🇻🇪Despite one of the most aggressive sanctions regimes in modern history, the Bolivarian Revolution’s staggering achievements are not mentioned in mainstream media:

Before the escalation of US sanctions (1999–2013), Venezuela cut overall poverty from around 49% to 27%, and extreme poverty from roughly 23% to under 8%. During the same period, income inequality fell sharply, with the Gini coefficient dropping from about 0.49 to 0.39, one of the largest reductions in Latin America.

Venezuela achieved a literacy rate of around 98%, and in 2005 UNESCO officially declared the country free of illiteracy. More than 2.8 million adults learned to read and write through Mission Robinson. University enrolment more than doubled between 1999 and 2014, expanding access to higher education for working-class and poor communities for the first time.

In healthcare, the Bolivarian government built around 13,000 primary care clinics under the Barrio Adentro programme, deploying tens of thousands of doctors, many in underserved rural and urban areas that previously had none. Infant mortality fell from about 21 per 1,000 births in 1998 to around 13 by 2012, and life expectancy rose to roughly 72 years, a figure maintained even during years of economic siege. In some US counties life expectancy is in the 50s.

On food security, Venezuela reduced malnutrition by around 40% between 1999 and 2012 and was removed from the FAO hunger map in 2013. Mass subsidised food programmes later became critical buffers preventing mass hunger once sanctions began to restrict imports and financial transactions.

Housing is one of the most striking achievements. Since 2011, over 4.5 million homes have been built under the Gran Misión Vivienda programme, providing free or near-free housing to millions of low-income families. This is one of the largest public housing programmes in the world, prioritising women-headed households and the poorest sectors.

Social security was massively expanded. Pension coverage rose from around 20% of the population to over 70%, including informal workers and homemakers who had previously been excluded entirely.

Politically, Venezuela has held over 30 national elections and referenda since 1999, alongside the creation of around 45,000 communal councils, embedding mass participation at the local level.

These achievements and the example it provided of an alternative to disastrous neoliberalism made Washington put Venezuela under siege. Since 2017, Venezuela has faced over 900 unilateral sanctions, $30–40 billion in frozen or seized assets, restrictions on oil exports, blocked access to international banking, and severe obstacles to importing food and medicine.

Despite the unprecedented economic attack, the state did not collapse. Free education and healthcare continued. Millions of pensions continued to be paid. Now threatened with an imperialist war, over 8 million Venezuelans voluntarily registered for the national militia.

Venezuela’s🇻🇪 Former Deputy Foreign Minister for North America: ‘Right-wing Latin American governments are sustained by repression, money and support from the US🇺🇸.’

‘There’s this angry tide throughout the region that is the result of years of conservative movements trying to get hold of power in Latin America.

And there’s a need for the left to look into how it could work together to put a hold on this neoconservative wave that is going to take Latin America into a deeper inequality than it has already been for the last several years.’

-Carlos Ron on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v72xa7c-exposed-the-lies-and-real-motives-behind-the-us-regime-change-war-on-venezu.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

John Pilger (1939-2023): What right do you have to do what you do in other countries?

Former CIA Latin America Chief Duane Clarridge: National security interests

Pilger: The people you do it to have no say

Clarridge: Well that’s just tough

This is how Washington views the people of Latin America, not as citizens of sovereign countries with the right to determine their country's future, but as subjects under Washington's imperial boot...to be stamped on if they step out of line.

🚨If the US🇺🇸 thinks Venezuela🇻🇪 will be an easy target, it’s in for a BIG SURPRISE- Venezuela’s Former Deputy Foreign Minister for North America

‘As long as we have oil wealth and other mineral wealth, Venezuela is always going to be a target of the United States, of large multinational corporations, etc.

I understand the United States has military superiority…but to think that Venezuela is an easy target, that Venezuela is someplace that you can come in and just take over, you’re up for a surprise. I think there’s a long history here of resistance, of morale to resist attacks.

I think we have seen also the tragic sort of interventions that the United States has done even in recent years. I mean, you could go back to Vietnam and remember how tragic that was. But even Afghanistan, Iraq, all these more recent interventions have shown that if you don’t have the support of local populations, if there isn’t some sort of other arrangement, you’re not going to be successful.

I mean, after 20 years of the disaster they caused in Afghanistan, they had to leave without accomplishing anything.

That’s horrible for our people in the sense that, of course, if something like that comes to happen, and I really wish that it doesn’t come to happen — it’s going to be hurtful for the Venezuelan people. But I think they have to think twice about what really is at stake and how this is going to affect the stability of the United States.

We’re not hundreds or thousands of miles away. We’re really close to the United States. And it could have a terrible effect for its economy, even for its own base.

I mean, if you look at the base that supports President Trump right now, a lot of the criticism that is coming is precisely from its own base, who were promised that there would be no more forever wars.’

-Carlos Ron on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v72xa7c-exposed-the-lies-and-real-motives-behind-the-us-regime-change-war-on-venezu.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

🇺🇸🇻🇪‘The people of the US must understand that their government is an instrument of war. And once again, they intend to send young Americans back to their homes in black body bags and coffins’

-Venezuela’s Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López

Working class American soldiers will be sent to die in another war for oil, after Americans voted for a supposedly ‘anti-war’ President.

Vote red or blue, no matter who, the bombs keep falling, people in the global south keep getting slaughtered so American corporations can steal more resources for disaster capitalism profits…

While tens of millions of Americans don’t have healthcare, and many more millions are extorted by private insurance companies…

And the country’s infrastructure becomes a laughing stock, with not even a high-speed rail network in the supposed richest country in the history on Earth.

The state of ‘democracy™️’ in the so-called ‘land of the free’.

🇻🇪Maria Corina Machado: From one of Venezuela’s richest elite families, now masquerading as a freedom fighter

‘Maria Corina Machado is a representative of the Venezuelan elite. She has been so throughout her political life, and she has strived against the democratic process that was being carried out here in Venezuela.

Her family is one of the wealthiest families that helped maintain a system of exclusion to the masses here in Venezuela.

So now she pretends to be this sort of freedom fighter or democracy fighter, but she has been probably one of the most hard-line people in the Venezuelan opposition.

Is she a terrorist? Refusing dialogue with the government. Oh, I think she has promoted actions of terrorism, because she has called — I mean, she was one of the promoters of what we call the guarimbas, which were violent protests both in 2014 and 2017.

And you know that the result of these protests were, you know, around over 40 people dead. You know, people that were burned alive because of their skin colour, because they said, “Oh, this person is Afro-descendant, he must be a Chavista, you must go out and kill them.”

She wrote to the Security Council, when Argentina and Israel were members of the Security Council, l asking for an intervention on Venezuela, with a military intervention from the Security Council.

I don’t understand how you could be for peace and ask for foreign governments to invade your own country militarily. That, to me, doesn’t make sense.

So I guess that yes, if Kissinger is there, if Obama’s there, then I guess I’m the one not understanding what the word “peace” means in the Peace Prize.’

-Venezuela’s Former Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ron, on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v72xa7c-exposed-the-lies-and-real-motives-behind-the-us-regime-change-war-on-venezu.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Nobel Farce Prize Winner Maria Corina Machado is not a freedom fighter, she’s a CIA asset and de facto spokeswoman for US corporations:

Here she is smiling gleefully at the prospect of selling $1.7 trillion of infrastructure and resources should the US🇺🇸 carry out regime change in Venezuela🇻🇪 and install her in Miraflores, promising ‘we have a massive privatisation program waiting for you.’

It should come as no surprise, considering she is from one of Venezuela’s elite families that lost their privileges after Chavez’ Bolivarian Revolution.

‘Israel, aligned with the extreme Venezuelan opposition, seeks to PUNISH Venezuela🇻🇪 for its solidarity with the Palestinian people.’

-Venezuela’s Former Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Carlos Ron, on the latest episode of GU

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v72xa7c-exposed-the-lies-and-real-motives-behind-the-us-regime-change-war-on-venezu.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Hugo Chavez🇻🇪: ‘They are cowards. They bomb innocent people…how cowardly is the army of Israel to attack an innocent, sleeping, resting people, and they claim to be defending their people.’

Meanwhile CIA Asset Maria Corina Machado pledged to move Venezuela’s Embassy in Israel to occupied Jerusalem, if she installed in Miraflores as the leader of Venezuela by the US and Israel.

Now can you see why the US and Israel have wanted to see the Bolivarian Revolution destroyed?

🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s history of drug trafficking

‘There’s a popular Netflix television series called Narcos. And Narcos is based on the true story of the hunt for Pablo Escobar, the hunt for the Cali cartel, the hunt for one of the Mexican cartels.

And over the course of three seasons, every time the Drug Enforcement Administration gets close to its primary target, the CIA station chief steps in and ruins the investigation. That is true.

That happens in real life because the CIA doesn’t care about drugs. It cares about terrorism. It cares about communism. For what that’s worth.

There’s always some other bigger ism that the CIA is concerned about. And so it was perfectly happy to allow cocaine to flood into the United States in the 1980s during the Iran-Contra affair, just as it was perfectly happy to allow Afghanistan to provide 93% of the world’s heroin once the United States began its occupation of Afghanistan.’

-John Kiriakou joins us for Monday’s episode of Going Underground

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🚨NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou REVEALS ALL on US-Israel Alliance, Warns of DISASTER in Venezuela

https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s power over Hollywood:

‘The CIA has set up a branch within the Office of Public Affairs whose job is solely to cooperate with Hollywood studios, just like the FBI has been doing since the 1950s.

The CIA works with Hollywood studios to make sure that everything that comes out of Hollywood has a pro-CIA message.

You know, technically it’s illegal for the CIA to propagandise the American people, but that’s what happens every time a CIA-related film is released. It’s propaganda.

Indeed, the movie Zero Dark Thirty broke all kinds of laws. The director, Catherine Bigelow, and the writer Mark Boal were given classified briefings over a classified mock-up of the Osama bin Laden compound.

They were given classified briefings by CIA Counterterrorism Center analysts, and in exchange they gave those analysts watches and free tickets to the premiere of the film.

Well, they should all be in prison for that. Technically that’s a violation of the Espionage Act. Instead, the film was celebrated as a victory at the CIA.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

BURKINA FASO’S🇧🇫 IBRAHIM TRAORE ON HOLLYWOOD:

‘Watch their films…you will always find the bad guys are either the Russians, South Americans, or black people…Arabs play the role of terrorists…through their communication they can make you hate a people or love a people…and finally, the empire of slaves according to them is Africa and certain people from South America.’

🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Just FIVE corporations/oligarchs will now control all of US🇺🇸 media

‘The entire American media is run by six corporations or oligarchs. Now it’s going to be five. And so the only place you can go to is independent media.

But so few Americans have the time or the inclination to seek out independent media. They just sit in front of the television, turn on CNN or MSNBC, now it’s called MS NOW, or Fox News, and they think they’re being educated.

In fact, they’re not. They’re being propagandised.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Former CIA Agent John Stockwell on how the CIA pushes fake news in the media to manufacture consent for regime change operations and wars abroad:

"We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities...we didn't know of a single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast."

🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s and Israel’s torture programs: ‘Israel doesn’t follow ANYBODY’S rules.’

‘What the United States did was that it outsourced torture to two sick psychologists, contract psychologists, who reverse-engineered the US Air Force’s SERE training so that they could exert the most amount of pressure, the most amount of force and pain, frankly, on prisoners.

The Israelis don’t follow anybody’s rules.

The United States did this dance back in late 2001 and early 2002, where they went to the CIA general counsel, then they went to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Then they went to the General Counsel of the National Security Council. And they at least pretended that they needed legal cover to allow themselves to do this.

The Israelis just go in with guns blazing.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

Israeli torture camp staff r*ped a 13-year-old child they imprisoned.

Israel then labelled the organisation investigating the barbaric crime as a “terrorist entity.”

This is what your tax dollars, euros, and pounds go towards supporting.

🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou:

‘The United States does not spy on Israel, period. It just does not. And it operates in Israel only with the permission of the Mossad.

It’s a very strange relationship. It’s not a terribly friendly one. It’s proper. It’s formal, but not friendly.

And the US does nothing inside Israel without the Mossad’s permission.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Israel only exists thanks to US🇺🇸 military aid…and yet the US is not allowed to spy on Israel

Meanwhile…Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Going Underground: ‘It’s UNQUESTIONABLE that the Epstein business was heavily influenced by MOSSAD!’

‘I watched Mossad take over the Pentagon in 2002. The Pentagon was infiltrated by Mossad. They did not need any identification to get through the river entrance to the building…

Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defence, said to my boss one time ‘Hell, I don’t run my building, Mossad does!’

-Former Chief of Staff at the State Department Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: The US🇺🇸 is SERIOUS about going to war with Venezuela🇻🇪, why is Trump pursuing a war of CHOICE?!

‘I’ve said many times that if you want to know what American military intentions are, watch naval movements. This is something that I learned at the CIA.

We can yell and scream and point the finger and tell countries we’re going to invade them, but we’re not unless we send enough naval assets to cover what’s needed in terms of supply and aircraft carriers.

An aircraft carrier battle group, for example, has 11 support ships, battleships, troop transports, supply ships, and of course the aircraft carrier itself is full of fighter jets.

So if the United States is serious about doing something, it’s going to send an aircraft carrier battle group. And indeed, what did it do?

It sent the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier battle group to the coast of Venezuela. So which Donald Trump are we going to see? Are we going to see the America First, non-intervention Donald Trump, or the neocon Donald Trump?

And the truth of the matter is we’re not at war with Venezuela. Venezuela hasn’t done anything to us. They haven’t attacked us.

These drugs that we’re supposedly destroying or intercepting or whatever aren’t even meant for the United States. They’re meant for Western Europe, and they’re not Venezuelan drugs.

Venezuela is the transshipment point for drugs coming from Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. So I just don’t see why this President, especially, is considering a war of choice.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Alastair Crooke: US🇺🇸 regime change in Venezuela🇻🇪 is about dominating ALL of Western hemisphere from Argentina to the Arctic…and the US’ growing FINANCIAL CRISIS

‘Venezuela is a huge country. It’s bigger than Ukraine. It’s a large, very large country. And it has connections. You know, I for a period lived in Colombia and you know, it’s quite likely that there are militia waiting to join in on the borders. What are they going to do? Decapitate the government? Bombing it or invading it or kidnapping it? I don’t know.

But when the FT says they’re unprepared, this is just psy-ops to say this is an easy war, we will take all that oil and gas and natural resources, and it’ll be folded into the United States.

I mean what I think this is about is that the Trump team has made it very clear and sent sort of very clear messages to those receiving, saying from the southernmost tip of Argentina to the Arctic, this is all going to be folded into the new US Western hemisphere sphere of interest.

So all of this is part of that, but it’s also part of the US financial crisis. They’ve got a shadow banking system which is now 50% of the credit, which is 50% of total credit given from America, dwarfing almost the conventional deregulated banking system.

This is unregulated, is over-leveraged and as the economist from the BIS just said the other day, this is half of the credit given out and we haven’t a clue what’s going on there.

In the regulated system we’ve got an idea of what’s going on in the banks, but in the shadow banking system which is now half of the total, we don’t have an idea what’s going on there.’

-Alastair Crooke, the former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief, on Going Underground