Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez

Some have a short memory! Who were Hugo Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro?

Since Nicolás Maduros’ mentor Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela in 1999, Venezuela has been in an explicit British-orchestrated alliance with Colombian drug cartels.

Nicolas Maduro served as President of the National Assembly (2005-06), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-12), and Vice President (2012-13) under Chávez. As his designated successor, Maduro assumed the presidency after Chávez's death and won the 2013 special presidential election. He ruled Venezuela by decree after 2015 through powers granted to him by the ruling party legislature.

Hugo Chávez’s relationship with the British government first publicly emerged on March 12, 1995, when an El Nacional columnist reported that the political counsellor of the British Embassy, Paul Webster Hare, had been seen dining with Commander Chávez at a deluxe restaurant in Caracas. (Chávez had recently been freed from prison after leading a failed coup in 1992.) Columnist Jesús Eduardo Brando featured his report under the subhead: “Perfidious Albion.”

Chávez Radicals were Proud of British Support

Chávez soon revealed that his relationship with the British Embassy involved much more than being treated to sumptuous dinners. Speaking later that month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chávez reported that British Ambassador John Flynn had been organizing a visit to London for him, but the trip had been cancelled, after Venezuela’s President Caldera personally protested to the Ambassador that if such promotion of Chávez continued, perhaps the Venezuelan government would meet with leaders of the Irish Republican Army.

The Chávez radicals were proud even then that they had British support, boasting in the publication of their Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 that their man Chávez—fresh from his meetings with Fidel Castro in Cuba and with Colombian narco-guerrillas in Santa Marta, Colombia—had been meeting with Ambassador Flynn.

Chávez became President of Venezuela in February, 1999. His foreign policy was straightforward: It was an alliance with the Colombian narco-guerillas of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). He had been assigned by his British sponsors to play a continental role in this regard. He offered to negotiate with and recognize the FARC, and thereby, as a head of state of a foreign power, to effectively grant them belligerent status. This would give the FARC the recognition which they so far had not achieved, and would allow this narco-terrorist process to spread across the region.

British Strategy for the Americas

That was his foreign policy in a nutshell. The British strategy is to deliberately, intentionally create a regional, continental, and global narco-terrorist apparatus to impose legalized drugs, narco-terrorist armies, a massive expansion of drug consumption, and the destruction of nation-states across the entire area.

Chávez specifically declared when presenting his 2007 annual report before the Venezuelan National Assembly, that the FARC:

"are not a terrorist corps; they are real armies that occupy space in Colombia; they must be recognized; they are insurgent forces that have a political project, a Bolivarian project, which is respected here.”

To realize this policy, on Jan. 11, 2008, Chávez in an address to Venezuela’s National Assembly called upon governments to grant formal “belligerent” status to the world’s largest cocaine cartel, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and to the National Liberation Army (ELN), which he called “true armies, which occupy areas of Colombia,” as well as to Bolivarian insurgent forces “respected” in Venezuela. On Jan. 17, Venezuela’s National Assembly duly passed a resolution granting belligerent status.

Lyndon LaRouche’s Verdict

On Feb. 5, 2008, Lyndon LaRouche, noted that Venezuela’s President,

“has been misled by his ignorance of reality, his ignorance of what Simón Bolívar himself came to understand about the British orchestration of regional conflicts. Because of his ignorance of history, Chávez, like Fidel Castro, is committing the error of aligning himself with British imperialist interests, against the legitimate interests of the nations of the Americas. One could say that this is an innocent ignorance on his part.”

LaRouche added:

Chávez should admit what Bolívar recognized, at the end of his life, when he banned Jeremy Bentham, that British imperial policy was a “total catastrophe for the hemisphere.”

As for Chávez’s “special relations” with the FARC, LaRouche observed:

“An experienced military man like Chávez should understand that it is a mistake to develop too close a relationship with a diseased prostitute.”

LaRouche insisted that Chávez must understand that the drug trade that is destroying the Americas is a modern form of slavery. As he underscored,

“The point is that this is a British scenario and gameplan, and must be identified as such. It is madness on Chávez’s part, induced by both his desire to be President-for-life and by his failure to achieve that in the recent referendum ... not to mention his regular chewing of coca leaves.”

“When a guy goes out on American history and says he supports a British operation against the U.S., in that period, where Bolívar had said, in the same general period, from Colombia, that this was a British operation run by Jeremy Bentham, which led a lot of fools in South America into being dupes of the British Empire.... Is Chávez being a dupe of the British Empire?” asked LaRouche.

[Promethean PAC is not associated in any way with Helga Zepp-LaRouche.]