CLAP operation
also: National Council for a Productive Economy, national productive corporation, C-L-A-P, Clapp
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Claims (6)
Hugo Chavez founded
CLAP host_asserted
“all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes, Steve Mnuchin said. Washington's mission to overthrow Venezuelan government would place the Caribbean businessman most responsible for CLAP's su…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 14:49
Nicolás Maduro founded
CLAP host_asserted
“Venezuelan's economy. On January 19th, he inaugurated the National Council for a Productive Economy, a roundtable of 45 businessmen, government officials, including opposition figures, union leaders, and representatives from the different s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 5:26
Elliot Abrams exposed
CLAP host_asserted
“Venezuela's food crisis would almost certainly have been much worse. The U.S. government's obsession with CLAP further underscored its success. In February of 2019, the U.S.'s envoy to Venezuela, remember Elliott Abram, that guy, the guy th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 9:04
U.S. Treasury Department financed_via
CLAP host_asserted
“complain about the initiative on the UN floor, declaring, quote, Maduro has continued to politicize aid via the CLAP program, unquote. He said it was being used to just feed Maduro's supporters. When the Treasury Department hit CLAP with sa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 9:37
Mike Pompeo exposed
CLAP host_asserted
“lauded his colleagues for targeting Venezuela's oil for food scheme. He called feeding people to keep them from starving a scheme, claiming that Caracas had no intentions of providing food to the people. Yet the guy in the country actually …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 10:08
Francisco Rodriguez exposed
CLAP book_quoted
“Francisco Rodriguez conducted an in-depth analysis of CLAP in 2021 and determined the program was associated with a more than doubling of households' access to food assistance. And this is a guy that doesn't like Maduro. But he acknowledged…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 8:35
Mentions (28)
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of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…
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An effort to defend itself through the establishment of non-state civilian militias known as collectivos. And that was for the protection of the local people against insurgents. Yeah, let's talk about them. According to Bachelet, the CLAP p…
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but an intelligence gathering operation that spied on opposition families while blocking them from receiving benefits. Her evidence-free assertion are thoroughly dispelled by what we talked about earlier, where Anya, the author of this book…
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report authored by these economists. Instead, she provided official UN cover for Washington's financial war and justified attacks on the CLAP program, including the extrajudicial kidnapping of its facilitator, Alex Saab, one year following …
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including three high-level cabinet officials overseeing food production for participating in fraud schemes. The most significant aspect of Maduro's 2016 economic offensive would prove to be a dramatic expansion of Venezuela's production cap…
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The acronym was called CLAP, C-L-A-P. Launched amid national sanctions, fueled shortages of basic commodities. CLAP aimed to insulate Venezuelans from external assaults on their economic system. CLAP aimed to remedy Venezuela's import crisi…
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Kind of like our current SNAP program. Neighborhoods were directed to form CLAP committees that would essentially serve as the middlemen between their locality and the central government. By assessing the needs of their communities and coor…
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At its core, CLAP represented a direct lifeline from the Venezuelan government to its population, a path to circumvent their crazy supply chains controlled by domestic elite oligarchy because they began hoarding common staples to destabiliz…
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Francisco Rodriguez conducted an in-depth analysis of CLAP in 2021 and determined the program was associated with a more than doubling of households' access to food assistance. And this is a guy that doesn't like Maduro. But he acknowledged…
▶ 9:04
Venezuela's food crisis would almost certainly have been much worse. The U.S. government's obsession with CLAP further underscored its success. In February of 2019, the U.S.'s envoy to Venezuela, remember Elliott Abram, that guy, the guy th…
▶ 9:37
complain about the initiative on the UN floor, declaring, quote, Maduro has continued to politicize aid via the CLAP program, unquote. He said it was being used to just feed Maduro's supporters. When the Treasury Department hit CLAP with sa…
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Delce Rodriguez promptly thanked Pompeo for his honest confession of U.S. financial terror, asserting his statement proved Washington's illicit sanctions were designed to prevent the arrival of food in Venezuela. Others in Washington routin…
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were less likely to seek its benefits, claims of rampant political discrimination within CLAP did not square with reality. By the time the author, Anya, arrived in Venezuela in February of 2019, roughly 6 million households were receiving C…
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unlike anything that she had ever seen before. One of the people, even the people who opposed the government, was getting these. One shipment her host received contained pasta, dry beans, and cooking oil from Turkey. During another visit in…
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Terry Mattson, a U.S. peace activist who lived in Venezuela for several months around the time of the February 2019 visit, described a similar experience. Quote, my neighborhood was predominantly opposition, not supporters of Maduro. Quote,…
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The food was distributed through the community council, and the community council was majority opposition forces. Rodriguez's academic review of CLAP confirmed that Mattson's observation was true. Using data from 27 separate surveys conduct…
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nearly 70% of self-identified opposition respondents received CLAP benefits between the years 2016 and 2021. The CLAP initiative scored a key rhetorical point against the tale of a wicked Venezuelan dictator starving his people to death. If…
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virtually free of charge. In July 2019, an increasingly frustrated U.S. Treasury lobbed sanctions against 10 individuals and 13 international corporations providing food. They used food as a form of social control, it was said, to reward po…
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all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes, Steve Mnuchin said. Washington's mission to overthrow Venezuelan government would place the Caribbean businessman most responsible for CLAP's su…
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Saab cemented his relationship with Chavismo in 2011 when he won a contract to provide building materials for Venezuela's public housing mission. Five years later, he signed a deal to procure goods for 10 million clap boxes, marking his for…
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In April 2018, Saab's efforts to sustain CLAP-inspired Venezuelan government to appoint him as a special envoy to its foreign ministry, an act that granted the businessman official diplomacy status. Saab's work for CLAP, for obvious reasons…
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Considering the entire program was designed to subvert unilateral U.S. sanctions, the supply lines and deals Saab brokered were naturally subject to sabotage, especially when the secondary sanctions kicked in against foreign entities conduc…
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attack on CLAP was primarily focused on Saab, asserting that he operated a vast corrupt network by providing food. He was accused of enabling Venezuela's government to illegally profit from food imports and distribution in a U.S. Treasury r…
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are Mondo that purported to reveal a scheme through which Saab overcharged Venezuelan government for services related to CLAP so that he and others could pocket surplus and profit immensely. Now, again, I just have to highlight this. There'…
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Armando presented its fraud case against Saab by contrasting figures listed on his clap invoices with the market price of those same goods in other countries, concluding that he had overcharged Caracas government for his own benefit. Yet wi…
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It has put on us here in Venezuela. They visited a market, ran by clap, which is kind of like their snaps program. Days after CNN, Nick Valenza flew into the region aboard a U.S. military plane and filed his news report from the Colombian b…
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walk around, inspect the food and government subsidized items, including bread, fresh fruit, vegetables, blah, blah, blah. For Abrams, Bolton and Mnuchin and other in Washington, this clap market not only diminished the desired impact of th…
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Western intervention. It beyond confirmed to Aña that a broad swath of the Venezuelan public rejected Washington's push to overthrow their government and force humanitarian aid upon them. Virtually no international reporters at the pro-gove…