Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela

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Justin Podur Joe Emersberger

Extraordinary Threat

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The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela

Justin Podur, Joe Emersberger

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Monthly Review Press,U.S.
20 July 2021

History of the Americas; Colonialism & imperialism; Political structure & processes

The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government - and Venezuela's heightening precarity

In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a ""national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela."" Each year, the US administration has repeated this claim. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur argue in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat,

the opposite is true: It is the US policy of regime change in Venezuela that constitutes an ""extraordinary threat"" to Venezuelans. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans continue to die because of these ever-tightening US sanctions, denying people daily food, medicine, and fuel. On top of this, Venezuela has, since 2002, been subjected to repeated coup attempts by US-backed forces. In Extraordinary Threat,

Emersberger and Podur tell the story of six coup attempts against Venezuela.

This book deflates the myths propagated about the Venezuelan government's purported lack of electoral legitimacy, scant human rights, and disastrous economic development record. Contrary to accounts lobbed by the corporate media, the real target of sustained U.S. assault on Venezuela is not the country's claimed authoritarianism or its supposed corruption. It is Chavismo, the prospect that twenty-first century socialism could be brought about through electoral and constitutional means. This is what the US empire must not allow to succeed.

By: Justin Podur, Joe Emersberger
Imprint: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9781583679166
ISBN 10: 1583679162
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Justin Podur (Author) Justin Podur is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. He is the author of Haiti's New Dictatorship, Siegebreakers, and America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo. Joe Emersberger (Author) Joe Emersberger is an engineer, writer, and activist based in Canada. His writing, focused on the Western media's coverage of the Americas, can be found on FAIR.org, CounterPunch.org, TheCanary.co, Telesur English, and ZComm.org.