Venezuela & The Colonial Enterprise
Written by Ben Boyang
December ’25
Donald Trump claims his abduction of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and the killing of over 80 innocent people in the process, is in the noble cause of restoring democracy to Venezuela, but history shows us that the US is no friend of democracy in Latin America.
Like a pedophile priest in a boys home, the US interferes with every single democratic country south of the US border. It is common knowledge that it’s nigh on impossible to maintain power in any Latin American nation if you interfere with ‘US interests,’ and they have very broad interests.
The way the world economy works is like this, rich countries make products that poor countries need, like technology. To afford those products poor countries must offer something the rich folks need. This is usually fossil fuels or minerals like lithium.* If the rich folks don’t like the way you run your country, basically if you don’t run your country the way they tell you to, they use their immense economic power to cripple your economy by cutting off the most vital thing you need, finance. The rich folks control the money supply, they turn off the tap, your country goes broke, the people get angry and throw you out, the US backed mob get in, the tap is turned on again, the anger of the masses subsides, the status quo returns, without a shot being fired, all perfectly ‘democratic’.
A nation cannot maintain its independence via democratic means if the powers-that-be object to that independence, as they so often do.
The only way to maintain your independence is to suspend normal democratic rights and be prepared to defend your revolution via armed resistance. If you take this drastic course of action you will face the approbation of the entire Western world, who value the facade of democracy over any sort of real change to the status quo. You will no longer be seen as a legitimate state. That is when they really turn the screws, imposing an economic blockade on your struggling little country. This forces you to turn to less popular regimes for life support, thus placing you firmly in the enemy camp, ripe for full scale military invasion.
The US imposed an extremely strict economic blockade on Cuba in 1962. That blockade is ongoing, the longest economic blockade in history. No company that trades with Cuba can trade with the US, full stop! In 2017 they imposed the same blockade on Venezuela. No company that trades with Venezuela can trade with the US. All assets in US banks were ceased, costing the country 30-40 billion dollars. Between 2014 and 2020, Venezuela lost 99% of its foreign currency income. The economy shrank by 80% 8 million people deserted the country, 20% of the population, the largest migration in Latin American history. The country went from one of the richest in Latin America, to one of the poorest, almost over night.
But only a fool would think these actions have anything to do with democracy. Here in the rich world Democracy is a game we play. If we are losing the game, that’s when things get serious. The U.S.A. is going through the painful process of shedding long held notions of democracy at this very moment.
Donald Trump’s best friends are not leaders of democracies: Mohamed Bin Salman, his present best friend, is a Prince. Saudi Arabia and all the other gulf states are Monarchies, ruled by kings. His other bosom buddy is Benjamin Netanyahu, a man who runs a brutal military dictatorship over many of his subjects, divided along racial lines. Israel reserves democratic rights for Jews only, plus a small minority of arabs that they neglected to exterminate long ago. (something they have come to regret). The rest of their subjects are subject to military dictatorship. All Jewish people in ‘greater Israel’ are allowed to vote, no matter where they live in Palestine. Arabs are allowed to vote unless they live in Gaza or the West Bank. There are 9.5 million citizens in Israel (this includes Jewish settlers in the West Bank) 2 million of them are Arabs. Until recently there were over 2 million people living in Gaza. (the I.D.F. is going to extraordinary lengths to reduce that number). There are 2.5 million people living in the West Bank. That makes a total population under Israeli control of 14 million, 9.5 million of whom have the right to vote, the other 4.5 million are living in a an extremely brutal military dictatorship, and have done for generations.
So we can say that the land of Israel is 63% democracy and 37% military dictatorship.
This is not so different to how Australia was run until quite recently.
Our nation, Australia began as a military dictatorship. Eventually, the invaders and settlers were allowed to vote, while the indigenous population continued to be ruled by a brutal military dictatorship right up until 1967. The ‘blackfullas’ were seen as the enemy, to be shot on sight. The last recorded massacre was the Conniston Massacre in 1928. It is a rule of thumb for any self-respecting colonizing power to keep the local indigenous population out of the democratic process until you have reduced their numbers to the point where they no longer pose a threat to your idea of ‘democracy.’
A colonial enterprise must reduce the ratio of locals to interlopers. This is achieved by two simultaneous methods: Reducing the population of locals via extermination, whilst flooding the place with immigrants from ‘the home country.’
When Captain Cook arrived in Australia, there were around 1 million blackfullas. This number was swiftly and efficiently reduced to a far more manageable size. In Tasmania, the number of full-blood blackfullas was reduced to zero. In Victoria it was reduced to 3. Yet it still took nearly 200 hundred years before the interlopers felt safe enough to grant the last indigenous remnants their democratic rights.
To return to Palestine. The interlopers arrived en mass around 1947-8. They immediately set about adjusting the ratio of locals to invaders, (following the colonial text book to the letter) via a campaign of mass terror. The Zionists expelled over 1 million Palestinians from their homes, at gun point, with nothing more than they could carry on their backs. They then blew up their homes and planted booby traps so they could never return. This is how the state of Israel was founded, on ethnic cleansing. Since that time, some 80 years ago, the Palestinians have lived under brutal military rule, but until now, there has been little attempt to get rid of them altogether. That policy has changed. The Arab Palestinian cohort is growing faster than the Jews.. Partly because the Arabs are out breeding the Jews about 3 -1, well done team! But also because Israel is no longer such a popular place to come and live, for obvious reasons. The Israeli regime are aware that they cannot maintain a Jewish state once the Arab population approaches parity. So they are now talking about expelling the Arabs from the Israeli enclave, as well as from Gaza and the West Bank. In their eyes, this would reduce the threat of violence that is putting off potential immigrants whilst freeing up new lands to give them, problem solved!
*Bolivia has the world’s largest deposits of lithium. In 2019 a coup-de-tat was engineered against the socialist leader of MAS (Movement towards Socialism), Evo Morales. Elon Musk, who needs a shit load of lithium, was rumored to be involved. He has not denied his involvement, tweeting, “we will coup who ever we want.”
In the subsequent election in 2020, the MAS won back the presidency via grass roots activism by the campesinos.(peasant farmers) Yeah team!
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