From a reader: "In a secret 2006 cable published online
by Wikileaks, then U.S. ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield unveiled a
plan by the U.S. Agency for International Development's [USAID] Office of
Transition Initiative (OTI) to send an army of opponents of late president Hugo
Chávez to a Caracas neighborhood to wage a psychological warfare campaign by
picking up the trash. The idea was to show the incompetence of the Chávez
government in terms of providing public services."
"In short, Caracas is underwriting the stability and energy security of most economies in the Caribbean and Central America, at the same time challenging, for the first time in over a century, US hegemony in its own "backyard". Washington's alarm over and hostility to PetroCaribe is laid bare in secret diplomatic cables obtained by the media organisation WikiLeaks."
"In short, Caracas is underwriting the stability and energy security of most economies in the Caribbean and Central America, at the same time challenging, for the first time in over a century, US hegemony in its own "backyard". Washington's alarm over and hostility to PetroCaribe is laid bare in secret diplomatic cables obtained by the media organisation WikiLeaks."
