U.S DESTABILIZATION PLANS

Continental Alert Network to Be Created

(excerpted from Granma International online)

by Jean-Guy Allard

The creation of a Sovereignty Defense Alert Center (CADES), dedicated to developing a continental network for investigating Yankee plans for interference, destabilization and espionage in Latin America, was announced in Caracas in the context of the Revolution and Intervention in Latin America international conference.

The event, organized by the Venezuelan Ministry of Information and Communications, the TELESUR TV network and the magazine Patria Grande, culminated with a final declaration formally announcing the upcoming creation of a “collective, multinational instrument enabling us to monitor actions of imperialist intervention, and to assess the risks and various scenarios threatening stability and continuity in Latin America’s processes of change.”

To that end, it was decided to create the “Sovereignty Defense Alert Center (CADES), as a way of forming a continental network of intellectuals and investigators on the alert against all forms of conspiracy, destabilization and the fostering of subversion” against Latin American revolutionary processes.

This initiative comes at a time when a record number of covert CIA activities have been detected throughout the continent, as well as those of U.S. front organizations such as the USAID and the DEA, with multi-million dollar financing for fomenting destabilization. The creation of supposed opposition leaders, preferably among university students; the importation of interventionist techniques such as “revolutions of color”; the spread of false information and intervention in elections have all been detected in Latin American nations.

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO DEFEND REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES

In a workshop at the Caracas conference, the Bolivian minister of the presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, described the magnitude of undercover Yankee intervention in his country, and spoke in support of creating a strategic alliance between Latin American governments and academics to defend their revolutionary processes.

“We are all obliged to contribute to an initiative that will bring about political actions for mobilizing revolutionary organizations,” the Bolivian minister said, urging “investigators in every country to meet in a single space to share their knowledge, skills and abilities.” That academic community “should have the capacity to contribute information and to anticipate the cowardly actions of those who would undermine this process,” Quintana emphasized. He described how his country had just experienced a destabilization attempt “nourished in the heart of the empire, financed by organizations that come from USAID, the CIA and the DEA.”

In Venezuela itself, a report by researcher Eva Golinger indicates that the U.S. government is providing more finances than ever to opposition parties’ campaigns. “This time, the different U.S. agencies invested approximately $4.7 million in the campaigns of different opposition candidates for regional elections,” Golinger revealed, emphasizing that USAID alone, “which operates in Venezuela through its Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)” has financed “more than 68 Venezuelan programs and organizations this year, to the tune of $3.7 million.”