Golinger, Eva. The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela. Foreword by Saul Landau. Northampton, Massachusetts: Interlink Publishing Group (Oliver Branch Press), 2006. 224 pages.

This book appeared in four editions in Spanish (two of which were published in Cuba) and one in German in 2005. It is based on the author's self-funded investigative efforts in Venezuela, as well as Freedom of Information Act requests following U.S. support for the brief coup in Venezuela in April 2002. Some of the documents she obtained are found in a 66-page appendix, as well as on her website at www.venezuelafoia.info.

For those who are familiar with the interventions of U.S. agencies and big banks in Chile prior to the coup in 1973, in concert with media denunciations of populist policies there, the situation in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was inaugurated in 1999 seems eerily familiar. In both cases, certain labor, civic, and media organizations were funded by the U.S. so that they could increase agitation against the elected government. Today the funding comes mainly from the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress and infested by the CIA, which amounts to the same thing. One difference now is that Venezuela expects trouble and is on the lookout. Another difference is that Venezuela doesn't need the U.S. to buy its oil. Hopefully Washington will someday grow tired of doing the wrong thing, and leave the people of Latin America alone.
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