{"id":3672,"date":"2020-06-08T06:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vricmonitor.org\/the-bolivarian-fury-arrives-in-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:39:44","slug":"the-bolivarian-fury-arrives-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vric.securefreesociety.org\/es\/the-bolivarian-fury-arrives-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"THE \u201cBOLIVARIAN FURY\u201d ARRIVES IN THE U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The VRIC is forming a \u201cBolivarian Shield\u201d<\/em> around Venezuela to resist sanctions pressure, deflect blame for the humanitarian and economic crisis, and delegitimize the U.S. in Latin America. As the Trump administration continues its \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d<\/em> campaign against the Maduro regime, the VRIC is implementing it\u2019s own \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d<\/em> strategy by using all elements of asymmetric warfare, bolstered by a rapidly forming \u201cair bridge\u201d<\/em> between Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and China. This\u00a0extends to Mexico and Argentina, with a stopover in Spain, as the Maduro regime anchors its survival on its external support.\u00a0<\/p>

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Upending the Monroe Doctrine, the VRIC is seriously challenging the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere in all domains of\u00a0warfare. Most notably in the cyber domain, where VRIC cyber networks capitalized on George Floyd protests to propagandize anti-American messaging. Combined with Cuba and Venezuela proxy agents, these subversive forces attempted to steer the U.S. protests toward greater violence and more social division.<\/p>

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Meanwhile, as NASA and SpaceX launched the historic Demo-2 mission from Florida, China launched two rockets and four satellites into space joining Iran\u2019s first satellite launch in April. Iran and China cooperation extends to Venezuela, where five Iranian oil tankers have ported at two different refineries along the Caribbean coast of the country. And in Argentina, where China begins to control waterways in Patagonia, near China\u2019s military-run satellite station.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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China and Russia continue to co-opt multilateral institutions in favor of the Maduro regime. Despite the White House\u2019s distrust of the WHO, the Guaid\u00f3 interim government and Maduro regime agreed to work with its regional arm, the Pan-American Health Organization, to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus as China sent its fourth medical shipment to Venezuela. Russia calls on the UN to deliberate the situation in Venezuela, while Maduro accuses the Trump administration of foreign intervention, threatening to take the \u201cOperation Gede\u00f3n\u201d<\/em> case to the International Criminal Court.\u00a0<\/p>

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In Latin America, political forums such as CELAC, a regional bloc started by the late Hugo Ch\u00e1vez intended to offset the U.S.,\u00a0are\u00a0now openly talking about a \u201cNew Global Economy\u201d while subgroups such as the socialist\u00a0Grupo de Puebla<\/em>\u00a0promote propaganda around U.S. military presence in the region. One of the\u00a0Grupo de Puebla\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0most prominent members, the former prime minister of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, recently said that \u201cwe have to get China, and hopefully the EU, to put the U.S. into an impossible situation\u201d suggesting a coordinated offensive to block and potentially sanction America.\u00a0<\/p>

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These regional forums are political theater for the VRIC, who is rapidly swaying Argentina and Mexico into its geopolitical orbit in an effort to use Latin America as a latent theater of operation. China\u2019s disinformation about the virus, Russia\u2019s historical agitation of racial tensions in the U.S., and Iran\u2019s increased presence in Venezuela, show that the VRIC is ready to take its last stand against the United States.\u00a0<\/p>

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