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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 06:05 AM Apr 2013

New WikiLeaks cable reveals US embassy strategy to destabilize Chavez government

In a secret US cable published online by WikiLeaks, former ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to infiltrate and destabilize former President Hugo Chavez' government.

Dispatched in November of 2006 by Brownfield -- now an Assistant Secretary of State -- the document outlined his embassy’s five core objectives in Venezuela since 2004, which included: “penetrating Chavez’ political base,” “dividing Chavismo,” “protecting vital US business” and “isolating Chavez internationally.”

The memo, which appears to be totally un-redacted, is plain in its language of involvement in these core objectives by the US embassy, as well as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), two of the most prestigious agencies working abroad on behalf of the US.

According to Brownfield, who prepared the cable specifically for US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the “majority” of both USAID and OTI activities in Venezuela were concerned with assisting the embassy in accomplishing its core objectives of infiltrating and subduing Chavez’ political party.

http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-venezuela-us-chavez-358/

Full copy of memo here : http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06CARACAS3356&version=1314919461

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New WikiLeaks cable reveals US embassy strategy to destabilize Chavez government (Original Post) dipsydoodle Apr 2013 OP
But I've been assured by propagandists that it's all in their head n/t Catherina Apr 2013 #1
Thank you so much, dipsydoodle. ocpagu Apr 2013 #2
Brownfield made a comical error in judgement when he opted to invade a local baseball game Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #3
du rec. nt limpyhobbler Apr 2013 #4
 

ocpagu

(1,954 posts)
2. Thank you so much, dipsydoodle.
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 02:50 PM
Apr 2013

It's good to get documental confirmation of this topic.

"This strategic objective represents the majority of USAID/OTI work in Venezuela."

I don't understand why USAID has not been expelled from Venezuela (and all Latin America) yet.

Filthy CIA pigs.

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
3. Brownfield made a comical error in judgement when he opted to invade a local baseball game
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 03:44 PM
Apr 2013

for children and start handing out US citizens'-financed baseball equipment, holding up the game and trying to rake in some adulation for himself and George W. Bush's presidency. He got a good look at how they liked it almost immediately!

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Motorcyclists going after Ambassador William Brownfield's car are seen through a window of
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U.S. diplomat’s car pelted in Venezuela
U.S. accuses city officials of complicity with President Chavez supporters

updated 4/8/2006 6:53:30 PM ET

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela condemned a crowd of protesters for pelting the U.S. ambassador’s car with eggs and tomatoes, but suggested Saturday there were areas in the country that the top U.S. diplomat might consider avoiding.

Venezuela’s acting foreign minister, Alcides Rondon, criticized the “excesses committed” as inexcusable, but said the U.S. Embassy was no longer giving police escorts advance word of the ambassador’s travel plans that might help avert such incidents.

“We must be clear: in our country’s political situation there are places where the presence of some people is not welcome,” he said.

Rondon said U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield had chosen an inopportune time to donate baseball equipment to a youth league in a poor neighborhood embroiled in a controversy over restricted access to the ballpark.

More:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12211181/

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