Below is a list of seven items setting forth the principal utterances and actions of the United States, either directly or through its surrogates after August 15.

Perhaps a close look at the list will disclose or at least help us to speculate reasonably about what George W Bush, the American dictator who steals oil and rigs his own elections, has in mind in 2005 for Venezuela.

During the last seven or so months, Mr. Bush or his surrogates are responsible for:

• Shipping William Brownfield to Caracas as the new US ambassador to sweet talk and to tell soothing lies to Venezuela.
  
  
• Murdering a state prosecutor who was in charge of the investigation of pro-imperialist Venezuelan traitors.
  
  
• Plotting with Alvaro Uribe who presides over the death squad "democracy" in Colombia to excite and intensify tensions between Venezuela and Colombia.
  
  
• Lobbying the countries in the region to denounce Venezuela's political and economic policies.
  
  
• Hiring mercenaries and bribing Venezuelan cops to abduct a Colombian revolutionary on Venezuelan soil.
  
  
• Sniveling inconsolably over the enactment or enforcement of very moderate measures regarding land reform, the media, and the judiciary.
  
  
• Jawboning of Venezuela by the new US secretary of state.

Except for the item dealing with Ambassador Brownfield, all of the signals from Washington are full of hatred and savage hostility toward the Venezuela.

Since the apparent amicability of Ambassador Brownfield is only a pretense, we can safely infer that the Bush regime is uniformly hostile toward Venezuelans and their process. There is no rift within the imperialist regime in Washington as far as US policy on Venezuela is concerned.

Until recently, some observers believed they saw in Secretary of State Colin Powell and a sector of the CIA some dissent about the oil-stealing, big lie-telling(WMDs), and aggressive foreign policy of the United States.

Next, the list of items above suggests that the current Bush "game-plan" for Venezuela is a combination of propaganda (Items 1, 6, and 7) and operations (Items 2,3,4, and 5).

As for the propaganda side of the implied imperialist policy, we have Ambassador Brownfield in Caracas babbling about the need for civility and greater understanding between the two countries, while his superiors in Washington pounce on everything and anything like a Florida alligator that can in any way or to the slightest degree, discredit Venezuela and its process.

It's not hard to figure out what Bush is up to with this bifurcated propaganda. Bush hopes to split the Venezuelan leaders into at least two camps, one falling for Ambassador Brownfield's lies and charm and the other rejecting the Brownfield's lies, contending that the comments of Brownfield's superiors in Washington exclusively reflect the true policy of the Bush regime.

The Bush regime is very good and very experienced at identifying, recruiting, and nurturing (with generous bribes) potential renegades in foreign governments for seditious purposes.

This trick is another version of the good cop -- bad cop routine; except, in this case, the good cop, Ambassador Brownfield, isn't very good.

As for the operational side of the implied imperialist policy, US imperialism seems to have lost a great deal of confidence in the competence of its Venezuelan surrogates or, in other words - the stupid, squabbling and greedy "opposition" in Venezuela.

Except for murder of Danilo Anderson (Item 2 above) and the bribe-taking cops in the Rodrigo Granda abduction (Item 5), the involvement of Venezuelan renegades is inconspicuous.

The Bush regime itself has assumed the main and public operational responsibility (Item 4) for the overthrow of Venezuelan democracy. It's most important surrogates in this operation appear to be the officials of the death squad "democracy" under Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, mercenaries (who prefer to be called "private security contractors"), last and least, bloodthirsty or bribe-loving Venezuelan renegades.

The apparent goal behind the lobbying by the Bush regime of other Latin American countries to denounce Venezuela is to find out exactly where these governments stand on the overthrow of Venezuelan democracy. How many can be counted on by Bush either to support the overthrown or to play dumb and turn a blind eye?

Evidently, the Bush regime has not forgotten that it was Brazil that blocked the sending of US military forces into Venezuela after the collapse of the April 2002 overthrow of Venezuelan democracy. At the time, Brazil lobbied Latin American governments to oppose the US proposal to send in a so-called "OAS Democracy Mission". This mission amounted to no less thatn sending US military forces, to prevent the return of President Chavez to power, according to CIA documents released in Oct. 2004.

It appears that the US lobbying of Latin American countries under the auspices of Condoleezza (or, more aptly, "Condolence") Rice isn't going very well. This is apparent from the barely-concealed disgust of the Bush regime for all three candidates vying for the OAS general secretary job. It is also apparent in the election of Cuba this week by its Latin American peers to serve on the UN Commission on Human Rights notwithstanding strong US opposition to their choice.

But what can we reasonably infer about the nature of imperialist "game-plan" itself from the list?

I believe the implications of the murder of State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson and the abduction of Rodrigo Granda answer this question.

In April 2002, the imperialist game-plan was apparently to arrest and to obtain the resignation of President Chavez - a similar exercise later worked like a charm in Haiti.

In 2005, the imperialist game-plan appears to be the abduction and murder of President Chavez, to be accomplished by US military/intelligence agents, Colombian killers, highly-compensated mercenaries, and traitors in the Venezuelan military/intelligence police apparatus.

The Granda operation, at least, demonstrates the venality of a certain element within the Venezuelan security forces.

The Anderson and the Granda operations, like the brief April 2002 overthrow of Venezuelan democracy, demonstrate limitations of the counterintelligence capabilities of the loyal Venezuelan security forces.

US imperialism is an old hand at murdering, as well as attempting to murder, heads of state. So, the Anderson and the Granda operations are merely rehearsals for something bigger, indeed, something huge.

Whether you like it or not, the process in Venezuela is an insurrection against US imperialism more than against the Venezuelan elite.

Engels, a noted writer, in his book "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany" had this, among other things, to say about insurrection:

"Firstly, never play with insurrection ... the forces opposed to you have all the advantage of organization, discipline and habitual authority ... Secondly, the insurrectionary career once entered upon, act with the greatest determination, and on the offensive."

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