US opposes any attempt in Latin America to free itself from tentacles of capitalism'

The United States has always been an enemy of the Bolivarian Revolution, and any attempt in Latin America to free itself from the tentacles of US capitalism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. 

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday while commenting on a statement by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who has said Washington is considering oil sanctions against Venezuela, in a bid to put further pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

"This is under study, it's under consideration," Tillerson said during a press briefing in the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires on Sunday night.

Venezuela, which sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves, has been struggling with a worsening economic situation during the past years.

Government critics blame Maduro, who rose to power after the late Hugo Chavez in 2013, for the once-prosperous country’s faltering economy and have urged him to step down.

Venezuela's all-powerful Constitutional Assembly ordered the government last month to hold early presidential election by the end of April.

PressTV-US weighing oil sanctions on Venezuela: Tillerson

The top US diplomat says the sanctions are necessary in order for Venezuela to “return to its constitution.”

Commenting on this, Hoenig said, “Time Magazine’s cover in 1996 was how American advisors helped [Boris] Yeltsin win the presidency of Russia. Yet today, with possibly the Russian government spending $100,000 on Facebook ads, much of it after the election, seemed to have swayed Americans to vote for Trump and the news cycle is 24/7 Russia,  Russia, Russia.”

“On this it’s easy to talk about US amnesia, or outright ignorance, of our history of interfering with others’ elections, most notably Iran in ’53 and Chile in ’73. Secretary of State Tillerson’s remark about sanctions in Venezuela to ‘bring the situation [Maduro government] to an end’ is as blatant as one can get,” he stated.

“US capitalism has always been an enemy of the Bolivarian Revolution, and any attempt in Latin America to free itself of US corporate domination of its economy. Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon, knows a bit about international oil revenues and trade so is the perfect tool for this administration to upend an attempt to bring stability to this country and alleviate the poverty that Hugo Chavez began to champion, until his untimely death,” the analyst noted.

“That it is a Trump administration makes no difference. Animosity towards liberating one’s country against Wall Street is bi-partisan,” he stated.

“The difference now is that since it’s the Trump administration, who has shown his racist hand in dealing with anything Latino, either externally or internally, the hope is that now there would be a united front against such a move in Latin and South America. How that would take shape is unknown right now but standing up to the US bully has been much easier this past year,” he said.

Forcing Venezuela to ‘return to its Constitution’ is simply code for initiating a coup in order to change the Constitution to a more friendly Wall Street corporate model, and one inimically opposed to the will of its people. The fact that Maduro, and Chavez in the past, has a very strong opposition, especially in the media, only highlights the real democracy that exists there,” the commentator said.

“Venezuela is very flawed, but the US doesn’t light a candle to its democratic tendencies,” he concluded.

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