Imperialism’s Non-Stop War Against Venezuela
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the latest Venezuelan election, the U.S. brought out its imperialist toolkit of lies and propaganda to try to overturn the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro. But so far it hasn’t worked, with hundreds of thousands mobilizing to defend the government and the military still intact. Brian is joined by Manolo De Los Santos, the executive director of The People’s Forum in New York, to discuss the tactics used in this hybrid war by U.S. imperialism against the country, which possesses the largest oil reserves in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | The United States is intent on toppling the government in Venezuela. |
| 0:06.0 | Today we're going to talk about the lies and propaganda used in the hybrid war waged by U.S. imperialism |
| 0:13.0 | against a country which possesses the largest oil reserves in the world. |
| 0:18.0 | Working class people in Venezuela are resisting. We need a new system. We need a new |
| 0:25.0 | society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:30.5 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:00.9 | Today we're talking with Manolo de Los Santos. |
| 1:03.8 | He is the co-executive director of the People's Forum in New York. |
| 1:07.8 | He was in Venezuela last week during the elections. Manolo, welcome back. |
| 1:12.9 | It's a great to be back on the show with you, Brian. I said in the beginning, Manolo, that we're |
| 1:17.4 | going to talk about the lies and propaganda. You know, every war has lies and propaganda |
| 1:22.7 | associated with it. We hear the cliche. The first casualty in war is the truth. Well, this is a war that's |
| 1:31.3 | been going on against the people of Venezuela ever since they dared to have a revolution, |
| 1:36.1 | a popular revolution led by Hugo Chavez and then the Bolivarian Revolution. There was the coup in 2002 |
| 1:42.8 | that was failed when masses of poor people came out and rescued Ch Revolution. There was the coup in 2002 that was failed when masses of poor people |
| 1:45.6 | came out and rescued Chavez. There was the 2019 coup when the U.S. government said Juan Guaido is |
| 1:51.8 | the government in Venezuela. Now we had a recent election. Nicholas Maduro won the election. |
| 1:57.8 | The Venezuelan opposition said immediately that they said the election was a fraud |
| 2:02.6 | within seconds, and the U.S. government echoed it, meaning that the Venezuelan opposition and their |
| 2:08.2 | sponsors in the State Department were only going to accept the election results if the opposition |
| 2:14.2 | defeated Maduro. Anyway, we want to talk about the electoral procedures, |
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