Deciphering the Code of US Lies on Chavez
The Chavez Code deciphers the intervention
of the United States in Venezuela, say Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Rogelio
Polanco today in Juventud Rebelde´s Sunday edition.
The book starts with an almost detective-like description about how Eva
Golinger and her colleagues had found certain documents in the attics of
the State Department, the Defense Department, and other little kitchens
where American foreign policy is cooked up, and later, the book becomes
a meticulous essay about the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
A little later, it shifts once again, to an intrepid melodrama,
intermixing looting, holdups, political blackmail, mercenaries,
violence.
When you get to the last page, the reader might well ask if what he has
read hasn't been, after all, a novel of impossible adventures, a game of
imagination unattached to real life, says the Cuban youth newspaper.
However, not a single line is fiction. A good part of this book is
comprised of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act of
the United States, and plenty of time and doggedness was required of Eva
to obtain this material for readers, and as confirmed in the first page,
put her at enormous risk, including death threats.
Still, the reader shouldn't lose sight that this seminal testimony
documents not only what perseverance is required of investigators, but
the capricious behavior of those who control the secret American
archives, who declassify what they feel like and hide whatever is most
compromising.
Eva predicts scores of years will pass before the opening of these other
archives.
And for sure, much more terrifying things remain censored and maybe we
will never know the most secret evidence from the plans against
Venezuela: as we know, we had to wait more than 30 years for the "mea
culpa" of Robert McNamara, to know the evil plans to provoke an invasion
of Cuba by the United States, contained in the plan named Operation
Mongoose.
When will we know what really happened in Dallas, the day Kennedy was
killed? When will we learn what is being hatched at this very moment
against Cuba, Venezuela and the world?, ask Elizalde and Polanco.
Thanks to this sample, that Eva and independent journalist Jeremy
Bigwood were able to dig up from the American government, it's possible
to prove what the United States denied repeatedly: it was involved in
bringing to fruition the details of the coup against Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez in April of 2002, which included plans to generate
violence during demonstrations, the arrest of the leader, and its active
participation in the coup.
For whoever sees it, The Chavez Code is an instructive book. Her
testimony brings forth a series of documents that illuminate the truth
behind these works, truth that has shocked Venezuelan public opinion
over the last three years.
Details appear in this book about how the United States executed its
Plan A for intervention and subversion in Latin America.
What failed this time doesn"t necessarily mean that the aggressor
intends to admit defeat. A little after Eva Golinger put her final
touches on this investigation, evidence began to appear on the public
scene that the government of George Bush is already applying Plan B: a
barrage of dirty propaganda and actions in international organizations
to isolate the Venezuelan government, without ruling out the
assassination or kidnapping of the chief of state, the foreword to a
military intervention.
The denunciations against Venezuela have begun: in the first weeks of
2005, more than 50 press articles appeared in U.S. newspapers and
television programs, where more than 85 percent of the "experts"
consulted were affiliated with opposition institutions and publications.
So much for proverbial objectivity of the press.
The most slanderous allegations come from "unnamed sources" in the Bush
administration, adding fuel to the fire of the latest definition, begun
this year by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice: "Hugo Chávez is a
negative force in the region."
From this cry for war, the United States has let loose the dogs of prey
from the CIA and the media at its service, including the press and
institutions like the Organization of American States, with which they
heat up the scene, and scattered signs, but very perceptible ones, begin
to appear of the new crusade.
As a result, it"s likely that within one year, maybe sooner, we will see
a new book from Eva or from other audacious investigators, where they
weave this new chapter in the saga of this sinister soap opera that we
Cubans have suffered for more than 40 years and that has recently begun
for the Venezuelans.
The Chavez Code alludes to an experience that intimately concerns every
society in the world. An experience that brings us to the simple
question: can any government in this world elude the "liberating"
desires of the CIA and the NED, if it takes a road different from that
selected by Emperor Bush for everyone on the planet?
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