By Bruno Sgarzini

Approximate Translation from Original Spanish by Google

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The best way to know it is to verify the main theses of the tanks of thought that today draw the American foreign policy, based on the interests of the corporations that finance them.

We say this since the Trump Administration, far from having inaugurated a new US foreign policy, has continued with the general lines of the neoconservative thinking strategy that nowadays colonizes most of the decision-making of its government, along with the actions that are Advance from the US Congress.

In this sense, it is difficult to understand the urgency to overthrow Chavism, without taking into account the theses proposed by the main tanks of thought at the global and regional levels. Both because of its level of influence and because of its relationship with events in the international arena, this exercise of political location seeks to codify the Venezuelan situation within the framework of a global strategy.

A global road map to begin to understand the insertion of the Venezuelan conflict

In mid-2016, the Center for New American Security (CNAS) presented a report titled “Expansion of American Power,” based on a series of recommendations designed to build consensus among the American political class to “ensure the longevity of the international system Favorable to the United States “.

In this paper, the bipartisan think tank recommends inward economic reforms, such as debt restructuring and fiscal reform, to strengthen the foundations of the US apparatus in order to increase military, economic, and diplomatic spending to extend its power in Asia , Europe and the Middle East, the three regions recognized as key to the global future.

In this way, the United States “could diplomatically and militarily dissuade the revisionist powers (in reference to China and Russia) from questioning the current liberal international order, avoiding a military conflict at world level.” On the basis of these proposals is that this tank of thought proposes to militarize the South China Sea and proposes a reform of NATO to strengthen its deployment on the European borders with Russia.

All proposals that the Trump administration has implemented in practice, as a continuation of Obama’s policies, along with others of a specific nature directly related to Russia, such as the formation of “a safe area in northern Syria to place refugees there And allied forces of the United States “in order to promote the partition of this country and put a brake on Moscow after its entry into this war.

Even until Trump’s recent meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping are part of this quest for the Asian power to rise peacefully within the international order favorable to US corporations. That’s why this global roadmap is well worth mentioning as it forms part of a widespread consensus on Trump administration- related thinking tanks, such as Defense Secretary James Mattis, and the national security adviser HR McMaster.

They seek to bring the current Venezuelan conflict to a terrain of “zero sum”

What does Venezuela have to do with this?

As is well known, Venezuela is the main source of oil resources in the world, along with a wide range of reservoirs aquifers, gas and strategic mines for the technological, space and military industry of any apparatus that intends to project power in other parts of the world. That is why securing this territory as a cheap and safe supply line is strategic for any projected power expansion plan in the world.

The clearest example is found in the extract from the work of the Center for a New American Security which speaks of the importance of the United States gaining some advantage in the energy markets that will help it to extend power in other parts of the world. This means that Venezuela will return to its previous status, where the heirs of the Standard Oil Company (Exxon, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, among others) directly and indirectly controlled the Venezuelan oil industry by giving them that strategic advantage.

At this time it is widely known that in Venezuela there are at least 24 transnational oil companies in agreements with PDVSA and the Venezuelan State, under mixed exploitation schemes. From this perspective, it is understood that transnationals such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron will finance sanctions against Venezuela, even if they control the State Department, and that they have a special relation to the money of the tanks of thought that design initiatives against the country.

Among the many examples is the recent proposal of the Council on Foreign Relations, held at the US Congress, to strengthen the external siege through the OAS, and the visit of Luis Almagro to the American Institute of Enterprise days before the presentation of His request for the application of the Democratic Charter against Venezuela.

All initiatives that have been combined with the explicit support of other tanks of thought such as the Council of the Americas and the Atlantic, both constituted by companies especially interested in the natural resources of the country, without the mediation of the Venezuelan State.

And the regional equation?

However, Venezuela must also be understood as the key to securing Latin America as a line of supply of natural resources and cheap labor for the same aforementioned strategy at the global level, after the government changes favorable to this policy in Argentina and Brazil.

In that sense is the proposal of the Atlantic Council for Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance to converge in a free trade area that allows the region to enter a commercial mega-market with the United States and Europe to penetrate with greater force in Asia. Initiative that is in full application process with the talks between the two regional organizations, prior to having suspended Mercosur Venezuela violating the legislation of this trade union.

Undoubtedly removing Chavismo from the equation would almost end the main obstacle to this regional plan, in line with the global strategy promoted by these tanks of thought.

In this way, it is possible to understand the level of intensity put to press against Venezuela to end also with its “bad influence” in the region, seeking to bring the current political conflict to a terrain of “zero sum” in which it is sabotaged from outside All attempts to achieve a national political consensus, which is not protected and leave in the Venezuelans the resolution of their crisis.

As if they were applying all the ideas and initiatives that the US ambassadors in Latin America would discuss back in 2007 to end the “negative” influence of Hugo Chavez.

¿Por qué es necesario derribar a Venezuela?

Bruno Sgarzini