Inciting Unrest in Venezuela

When Chavez wins impressively, expect fraud charges to follow.

Destabilizing Venezuela Pre-Election

On October 7, Venezuelans get to choose between Bolivarianism under Chavez and Henrique Capriles Radonski's corporatism they rejected resoundingly in 1998.

Targeting Chavez

Since taking office in February 1999, Chavez has been Washington's number one Latin American enemy.

Chavez Riding High in Polls

Bolivarianism remains overwhelmingly popular. So is Chavez. He heads the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). In 1999, he transformed the nation into a Bolivarian republic. It's based on "solidarity, fraternity, love, justice, liberty and equality."

Venezuela: A Threat to Washington?

By Eva Golinger - July 20, 2012

From the first time Hugo Chavez was elected President of Venezuela in 1998, Washington and its allies have been trying to undermine his government.

Chavez in 2012

After 12 years in office, Chavez remains overwhelmingly favored for reelection in October. Given the alternative, most Venezuelans have a clear choice.

Venezuela: 10 Years After Coup, U.S. Lies Shows New War Drive

By Eva Golinger - Saturday, April 7, 2012

Ever since the US-supported coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela failed in April 2002, Washington has been pursuing a variety of strategies to remove the overwhelmingly popular South American head of state from power...Multi-million-dollar funding to anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela through US government agencies...has increased exponentially over the past ten years, as has direct political support through advisors, strategists and consultants -- all aiming to help an unpopular and outdated opposition rise to power.

Beating Up on Hugo Chavez

Washington wants regime change in Venezuela.

After Iran, Venezuela?

By MIKE WHITNEY - January 10, 2012

“The build-up against Venezuela that began during the George W. Bush administration has rapidly accelerated under Obama.”

– Eva Golinger, author of The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela

War on Venezuela: Washington’s False Accusations Against the Chavez Government

By Eva Golinger - December 24, 2011

Ever since the US-supported coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela failed in April 2002, Washington has been pursuing a variety of strategies to remove the overwhelmingly popular South American head of state from power. Multi-million-dollar funding to anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela...has increased exponentially over the past ten years, as has direct political support through advisors, strategists and consultants - all aiming to help an unpopular and outdated opposition rise to power.

U.S. Labor's Covert Ops in Venezuela

By ALBERTO C. RUIZ - December 9-11, 2011

It is not publicly known what the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center...is currently doing in Venezuela...[T]he truth is uncertain, but given the AFL-CIO’s horrendous track record in Latin America, and in Venezuela in the very recent past; given that it is intentionally concealing the fact that it is even working in Venezuela in the first place; and given that it continues to be heavily dependent upon funding from the U.S. government...it is fair to have suspicions that the AFL-CIO is up to questionable deeds in Venezuela.

State-Sponsored Murder: Official U.S. Policy

Georgia's September 21 cold-blooded murder of Troy Anthony Davis symbolizes what's wrong with America.

Wikileaks Cables Reveal U.S. Embassy Works with Venezuelan Private Media

By Tamara Pearson - September 07, 2011

The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, met with Venezuelan private media companies El Nacional, Globovision, and the Cisneros Group, to discuss their political content with them and El Nacional asked the U.S embassy for funding, according to cables written by the U.S embassy in Caracas and published by Wikileaks.

WikiLeaks: U.S. and Brazil Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean

By Nikolas Kozloff - Znet

Under the helm of Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva, Brazil cultivated a strategic alliance with Venezuela and publicly the two nations embraced South America's "pink tide" to the left. Yet, WikiLeaks documents reveal that Brazil may have shared Washington's concern over Chávez's rising geopolitical importance, particularly in the Caribbean...

U.S. Gives $20 Million for Venezuelan Opposition in 2012

By Eva Golinger - August 13, 2011

Since Hugo Chavez won his first presidential elections in 1998, the US government has been trying to remove him from power. With multimillion-dollar investments, every year Washington’s agencies advise and aid anti-Chavez groups with their campaigns and strategies against the government...Washington continues to seek new mechanisms to achieve its eternal objective of recovering control over Venezuela’s strategic resources – the largest oil reserves on the planet – and this means putting an end to Hugo Chavez.