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Venezuela - the hidden agenda

3,386 views · Published 6 March 2018 · 38:19 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: Proletarian TV · 2018 · Education

This documentary is reproduced with the kind permission of the film-makers, and was showed at the Venezuelan Embassy in London on 2nd March 2018.

When trying to understand what is happening in Venezuela, it is hard for the impartial observer to reach a balanced conclusion - because there is a dearth of basic objective information.

One has to contend with a steady one-sided propaganda campaign emanating from from the USA's conservative elite, and the main-stream corporate capitalist media.

That campaign was aimed at demonising the Bolivarian revolution, and its inspirer Hugo Chavez. Since his demise, the black propaganda has switched seamlessly to denouncing Nicolas Maduro, who we are led to believe is among the world's 'great dictators'.

We note that Jeremy Corbyn, supposed 'left-wing' leader of the British Labour Party, was put under enormous pressure to jump on that band-wagon and, lamely, the best he could muster was to "denounce and abhor violence on all sides." This pious pacifist sentimentalism does nothing to defend the workers of Venezuela and their hard-fought revolutionary gains, from the warmongering US and British capitalists, who are so keen to manufacture a "humanitarian" reason to invade. It does nothing to inform British workers of whom their enemies and friends are, and the position they should take. It is a wretched and cowardly statement, that tells us much of what we can expect of Corbyn's principles and a 'Corbyn' Labour government.

Maduro, so far from being a 'dictator', is a worker turned politician. He was formerly a bus driver and union organiser. Maduro has reluctantly taken over the mantle of leadership - at Chavez' and the PSUV's request - but Maduro is unquestionably advancing the interests of the labouring masses of Venezuela. It is precisely for this reason that such a concerted attempt is being made to overturn his leadership, and the leadership of the PSUV.

Chavez himself pointed out that Venezuela was fundamentally important to the economy of the US, with its huge oil reserves, situated so geographically close to the USA's all-consuming market. Throughout its history, therefore any independent Venezuelan government seeking to use the country's wealth for its own development has been illegally overthrown by the US overlord.

This in fact is the precise meaning of the US imperialists' Monroe doctrine of the 1850s. Not that the USA would guarantee the freedom of the American hemisphere against European colonialism, but that he USA itself considered itself the principle Colonial power in the entire hemisphere. In fact the US was already reaching beyond the Americas, and today considers itself the "world's policeman" - the chief colonial exploiter of our whole world.

This documentary gives a first-hand account of the struggle for independence of the Venezuelan people, starting with the struggle of Chavez, a military officer of working-class origin who was incensed by his country's usurpation; and leading us through the rise and enlightenment of the Venezuelan masses.

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Original video (Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_OjutskwFo
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