THE GRAND U.S. STRATEGY TOWARD VENEZUELA
THE GRAND U.S. STRATEGY TOWARD VENEZUELA
Why has Maduro’s victory not been recognized?
Abel González Santamaría
TO better understand the U.S. refusal to acknowledge Venezuela’s National Electoral Board official results confirming Nicolás Maduro as President, it is essential to analyze how the country’s grand strategy toward Simón Bolívar’s homeland began and evolved. The origins of this strategy toward Latin America, and in particular the land which is now the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, go back to the Declaration of Independence proclaimed by representatives of the 13 British colonies in 1776, when as these founders advocated, the country began a process of territorial and economic expansion.
After 1823, the United States engaged in a "diplomatic" offensive against neighboring countries to establish the basis for future economic hegemony. It was for this purpose that the so-called Monroe Doctrine was developed, a justification for intervention in the region under the banner of "America for Americans", which actually meant "America for the United States."
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Tactics to DOMINATE Venezuela
During the second half of the 19th century, the United States surpassed Britain as the dominant political power in Latin America, and later in economic terms. The U.S. vision of its preeminence in Latin American international relations was made clear in 1895, when a firm communiqué was sent to Britain, in regards to its dispute with Venezuela over borders with its colony Guyana, warning that "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its direction is law for those who are subjected to limitations on its interposition."
At the end of 1902, Venezuela’s coastline was bombed by British, German and Italian naval units, demanding payment of pending Venezuelan debts due to individuals in Europe. Although this intervention challenged the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. government justified the attack with what later became known as the "Roosevelt Corollary", which limited the application of the doctrine to cases of acquisition of territory on the continent by non-American powers, but did not rule out other interventions by countries from outside the region.
Venezuelan president Cipriano Castro filed charges against the financial backers of the invasion and blockade, and expropriated the U.S. Orinoco Steamship Company. The State Department threatened to intervene. When the Venezuelan president traveled to Europe for surgery, U.S. Secretary of State, Philander Knox, hatched a plan which culminated in Vice President Juan Vicente Gómez taking power on December 19, 1908. The battleships North Carolina, Maine and Des Moines anchored in La Guaira. White House Special Commissioner William Buchanan supported the new regime in exchange for favorable policies toward foreign investors. That was the beginning of a 27 year dictatorship.
BATTLE FOR THE CONTROL OF OIL
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"… the United States appears to be destined by Fate to plague America with poverty in the name of freedom." - Simón Bolívar
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