{"id":43984,"date":"2019-02-22T20:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T01:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43984"},"modified":"2019-02-22T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T01:09:31","slug":"john-pilger-the-war-on-venezuela-is-built-on-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43984","title":{"rendered":"John Pilger: The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John Pilger: The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies, argues John Pilger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/strong>ravelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela.  At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and sang with a husky contralto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat did her words say?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat we are proud,\u201d was the reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The applause for her merged with the arrival of Chavez. Under one arm he carried a satchel bursting with books.  He wore his big red shirt and greeted people by name, stopping to listen. What struck me was his capacity to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now he read. For almost two hours he read into the microphone from the stack of books beside him: Orwell, Dickens, Tolstoy, Zola, Hemingway, Chomsky, Neruda: a page here, a line or two there. People clapped and whistled as he moved from author to author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then farmers took the microphone and told him what they knew, and what they needed; one ancient face, carved it seemed from a nearby banyan, made a long, critical speech on the subject of irrigation; Chavez took notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wine is grown here, a dark Syrah type grape. \u201cJohn, John, come up here,\u201d said El Presidente, having watched me fall asleep in the heat and the depths of Oliver Twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe likes red wine,\u201d Chavez told the cheering, whistling audience, and presented me with a bottle of \u201cvino de la gente\u201d. My few words in bad Spanish brought whistles and laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Pilger: The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies  Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies, argues John Pilger. Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela.  At a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135,24461,18382,7743,23910,655,827],"class_list":["post-43984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-guaido","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-john-pilger","tag-mint-press-news","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43985,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43984\/revisions\/43985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}