Untwisting Reality

Targeted Assassinations: Tumbling the Dominos Down

• By Poetry X
• 28 February, 2015
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Since the success of many leftist movements in Latin America on winning elections, the United States. has implemented, pretty much, the whole list of dirty tricks to kick these governments out of power. The U.S. power groups were effective in Brazil, Honduras, Paraguay and Haiti, however, the main targets remain advancing their agendas, struggling along the way, but advancing.

One particular way of inciting a domino effect with the purpose of taking a government out is a “targeted assassination” [RT]. Here we are not talking about killing the president (although that is also an alternative) but killing an important personality of the political scene to provoque the scenario where “change” becomes inevitable. We must point out that a targeted assassination could imply pushing the target to madness to the point of inducing a suicide, just remember the case of Aaron Swartz. Also, we should know the FBI engaged in persuading Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide [Judiciary Report Oct 25th 2007].

The assassination of opposition figures is very convenient in these times since the traditional “military coup” seems to be impossible to happen successfully. For example, the assassination of Borís Nemtsov, a Putin’s oppositor in Russia has given a valid opportunity to defy the government to Russian internal forces. An important advantage of assassinating opposition figures is that the press, in permanent collaboration with the coup plotters, can use these events as an effective propaganda tool against the government. Regarding Russia, it comes to mind the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, which is pretty clear, had the intention of inflicting an break of relations of both countries when they are key to reach peace on Syria.

With this effect, the case of Alberto Nisman in Argentina comes to mind trying to blame the government of Cristina Fernandez. There has been a heavy manipulation of this case but let’s talk about the effect of Nisman’s death itself. First of all, an assassination is very unlikely to be the reason of Nisman’s decease. But let’s assume that was assassinated, the least interested party in his death was the government, quite the contrary. Nisman was accusing the Argentinian president of a pact with the Iranian government not to continue a legal process to bring to justice alleged Iranian terrorist of committing terrorist acts in Argentina back in the 1990’s. However, Nisman’s accusations were hard to probe and there was no evidence anyway. Yet, this event gave the perfect justification to opposition groups to organize on the streets, and even better, to advance an legal process that hopefully for them could have culminated in the president destitution.

Keep in mind, the president Fernando Lugo in Paraguay was ousted by a political judiciary process. The whole issue in Paraguay came out of a crisis in Campos Morombi, where 6 policemen and 11 peasants were killed, and the government was accused of ineptitude. In Argentina, the case was even worse than in Paraguay, since the President was being accused of being responsible, directly or indirectly, of Nisman’s death.

Well, Nisman was an agent of the U.S. in Argentina, why the U.S. would get rid of an asset so important [ORSAI Feb 28-2015]. The fact of being an asset for the U.S. has never been a guarantee of safety, all of these people are just disposable subjects as proven with Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hessein and Osama bin Laden – all of them were very important U.S. assets. This brings us to Leopoldo Lopez in Venezuela.

Leopoldo Lopez, a proven corrupt figure of the Venezuelan political scene, proved to be reliable ally in Venezuela, but even more important, at the time, his death would give the opposition a brand new opportunity to take President Maduro out of power [VenezuelaAnalisis Feb 22-2014]. Luckily enough for Lopez, and even more for the Venezuelan government, the attempt against Lopez was dismantled on time, and the Venezuelan government took all the precautions. The government itself contacted Lopez family to tell about the plot to kill him. The evidence was clear enough to persuade Lopez to go with the authorities to follow a judicial process against him. Lopez was condemned for his incitement to violence that provoked the death of 43 people. Lopez was not going to be the first opposition figure assassinated to provoke the ousting of the Maduro government – In 2014, the majority of killed people during the protests were police officials and civilians not afiliated with any political party. However, the dead of opposition people took place in strange circumstances. For example, Génesis Carmona was protesting to out the government. She was shot, but testimony, video and ballistic evidence show the bullet came from her own side [ALBA Feb 20-2014]

Selective assassinations are being fully applied in Venezuela, probably due to the deep infiltration of the narcotrafficking and paramilitarism from Colombia. Nisman, Lopez and Nemstsov represent one particular tendency of assassination – killing opposition figures that being alive are rather represent a liability to the coup plot. Nisman’s allegation against the president Fernandez were absurd: Lopez is a sinister fascist politician, distrusted even by his own people and Nemstsov didn’t not represent a serious threat to Putin’s rule with the polls in his favor just below 10%. The other effect of selective assassination would discourage and scare the government followers in order to weaken the base of the revolution. In that regard, we can mention the assassinations of Danilo Anderson, Eliecer Otaiza and Robert Cerra in Venezuela. However, the masses remain supporting the government – there have been massive concentrations of people to show their support for the Bolivarian project in Venezuela.