Thread: American coup in Venezuela

A worrying development: The Venezuelan government registering fake domains and redirecting traffic to get details of anyone working with the opposition.

Presumably this will be given to the black clad thugs to go and knock on doors...

Executive Summary

The website voluntariosxvenezuela.com, a portal associated with the Venezuelan opposition led by Juan Guaidó, was created to register volunteers interested in helping with the distribution of humanitarian aid. It has become a target of a phishing campaign led by those aligned with the Nicolás Maduro government.

On February 12, 2019 we detected that CANTV, the largest internet service provider in Venezuela owned by the government of Nicolás Maduro, was redirecting users visiting the website to another server hosting a visually identical malicious website which is not owned or controlled by the legitimate site administrators of voluntariosxvenezuela.com.

On the same day, interim President Juan Guaidó launched a massive campaign encouraging people to register as volunteers. As a result, thanks to the scope and number of people mobilized through the campaign, and the percentage of Internet traffic that passes through CANTV networks, we estimate that tens of thousands of people submitted their data to the malicious cloned website.

We were able to verify that the redirection to the malicious website happened even when using DNS servers that were not CANTV servers (for example, when using Google’s 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare/APNIC’s 1.1.1.1); traffic was actively monitored and CANTV gave falsified DNS responses to user requests. Our research also directly linked CONATEL, Venezuela’s regulatory institute for communications, with the registration of the false domain. In addition, our research also discovered multiple domains that are similar to social media sites and popular websites that could be used in future phishing campaigns (or have been used already) to collect user data.

These developments are worrying because they point to an increased sophistication in digital attacks linked to and originating from the government of Nicolás Maduro. This dramatically increases the need for both users and website administrators to take preventative measures to avoid falling into this type or similar phishing campaigns.

https://vesinfiltro.com/noticias/Phi...ets_activists/

Goebbels would be proud of you harry.

Originally Posted by The Shining Light

Goebbels would be proud of you harry.

You're an idiot. Goebbels would have done what Chavismo is doing if he'd had the technology.

Who to believe...Harry and the herd...or?

The International Rogue Nation: America
The International Rogue Nation: America, by Eric Zuesse - The Unz Review

Right now, the U.S. regime (along with its other lap-dog Canada) is perpetrating, or at least attempting to perpetrate, a coup to take over Venezuela.

On February 8th, the Latin American Geopolitical Strategic Center (CELAG) issued their study, “The Economic Consequences of the Boycott of Venezuela”, and reported that throughout the five-year period of 2013-2017, Venezuela’s “economy and society suffered a suffocation [of] $ 22.5 billion in annual revenues, as a result of a deliberate international strategy of financial isolation [of Venezuela]. Evidently, this financial pressure intensified since 2015 with the fall in the price of crude oil.” So: that’s a total loss of over $112 billion from Venezuela during the entire 5-year period, and the result has become (especially after 2014) the impoverishment of the country. The U.S. regime and its allies and their propaganda-media blame, for that, not themselves, but the very same Government they’re trying to take down. The U.S. regime and its allies have contempt for the public everywhere. The more that Venezuelans blame their own Government for this impoverishment, instead of blame America’s Government for it, the more that their exploiters will have contempt for them, but also the more that their exploiters will benefit from them, because the exploiters’ taking control of the Government will then be much easier to do.

The U.S-and-allied exploiters are attempting to install in Venezuela a man who has absolutely no justification under the Venezuelan Constitution to be claiming to be the country’s ‘interim President’. For some mysterious reason, Venezuela’s President isn’t calling for that traitor to be brought up on charges of treachery — attempting a coup — and facing Venezuela’s Supreme Judicial Tribunal on such a charge, which Tribunal is the Constitutionally authorized body to adjudicate that matter. So, Venezuela’s Government is incompetent — but so too have been all of its predecessors since at least 1980, and incompetence alone is not Constitutional grounds for replacing Venezuela’s President by a foreign-imposed coup. At least Venezuela’s actual President is no traitor, such as his would-be successor, Juan Guaido, definitely is.

Did Venezuela invade America so as for America’s economic war against it to be justified? Did Iraq invade America so as for America’s destruction of it to be justified? Did Libya invade America so as for America’s destruction of it to be justified? Did Syria invade America so as for America’s destruction of it to be justified? Did Ukraine invade America so as for America’s destruction of it to be justified? None of them did, at all. In each and every case, it was pure aggression, by America, the international rogue nation.

Back in 1986, regarding America’s international relations including its coups and invasions, the U.S. quit the International Court of Justice (ICJ), when that Court ruled against the U.S. in the Iran-Contra case, Nicaragua v. United States, which concerned America’s attempted coup in that country. But though the U.S. propaganda-media reported the Government’s rejection of that verdict in favor of Nicaragua, they hid the more momentous fact: the U.S. Government stated that it would not henceforth recognize any authority in the ICJ concerning America’s international actions. The public didn’t get to know about that. Ever since 1986, the U.S. Government has been a rogue regime, simply ignoring the ICJ except when the ICJ could be cited against a country that the U.S. regime is trying to destroy (‘democratize’). And then, when the ICJ ruled on 9 March 2005 against the U.S. regime in a U.S. domestic matter where the regime refused to adhere to the U.S. Constitution’s due-process clause regarding the prosecutions and death-sentences against 51 death-row inmates, and the Court demanded retrials of those convicts, the U.S. regime, in 2005, simply withdrew completely from the jurisdiction of the ICJ. Ever since 9 March 2005, the U.S. regime places itself above, and immune to, international law, regarding everything. George W. Bush completed what Ronald Reagan had started.

Venezuelans' message to the US: Hands off our country

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

in front of the United Nations Security Council, declaring their determination to protect the UN Charter and International Law,

Last time that was a certain colonel Gaddafi who reminded the UN assembly of the UN Charter... Anybody has idea what happened to him?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Anybody has idea what happened to him?

Originally Posted by SKkin

Who to believe...Harry ...or?

...Another demented lefty desperately trying to avoid placing the blame where it lies, on Chavez and Chavismo's colossal ineptitude, horrendous mismanagment and wanton corruption, proving once again that socialism is shit and invariably ends up in a power grab.

You should try reading Animal Farm.

A few staged lackeys cannot mask the truth.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Black clad thugs knock down doors, in your dreams.

Not my dreams dear boy. Venezuelans' nightmares.

Of course none of this matters to you because you're a snivelling sycophant and apologist for dictators.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Jhonny Godoy had taken to Twitter to proclaim his opposition to President Nicolas Maduro, posting a video that showed him running through the streets waving the national flag as protests erupted across Venezuela’s capital.
Two days later, his family said, rifle-wielding special police agents wearing black masks stormed into their home in the Caracas slum of La Vega, pulled him outside and shot him to death.

<snip>


PROVEA and Observatory say they recorded 35 deaths during a single week in January — most at night in poor neighborhoods — in addition to eight cases of apparent targeted killings by members of the elite commando unit.

Godoy’s cousin, Marvelis Sinai, said that when agents burst into the family’s home on Jan. 25, Godoy’s mother Ana Buitrago saw her son beaten and dragged out as she begged for his life. Minutes later, she heard two gunshots.


Godoy was shot in the abdomen and foot, and a disposable diaper was shoved in his mouth, apparently to suffocate him, Sinai said.
She said the family believes his killing was linked to the video he posted on Twitter two days earlier.


Among those who died when the latest protests broke out Jan. 23 was 19-year-old Nick Samuel Oropeza. His family says he was last seen alive fleeing alongside other protesters through the dusty streets of the capital’s Las Adjuntas slum as national guardsmen opened fire on people who had blocked streets with mounds of trash. Minutes later, he was found on the ground, his shirt drenched in blood.


A bullet destroyed his kidney and punctured a lung, said his mother, Ingrid Borjas, a 38-year-old lawyer.

https://www.apnews.com/4ff1b4d39b7e409da3e496a8745394fd

It's the same way, why not to kill two birds with one stone?

First Venezuela, now Nicaragua? Bolton says Ortega’s days ‘numbered’ & people ‘will soon be free’
Published time: 20 Feb, 2019

US President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisor John Bolton appears dead set on resuming his decades-long stand-off with Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, hinting that Washington-backed regime change may be in the offing.

“The Ortega regime has sentenced three farm leaders to 550 years in prison for their roles in protests in 2018, where Ortega’s police forces reportedly killed 300 activists. As President Trump said Monday, Ortega’s days are numbered and the Nicaraguan people will soon be free,” the national security advisor to the US president tweeted on Wednesday.



https://www.rt.com/news/452023-john-...regime-change/

^exporting democracy. Just in case your source is not acceptable:

Before Venezuela, US has long involvement in Latin America
https://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-us-...204125773.html

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

.Another demented lefty

Wait...what? bsnub said I'm an alt-right winger. I'm so confused.


btw Harry, you keep telling me Maduro is starving his people. Why am I not seeing starving Venezuelans comparable to the pictures of starving Yemenis? Courtesy of our Saudi friends and ally.

Maybe "we" really don't care that much about people starving eh?

Originally Posted by SKkin

^exporting democracy. Just in case your source is not acceptable:

Before Venezuela, US has long involvement in Latin America
https://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-us-...204125773.html





Wait...what? bsnub said I'm an alt-right winger. I'm so confused.


btw Harry, you keep telling me Maduro is starving his people. Why am I not seeing starving Venezuelans comparable to the pictures of starving Yemenis? Courtesy of our Saudi friends and ally.

Maybe "we" really don't care that much about people starving eh?

It's pitiful how you try and drag threads off topic if you don't like what they say. This thread is about VENEZUELA.

Yes, the war in Yemen is wrong, but it's essentially a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Open a fucking thread if you want to discuss it.

As for Venezuelans, there is a reason three million have left and thousands more are fleeing every day.

A public transport employee who doesn't earn enough to feed himself, a doctor who watches his patients die for lack of medicines, a lawmaker without a legislature, three generations of one family emigrating -- the list of victims of Venezuela's crisis is long.

They come from all walks of life and dread the prospect of another six years under the man who has overseen it, President Nicolas Maduro.

Nevertheless, the 56-year-old leader will be sworn in for a second six-year term on Thursday, after winning a presidential election in May dismissed as illegitimate by much of the international community on grounds that it was not free, fair or transparent.

The opposition boycotted the vote, blaming Maduro for the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has enveloped the oil-rich country.

- Losing weight -

Jairo Colmenares scrapes by on the equivalent of seven dollars a month, which he earns as a Caracas metro worker.

At the street market, it's barely enough to buy a dozen eggs, half a kilogram (a pound) of potatoes and a few pieces of fruit.

On his days off, he says he gets up late to save himself a meal.

"I've lost seven kilos," said Colmenares, a technician.

Even with a little extra money he earns on the side, his diet mostly consists of beans or lentils that the government distributes at subsidized prices.

"Once a month, we may buy chicken or meat," said Colmenares, 33.

In 2017, he sent his children, aged 10 and 11, and their mother to neighboring Colombia, which has given refuge to around a million Venezuelans fleeing the crisis.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190108...nd-maduro-term

Hands off ‘our hemisphere’ or Venezuela pays the price: US Senator warns Russia


Words here:

https://www.rt.com/news/451383-venez...ention-russia/

Illustrations:



Russian "hemisphere".



ameristani "hemisphere".


Entertaining and pertinent, video for those of limited education:

Originally Posted by OhOh

Apparently the government has taken the initiative and blocked the border with Brazil.

Venezuela closes border with Brazil, may do the same at Colombia border – Maduro


"Starting Thursday evening, Venezuela is closing its border with Brazil, President Nicolas Maduro has announced. He added the same measure may apply to the border with Colombia, though he does not want to order it.

The Venezuelan military was ordered to enforce the travel ban in airspace and on the sea until further notice, Maduro said during a televised address from a military headquarters."

Continuesat:

https://www.rt.com/news/452105-venez...azil-colombia/

Unfortunately Venezuelans know that aid is near, so we will see how rank and file soldiers respond to him denying their countrymen food and medicine.

He'll probably cut the internet again as he has done several times.

D-Day is tomorrow.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Hands off ‘our hemisphere’ or Venezuela pays the price: US Senator warns Russia

You could have saved all your RT waffle if you'd simply known that US Senators do not command the military.

Don't the ameristani politically elected reps have to hold a vote to go to war?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Don't the ameristani politically elected reps have to hold a vote to go to war?

Yes but they can't start one, dumbass.

Scarily, baldy orange cunto is Commander-in-Chief of the US military.

But it seems they spend a lot of time not listening to him where they can. I think they throw him a fish.

US imports of ‘sanctioned’ Venezuelan oil surge fivefold
Published time: 22 Feb, 2019

Purchases of Venezuelan crude by US energy companies saw a five-fold weekly growth as of the middle of February, nearly reaching their pre-sanctions level, the latest data published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows.

According to the Paris-based agency, imports of crude from Venezuela to the US amounted to 558,000 barrels per day during the week through February 15, compared to 117,000 barrels per day in the previous week. As of January 25, just days before US sanctions came into effect, American firms reportedly imported 587,000 barrels per day.

Washington imposed economic penalties against Venezuela’s state oil giant PDVSA, freezing $7 billion of the company’s assets. The sanctions also block payments to PDVSA accounts with buyers of Venezuela’s oil directed to deposit all transactions in a separate account, to which the company doesn’t have access.

The US Treasury issued temporary permits for buying Venezuelan crude to foreign companies until the current deals are expired, and the firms find new suppliers with the deadline set by the White House to expire on April 28.

https://www.rt.com/business/452148-u...imports-surge/

How dare he?

Democrats howl after Bernie Sanders refuses to recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s leader
Published time: 22 Feb, 2019



Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has refused to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s ‘interim president,’ calling instead for new elections. His comments have enraged Democratic lawmakers who are pushing for regime change.

Sanders is widely seen as a top contender to take on Donald Trump in 2020, but his views on the current political crisis in Venezuela have put him at odds with the Democratic Party.

In an interview with Univision, the senator – an independent who identifies as a democratic socialist – was asked if he considers self-declared interim president Juan Guaido to be the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

“No. I think what has to happen right now – I think there are serious questions about the recent election. There are many people who feel it was a fraudulent election, and I think the United States has got to work with the international community to make sure that there is a free and fair election in Venezuela,” Sanders responded.

While he stressed the need for international cooperation in resolving the standoff between Guaido and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Sanders said that the United States “must not use military force and intervene again as it has done in the past in Latin America… whether it was Chile or Brazil or the Dominican Republic or Guatemala.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/452141-sander...guaido-maduro/

Originally Posted by OhOh

Care to provide a reputable link to your UNCLOS "ruling" confirming your assertion or the clause of UNCLOS stating they are involved in sovereignty issues? You're probably thinking of an unauthorised European based court in error. But prove me wrong.

UNCLOS does not make rulings regarding sovereignty. It is an agreed, UN International Law, set of standards and guidelines which most countries have signed up to and adhere to, including China.

Unfortunately the one major nation that continues to quote it has not. Probably due to itself ignoring every international law and UNSC agreements being the worlds most unexceptional country.

Hohum the usual obfuscation.


It's a tough job but one can only spend so much time, caring for seeds, sprouting trees, tending saplings, mature trees, spraying flowers/fruit, picking, grading and taking the just ripe fruit to market, haggling with the buyers and finally taking the cash, to a gold shop, to swap for some more shiny bars.

You forgot talking shite

Although Maduro has refused aid "Venezuelans are not beggars", a report on BBC said that 300 tons of aid has just been supplied by Vladistan. One things for certain, that fat coont Maduro has not been starving.

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Although Maduro has refused aid "Venezuelans are not beggars", a report on BBC said that 300 tons of aid has just been supplied by Vladistan. One things for certain, that fat coont Maduro has not been starving.

That 300 tons will firstly satisfy the needs of Chavismo and his cronies. What is left over will be sold by his military buddies on the black market at a fat profit.