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Eduardo Guzmán's avatar

A more independent approach to the country's finances would make resistance far more efficient. The material discontent imposed on a large portion of the Venezuelan population, arisen from the privately - controlled forex market and credit system, is the base being cultivated in order to seek regime change with or without other attacks of a different kind. The Collective West block in the process of definition is coordinated by powerful financiers (usurers) and their think tanks, combined with captured supranational institutios. Their privilege is under threat from 2014 in consequence of Richard A. Werner's outstanding publications. If you take into account that those same financiers are in control of no less than Russia's finances (read Stephen Mitford Goodson, Glazyev, or Edward Slavsquat if you have any doubt), with all its implications in the strategic arena, as well as involved in drafting key statements by BRICS Leaders (see their July 6 2025 Rio Declaration); while the Unit or time-and-again postponed BRICS currency is for the time being defined (40 % gold, 60% BRICS currency basket) in a manner that favors and reinforces existing accumulations of fraudulent capital and the ensuing power, then you have to realize that independence for nations other than the few nuclear powers forming the power poles in the new multipolar world can be aimed at seriously only through a serious takeover of the credit system by the community. That was an essential part of the path followed by China from 1978. And that is the challenge for Venezuela and many other countries. The Bolivarian Financial Association (Asociación Financiera Bolivariana) is in the process of formation and aims at promoting sound, community based banking and finances for Venezuela and any other States willing to try this proven path, that has distinguished Germany's economic performance since the second half of the 19th century.

The AI Architect's avatar

Excellent piece that reframes Maduro's resistance through the lens of strategic sovereignty. The point about exile as a form of soft defeat is really subtle yet powerful, since it shows how symbolic acts become geopolitical signals in a multipolar context. I've noticed similar patterns in African leadrship where staying put despite sanctions becomes a legitimacy multipli er for regional audiences who see resistance as dignity.

LR Moya's avatar

The farthest thing I’ve seen, by far, from Venezuelan reality.

A Skeptic's avatar

Thanks for your great work!

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