- Eva Golinger's eagerly awaited new book is now out -
but only for those able to read and understand Spanish as it's not yet
available in English. It's appropriately called Bush vs. Chavez - Washington's
War Against against Venezuela published by Monte Avila Editores in Caracas.
Hopefully it will soon be available in English as well.
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- Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney specializing
in international human rights and immigration law. She wrote her first
blockbuster book published in 2005 called The Chavez Code - Cracking US
Intervention in Venezuela that documented the events surrounding the 2002
US-directed failed coup against Hugo Chavez that ousted him for two days
and that the people of Venezuela through their mass outrage reversed.
In her first book, Golinger obtained top-secret documents from the CIA
and State Department through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
showing the Bush administration had prior knowledge of and was complicit
in the 2002 coup against President Chavez and had provided over $30 million
in funding aid to opposition groups to help pull it off. It failed because
they hadn't expected the kind of people-power that's likely to arise again
in the face of trouble and support the president they love and won't give
up without a fight.
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- Golinger also showed how the US government funded the
so-called National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that functions to subvert
the democratic process to help oust leaders more concerned with serving
their own people than the interests of wealth and power. Also involved
in the coup plot was the international arm of the Republican party, the
International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute,
the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the AFL-CIO that
has a long and disturbing record of acting as an instrument of US foreign
policy instead of sticking to what it's mandated to do - representing the
interests of American working people it falls far short of much too often
in its policy of selling out to the interests of capital for the personal
gain of the union's leadership.
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- In the Chavez Code, Golinger showed how these agencies
funded and worked with the Chavez opposition beginning in 2001 cooking
up schemes that led to mass-staged street protests leading up to the day
of the coup. It was done with the full knowledge and approval of the Bush
White House that mounted a full-scale effort post-9/11 to oust Hugo Chavez
and has now tried and failed three times to do it.
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- In her new book, Golinger picks up from her first one
chronicling the Bush adminstration's focused efforts at illegal intervention
in Venezuelan affairs attempting to destabilize the Chavez government leading
up to another scheme to overthrow it that may be only days away following
the December 3 presidential election Chavez is virtually certain to win
impressively. The book documents the usual kinds of mischief directed
out of Washington:
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- -- a demonization campaign conducted through the complicit
US corporate-controlled media that's likely to reach a crescendo in early
December.
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- -- financing 132 anti-Chavez groups. Golinger explains
...."the US is funding these organizations in civil society....to
obtain control in all different parts of the country." She goes on
to say "The US government has censored the names of organizations,
but they've left the descriptions of what the funding is for....what they
are proposing to do with the money; we just don't know if they're actually
doing it."
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- -- The Bush administration is making a determined effort
at subversion in the run-up to the December 3
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