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Editor's Note Editor’s Note VENEZUELA is currently being crucified by a US- to the extent of consulting his advisers on how he could led coalition of states simply because it has chosen to trigger a war with Venezuela to seize the oilfields as embark on an alternative path of development. Such a war booty. brutal response by the US to any nation state opting Given this obsession, Trump’s first concern was for a different model of development is not in itself to ensure that the man at the helm in Venezuela was a anything new. Cuba has been the victim of US sanctions pliable person who would dutifully see to it that US since 1959 when Fidel Castro emerged victorious in interests were protected. Since Maduro did not fit the the guerilla war which toppled the corrupt US-backed bill, the only way out was regime change. In a brazen regime of Fulgencio Batista. Originally limited to the display of imperial power, Trump even effectively purchase of arms, the restrictions were subsequently nominated the candidate whom the Venezuelan people expanded to make it a more comprehensive sanctions were supposed to elect if they wanted the US to lift regime. sanctions. When Hugo Chavez became the President of The US’ man was Juan Guaido, who had been Venezuela in 1999 and proclaimed the Bolivarian groomed by an elite US-funded regime change training Revolution (a socialist political programme named after academy. Known by its acronym CANVAS, the the South American independence hero Simon Bolivar), organisation has, according to award-winning journalist the US was anything but pleased. Venezuela is home Max Blumenthal, been ‘funded largely through the to the largest proven oil reserves in the world, and the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA cut-out US simply could not countenance the continued that functions as the US government’s main arm of possession of such a vital resource by a socialist regime. promoting regime change’. Guaido was only the Meanwhile, the political contours of the whole President of the Venezuelan National Assembly but Latin American region were fast changing, particularly after a single phone call from Trump’s Vice-President in the first decade of the 21st century. The election to Mike Pence, he proclaimed himself President of office of progressive governments in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela. He was a virtual unknown but a media blitz Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and transformed him into President-in-waiting. Guatemala (the so-called ‘Pink Tide’) provided a climate Meanwhile, Canada, numerous European nations, of solidarity for Chavez to undertake important social Israel and the bloc of right-wing Latin American governments known as the Lima Group recognised reforms and programmes to uplift the poor and Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. What is destitute. shocking is that almost everything the US has done in But such a respite was shortlived as the Pink Tide prosecuting this war is a breach of international law, governments failed to hold their ground against the yet Canada and the European countries, which regularly assault from the Right. Venezuela was now left alone pontificate to Third World nations about the to face the full force of US imperial might. The US importance of the rule of law, are prepared to go along kept ratcheting up the pressure with all the tools in its with the US in flouting the law. arsenal, including sanctions, sabotage, lockouts and The US and its allies have now stepped up their hoarding. In 2002, the US nearly succeeded in ousting economic warfare against Venezuela, effectively Chavez from office by a military coup. depriving it of the right to import food and medicine Having weathered the storm, Chavez moved for its people. The suffering of the people has been ahead with his reforms to bring about a more egalitarian compounded by frequent blackouts, which in turn society. Unfortunately, he was not able to carry out the impact adversely on water supplies. There is strong most critical structural reform necessary to stabilise circumstantial evidence for holding the view that the the Venezuelan economy – reduce its dependence on US is behind this sabotage of the power grid, but that oil. This made the country vulnerable to market forces has not prevented Guaido from leading demonstrations outside its control. It also made it easier for the US to against Maduro blaming him for Venezuelans’ plight. put the squeeze on Venezuela as it was oil revenues In the absence of any action by the international which paid for all essentials including food and community, the only question is how long the people medicine. can hold out for. When Chavez died in 2013, his successor Nicolas In our cover story, we seek to highlight the pitiless Maduro inherited these problems. But with oil prices war that the US and its allies have launched against a down, he could barely get down to addressing them. Latin American nation whose only crime is its desire An even bigger problem was the new man in the White to forge its own path of development. House, whose main obsession was acquiring Venezuela’s rich oil resources for the US. All along, Donald Trump had made it plain that he wanted these – The Editors resources for US multinationals, and he had even gone Visit the Third World Network website at: www.twn.my THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE No 337/338 Third World RESURGENCE www.twn.my No 337/338 Jan/Feb 19 ISSN 0128-357X 39 Diego Garcia: The ‘unsink- able carrier’ springs a leak – Conn Hallinan 41 India: The Modi years – Prabhat Patnaik 44 Campaign to criminalise criticism of Israel: A chal- lenge to free speech, Jewish values – Allan C Brownfeld 46 The anti-Semitic con – Paul Edwards 48 The Assange arrest is a warning from history – John Pilger The US’ attempts to effect regime change in Venezuela have not cowed 50 Why the prosecution of Julian Venezuelans into submission. Picture shows a rally in Caracas Assange is troubling for press supporting the government of President Nicolas Maduro. 13 freedom – Alexandra Ellerbeck and Avi Asher- ECOLOGY right-wing rollback – Interview Schapiro with William I Robinson 2 Emissions inequality: there is 18 Blackouts as a weapon for HUMAN RIGHTS a gulf between global rich and regime change – Max poor – Nicholas Beuret Blumenthal 52 Feminist Palestinian law- 20 The origins of Venezuela’s maker free after 20 months in HEALTH & SAFETY economic crisis – Greg prison without trial Wilpert 4 Why is the US government 23 Getting real with the US sanc- WOMEN allowing its own drug re- tions imposed on Venezuela – search to be monopolised for Alexander Campbell 54 No revolution without femi- profit? – Ryan Cooper 25 US sanctions killed over nism: Weaving together 6 Universal healthcare in Africa 40,000 Venezuelans since Venezuela’s feminist move- is a necessity for genuine 2017 ments – Ricardo Vaz development – Abayomi 26 A ship adrift: Cuba after the Azikiwe Pink Tide – Sujatha ACTIONS & ALTERNATIVES Fernandes ECONOMICS 57 Yellow Vest movement WORLD AFFAIRS struggles to reinvent democ- 9 The case for a financial racy as Macron cranks up transaction tax –Kavaljit 29 Algeria’s uprising: The propaganda and repression – Singh beginning of the end of ‘Le Richard Greeman Pouvoir’? – Tin Hinane El COVER Kadi 32 What is behind the economic VIEWPOINT Containing Chavismo, and political crisis in Sudan? – Rabah Omer 62 The West’s irrational fear of Overthrowing Maduro: 34 The ousting of Bashir: Coup Iran is a disaster waiting to The US War Against Venezuela or popular uprising? – Beny happen – Seyed Mohammad Gideon Marandi 13 The crisis in Venezuela – 36 Africa as colonial as ever: US’ Alfred de Zayas ‘new Africa strategy’ old oil in POETRY 15 Venezuela: The epicentre of the new bottles – Cale Holmes ‘Pink Tide’ and now of the and Erica Jung 64 The dictators– Pablo Neruda THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE is pub- THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE is pub- Publisher and Chief Editor: S.M. lished by the Third World Network, an in- lished monthly by Third World Network, 131 Mohamed Idris; Managing Editor: Chee ternational network of groups and individu- Jalan Macalister, 10400 Penang, Malaysia. Yoke Ling; Editors: T Rajamoorthy, Lean als involved in efforts to bring about a Tel: 60-4-2266728 Fax: 60-4-2264505. Ka-Min, Evelyne Hong; Contributing Edi- greater articulation of the needs and rights Email: [email protected] tors: Roberto Bissio (Uruguay), Charles of peoples in the Third World; a fair distri- Printed by Jutaprint, No. 2, Solok Sungai Abugre (Ghana); Staff: Linda Ooi (Design), bution of world resources; and forms of de- Pinang 3, 11600 Penang, Malaysia. velopment which are ecologically sustain- Cover Design: Lim Jee Yuan Lim Jee Yuan (Art Consultant), Lim Beng able and fulfil human needs. Copyright © Third World Network Tuan (Marketing), Yap Bing Nyi (Editorial) E C O L O G Y Emissions inequality: there is a gulf between global rich and poor American Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez created waves in Washington with the release of an outline of her Green New Deal. Nicholas Beuret comments. AMERICAN Congresswoman Alex- andria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releas- ing a broad outline of a Green New Deal – a plan to make the US a car- bon-neutral economy in the next 10 years while reducing both poverty and inequality. President Donald Trump re- sponded on Twitter in typical style to what was lauded by many as a radi- cal and necessary step: ‘I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the so- called “Carbon Footprint” to perma- nently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military – even if no other country would do the same.
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