What lurks in the shadows of Trump’s push for a change in Venezuela? Why is Rafael Ramirez Carreño “free”?
By: Danny Wilder
Tags: Venezuela, Israel, Terrorism, Trump, Cuba

What lurks in the shadows of Trump’s push for a change in Venezuela? Why is Rafael Ramirez Carreño “free”? Danny Wilder Feb 7, 2019·17 min read

OPEC certified that the South American nation was number one in national reserves, after a vast field of what was previously classified as tar was redefined as extra heavy crude. “La Faja”, as the heavy oil belt along the Orinoco River is referred to, contains nearly 220 bn barrels (that is billions). That makes Venezuela control approximately 20% of the world’s oil, bringing its reserves to 297 bn and leapfrogging Saudi Arabia’s 265 bn.

However, this in not a new fact. This certification happened during Rafael Ramirez Carreño’s tenure as President of PDVSA, the state owned oil company that has been recently the target of sanctions by the US Treasury.

Hollywood left wing crowd, spreading Chávez ideological trash in exchange for film financing and other perks

We all know that the mastermind of that nauseating “Bolivarian Revolution” aka “21st Century Socialism” was Hugo Chávez. The events in Venezuela have split the world’s opinion among those who support legitimate, interim President Juan Guaido, and those who do not support him.

Please bear in mind that most countries in the free world have expressed their firm support for interim President Juan Guaido to lead the country towards a real democracy; so there is no doubt that Mr. Juan Guaido is in the right side of history. Even New York and Californian liberals and anti Trump millennials agree on this.

Great “Venezuelan Crisis Tutorial” by Joanna Hausmann, available here

Just in case you do not know what is going on in Venezuela (granted, it can be confusing) I recommend you watch Venezuelan-American Joanna Hausmann’s YouTube video with the best 5 minutes explanation of the Venezuelan situation.

The root cause of the problems was (or is) Hugo Chávez and his ideology, a cancer who enchanted the likes of Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, and some other Hollywood neo-liberals. Chávez charmed this crowd with his “anti-imperialist” , “anti-capitalist”, “death to America & Israel” rhetoric. But before Chávez died, his ideological cancer survived and flourished in others, such and Nicolas Maduro, Rafael Ramirez Carreño, and others.

Hugo Chávez with his “brother”, as he called him, Colonel Muammar Al Gathafi

Although I am not a big fan of Donald Trump (not a fan of Hillary Clinton either), for the first time since Trump became President, I am starting to see a great deal of vision in his actions.

This realization is coupled with the feeling that Donald Trump definitely knows a lot more than what we, average Americans, give him credit for in Foreign Policy. For me, there is no doubt that Trump is absolutely doing the right thing, and that he has the balls to do what the past administration avoided and even became complicit with Chávez/Maduro. Kudos to Trump and his team for doing what Barack Obama should have done long time ago.

Great State of the Union address by Trump, which included remarks about the situation in Venezuela. Approval rate among independent voters (myself included) is moving up

If the US intervention in Venezuela is strongly motivated by its huge reserves of oil, so be it. We Americans can’t be naïve and ignore the fact that the world today is not the same world as 50 years ago, and that a lot of complex issues that transcend sovereignty are at play. Venezuela is one those cases where we have an unholy alliance of drug dealers, human trafficking, organized crime, a global, criminal “Kabal” involved in state sponsored terrorism, communism mixed with religion, and a totalitarian state supported by China and Russia.

Chávez with another of his anti-American “brother”

Although there is no evidence that Russia and China are involved in the organized crime aspect of Venezuela’s “21st Century Socialism”; they are exerting strong influence in the country’s politics and decisions in detriment of both US interests and Venezuelan nationals.

The chaos in Venezuela and its alliance with terrorist groups and totalitarian states did not happen by accident. It happened by design.

Members of Venezuela’s national police are caught in an explosion as they ride motorcycles near Altamira, in Caracas, on July 30th 2017. Political violence accelerated since march 29th 2017, when Maduro’s Supreme Court dissolved Parliament and illegally transferred all legislative powers to itself. This is the event that triggered the illegitimacy of Nicolas Maduro, and according to the Venezuelan constitution, the legitimacy of interim President Juan Guaido. What is happening in Venezuela now is not a coup.

After reading this, you might conclude that Trump might be onto something when he talks about drugs and human trafficking coming from the “south”. Maybe some of the facts here have a connection with his persistent demands of increased security and a physical wall in our borders.

The Trump administration still has to go after the “brains” who nurtured this grotesque and corrupt “Bolivarian Revolution”: The Castro brothers and Rafael Ramirez Carreño.

Who is Rafael Ramirez Carreño (RRC)?

Rafael Ramirez and his cousin, infamous terrorist “Carlos the Jackal”

As mentioned before, RRC was President of PDVSA for many years. But to understand this nefarious individual, his link to a global, criminal “Kabal”, and his deeply rooted anti American, anti-Semitic affinity, and communist roots, we need to look at RRC ideological background.

RRC was born into a communist and extremely anti American family from the Andean region of Venezuela. His father was a well-known “guerrillero”, and his cousin is the notorious Venezuelan terrorist “Carlos the Jackal” (real name Ilich Ramírez), who was also an Andean communist. As many of you probably known, “Carlos the Jackal” is the well educated (Sorbonne, Patrice Lumumba University of Russia, University of London) terrorist member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, subject of many movies.

Oliver Assava’s 2010 Cine Canal + film “Carlos the Jackal”. Click on image for trailer

With a reputation as a ruthless fighter and a strategic thinker among terrorist organizations, “Carlos” moved up quickly in the ranks of international terrorism, fostering cooperation among groups such as the Italian Red Brigades, Tupamaros München, Red Army Faction, Abu Nidal, etc., outsmarting many intelligence services. That happened at least until he was captured in 1994 in Sudan, thanks to the efforts of French and US intelligence agencies. Rumor is that his cousins back in Venezuela learned a great deal of “tricks” from him; and continued to learn even after Carlos arrest in Sudan.

One of the many anti-Semitic rants of Hugo Chávez, that you can watch here

One of the earliest designations of RRC as President of PDVSA was to appoint his own cousin, Lenin Ramírez (brother of Ilich Ramirez, “Carlos the Jackal”), as one of the top advisors of the oil company. Lenin had instructions from Hugo Chávez and RRC of using the resources of the Venezuelan state to help “Carlos the Jackal” in order to enroll his expertise in shaping the violent side of the “21st Century Socialism”.

Mr. Nelson Castellano Hernández, former consul of Venezuela in Paris under Chávez, stated that since the early days of Chávez, “Carlos the Jackal” had received many benefits from the Chávez administration, via his cousins in PDVSA. The infamous terrorist had strong influence in Chávez foreign policy, to the point of dictating who got certain diplomatic posts in the Venezuelan embassy in France; after consulting with his cousins Rafael and Lenin, and of course, Hugo Chávez and Hugo Chávez own brother, Adan Chávez.

The three amigos: Rafael Ramirez, Hugo Chávez, and Fidel Castro

A huge admirer of Fidel and Raul Castro, as well of Vladimir Putin, RRC is considered Hugo Chávez’ operational mastermind. Chávez even admits to this in many of his record public speeches. Building a web of Middle East, US, European, and Russian connections allowed both Hugo Chávez and RRC to set up a draconian financial network to fund radical groups and execute money laundering operations as part of the international expansion of their socialist agenda.

RRC is one of the most abject architects of the financial and moral destruction of Venezuela, the original member of the Venezuelan branch of the “Criminal Kabal”. He was always by Chávez’s side, financing with PDVSA’s petro-checkbook all the ideological aberrations of the “Comandante”. But Chávez soft spot and even admiration for RRC radical ideas drew jealousy from other prominent Chavistas such as Diosdado Cabello and even Nicolas Maduro.

Banner of Rafael Ramirez twitter account @RRamirezVE. Proud of being a “Chavista”, and proud of his accomplishments as one of the leaders of the “21st Century Socialism” that sunk Venezuela in misery and despair.

Not many people outside Venezuela know that the execution of Venezuela’s “21st Century Socialism” fell in the hands of none other than this communist stooge of the Castro regime.

It was RRC who orchestrated the dissolution of PDVSA Finance back in 2002–2003. At that time, PDVSA Finance allowed Venezuela to obtain cheap financing via bonds issued by that entity. However, there was a strict oversight and compliance for the use of proceeds, enforced by the US SEC.

RRC, his ideological influence and connection to some of Chávez pet projects

Shortly after the effective dissolution of PDVSA Finance and its obligation of reporting to the US SEC, PDVSA became involved in “social programs”, mostly run by high-ranking military personnel selected by Chávez and vetted by RRC. PDVSA got involved in food distribution, construction, publishing, broadcasting, film financing, even making toys and actions figures of “The Comandantes” (Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Che Guevara) to be used for indoctrination of kids in schools in Venezuela, some islands in the Caribbean, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia.

One of the many terrorist groups that have sanctuary in Venezuela, financed by Rafael Ramirez “New PDVSA”

In the violent side of the revolution, RRC’s “New PDVSA” as he calls it, directly or indirectly supported the expansion of terrorist groups such as Colombian ELN and FARC, as well as Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. Local branches of terrorist groups such as the “Tupamaros” and others flourished in Venezuela with the sole purpose to be used as “21st Century Socialist Stormtroopers” against any (young, old, male, female, rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight, etc.) civilian population opposing Chávez and RRC socialist ideology, but also and as a persuasion tool at the moment of “free elections” (vote for us or else).

This is what Venezuelans against Maduro have to endure when his power is questioned: extrajudicial killings in the streets by armed forces, harassment, intimidation, etc. on top of food and medicine shortages.

Venezuelans started to migrate by the thousands, tired of the oppression financed by RRC’s New PDVSA. This migratory crisis due to repression, lack of food, lack of medicines, crime waves, etc. became so large that it is estimated that (according to the U.N.) over 3 million Venezuelans have fled the country, a crisis of similar proportions to the one in Syria.

A family of Venezuelan children and their older Colombian-born relatives stand outside their wooden house in Barrio Camilo Daza in the city of Cúcuta, Colombia. Mother of four, Aide Caceres (far left) recently brought her children here because of the situation in Venezuela, but is unable to access health and education for them as they are undocumented Venezuelans. (Source: U.N. you can read more here)

In case you want to know, the indoctrination and logistics of the repression forces in Venezuela is directly or indirectly handled by the individuals below, all former colleagues of RRC and now some supporting his power ambitions in the background, as a hedge against Maduro’s fall. By the way, this is not at all an all inclusive list:

Maria Iris Varela

Aristobulo Isturiz

Elias Jaua

Tarek William Saab

Tarek El Aissami

Diosdado Cabello

Freddy Bernal

General Vladimir Padrino (Sun Cartel)

Delcy Rodriguez

Jorge Rodriguez

Néstor Reverol Torres

Slowly, the New PDVSA started to bleed cash and lack what it needed to capitalize on the Orinoco belt opportunities. Needless to say, the fact that high ranking military personnel were appointed to oversee these so called social projects and military alliances with radical groups was done intentionally, so to bribe and buy loyalty among the military, as well as a way to weed out people in the armed forces who opposed their plans.