TEHRAN (FNA)- Roberto de la Madrid, an award-wining journalist and political commentator, says the support of the West for the Venezuelan opposition leader “has nothing to do with democracy”; but serving the commercial, military, political and geopolitical interests of the Western corporations.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with FNA, Roberto de la Madrid related Washington’s intervention in Venezuela’s affairs to the US historical regime change policy which allows it to control the natural resources of other countries through their puppet regimes.
Roberto de la Madrd is a Mexican journalist with extensive career in international media. He has won several important journalism prizes, including Mexican National Communication Prize (2011), National Journalism Prize awarded by the Journalists Club and UNAM National Service Award.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Why is Guaidó more supported outside Venezuela than inside?
A: Guaidó is well known both at home and abroad. He probably has more support abroad because the Venezuelan right-wing is supported by the US government and, therefore, by many Western commercial media, and many governments that are aligned with Washington. The media plays a crucial role in presenting news in such a way that Guaidó is portrayed as the savior and Maduro as the bad guy. However, a very accurate study should be done within Venezuela to see what percentage of the people really support Maduro and what percentage Guiadó. It should be remembered that in the last elections for the National Assembly, people supported the opposition and the right-wing won over the Chavistas. Afterwards, Maduro called for general elections where the majority of the opposition parties did not participate. The Chavistas won. Therefore, the percentage of real support to each side remains unknown. Meanwhile, the US sanctions have suffocated Venezuela's economy; we cannot deny that there are people who are unhappy because the average salary of a professional who works with a lot of energy is $6 a month, which means he has to work for a whole month to be able to buy only 2 kilograms of meat and nothing more.
Q: Why does the US see itself entitled to declare an unknown unelected person as the President of Venezuela, as it has done with Guaidó?
A: There is no law, neither in local legislation nor in International Laws which allows the United States or any other countries to recognize or impose a president who has proclaimed himself on the streets of another country. The most logical thing and the most lawful way to do it is to have the United Nations Security Council to evaluate the situation. In this case, the UNSC can declare an intervention and call for elections to restore democracy. However, this has not taken place; so, any coalition of nations would be illegal as they have no approval of the UNSC or the International Law.
Q: Does the West expect Guaidó to lead Venezuela toward democracy, or to collapse a country that has been resisting US hegemony for the past two decades?
A: What the United States expects Guaidó is to lead Venezuela to the point where the interests of the big corporations that govern the West are met. What the international coalition that supports Guaidó expects has nothing to do with democracy, but with the acceptance of certain values and rules and the alignment with the commercial, military, political and geopolitical interests established by the big Western corporations.
Q: The footprint of the US can be seen in many major crises in oil-rich countries such as Iran (1953) and Iraq (2003). Do you think “Venezuela (2019)” is on the same list?
A: In a way, it explains the behavior and the voracity of the United States for seizing or controlling the points that it believes are vital for its commercial, military and political spirit. Indeed, the coups it has supported, organized, orchestrated and committed throughout history, are part of a strategy to use democracy or internal politics as a perfect makeup to control the masses and in some way satisfy this guideline: it is necessary for the Stars and Stripes to be waved on the flagpole of this or that country. By imposing a government and controlling it, they can control the natural resources or geographical ports that empower their production and their transit around the world.
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