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Coup in Cuba: Two Secret Cables and a Revealing Video 12/10/2020 Iroel
Sánchez: "“Younger people, including bloggers, musicians, and performing and
visual artists do not belong to identifiable organizations, although they are
much better at taking “rebellious” positions with greater popular appeal.
However, these people are still strictly controlled by the authorities, avoid
the label “dissidents” and do not seem to aspire to any leadership role. The
international fame gained by a few, such as blogger Yoanny Sanchez, drives even
more jealousy among traditional dissident organizations and prevents them from
working with the fledgling networks that younger generations are beginning to
form.”"
US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as
‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’ 3/11/2019 Grayzone: "A
September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization that helped train
Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido and his allies identifies the potential
collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would
likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition
group could ever hope to generate.” The memo has special relevance today as
Guaido moves to exploit nationwide blackouts caused by a major failure at the
Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant at Guri dam – a crisis that Venezuela’s
government blames on US sabotage."
CANVAS: The Secrets Behind Venezuelan 'Student Protests' and Juan Guaidó 3/9/2019 No
Investigation: "Popovic denies Guaidó's involvement in CANVAS, claiming "He was
not with me in Belgrade for training". However, Popovic calls Guaidó "a friend",
stating that "many representatives of the Venezuelan democratic movement are my
friends, that we have known each other for years and have talked countless times
about the political situation in this beautiful but unhappy country" [11].
Popovic's main role in these regime change operations is as a trainer for
'activists', and he says that "I would do everything in my power to help him
[Guaidó] to fight against the regime" [11]. According to Stratfor analysts, who
were in direct contact with CANVAS, on October 5, 2005, "five [emphasis mine]
student leaders from Venezuela arrived in Belgrade for training" [12]. The only
sources I can find on this training list four of those students: Ronel Galo,
Geraldine Alvarez, Rodrigo Diamanti and Eliza Totaro [13]. This means that one
of the students trained has not been named publicly, and it would certainly make
sense if that student was Guaidó, protecting his identity since he was chosen as
a future leader."
Who is Guaido? 3/3/2019 Orinoco
Tribune: "Apparently he was one of the five Venezuelan students sent by the NED
to Belgrade in 2005 (Guaidó was then 21 years old) to be trained by CANVAS. The
latter is a training group for “nonviolent protests” responsible for various
“color revolutions” such as that of the neo-Nazis of Ukraine."
Serbian Activist Denies ‘Training’ Venezuela’s Guaido in Rebellion 2/13/2019 Balkan
Insight: "“Of course, I would do everything in my power to help him [Guaido] to
fight against the regime that even the army can no longer defend against its own
citizens, because they live on the verge of existence in the country with
enormous natural resources,” Popovic continued. He also wished “my friend Juan
Guaido” success in his fight, calling him “a high-quality, young and educated
man recognized even by the [country’s] first neighbours, such as Brazil,
Colombia and Argentina, and the entire democratic world as a true and legitimate
representative of Venezuela”."
Juan Guaidó o cómo se fabrica a un impostor 1/31/2019 Medium: "El 5 de
octubre de 2005 con la popularidad de Chávez en su apogeo y su gobierno
planeando programas socialistas, cinco “líderes estudiantiles” venezolanos
llegaron a Belgrado, Serbia, para comenzar a entrenarse para una insurrección.
Los estudiantes habían llegado de Venezuela por cortesía del Center for Applied
Non-Violent Action and Strategies, o CANVAS. Este grupo se financia en gran
parte a través de National Endowment for Democracy, una creación de la CIA que
funciona como el brazo principal del gobierno de Estados Unidos para promover el
cambio de régimen; y filiales como el Instituto Republicano Internacional y el
Instituto Nacional Demócrata para Asuntos Internacionales. Según los correos
electrónicos internos filtrados provenientes de Stratfor, una firma de
inteligencia conocida como “la CIA en la sombra”, CANVAS “también puede haber
recibido financiamiento y capacitación de la CIA durante la lucha anti-Milosevic
de 1999/2000”."
The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created
Venezuela’s Coup Leader 1/29/2019 Gray Zone: "While Guaidó is today sold as
the face of democratic restoration, he spent his career in the most violent
faction of Venezuela’s most radical opposition party, positioning himself at the
forefront of one destabilization campaign after another. His party has been
widely discredited inside Venezuela, and is held partly responsible for
fragmenting a badly weakened opposition."
Purpose
Goes to Latin America [Part II] 8/26/2018 The Wrong Kind of Green: "Part 4
of the 2017 investigative series on Avaaz analyses the role of Harvard
University in global destabilization campaigns via the churching out of
“activists”, “thought-leaders”, think tanks and doctrines at large. Of
particular interest is Srdja Popovic, co–founder of Otpor, now rebranded as
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) and his position at
Harvard Kennedy School as Lead Instructor for the Harvard “executive education”
program, Leading Nonviolent Movements for Social Progress. Popovic leads the
course with Otpor co-founder Slobodan Djinovic."
The Big ISIS and SDF Lies of the US—‘Kurdistan’ and New Gas Wars 10/4/2017 William
Engdahl: "Many readers likely never heard the name of the remarkable Serbia-born
political operator named Srda Popovic. Yet he and his organization, CANVAS, have
played a lead role in most every CIA-backed Color Revolution since he led the
toppling of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, at least fifty
according to last count. Now he has turned his sights on Hungary and Hungary’s
popular and defiant Prime Minister Victor Orban."
The Dishonest Career of the Remarkable Srda Popovic 1/10/2017 New Eastern
Outlook: "Many readers likely never heard the name of the remarkable Serbia-born
political operator named Srda Popovic. Yet he and his organization, CANVAS, have
played a lead role in most every CIA-backed Color Revolution since he led the
toppling of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, at least fifty
according to last count. Now he has turned his sights on Hungary and Hungary’s
popular and defiant Prime Minister Victor Orban."
Tania Bruguera, Cuba y la nación que deseamos 10/27/2016 Cubarte: "Durante
los últimos 10 años el gobierno de los EE.UU. ha intentado reproducir en Cuba
escenarios similares a los construidos en Serbia, Ucrania, Kirguistán, Georgia,
Siria, Libia, Irán, Venezuela, etc. Países donde la aplicación de la estrategia
del Golpe Suave ha logrado, en la mayoría de los casos, la caída del gobierno.
Falsas huelgas de hambre, desinformación, manipulación mediática, guerra
económica, creación y uso de redes sociales ilegales, planes de becas para
formación de líderes de cambio, construcción de símbolos, intentos de marchas,
no faltaron contra Cuba, ninguna de las 198 tareas recomendadas por Gene Sharp
para acabar con gobiernos poco dados al servilismo o sencillamente incomodos.
Todas las tentativas fracasaron."
What won’t happen in Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the frustrated puppeteer 1/6/2015 CubaSi: "CANVAS
has activists in over 100 countries and some of them have visited Cuba geared at
promoting their “business” among local mercenaries. Among the 50 crucial points
of a struggle, which is not nonviolent at all, let us see only the latest cases
of Ukraine and Venezuela, and we find the use of artistic activities of various
kinds, in unauthorized spaces, because those spaces require special permissions,
places of complex security structure, the authors recommend to occupy sites
linked to government institutions, to study the laws of the country well, to
look for points of conflict and to plan the actions taking into account this key
element, that is, they propose to violate local laws in order to promote
confrontation. That was what Tania Bruguera came to Cuba for and her contractors
and promoters counted on it, that’s why they chose the Revolugtion Square,
that’s why the artist refuses again and again to use the spaces offered by the
National Council of Fine Arts, neither factories, schools, galleries, nor
universities, the Revolution Square or nothing."
'Golpes exportados': EE.UU. y su papel clave en medio siglo de revoluciones 3/14/2014 RT: "Según
WikiLeaks, Canvas (el nuevo movimiento Otpor) dedicó muchos esfuerzos a
desestabilizar y derribar al régimen de Hugo Chávez en Venezuela. Por otro lado,
en ese país las actividades de la USAID no tienen ninguna base legal ya que
existe ningún acuerdo intergubernamental. Sin embargo, desde 2002 (tras el
fracaso del golpe de Estado de abril) el personal de la agencia se movilizó con
el apoyo de la Embajada de EE.UU y se mostró más activo. Los activistas de la
oposición recibieron al menos 70 millones de dólares a través de distintas
fuentes de financiación destinados al apoyo de los candidatos antichavistas, a
la intensificación de la crisis política, la movilización de la sociedad civil y
la formación de un nuevo liderazgo democrático."
Polisario Hires Serbian Mafia 3/14/2014 Sahara News: "These young people
benefit from training to insurrection methods, mobilization and uprisings in the
streets and public squares and via the web. The would-be insurgents are trained
to other techniques such as assault and escape tactics, making and use of
explosives, burning of vehicles, obstruction of traffic, destruction of public
and private property, attack of institutions, sabotage, looting of shopping
centers, propaganda tactics and other insurgency tactics. Social networks have
actually revealed that these are precisely the same procedures used by young
Sahrawis who are paid by the Polisario and the Algerian regime to do the dirty
job in Western Sahara."
Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor 12/2/2013 Occupy: "Lesser
known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor!
offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also
maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private
intelligence firm Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S.
government. Popovic’s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year."
Wikileaks Docs Expose Famed Serbian Activist’s Ties to ‘Shadow CIA’ 12/2/2013 In
These Times: "“A little reminder that the main utility in this contact is his
ability to connect us to the troublemakers around the world that he is in touch
with. His own ability to discern situation on the ground may be limited, he
mainly has initial contact with an asset and then lets them do their own thing,”
reads a May 2010 email written by former Stratfor Eurasia Analyst Marko Papic.
“He does himself have information that may be useful from time to time. But, the
idea is to gather a network of contacts through CANVAS, contacts that we can
then contact independently.”"
Desperate for Destabilization in Venezuela, US Funded OTPOR Rears It’s Ugly Head 1/14/2013 Wrong
Kind of Green: "Otpor, as reported by the New York Times, was a well-oiled
movement backed by several million dollars from the United States via the US
National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Otpor (now calling itself CANVAS) has
since been most instrumental in the recruiting and training behind the
imperialist destabilization campaigns crushing sovereign states, and the far
from spontaneous “Arab Springs”. “The tranquility prevailing in Tachira,
Venezuela, was interrupted a few days ago by violent right wing youth groups
that are sponsored by foreign NGOs. The so-called “white hands” that do not
recognize the government and the vice president, Nicolas Maduro, as well as the
decision by the Supreme Court of Justice allowing President Chavez to take oath
before this judicial institution. COPEI Party, the Popular Will Party and the
first justice party are encouraging sabotage and terrorism in the state of
Tachira. They are wishing for a person to die or be injured, but we will not
allow it. … [Source: TelesSUR]."
VZ elections 9/23/2010 WikiLeaks - Global Intelligence Files: "This
analysis tends to cover Situation (I), Pillars of Support (II) Key Opposition
Stakeholders and their allies (III), List of potential issues in the campaign
(IV) in Venezuelan Society in the face of forthcoming parliamentary elections in
September 2010, and it is based on Strategic Estimate performed by CANVAS and
its Venezuelan partner 2006,series of independent, academic and institute
analysis in 2006-2009. as well as opinions from relevant international analysts
in January 2010. Its goal is to provide basis for more detailed planning
potentially performed by interested performers and CANVAS. The follow up of this
analysis will appear in Plan Format later during the process after consultations
with stakeholders."
INSIGHT - VENEZUELA: Update on Protests 2/2/2010 WikiLeaks - Global
Intelligence Files: "Two very small updates on your analysis. First, the
homicide rate you quote for 2009 is a bit over 12,000. Security analysts I spoke
to said the number is closer to 18,000. It's hard to know because the police do
not report many of them, but I spoke to someone very respected who said it is
much higher than that official number. The police have recently stopped
providing homicide statistics because it has gotten so bad."
Re: Guidance: Exxon and Venezuela 2/13/2008 Wikileaks: "Lots of US
funding... I don't have specifics, but I did talk to some of the people who
lobby for them to get funding (like Mike McFaul over at the Hoover Institute).
US AID is involved closely. Also, Otpor (the organization that brought down
Milosevic and that spawned Canvas) was funded by Freedom House, the
International Republican Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, Open
Society Institute, USAID and the United States Institute of Peace, among others.
Since Canvas is basically the same people as Otpor, I am sure they have the same
avenues of $$$ open to them."
Info on CANVAS (Otpor) - Venezuela: The Marigold Revolution? 10/5/2007 Wikileaks
- Stratfor: "Demographically, Venezuela is very young, and thus in political
terms student groups are potentially powerful. Additionally, the student
movement is probably the most cohesive single faction within the Venezuelan
opposition to President Hugo Chavez — which is itself perhaps the most
ineffective and fractured opposition in Latin America. Venezuelan students only
recently became active in anti-Chavez activities, and formed the backbone of
opposition to decision to not renew the broadcasting license of RCTV, the
country’s only meaningful private television station."
LANDMARK FORUM BRINGS TOGETHER YOUNG CUBAN ACTIVISTS 11/27/2006 WikiLeaks: "
An unprecedented opposition youth forum brought together young Cuban
pro-democracy activists and counterparts from Monterrey, Mexico on November 24
in Havana. The three-hour-long event, held at the PAO Residence, saw
participants engage in open debate after watching an inspirational documentary
on the fall of Milosevic. Many of the participants agreed on the need to
coordinate the activities of the country's three biggest opposition youth
groups. They acknowledged that they are much weaker than the Yugoslav youth
groups (especially OTPUR) depicted in the documentary."
THE MONEY TRAP 9/1/2003 Open Society News: "Poster from anticorruption
campaign conducted by the Serbia civil society organization, Otpor!
(Resistance!). Text reads: “What is the price of the law? Let’s eradicate
corruption— so the law will be the same for all. People’s Movement Resistance!”"
The Seed Money for Democracy 1/26/2001 LA Times: "But the multibillionaire
philanthropist quietly played a key role in the dramatic overthrow last year of
President Slobodan Milosevic. His Soros Foundations Network helped finance
several pro-democracy groups, including the student organization Otpor, which
spearheaded grass-roots resistance to the authoritarian Yugoslav leader. “We
were here to support the civil sector--the people who were fighting against the
regime of Slobodan Milosevic the past 10 years,” said Velimir Curgus of the
Soros network’s Belgrade branch. “Most of our work was undercover.”"
Twitter for CANVAS founder, the Serbian Srdja Popovic
BAM - Build a Movement
www.buildamovement.org
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Shows Cuba as a target country.
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