleashed a wave of violent, misogynistic, and racist attacks on peace activists both inside and outside the building.

Some of the pro-Guaidó militants are believed to have since carried out physical attacks, made death threats, and harassed the family members of embassy defenders. Some are also believed to have committed acts of property destruction, wrecked the tents of activists, and ransacked an embassy office while promoting ultra-Zionism and praising President Donald Trump and the police. TeleSUR’s correspondent Alina Duarte has faced a torrent of threats from some of the pro-Guaidó extremists, returning home one night to find that someone had attempted to break into and enter her apartment.

The intimidation tactics not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they left Venezuela’s D.C.-based opposition with a serious PR problem. After a week of hateful outbursts, a handful of marketing strategists emerged as de facto spokespeople for the mob. They are now delegated for interviews with national media outlets, deploying a combination of liberal-sounding language and identity politics to deflect from the presence of violent, sociopathic elements within the mob, some of whom will also be identified in this article.

The well-groomed spokespeople for regime change

Dilianna C. Bustillos (also known as Dillianna Bustillos Vivas) has become a poster child for the pro-Guaidó mob. A senior manager at Oracle, she previously worked for MarketBridgeand for the advocate marketing firm Influitive. Oracle, a computer technology corporation and one of the largest companies in the world, also works closely with aerospace and defense companies. In 2018 it had global revenues of $39.83 billion.

Bustillos previously volunteered with Visión Democrática, a pro-opposition Venezuelan lobbying outfit in D.C. that claims to focus on “democracy promotion” — code for regime change. Francisco Márquez, the executive director of Visión Democrática, is the political advisor to Juan Guaidó’s fake ambassador in Washington.

A fellow of the “Democracy in Hard Places Initiative” at Harvard’s Ash School for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Marquez has held meetings with Vice President Mike Pence and is a key figure of the pro-coup Venezuelan lobby in Washington. Visión Democrática also employs Carlos Figueroa, who attended a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) meeting in Washington on the potential for a military invasion of Venezuela

In her media interviews, Bustillos never reveals her top-level corporate marketing position nor her support for political groups that advocate for sanctions and U.S. intervention.

Rather, she has presented herself as just another concerned Venezuelan citizen, with nothing special to gain and no agenda beyond saving her country from the evildoers. In a media interview outside of the embassy, Bustillos claimed that she was “not for U.S. intervention.” Such claims have been accepted at face value by the New York Times,
which wrote:

“Mr.,
Guaidó’s supporters insist they are not making a case for American military intervention in Venezuela, but only want the Americans to leave a building that does not belong to them.”

However, Bustillos’s Twitter timeline reveals that she has openly advocated for U.S.sanctions, which we now know collectively punish the country’s population. She also openly supports Guaidó, who himself has suggested he would support a U.S. attack on his own country. Guaidó’s fake ambassador, Carlos Vecchio, has asked the head of the U.S. Southern Military Command to begin “strategic and operational planning” towards intervening in the country. Support for a U.S. invasion has also been voiced by many otherpro-coup/pro-Guaidó Venezuelan-Americans outside the embassy including one of the leaders of the crowd, Robert Nasser.

Some in the pro-Guaidó crowd have claimed that they want to see the embassy seized by Guaidó’s forces simply so they can renew their passports. However, an embassy for a government that does not exist and holds no territory in Venezuela would clearly have no ability to renew a passport.

In fact, seizing the embassy is aimed at setting up a parallel government and pushing for U.S. invasion or civil war, but under the guise of diplomatic officialdom. This is where the contradiction of those who express themselves as the authentic voices of “the Venezuelan people” is exposed, as they support the collective punishment of Venezuelans through sanctions, internal destabilization, and U.S. intervention, while demanding that their countrymen and women be delivered from economic crisis.

On cue, the pro-coup lobby tells people to follow the hashtag #AskAVenezuelan. Caracas Chronicles, a U.S.-based blog popular with anti-Chavista Venezuelan-Americans, has also promoted the hashtag. This hashtag and the website under the same name (www. AskAVenezuelan. com) have quickly become a marketing mantra for the pro-Guaidólobby in D.C.


Advanced marketing strategies have also been used by others seeking to escalate conflict, such as with the professional Syrian-American activists who called in recent years for U.S. military intervention in Syria. Some Nicaraguan-American groups in D.C. have also successfully promoted the financial strangulation of their country by the U.S. empire through the NICA Act.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/whos-behind-the-pro-guaido-crowd-besieging-venezuelan-embassy-in-dc/258533/ said:
#AskAn UpperClassVenezuelan
So who owns the website www. AskAVenezuelan. com? According to a search through godaddy.com, the website is owned by Nelli Romero, a computer repair consultant who also owns a company called MyTeks.com. On Twitter, Romero goes by Nellie Belén Izarza. The company’s site on Zoominfo claims it has an annual revenue of $4.2 million.

On her Linkedin page, under the name Nelli R., she describes herself as an expert in “political and social media engineering” in Washington, D.C.

Romero has also worked as a consultant and lobbyist with the liberal Sunlight Foundationnon-profit. Yet, in old social media posts, Romero supported and hyped up the violent guarimba protests that resulted in numerous deaths. One tactic familiar to the guarimbas was the guaira, where pro-coup militants tied razor wire across streets that then resulted in the deaths of motorcyclists and passersby, some by decapitation.

In March of 2019, in apparent outrage that Washington had not yet authorized a military invasion of her homeland, Romero tweeted out (in Spanish): “With no U.S. Marine Corps there is no paradise.”

The pro-Guaidó spokespeople often insist to reporters that the group is neither right-wing nor left-wing in its political ideology, and that they do not want war or intervention. However, a quick glance over the “Ask a Venezuelan” website shows that it has repeatedly promoted Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) calls for U.S. intervention and brutal sanctions. Both Romero and Bustillos have often retweeted and praised Rubio, a neoconservative considered one of the most militaristic members of the U.S. Congress.

In a testament to how astroturfed the #AskAVenezuelan campaign is, the website admits that it was only started in response to a massive mobilization of anti-war activists in Washington who were protesting against Trump’s sanctions and intervention. In the “About” section, they say they “witnessed first-hand the high levels of misinformation about the situation in Venezuela.”

With the Republican Party in the U.S. already fully invested in the coup, ensuring support for regime change within the Democratic Party establishment, along with favorable coverage from liberal-leaning media outlets, is at the top of the opposition’s agenda. This is where Romero and Bustillos enter the picture, as both describe themselves as liberal Democrats, even while they support the ultra-militarism of Marco Rubio. Romero has taken on an important lobbying role, meeting recently with Hillary Clinton’s former 2016 running mate, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA).

For her part, Romero advocates for LGBTQ rights even while apparently controlling the #AskAVenezuelan brand. She is clearly not happy with those in the pro-Guaidó mob that have unleashed tirades of vitriolic homophobia against their political foes across the street and in the embassy. Together with Bustillos, she is appearing to do all she can to repackage the angry, entitled roar of a largely right-wing mob into a bipartisan message that appeals to a war-weary U.S. public.

Beyond the PR strategy that governs the embassy siege, D.C.’s pro-Guaidó lobby appears intent on consolidating a new status quo where Caracas is permanently isolated both diplomatically and economically, and an escalation of the conflict is just over the horizon.

The D.C. regime-change crew
Besides the marketing strategists, a number of well-connected Venezuelan exiles and diaspora members from the D.C. area have mobilized alongside some demonstrably violent figures each day outside the embassy.

One pro-coup activist seen on embassy grounds is Emerson Hevia, a Senior Principal Architect at the arms manufacturer Raytheon. The company is considered one of the biggest war profiteers in human history.

Also present at the protests has been Moises Rendon, a fellow at the hawkish Center for Strategic and International Studies. Backed by NATO, defense contractors, and Gulf monarchies, this D.C. think tank was exposed by The Grayzone for hosting a private roundtable of Trump and Guaidó advisors to discuss the use of military force against Venezuela.

Alejandro Perez Barrios
— a former employee of the World Bank and currently a senior manager at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group — has also taken part in the embassy siege.

Another prominent pro-coup activist is Carlos Alaya (also known as Carlos Alfredo Ayala Quintero), a marketing strategist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). One of Washington’s most important international financial institutions (IFIs) promoting neoliberal austerity across the hemisphere, the IDB recently hired a key architect of the coup in Venezuela, Ricardo Hausmann. The son of the President of the Venezuelan Association of Constitutional Law, Alaya has berated peace activists with vile epithets.

In fact, it has been common for many of the pro-coup activists to verbally assault female CODEPINK members, hurl racist invective at black anti-war activists, anti-Semitic slurs at reporters, and play jingoistic Trump speeches on loudspeakers.

Another character known as “Mohamed” has aggressively attempted to rip food away fromembassy protectors and briefly broke into the embassy, where he ransacked an entire room. He was then allowed by Secret Service police to walk freely among the mob outside, where he was seen providing private security to Guaidó’s faux ambassador Carlos Vecchio.

Cathy Caminero
is a consistent participant of the pro-coup mob. She has been seen openly in public making threatening gestures against embassy defenders.

Her partner, Cesar Caminero, has also taken part in the pro-coup siege. On his Linkedin profile, Cesar Caminero states that he is a senior level IT Engineer with an active Department of Defense (DoD) secret clearance. DoD secret clearances are provided only to either DoD employees or approved employees of a DoD associated contractor. Caminero currently works as a senior Windows engineer team leader for Navstar Inc., a firm that provides IT and other services for U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of State. Video on Twitter shows Cesar together with Guaidó’s fake ambassador Carlos Vecchio.

Perhaps the most prominent non-Venezuelan supporter of the embassy siege is a neighbor of the embassy. He is Jim McCarthy of CounterPoint Strategies. According to its website, CounterPoint has “specialized in an aggressive, combative style of crisis management.” Earlier in his career, McCarthy is said to have “handled a variety of Fortune 500 and foreign government accounts” for two major public relations agencies in Washington. With a slew of wealthy clients, his company has been said to be “often at odds with Greenpeace” while “McCarthy helped pioneer the practice of using Google ads to target journalists.” On Twitter, McCarthy has denounced Venezuela’s elected government and promotes an interventionist position.

Many in the pro-Guaidó mob appear to work for either international financial institutions, hawkish D.C. think tanks, or arms- and military-oriented contractors.

Candid audio of members of the opposition recorded surreptitiously and obtained by MintPress News expresses fear of revealing their identities linked to their professions(including one opposition protester who describes herself as being involved in “national security”).

Hailing from affluent backgrounds and overflowing with entitlement, the regime-change crew besieging the embassy does not mind brutalizing the anti-war activists that stand in their way. As numerous media reports show, the so-called “peaceful” and “pro-democracy” mob enjoys blaring 120 dB air horns just inches away from the eardrums of anti-war activists, and flashing bright strobe and scuba lights directly in the eyes of embassy defenders, even the elderly. Secret Service officers coordinating with Trump’s Department of State have stood by and done little to nothing. Violating international law, electricity has been cut off to the embassy and recently D.C. police themselves began to actively stop food and water from getting to those inside.

One anti-coup activist often present outside the embassy wondered if the fake ambassador, Vecchio, had hired a top-flight PR firm to control the messaging of the pro-coup mob. He explains:

"Between Tuesday and Wednesday [May 7-8] there was a huge, concerted shift. People were seen coaching young Venezuelan-American women on how to cry and to wave their passports. They removed some of the more vitriolic opposition and dressed up some golpistas [coup supporters] in rainbow LGBTQ flags to downplay their rampant homophobia.”

On May 7, oppositionists wrapped themselves in at least a dozen pride flags, but the following day, the flags had totally disappeared.

As national media focuses its lenses on the delegated spokespeople of the pro-coup mob outside the Venezuelan Embassy, the voices of millions of working-class Venezuelans who voted in large numbers for their elected government, or even just those who do not want to see an escalation of the conflict, have been wholly ignored. Instead, Americans are instructed to consult a carefully conceived “Ask a Venezuelan” campaign that was designed by corporate marketing strategists. It is the brainchild of elite members of the diaspora with ties to the U.S. government, the military-industrial complex, and the Guaidó coup administration. And, as with a number of other PR campaigns, it is designed to distract Americans from the deeply unsettling reality unfolding in the heart of their nation’s capital.

Feature photo | Carla Bustillos of Alexandria, Va., carries her son Carlos as she yells into a bullhorn with supporters of US-backed self-declared president Juan Guaido during outside of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, April 30, 2019. Andrew Harnik | AP

Jeb Sprague lectures at the University of Virginia and formerly taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class (Temple University Press, 2019) andParamilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012), and is the editor of Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania (Routledge, 2016). He is a founding member of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC)

Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States’ policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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Venezuela government talking with 'democratic' opposition in Norway
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro takes part in a ceremony at a Navy base in Catia La Mar, Venezuela May 14, 2019. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

Talks are underway in Norway between Venezuela's government and "democratic" opponents, an envoy said on Thursday, in a possible search for a mediated solution after the opposition's failure to spark a military uprising against President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro meets with members of International Contact Group on Venezuela for the first time
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has met for the first time with representatives of the International Contact Group on Venezuela, the country's Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday.

"President Nicolas Maduro has met with members of the International Contact Group to tell them about the consequences of the [economic] blockade and sanctions imposed by [US President] Donald Trump's government on Venezuela," the foreign ministry wrote on its official Twitter account.

Venezuela's state television also reported that possible talks between the government and opposition aimed at resolving the political crisis in the country were discussed at the meeting.the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Sweden, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Ecuador. The first ministerial meeting of the Contact Group tool place on February 7 in Montevideo.

The International Contact Group on Venezuela was established at the beginning of 2019 at the EU's initiative. Among members of the Contact Group are representatives of the European Union, the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Sweden, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Ecuador. The first ministerial meeting of the Contact Group was held on February 7 in Montevideo.

Norway says talks to resolve Venezuela crisis in "exploratory phase"
FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends a meeting with representatives of European and Latin American countries, members of the International Contact Group (ICG) at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela May 16, 2019. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

Talks taking place in Oslo with representatives of Venezuela's government and opposition to resolve the country's political crisis are in an "exploratory phase," Norway's foreign ministry said on Friday.

May 14, 2019 - FM #Lavrov in response to @SecPompeo comments on #Venezuela: Democracy cannot be done by force. The threats that we hear against the Maduro government, threats that come from the mouths of US officials... this has nothing in common with democracy.

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Cuba, Canada foreign ministers discuss resolving Venezuela crisis
Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana, Cuba, May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/Pool

Canada's foreign minister addressed Venezuela's crisis on Thursday with her Cuban counterpart during a half-day trip to Havana, according to the government, after the island recently said it was willing to help mediate.


Russia to supply Venezuelan army with over 16,000 field rations, says source May 17, 2019
According to Rosoboronexport, the rations will be supplied as part of "humanitarian assistance to the Venezuelan government"

Russia will supply Venezuela’s army with more than 16,000 field rations, a military diplomatic source told TASS on Friday.

On Thursday, Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-run arms exporter, placed information about purchases of 16,500 field rations to be supplied to Venezuela. The initial cost of the contract is 14.38 million rubles (222,091 US dollars).

"The rations will be supplied in the interests of the Venezuelan army," the source said.

According to Rosoboronexport, the rations will be supplied as part of "humanitarian assistance to the Venezuelan government."
 
I think Russia and China want to help, but at the same time don't want to get the Venezuelans dependent on them. So the Venezuelans have to display a degree of autonomy - that they are able to govern their own. And I think they are too political and restrained in tolerance of the lawbreakers that are sabotaging their infrastructure.

So, the servants or pheasant farmer class are political dead weight. They don't fight back, and if they did, it would be to their own detriment. They want to be civil to the extent that they are but pushovers.

So, it is up to the people and not the politicians to heat things up. Shy of that, they get what they deserve.

So, the people of Venezuela are shackled by political correctness, since they are relatively new to being more modern and civil and democratic. And the opposition takes advantage of this infancy and attempts coup after coup. And they will continue as long as the common people are afraid of being seen as primative and violent prone.

So, if they attack the infrastructure without consequence, they will do it again. But if there are consequences, they will think twice.

So, America and the brainwashing mass media pacify resistance to their aggressions because they know the Venezuelans are child-like in their democratic endeavor, and unlike a nurturing civilized country, who would help them develop for mutual gain - use their expertise to exploit and keep them servile minded.

I'm glad they are resisting and it is nice to see other world powers do the decent thing and not allow others to be bullied when they are developing.

So, without a spirit of vigilantism, there is nothing for other world powers to aid in, and absent of this kind of determination it is futile to expect that such people could be autonomous. It's a awkward situation - like dealing with teenagers. But you can tell that America is out of place and is in it for dark purposes. And so the world must stand vigilant.
 
So, the servants or pheasant farmer class are political dead weight. They don't fight back, and if they did, it would be to their own detriment. They want to be civil to the extent that they are but pushovers.

So, it is up to the people and not the politicians to heat things up. Shy of that, they get what they deserve.

I'm glad they are resisting and it is nice to see other world powers do the decent thing and not allow others to be bullied when they are developing.

So, the people of Venezuela are shackled by political correctness, since they are relatively new to being more modern and civil and democratic. And the opposition takes advantage of this infancy ...

And they will continue as long as the common people are afraid of being seen as primitive and violent prone.

So, America and the brainwashing mass media pacify resistance to their aggressions because they know the Venezuelans are child-like in their democratic endeavor, and unlike a nurturing civilized country, who would help them develop for mutual gain - use their expertise to exploit and keep them servile minded.

So, without a spirit of vigilantism, there is nothing for other world powers to aid in, and absent of this kind of determination it is futile to expect that such people could be autonomous. It's a awkward situation - like dealing with teenagers.

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Metrist - on the existential plane of "Political Correctness" has anyone within your limited sphere of confidants - ever merely suggest - you lack "intelligence" in communicational skills - that you lack "bonding with the Human Race" and are "overly invested in your own Grandiose Greatness"? Your pronounced displays of subliminal degradation and humiliation - belong in the same gutter - you crawled ... out of!
 
Venezuela's Maduro says Norway talks sought 'peaceful agenda' with opposition
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro takes part in a broadcast regarding the government housing programs in Caracas, Venezuela May 16, 2019. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS
Talks in Norway this week with representatives of Venezuela's government and the opposition sought to "build a peaceful agenda" for the crisis-stricken South American country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday.

Norway’s foreign ministry, which has a tradition of conflict mediation, said earlier on Friday that the talks were in an “exploratory phase.”

The representatives of each side arrived in the Nordic country this week, signaling a fresh approach to ending months of tensions that escalated after a failed uprising last month led by opposition leader Juan Guaido, who called on the military to oust Maduro.

Norway announces that it has had preliminary contacts with representatives of the main political actors of Venezuela, as part of an exploratory phase,” the ministry said in a statement.

Opposition lawmaker Stalin Gonzalez and two advisors represented Guaido’s side, while Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez and Miranda state governor Hector Rodriguez went to Oslo on behalf of the government.

Each side met separately with Norwegian mediators but there was no meeting between government and opposition representatives, Gonzalez told local media. It was not immediately clear if the mediation would continue.

Speaking to members of the armed forces, Maduro said his representatives “went to Norway to lead Venezuela’s delegation at the start of an exploration into a conversation and dialogue with the Venezuelan opposition to build a peaceful agenda for the country.”

Guaido was more tepid, tweeting on Thursday that any “mediation initiative” should begin with the “end of the usurpation,” a reference to Maduro resigning.

Guaido has expressed a growing openness to potential U.S. military intervention to resolve Venezuela’s crisis, and said his envoy to Washington would meet with the U.S. military’s Southern Command next Monday.

Guaido said he would meet diplomats from European and Latin American countries who arrived in Caracas this week as part of the so-called International Contact Group on Venezuela.


Protesters at Venezuela's U.S. Embassy appear in court to face criminal charges
Four protesters arrested on Thursday for occupying the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. appeared in federal court on Friday where they were charged with trespassing and interfering with the U.S. State Department's protective functions, the Justice Department said.
 
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Metrist - on the existential plane of "Political Correctness" has anyone within your limited sphere of confidants - ever merely suggest - you lack "intelligence" in communicational skills - that you lack "bonding with the Human Race" and are "overly invested in your own Grandiose Greatness"? Your pronounced displays of subliminal degradation and humiliation - belong in the same gutter - you crawled ... out of!

Well, I might not be as refined as you, but I'll comment as best as I can and try to explain my thoughts so that you might understand, and if you don't, I'm sorry.

Relax. I'm not going to claim to be an expert, or scholar. I just have thoughts I like to share, and I like being the source of what I write rather than pointing to a news source, and it may seem crude, but I'm fine with that.

And I try to see everyones position, so naturally that will incite some negativity in topics from one side or another if not both.
 
Relax. I'm not going to claim to be an expert, or scholar. I just have thoughts I like to share and I like being the source of what I writer rather than pointing to a news source, and it may seem crude, but I'm fine with that.

You clarified your position and it was on a platform of degrading the Venezuelan population, as a whole, without any recognition of their rich Heritage or their own attributes and accomplished resiliency, in fending off outside interference. "Your thoughts" lack comprehension
on a wider scale - then simple musings of an inferior complex.
 

Relaxing is sometimes a good thing but when serious matters that are being discussed on a forum based on years of research one should rise to the challenge of doing "The Work" which means more than expressing opinions but means giving solid examples (preferably from some other source than just off the top of the head) of the logic used to arrive at those opinions otherwise this forum would be no better than any other blog out there.

It does not mean you cannot have an opinion but you have to be ready to support those opinions. If you do not enjoy the forum except for the "relaxing" then I doubt you will find much support for just a stream of opinions.

I like being the source of what I write rather than pointing to a news source, and it may seem crude, but I'm fine with that.

I don't know why you joined this forum if you really only want to be your own "source". You don't need anyone but you and yes that seems really "crude".

You may be "fine with that" but don't expect others to be Ok with it.
 
I watched a livestream (just ended 10:45 EDT) of the attempts to get the activists out. Lots of noisy crowds for both sides. Several varieties of police came and set up a barrier around 8 pm, and it looked like they were going to breach the door, which the activists had secured from the inside. Instead, they talked to a rep, who's lawyer was there, and three of the group left, leaving four inside, who politely refused to go. The police then secured the door from the outside.

Mint Press has published a good article with links and video on this Venezuelan D.C. Embassy siege and who's behind it. It's a long article, so I'll only provide a link.

May 17th, 2019 - Who’s Behind the Pro-Guaidó Crowd Besieging Venezuela’s D.C. Embassy?
Who’s Behind the Pro-Guaidó Crowd Besieging the Venezuelan Embassy?

The intimidation tactics by the pro-coup embassy besiegers not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they left Venezuela’s D.C.-based opposition with a serious PR problem. After a week of hateful outbursts, a handful of marketing strategists emerged as de facto spokespeople for the mob.
 
US Sanctions are affecting the Venezuelan's at the gas stations with shortages.

Venezuela oil minister says economy, oil industry under U.S. siege
Venezuela's Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo speaks to the media before the OPEC 14th Meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2019.  REUTERS/Waleed Ali

Venezuela's Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo speaks to the media before the OPEC 14th Meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2019. REUTERS/Waleed Ali

Venezuelan Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo said on Sunday his country's economy and oil industry was under economic and financial siege by the U.S. government.

“This therefore generates disturbances in the flow of oil supply to the world market as well as serious economic damage and suffering to the Venezuelan people,” he said in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ahead of a ministerial panel meeting of top OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Soldiers oversee fuel rationing in some Venezuelan towns amid shortages
FILE PHOTO: A man walks past fuel containers while vehicle queue to refuel with gasoline in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela May 17, 2019. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo
Soldiers oversaw rationing of gasoline at service stations in several parts of Venezuela on Sunday as worsening fuel shortages forced angry drivers to wait for hours to fill their tanks, prompting protests in some areas.
 
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