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the U.S. empire, the media, and twenty years of coup attempts in Venezuela
In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a "national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela." Each year, the U.S. administration has repeated this claim. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur ague in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat, the opposite is true. It is the U.S. policy of regime change in Venezuela that constitutes an "extraordinary threat" to Venezuelans. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans continue to die because of these ever-tightening U.S. sanctions, denying people daily food, medicine and fuel. On top of this, Venezuela has, since 2002, been subjected to repeated coup attempts by U.S.-backed forces. In Extraordinary Threat, Emersberger and Podur tell the story of six coup attempts against Venezuela. This book deflates the myths propagated about the Venezuelan government's purported lack of electoral legitimacy, scant human rights and disastrous economic development record. Contrary to accounts lobbed by the corporate media, the real target of sustained U.S. assault on Venezuela is not the country's claimed authoritarianism nor its supposed corruption. It is Chavismo, the prospect that twenty-first century socialism could be brought about through electoral and constitutional means. This is what the U.S. empire must not allow to succeed.
The Extraordinary Threat to Venezuela -- Yes, Maduro Is a Duly Elected Leader -- The Guaidó Era as a Sixth, Very Long Coup Attempt -- How Could Chavismo Flourish in "Once Prosperous" and Democratic Venezuela? -- First Coup Attempt: April 2002 -- Second Coup Attempt: Oil Strike, December 2002-February 2003 -- Third Coup Attempt: Fatalities over Frivolous Claims, April 2013 -- Fourth Coup Attempt: February-April 2014 -- Buildup to the Fifth Coup Attempt -- Fifth Coup Attempt: April 4-July 31, 2017 -- Read Carroll and You've Read Them All (2006-2012) -- The Human Rights Fraud -- Colombia's U.S.-Approved Horror Show Could Come to Venezuela.
Includes bibliographical references and index.