Details how millions of US taxpayer dollars are used to fund and support counter-revolutionary groups in Venezuela. This work describes how Washington is attempting to impose endless sanctions, to cause economic distress. It also exposes the imperialist machinations of Washington as it tries to... číst celé
Confidante of Tyrants is the memoir of a young US woman who gained an insider view of the most vilified and secretive world leaders of modern history.
Perhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority of the United States than Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela. As the head of one of the world's largest oil-producing countries, Chavez has been instrumental in raising world oil prices, undermining the control and profits of the multinational oil companies, and introducing innovative plans to use the wealth from this natural resource to help the impoverished-rather than the already powerful-in his own country and around the world. As the popularly elected president of one of South America's largest democracies, his strong resistance to the Bush administration's Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has severely set back, if not derailed entirely, the US's long-held hemispheric agenda. When in 2005 Bush ally and Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson called for Chavez's assassination ("It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war"), public outcry forced some Was that, in fact, a CIA goal? Did the US have plans to invade Venezuela (as Chavez alluded to receiving intelligence about on Nightline in September 2005)? And exactly what was the extent of US knowledge of or involvement in the April 2002 coup against Chavez? (He was back in power within two days, after 250,000 took to the streets in Venezuela to protest.) Venezuelan-American attorney Eva Golinger and journalist Jeremy Bigwood have used the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain government documents about US intervention in Venezuela. The Chavez Code contains this irrefutable evidence that, at the very least, the US knew about the plot to overthrow Chavez before it happened. The history of US interventions across Latin America, the suspicious blacked-out lines and pages, and the ongoing investigation suggest an even darker tale.
Dieses Buch ist Danilo Anderson gewidmet, der am 18. November 2004 in Caracas ermordet wurde. In den Morgenstunden des 18. Novembers 2004 wurde in Caracas der Staatsanwalt Danilo Anderson durch eine Autobombe ermordet. Anderson ermittelte die Hintergründe des Put-sches gegen den Präsidenten Hugo Chávez im April 2002. Chávez erklärte, der Anschlag sei „terroristisch und faschistisch“. Er richte sich gegen seine Regierung und die von ihr in Gang gesetzte Politik des Wechsels. Den USA warf der Präsident vor, dass einige der mutmaßlichen Täter in „völliger Freiheit“ das US-Territorium betreten und insbesondere in Miami diskutieren dürften. Anderson hatte die Ermittlungen gegen etwa 400 Oppositionelle geleitet, die sich öffentlich hinter die Putschregierung des Unternehmerchefs Pedro Carmona gestellt hatten. Carmona war nur knapp 48 Stunden im Amt und wurde dann durch den Widerstand von Chávez-Anhängern und Widersprüche im Militärapparat wieder vom Präsidentensessel gejagt.