By Raul Capote Fernandez on June 24, 2024
photo: Getty images
They wear hoods to hide their faces, bulletproof vests, helmets with built-in cameras to transmit live terrorist actions, visors, gas masks, homemade explosives, backpacks and bags carrying Molotov cocktails, stone throwers, sledgehammers, iron batons, mortars, homemade bazookas, brass shields.
The violent acts are presented as peaceful demonstrations of students, the press shows photos of “killed by the regime”, OAS officials and NGOs created by the Empire, tear their clothes and cry out for U.S. intervention.
Where do these events take place: Caracas, Managua, La Paz during the coup against Evo Morales, perhaps even further away geographically, Teheran, Kiev?
The Venezuelan and Nicaraguan terrorists did not copy the organization and military equipment of the Ukrainian Maidan. Those who promoted, financed and executed it, are the same ones who for years have been trying to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution and, of course, they have the same masters.
The Same weapons, same attire, similar slogans, common sponsors, behind the scenes, the same puppet master, the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), the leading agent of the soft power of the United States to overthrow governments that do not agree with them.
According to Allen Weinstein, founder of the NED, in 1991: “Much of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA”.
The NED’s operating budget comes from the U.S. Congress, which gives it millions every two years as part of the State Department’s budget. It’s money is given only to projects whose end game is to overthrow progressive and revolutionary governments in Latin America.
The money is distributed among agencies like the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the American Center for International Labor Solidarity of the American Federation of Labor Unions-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the Chamber of Commerce’s Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), which in turn disburses money and materials to opposition organizations in countries not sympathetic to the U.S. government.
In addition to NED, one could not miss the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) , an organization that has been the most active promoter of regime change against progressive governments in Latin America that operates supposedly to “administer civilian foreign aid and development assistance.” Blogger and writer Max Blumenthal explains, “Nicaragua, USAID’s budget exceeded 5.2 million in 2018, with most of the funds earmarked for training civil society and media organizations but basically underwriting the coup attempt of that year.”
This is the same USAID that used funds from the Alliance for Progress, a US “economic”, “political” and “social” “aid” program, a sort of Marshall Plan and the first great attempt to stop progressive process of Latin America and isolate Cuba, by financing repression.
Let us not forget that this is the same USAID that financed the training of death squads and financed “health” programs that hid inhuman sterilization processes in Central America.
USAID has created in our continent a deep network, which captures cadres, manufactures leaders, penetrates civil society. A veritable interventionist army of “experts”, “consultants”, “advisors” who work in the development of subversive plans.
In its first ten years alone, the NED distributed more than 200 million dollars in 1,500 projects to support the so-called “friends of America”.
Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela, wherever there is a government that contravenes U.S. interests, the generously financed specialists of destabilization and chaos are at work.
Mercenaries, criminals, hired hands of the “Soft Coup”, of the “Color Revolutions”, “revolutions” with flashy and peaceful names, designed in the laboratories of the CIA headquarters in Langley VA, where the purchase of uncritical consciences and deception, seduction through the use of attractive concepts for young people and lots of money, as much money as necessary, are the soldiers and weapons of the new war.
And of course, now and always the main target is Cuba, those same people are preparing a hot summer for the rebellious Island, taking advantage of the difficult circumstances caused by the economic war, they plan to carry out sabotage to the electric grids, commit acts of terrorism against officials, state institutions, supporters of the Revolution, etc.
They want to shut down our homes, lead us to absolute misery, provoke despair and break any hope, so that people will rise up against the government.
It is a known scheme, faced hundreds of times by Cubans, which does not make it any less dangerous, especially given the current geopolitical situation.
Raul Capote, photo: Bill Hackwell
They then hope to provoke chaos in Venezuela if Nicolás Maduro wins the election in July, if the people triumph, they intend to bring down the Chavista government and then, following the same strategy, the same model used against Cuba, to bring down the Bolivian government.
Now or never, say the managers in Washington, they are gambling everything for everything, the beast is wounded and its last blows could be dangerous.
Raul Capote is a Cuban writer, professor, researcher and journalist. He is the author of several books and is a Special Collaborator for Resumen Latinoamericano.
Source: Cuba en Resumen