Morning Star.png Venezuela: Maduro Angrily Attacks US for Spying on Oil Company James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 20 November 2015 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed that his country would "revise its relationship" with the US following revelations that Washington spied on the state oil company. Whistleblowing US website the Intercept and South American TV network Telesur exposed the espionage plot - dating back to at least before 2010 - on Wednesday. Mr Maduro said he had instructed Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez to convene a meeting with the US government to lodge a formal protest. Maduro.jpg President Nicolas Maduro The socialist president stressed that no country "has the right to intervene in the affairs of other countries." At the heart of the spying allegations is a top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) document, dated March 23 2011, leaked by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden and published by the Intercept. It shows that the NSA spied on the internal communications of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), including those of former oil minister Rafael Ramirez. The document, drafted by an NSA signals analyst, explains that the PDVSA network, already compromised by US intelligence, was further infiltrated after an NSA review in late 2010 - during US President Barack Obama's first term of office. It also revealed secret joint operations between the NSA and the CIA run from the US embassy in Caracas. "Why did they spy on thousands of PDVSA workers?" Mr Maduro asked. "For economic war, persecution, to destroy [the revolution] from the inside." "US imperialism, for a long time, has wanted to sabotage our petroleum industry and defeat the Bolivarian government in order to take over Venezuela's petroleum," he added. DELCY-RODRIGUEZ-facebook, cropped.jpg Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez The Intercept tried to play down the grave violation of Venezuelan sovereignty and security, claiming that the sensitive emails had been picked up by accident as part of global blanket surveillance of internet communications. But campaigning journalist Eva Golinger said the leak was just the tip of the iceberg. Speaking to Telesur, she said the US had invested "immense resources" into regime change in Venezuela since the late Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998. "They're financing the opposition, they're . waging a media war against Venezuela . and they're penetrating institutions . to neutralise [the revolution] from within," she said. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-25b3-Venezuela-Maduro-angrily-attacks- US-for-spying-on-oil-company#.Vk6dLXYrK00> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-25b3-Venezuela-Maduro-angrily-attacks-U S-for-spying-on-oil-company#.Vk6dLXYrK00 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
