Back in March, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela called Colombia the “Israel of Latin America”. Today we realize how fitting that description is. Not only has there been a drive for the US-proxy state of Israel to attack Iran, but it’s now been revealed that another proxy state, Colombia, will be used to attack Venezuela, another oil-rich enemy of the US.

This so-called “final offensive” against Venezuela, aimed at taking President Chávez out of power and fracturing the country (sound like the plan in Iraq to anyone?), will be executed by Colombia’s army. Documented agreements have already taken place between Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and “the known agent of the intelligence services of the United States,” William Brownfield

This information, recorded in a document titled “Shock and Awe Theory in Venezuela: Provoke a State of Shock In Order to Command Respect,” was presented to the Venezuelan Public Ministry by former Venezuelan Attorney General Isaías Rodríguez. The document cites the Colombian Security Administration Department (DAS) in recounting a recent private meeting in which US Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield, Colombian President Uribe, Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos, and Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos discuss the “secession of the state of Zulia, Venezuela.”

In the conversation, Ambassador Brownfield is said to have referenced a previous conversation he had with US Defense Secretary Gates, who confirmed a collaboration with Venezuelan Governor Manuel Rosales of the State of Zulia. Gates referred to Zulia as “the oil state,” which holds some of the richest oil deposits in the Americas, and expressed concern about the lacking support of the Colombian military. Governor Rosales is a staunch US-ally who participated in the April 2002 coup against his own government and intends to sell state oil companies to transnational corporations.

The source [from within the DAS] added, “The Venezuelan army will be displaced to impede the autonomy and in that moment is when the paramilitaries come into play. Uribe interrupted to express that this action was very dangerous and that he did not think Venezuelans would accept the state’s separation. ‘I know the Venezuelans well and they will not accept this, so perhaps this favors Chávez.’”

Francisco Santos rebutted Uribe, saying that “the idea is to distract Chávez while the other part of the plan is carried out in Caracas, Valencia, and Maracay”. Brownfield calmed Uribe, saying “don´t worry, everything is already prepared, we’ve been in Venezuela creating the conditions in Zulia for years, now the only thing left is to tie up the loose strings from Colombia and sew together the operation to produce the Venezuelan May.”

Uribe put Francisco Santos in charge of the details “without it looking like the Government is involved because we would go to war. The [US] ambassador ended the discussion like this: ‘this is the best moment, because the electoral season in the United States makes many people think that our country is focused on that juncture, therefore any direct or indirect action by the United States would be ruled out or unsubstantiated. Long live the element of surprise.’”

The document also mentions that paramilitaries already working with the US in Caracas, Venezuela will kidnap Chávez’s son and take him to Colombia in order to break down Chávez morally. Keep in mind that this plan comes at a time when US intelligence officials are claiming that computer files seized from a Colombian rebel leader’s laptop show strong ties between President Chávez and FARC. Hmmm, falsely linking the president of a country with a terrorist organization all to invade and steal the country’s oil resources? Yeah, like that would ever happen!

The computer files, which have already been exposed by investigative journalist Greg Palast as agenda-driven fabrications, are implicating Chávez as a “destabilizing” force in the region. Haven’t the same allegations of destabilization also been thrown at Iran? Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela’s ambassador to the US, recently said the computer files were “false and an attempt to discredit the Venezuelan government” after the illegal Colombian attack in Ecuador to extrajudicially kill FARC guerillas increased tensions in the region.

Though the nature of this plan seems more intricate and aggressive than before, US hegemony is of course nothing new to Venezuela. Some of you may remember the failed US-backed 2002 coup against Chávez, or the CIA memo confirming that another US-backed coup has been in play against the Chávez government ever since.

The greatest adversaries to democracy in the world today are the United States and its proxy states. The terrorism which is American foreign policy must come to an end. Resistance begins at home. Let us stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters throughout ALL the Americas.

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