Oscar Schémel: The US strategy of internal bankruptcy was defeated by national unity

Published at: 01/09/2025 07:43 PM

This Monday, September 1st, the president of the consulting firm Hinterlaces, Oscar Schémel, emphasized that the day of mass enlistment in the Bolivarian Militia “demonstrated something that Pentagon planners did not calculate: far from generating panic or internal division, external pressure consolidated national unity.”

He said that “this reaction exposes the limitations of the strategy of internal bankruptcy when faced with organized societies.”

“From Caracas to Barinas, the popular response was massive and organic. There was no forced levy like in Ukraine, but rather a call out of conviction,” he highlighted on his account on the social network X.

Schémel argued that Venezuela “has built a comprehensive defense system that combines the people, the State and the Armed Forces as a single political body.”

“The external threat doesn't weaken this model - it strengthens it. Washington bet on internal bankruptcy and obtained greater cohesion. Imperialism underestimated the power of a people who know what they stand for and are willing to do so. History teaches that this combination has defeated the most powerful imperial power before,” he said.

In this context, he stressed that the press conference given this Monday, 01, by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, “was not just a response to military threats in the Caribbean. It was a reaffirmation of Venezuelan sovereignty, a review of the history of resistance that unites the original peoples, Bolivar, Zamora and Chávez, and a firm defense of participatory democracy with seven electoral processes in a single year and millions of citizens building the Plan for the Fatherland 2025—2031.”

Schémel said that the National President, in his speech, highlighted the economic resilience of a country that has been able to overcome more than a thousand sanctions and move towards an independent growth model, while receiving solidarity from the Caribbean, CELAC and social movements around the world. Venezuela is thus projected to be a firm, sovereign and peaceful country, committed to justice and to a multipolar international order.”