Venezuela’s Interior Affairs Minister Details Foreign Involvement in “Destabilisation Campaign”

Venezuela’s Interior Affairs Minister Details Foreign Involvement in “Destabilisation Campaign”
By Ewan Robertson

Mérida, 5th May 2014 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan interior affairs and justice minister, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, has given information on an alleged plan to destabilise the country, detailing foreign involvement in the recent militant opposition street barricades.

Sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, former Colombian and Mexican presidents Alvaro Uribe and Vicente Fox, and the U.S. State Department and other institutions were all accused of being involved in fomenting a strategy of internal destabilisation.

According to Rodriguez, some members of the Venezuelan opposition met in Mexico in 2010 to plan a strategy to remove the government of Hugo Chavez. At this meeting, right-wing Venezuelan politician Leopoldo Lopez was elected to lead destabilising actions, it was alleged.

Street actions were employed by opposition youth groups JAVU, Movement 13 and Operation Liberty, who used “hunger strikes”, “self-chaining” and street camps to pressure the government while Chavez received cancer treatment in early 2013, before passing away.

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