Special interview with economist Cesar Sencion

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Economist Cesar Sencion stated that the imperialist intention behind the actions of the United States is to control natural resources of Venezuela and several countries of Latin America, and is also a decadent empire using the Monroe Doctrine.    teleSUR  These and more stories now!  🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00I will go now live to a special interview to The Economist, César Censión.

00:06Let's listen to the statements.

00:12They already abandoned that topic, and now they are showing their full intentions.

00:17They want to take the oil. They are saying that they are going to take companies to Venezuela

00:22to control this. They are saying that they want to run the country. So he could maybe,

00:29Donald Trump, declare himself president of Venezuela at any moment.

00:33And he also said that Venezuela is free, but he will continue the blockade. So that's a little bit

00:41strange. But if it's free, it shouldn't be blockaded. So Trump was a little bit misleading in

00:52the speech. But definitely he is going to continue with the threats. But they didn't have a strategic

01:01victory. They hit hard, but they didn't take the power. And the people are going to continue coming

01:10out to the streets. And there's a lot of people also at an international level. And I think that

01:20this is hitting hard on the United States.

01:23Today it's Venezuela with the oil, but tomorrow it could be lithium in the southern countries.

01:39Yes, exactly. That is part of the strategy. He said he's going to control the entire Latin America.

01:45That in Latin America there's no room for other competitors from other continents. He's talking

01:54about China and other countries with more presence in Latin America.

02:01So that is in his strategy of homeland security. He wants to control the territory. That's the

02:12chapter one of that homeland security document. He wants to control the commerce of Latin America and

02:20the natural resources. He wants the ports of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela,

02:29China. Of Central America, Marco Rubio also had orders against Puerto Rico and El Salvador. They want to

02:37control the Panama Canal. So they are working on that. They want to control the ports in order to fight

02:49back China through commerce and also other competitors that they have in the region.

02:54And they want to control that commerce for the United States. And he also said that in Latin America,

03:05and that's the same thing that is in the official document, that it's the backyard for them. And he said

03:13this openly and that he will act against anybody who will act against this territory. So he decides who

03:24is attempting against the security and who doesn't.

03:28And so that is to say that instead of the rhetoric of the right, that's the rhetoric of democracy and

03:43pluralism and the supposed respect to the law. This is not bad. This is the announcement of an imperialist

03:54project of domination. And that is the same thing that he has announced for the Indo-Pacific.

04:02That's the strategy as well, the control of the Indo-Pacific,

04:08the Indochinian Sea.

04:11That's a strategy as well for Africa, for Europe, for Taiwan. So we are looking at an empire that it's a

04:19very, a very intense stage because they're being displaced. They are weakened. So they are even more

04:28aggressive. But I have the impression that this strategy is not going to work out for them. Actually,

04:37they have failed in many attempts in Latin America. For example, the military base in Ecuador now in

04:46Venezuela, it's a strong head, but they have not political power right now. They are not being able to

04:53conquer Mexico or Brazil and other countries. So we need to wait because this is a decadent empire.

05:06And he's aggressive, but it doesn't mean that they are going to have their way.

05:08So all of this definitely is showing the repositioning of the doctoral

05:19doctrine in the continent with the plunder of the natural resources of the countries.

05:29Exactly. They tried this through the FDA. That's the project of Clinton first and afterwards Bush.

05:37And it failed. That was a project of commerce, of privatization, of the control of public services,

05:48the construction of the agriculture, and that failed.

05:56Another project linked to Panama and a similar attempt in Central America.

06:02America. They have always been aggressive, but right now they're doing it in a more violent way.

06:12Because what Trump is doing right now is to reject

06:18those supposed ideas of a free trade agreement. They supposedly wanted that, but right now they're

06:26rejecting it. So yes, they are very aggressive. And America for the Americans in their conception, that

06:39is America for the United States. It's not for us. I am an American. I am from El Salvador.

06:47An Argentinian, a Venezuelan is an American. But for them, America is for the United States.

06:54So all governments, left or progressives, they should be worried about this.

07:04Because the plunder plan is already established. It's already published.

07:11So if the Peruvian government does not understand this, or the Chilean government does not understand

07:17this, or the Ecuador government, it's a problem because it could be them next as well.

07:26Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, of course, they have more interest because this is a battle.

07:31We are looking at a battle from an empire that can be displaced, but they are trying to grip,

07:37and they have force and strength because they have military force. And Trump is talking about America

07:47for the United States. But when should we see the United States for those from the United States?

07:55Because the country itself has an important crisis. What is Trump doing for them?

07:59Yes, that is part of the contradiction. He is violating all norms of international law.

08:10And inflation went up to 3%.

08:12And in some goods, even 12% or 15%. That is very, very high. And that is raising costs.

08:25And that is being translated to prices.

08:28And the countries have also answered back with more tariffs. So that has affected the prices as well.

08:40The economy is not growing.

08:46The unemployment is also increasing. It's at 4.4.

08:52And many people are underemployed as well.

08:55So what's happening inside an economy that is not growing so much and with high prices?

09:04And the public debt continues to grow. And the social programs.

09:09Poverty is rising as well because the cost of living is higher for them.

09:16It's not so much because the sacking of the plunder is for the elites.

09:22And that is not the oil of Latin America. That is not for the whole of the United States. That's for the elites.

09:33And any other sort of natural resources like from Bolivia or other countries. That's for them.

09:41They are fighting with the entire world. They are messing with many different wars.

09:53For the population of the United States. They are not doing well.

09:59But he's also losing popularity. He lost the elections in New York.

10:05I do not have high hope for his rivals because they are also imperialists.

10:15But if he loses the midterms, it's also a failure for him.

10:20Do you consider that these actions will have repercussions in those midterms?

10:30Maybe because there is a situation that is not a good one.

10:35In that case, services are worsening. The employment is worse. They are

10:48deporting many of the Latin American workers. There's a lot of persecution.

10:54And that Latino population can also turn against them.

11:04Because that is an anti-migrant policies that is to hit our countries.

11:12But it's also being affected to that community.

11:16So governments that have countries that have governments that do not follow their own policies.

11:29And this is a phase of capitalism characterized by monopolies and also financial capital.

11:38That is the essence of imperialism. Monopolies and that financial aspect.

11:44And the United States is the main imperialist power.

11:49So that government is not for the people. The people is voting.

11:53But that government is not for the people. It's for the elites.

11:59Not only the United States, but also the oligarchy groups of other countries.

12:06Look at what happened in Honduras. The interference in other countries like Argentina in favor of Malay.

12:14So always with the right and with the business elites from their countries and other countries.

12:23That is their nature. That is why we need to be prepared in order to face that strategy.

12:31Because in their nature is aggressiveness. We need to close down our lines.

12:42I would like to see for the Sao Paulo Forum to be reactivated.

12:47We need to see for example to be summoned. We need to see because of course all of them are being threatened.

12:58Trump is threatening for example Greenland as well saying that it's going to turn it into the next state.

13:05So it's a decadent empire that is attacking through force.

13:16And but it's heading towards failure as well. He had it with Iran.

13:22And this is a back and forth. They are very aggressive.

13:28But we need to see how we will face it in the best way.

13:32I think that Venezuela has conditions to defeat it because the power of the people of the party and international solidarity and the movements,

13:44the social movements, the social movements, but people need to close ranks in that battle.

13:51That is the battle of our era. We need to take them to failure so we see a new world.

14:02Cesar, in these new circumstances, do we need to ask, is there still room for diplomacy and international law?

14:14We have seen a lot of shows of solidarity for the government of Venezuela.

14:20On Monday, the UN Security Council is going to meet for this illegal aggression on Venezuela.

14:28But beyond this, we have seen regarding the topic of Palestinians so many meetings.

14:35How many meetings have they done in the Security Council, in the General Assembly?

14:41But what results have this delivered if foreign powers like the United States, like Israel continue to assault

14:52peoples and civilians and nothing happens to them?

14:55Well, the thing is that they have the veto power at the United Nations.

15:01So the UN can approve something in favor of Palestinians, for example, but the US will veto it.

15:10This has to do with the international order that is responding to those powers in particular.

15:16In this case, in the United States, that is a power that is also an aggressive power.

15:24Because you have China that's a great power, but it's not involved in wars with other countries.

15:31China has another logic.

15:33China has another logic.

15:34There is a tax for Latin America.

15:39There's a strategy for Latin America.

15:43And they have that capacity.

15:46It's 45% of the weapons.

15:55And they have a strong power, but they are in the process of being replaced.

16:01And the goal here is to take them to failure.

16:05They need to be replaced either by a nation like China or our group of countries like the BRICS,

16:15for example.

16:16But there is a tendency, a very clear tendency, when you see all the economic variables and also

16:23all the social numbers that China has already overcome and surpassed them in production.

16:37They are competing.

16:40And Latin America is also an important key area, Asia, India, Vietnam.

16:47So things will continue to change.

16:51So as their strategy fails, we will see more conditions either for the international law to be

17:03applied or for new mechanisms to be built.

17:07Because, of course, in this context, to face Israel or the United States is not anything.

17:14These are nuclear weapons.

17:16But they attacked Iran and it didn't go well for them because Iran did strike back.

17:24It's true that there's difficulties in the application of different politics,

17:32even with the application of different policies in terms of the environment.

17:37But they are weakened and their aggressiveness has to do with that.

17:48It's an aggressiveness like it's like frantic.

17:52It's like not serene.

17:53It's dangerous.

17:54César, of course, we will continue to join you after we go to some live information.

18:09We will listen to the economist César Censión.

18:13He stated that the intention behind this is to control the natural resources of Venezuela.

18:28Also, they intend to control the port of several countries in Latin America,

18:35like Puerto Rico or Peru, to fight back China economically.

18:38Censión also stated that the United States is a decadent empire,

18:43using the Monroe Doctrine to plunder Latin America.

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