Published at: 11/06/2025 09:00 PM

(Latest News, June 7, 2007)

• On June 6, 2007, Commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías denounced the development of a “soft coup” or “long fuse” as he called it.
• Before millions of spectators, he revealed a conspiracy plan that was being implemented through a slow-motion coup, sponsored by the U.S. Government.
• In his speech, President Chávez assured that the attempt would fail, since it had been discovered. In effect, as it happened, “the long fuse blow” or low intensity failed.
• He also denounced that this plan, articulated by the Secretary of the State Department, Condoleezza Rice, against a legitimate government “is a sign of the decline of the United States.
• In turn, he accused the U.S. government of being the promoter of a series of events whose purpose is to “light the fuse” to cause an explosion.
• He explained: “The strategy is easy, we have it discovered. They want to light the fuse so that it gets longer until any event causes the explosive charge to detonate.”
• The Venezuelan Head of State warned: “We are going to try to prevent the explosion from happening... I am in charge of this intelligence and counterintelligence operation, the protection of citizens, the neutralization of adversarial operations and the dismantling of their strategy.”
• Chávez spoke of another gringo defeat: “A great defeat for the empire occurred in Panama during the “37th General Assembly of the OAS” and described as “a sign of imperial decline”, the proposal of the U.S. Secretary of State. , Condoleezza Rice, to send a commission to evaluate the cessation of RCTV broadcasts and freedom of expression in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
• President Chávez stated that “they didn't get a single country. Sometimes they succeed with pressure.” In addition, he congratulated Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro “for representing us with such height and dignity.”
• He pointed out that the attitude of the United States is one more proof of the imperial strategy of “double action”: At the domestic level, “encouraging and motivating actions against the country, the government, the people and the nation and another at the international level.”

The context:

• The Soft or Low Intensity Coup was devised by the American political scientist Gene Sharp, who since 1989 has been responsible for training agents for the creation of destabilizing government movements in several countries of the world.
• To get a clear idea of the magnitude of the enemy to be faced, let's look at the influence that this coup strategy has had at the international level:
  • Starting in 1989, Gene Sharp participated in the establishment of the Burma Democratic Alliance, a coalition of anti-communists that succeeded in overthrowing the government.
  • Since then, together with the Progressive Democratic Party of Taiwan, he has participated in separatist actions on the island against communist China.
  • It has succeeded in unifying the different Tibetan parties opposing the Chinese government around the Dalai Lama, who is on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • In October 1990, Gene Sharp and his team traveled to Sweden to train several Lithuanian leaders in organizing resistance to the Red Army.
  • Later, in May 1991, when the Russian crisis that led to the Fall of the Berlin Wall broke out and Gorbachev deployed his special forces, Sharp served as an advisor to the separatist Sajudis party (Perestroika Initiative Group).
  • In 1996**, Sharp** was also actively involved in the overthrow of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
  • In 2003, he organized the Rose Revolution, which overthrew Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia.
  • In 2010, Gene Sharp was the architect of the Jasmine Revolution, which removed Abidine Ben Ali from the government in Tunisia.
  • In Venezuela, it operated through the NGO Fundación Juventud Activa Venezuela Unida, a “non-profit” organization opposed to the government of Hugo Chávez.
  • These are also known as the “White Hands” Movement, whose motto of non-violence does not match their violent practices.
  • Its members were recruited, funded and trained by US agencies, and they were the protagonists of the violent acts in “the guarimbas” of 2014 and 2017.
  • Its activities originate from the international organization OTPOR (Tactical Organization to Guide Resistance) or JAVU (United Venezuela Active Youth), which have caused, through “guarimbas”, dozens of deaths and damage to public domain assets, with strategies similar to color revolutions or Arab springs.

Mazo News Team