Bushs Administration behind Exxon Mobil assault against Venezuela
February 15, 2008
The United States Government has designed and carried out a new assault against the Venezuelan people and its decision of gaining full sovereignty on their energy resources.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has the greatest certified reserves of the world, estimated on 316 billion oil barrels, and it counts with an Administration decided to carry out the national sovereignty on oil and gas matters.
The Bushs administration -closely linked to the world oil market- has already tried, twice, to destabilize the Bolivarian Revolution and to affect the Venezuelan people through a sabotage program to its oil industry.
The sabotage and destabilization operations against the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), carried out under the Bushs administration order, took place during the year 2002. The first one, which involved PDVSAs activities stoppage, led to the brief coup carried out on April 11th of that year and which included President Chávezs kidnapping and the attempt to destitute the whole parliament, the Attorney General, the Supreme Court of Justice and the Ombudsmans Office.
The second operation started on December of that same year and it materialized at the sabotage of the PDVSA works, during a period of 63 days, in order to break the peoples will and to infringe the Venezuelan Constitutional order.
This opportunity, the new Bushs assault is materialized with an international campaign organized on behalf of the US transnational Exxon Mobil.
Answering to this aggression, the Minister of Peoples Power for Energy and Oil and PDVSAs president, Rafael Ramirez, affirmed that it tackles with the typical transnational company, which has historically tried to assault the oil producer countries and to impose its points of view regarding the use of the natural resources, and he stressed that such company has direct bonds with the current US government.
According to the internationalist, Lilliam Oviedo, Exxon Mobil is not only the company which more money gave to the George W. Bushs electoral campaign and for the activities in which he was put into Presidency on January 2001, but it is also a very influent company when taking decisions in the US foreign policy.
Iraq invasion
It is not a coincidence that Exxon Mobil has greatest profits than the Gross Domestic Product of several countries in the world.
Regarding the opinion of several international analysts, among them the US filmmaker Michael Moore, the United States war and invasion against Iraq was never based upon the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction, despite it was the excuse used thousands of times by Bush and his Government officials.
On the contrary, it was based upon the necessity of controlling and exploiting the Iraqi oil, using its sales to pay the conflict cost and its subsequent occupation, benefiting the allied oil industry via exploitation awards, which would allow the beneficiary companies Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco -among others- to control the world oil price.
These statements, published in the editorial of the digital magazine Kalegorria are verified with the enormous historical profits due to oil income obtained by the company in recent years.
The oil mafia
There is a petroleum elite governing the United States which is headed by president Bush himself. Director and shareholder of the companies Arbusto Oil and Harken, his relations with world energetic companies are very well known.
The vice president of that country, Dick Cheney, was executive director of the oil supplies company Halliburton.
Highly benefited by the hirings received in order to reconstruct Iraq, this company maintained wage relations with Cheney despite he was already a high official of the US government.
According to a denounce by the writer John Byrne, the value of vice president Dick Cheneys shares in Halliburton rose from 241,498 dollars in 2004 to more than eight million dollars in 2005, an increase superior to three thousand percent, which would increase even more if Halliburton keeps obtaining thousands of million dollars in contracts from the US government without bidding or audit.
The Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, is not different from her Government companions. Her work as director in the US transnational Chevron Texaco made that even a huge freighter of 130 thousand tons from the company was baptized with her name.
These are the actors who perform with all their power in the scenery of an already pronounced world energy crisis.
By Erika Ortega Sanoja / Translated by Felitza Nava / Bolivarian News Agency (ABN)