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Claims (39)
Nicolás Maduro succeeded
Hugo Chavez documented
“And it starts off talking about the void that was left by Hugo Chavez with his premature death and Nicolas Maduro taking over. Many of the Chavismo foreign sympathizers have since become prone to observing that.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 6:38
National Endowment for Democracy attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“why they're doing that. Are you saying that the attempted overthrows and the $1.7 billion that USAID and National Endowment for Democracy put into overthrowing the Chavez and now the Maduro regime was for shits and grins and it was just all…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:50:18
Hugo Chavez headed
Venezuela book_quoted
“ethnically is from your country being president. He had been a coca farmer. His motto for his presidential campaign was coca is not cocaine. This is a view shared by many Latin Americans, including Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who has p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 7:33
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“The people in the other countries know exactly what the United States has been doing. They know exactly what the CIA has been doing because they've done it to almost every country there. As a matter of fact, when Chavez originally nationali…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:11:34
Hugo Chavez founded
Chavismo book_quoted
“The late president, Hugo Chavez, always told us that we had to strengthen our relations with Africa. For Chavez, establishing ties with the continent he routinely called Mother Africa was a top priority. When he took office in 1999, Venezue…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 10:11
USAID attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“why they're doing that. Are you saying that the attempted overthrows and the $1.7 billion that USAID and National Endowment for Democracy put into overthrowing the Chavez and now the Maduro regime was for shits and grins and it was just all…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:50:18
Sumate attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“active citizen, is that the name of it? Active citizenry and Sumatres labored to ensure Washington achieved a return on their investment. So here we are just funding coup people, insurrections, while the same people are all in Washington, D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 39:58
Active Citizenry carried_out_attack
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“In 2004, Venezuela's opposition introduced a petition to subject Chavez to a recall, an effort that required over 2 million signatures to succeed. Active citizenry in Sumatra led the drive to collect signatures, eventually gathering enough …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 40:26
Sumate carried_out_attack
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“In 2004, Venezuela's opposition introduced a petition to subject Chavez to a recall, an effort that required over 2 million signatures to succeed. Active citizenry in Sumatra led the drive to collect signatures, eventually gathering enough …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 40:26
Hugo Chavez removed_from_power
ExxonMobil host_asserted
“Vacchio had established a lucrative career with ExxonMobil in Venezuela while moonlighting as a U.S.-backed civil society activist. His path was upended that June when Chavez drove ExxonMobil out of Venezuela as part of his effort to nation…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 41:29
Generation 2007 carried_out_attack
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Chavez aimed to redirect the momentum behind his re-election to codify the social gains made across the decade since he was first elected. As detailed in Chapter 4, voters shot down the proposal following a months-long foreign-backed street…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 44:23
Elliot Abrams attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“from Congress. Though George H.W. Bush pardoned him the following year, Abrams would go on to serve in Bush Jr.'s national security team and orchestrate a failed military coup against Chavez in April 2002, just weeks following the U.S. pres…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 23:34
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
Hugo Chavez traded_network_to
Iran host_asserted
“has proven more consequential for Venezuela than its blossoming partnership with Iran, a top target of U.S. hybrid war ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Chavez prioritized a friendship with Iran from the outset of his presidency, anot…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 27:05
Hugo Chavez attempted_coup_against
Venezuela book_quoted
“As a patriot within the army who understood that his country was not free as long as the U.S. and Europe owned its land and government, Chavez organized a clandestine group dedicated to reviving the vision of Venezuela's neocolonial hero, S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 41:57
Diosdado Cabello succeeded
Hugo Chavez book_quoted
“At some point then, around February of 2014, a military captain turned Chavista politician named Dios Dado Cabala established a new program. In launching the program, he inherited the task of communicating the actions of the Maduro governme…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 32:34
Hugo Chavez founded
M-200 book_quoted
“for supporting the failed coup. Among those detained was Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Rafael Chavez, a paratrooper from humble beginnings in Venezuelans' rural plains, who had been organizing rebel patriots within the army ranks since 1982. He f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 15:38
Hugo Chavez member_of
M-200 book_quoted
“which was nicknamed MBR 200, described by Venezuela's current government as an organization led by young military men that was born to fight against the neoliberal system. MBR 200 saw themselves as continuing the Latin American liberator, S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 16:05
Hugo Chavez attempted_coup_against
Carlos Andrés Pérez book_quoted
“combined subservient to the neoliberal order, eventually gave way to unprecedented political upheaval, a social crisis that set the stage for Chavez's democratic election in 1998. The average Venezuelan were first introduced to Hugo Chavez …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 31:48
Rafael Caldera pardoned
Hugo Chavez book_quoted
“In an effort to unify the country, Perez's successor, Rafael Caldera, released Chavez and his cohort from prison in March 1994. As Chavez predicted, a new political situation did eventually rise in Venezuela, which carried him to the presid…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 33:40
Hugo Chavez headed
Venezuela documented
“are the properties of the republic. They are public domain and therefore inalienable and not transferable. In other words, Venezuela nationalized its vast national wealth, including the oil reserves, the largest in the world, and vowed to i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 35:38
Hugo Chavez appointed
Nicolás Maduro documented
“Chavez made a televised address in which he urged the country to support Maduro if his health took a turn for the worse. This is, quote, choose Maduro as president of the republic, he said. I am asking you to do this with all my heart, unqu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 42:28
Nicolás Maduro succeeded
Hugo Chavez documented
“Venezuela's heeded their revolutionary leader's call and elected Chavez as president on October 14, 2013. Venezuela's National Electoral Council declared Maduro's victory over Capriles by a narrow margin of 234,934 votes. Though Capriles in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 46:31
USAID attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Even back when Chavez was president, they allowed independent media. I was flabbergasted by that. I was told that Chavez was a dictator and, you know, controlled everything and blah, blah, blah. But he didn't. USAID was operating there. The…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:24:19
United States overthrew
Hugo Chavez documented
“actively supported the U.S.-backed military coup, which temporarily removed Chavez from power in 2002. While those demonstrations ultimately died down, they reunited in the weeks leading up to the December 2nd constitutional referendum. Thi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 12:10
Jorge Arreaza member_of
Hugo Chavez documented
“He even embarked on a multi-city week-long tour of Africa. So much experience, wisdom, and advice for resisting the Western advances. A former university professor, Ariza, first joined Venezuela's government under Hugo Chavez, whose daughte…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 39:46
Jesus Faria Rodriguez attempted_assassination_of
Hugo Chavez documented
“Jesus Faria Rodriguez had fled Venezuela in 2006 after breaking out of prison where he was serving a nine-year sentence for overseeing the Dakari farm plot, a foiled plan to assassinate Hugo Chavez by disguising himself as a Colombian param…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 9:01
Nicolás Maduro succeeded
Hugo Chavez book_quoted
“The Bolivarian revolution initiated by President Hugo Chavez in 1998 and continued under President Nicolas Maduro represented a deliberate political action to reassert Venezuela's self-determination, overcome neocolonial dependency, and con…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 4:03
CIA attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Tensions in bilateral relations with Venezuela under the George Bush administration turned especially sour in the aftermath of President Chavez, the coup that the CIA did on Chavez in 2002. Venezuela alleged U.S. involvement in the ouster w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 12:27
Active Citizenry attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“active citizen, is that the name of it? Active citizenry and Sumatres labored to ensure Washington achieved a return on their investment. So here we are just funding coup people, insurrections, while the same people are all in Washington, D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 39:58
Elliot Abrams attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“within the Bush II administration when this operation was playing out. John Negroponte, who prior to taking over the post as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, served as the DNI, and Elliott Abrams, who served as the Deputy National Security A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 5:55
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Serving as a crucial figure overseeing a scheme from his post on Bush Jr.'s national security team was none other than Elliott Abrams, the same guy that John Bolton used in 2019 to do the exact same thing. The guy just keeps coming back. Do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 33:05
Hugo Chavez appointed
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“The show produced a total of 378 episodes between the years 1999 and 2012, each one running between four and eight hours. So he was not shy to talk to the people in Venezuela. While Maduro quickly rose to the occasion and won the Venezuelan…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 32:04
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“We're hearing about the accusations of Venezuela, the source of drugs being from Venezuela. And I'm not saying they're not. But I'm also saying that we have established a pattern where the CIA routes drugs through places like that. And the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 39:19
Hugo Chavez appointed
Samuel Moncada book_quoted
“According to Venezuela's real U.N. ambassador, Samuel Moncato, he said the following. We are battling, he told Anya, because as we know, this is the forum in which Vice President Mike Pence had addressed the Security Council earlier, just b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 1:29
Hugo Chavez recruited
Colectivos book_quoted
“As a patriot within the army who understood that his country was not free as long as the U.S. and Europe owned its land and government, Chavez organized a clandestine group dedicated to reviving the vision of Venezuela's neocolonial hero, S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 41:57
Venezuela targeted_for_regime_change
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Chavez come to power. Not that Chavez is not corrupt. Make whatever argument you want. They were disgruntled elite people that were living off of the CIA propped up government in Venezuela. So when Chavez was elected in 1998, many of those …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:42:53
Alvaro Uribe ordered_assassination_of
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Colombian government and their CIA backers against President Chavez, which, of course, is a bad thing. They were involved in electoral fraud, doctoring police and judicial records to erase paramilitary death squad hits. It also says the mos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9 @ 47:01
Hugo Chavez ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“The show produced a total of 378 episodes between the years 1999 and 2012, each one running between four and eight hours. So he was not shy to talk to the people in Venezuela. While Maduro quickly rose to the occasion and won the Venezuelan…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 32:04
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understand real history which is why the three of us collectively work so well together because we understand the importance i just said like yesterday and the day before that venezuela brazil all of these places that and um they never clos…
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So when I went back and looked at the underneath of how Chavez came to power, how Maduro came to power, do I think that everything that has gone on there is great? I absolutely do not. But I also understand that 99.9% of the information tha…
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And I would tell you that Deloitte, I've actually talked about in the show that I was on with Ash in America, where we were talking about the H-1B visas. They are all working in collaboration with the CIA. So here we go. DAI was contracted …
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Here is the boogeyman. It's communism. And who are the allies? The Republicans. So, see, they've even figured it out. A network of former Cold Warriors and Republicans in Congress loudly encouraged Honduras' de facto regime and criticized t…
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concern with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez perceived influence in the region rather than just with Honduras itself, which happens all of the time. Remember, because the whole reason we were in Honduras is not because we gave a crap about…
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The government, if you do anything outside of X, Y, and Z, is going to murder you. So the audacity of our government to tell us that Maduro or Chavez before him is really the bad guy, or do you just want their oil? Is he bad because he won'…
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They want somebody that is a firm leader that demands respect, but also respects the people within their country. And I would put Putin in that category, by the way. And in that role, you have somebody that comes to power and supposedly was…
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The people in the other countries know exactly what the United States has been doing. They know exactly what the CIA has been doing because they've done it to almost every country there. As a matter of fact, when Chavez originally nationali…
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We're hearing about the accusations of Venezuela, the source of drugs being from Venezuela. And I'm not saying they're not. But I'm also saying that we have established a pattern where the CIA routes drugs through places like that. And the …
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Even back when Chavez was president, they allowed independent media. I was flabbergasted by that. I was told that Chavez was a dictator and, you know, controlled everything and blah, blah, blah. But he didn't. USAID was operating there. The…
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I do recall Hugo Chavez giving a speech at the UN talking about all of this and what was going on and actually calling Bush the devil. Right. And if anybody's interested, they can find it on C-SPAN. It's out there. That film's still out the…
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Morales had banned the DEA from his country. He cited the book, The Big White Lie, by Michael Levine, who basically exposed all of this. Another great book. And said that he didn't want any of those people in his country because he knew tha…
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Resistance to U.S. imperialism has intensified in Colombia with some outside influence, but not among the narco elite or the politicians, because, again, that's why you have to have death squads. Anybody that stands up and protests is going…
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kind of almost like a campaign to embolden the resistance in Colombia to push back against the U.S. control of the narcotics there, which obviously would put him at odds with the U.S. State Department, which of course is why we all know Cha…
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or a radical Islamic terrorist, and becomes a target. So the author goes on to say, alongside Cuba and FARC, Venezuela then became part of the axis of evil. Because you can't have anybody speaking out about U.S. imperialism in Latin America…
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They operate with impunity at the time. So, under the pressure from George W. Bush administration, President Uribe neutralized Chavez's growing influence in the Colombian conflict by dismissing his mediating efforts that had commenced in 20…
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Colombian government and their CIA backers against President Chavez, which, of course, is a bad thing. They were involved in electoral fraud, doctoring police and judicial records to erase paramilitary death squad hits. It also says the mos…
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ethnically is from your country being president. He had been a coca farmer. His motto for his presidential campaign was coca is not cocaine. This is a view shared by many Latin Americans, including Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who has p…
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Hyundai Corporation and the Japanese Samsung and all that stuff. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Seller, go ahead. I'm noticing that, or tell me if I'm wrong, but the Venezuelan stuff has been going on for a lon…
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were there. So I don't think there's a comparison in Venezuela to Iran for those reasons. The Chavez and past in Venezuela does seem to be an honest effort to get US oligarchs out of Venezuela. And if you go back to…
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Chavez, it's interesting to note that despite the U.S. government constantly being in Venezuela with USAID, they actually owned one of the major newspapers the CIA through a front company did. So if Chavez is supposed to be the dictator,…
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The Bolivarian revolution initiated by President Hugo Chavez in 1998 and continued under President Nicolas Maduro represented a deliberate political action to reassert Venezuela's self-determination, overcome neocolonial dependency, and con…
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For lots of different reasons, because there's a significant, large expat community in southern Florida, just like there was from Cuba. And they are basically dictating the, they're recognized as the quote unquote scholars and knowledgeable…
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orchestrating a lot of what's gone on in Venezuela with the imperialism that followed. U.S. readers should be aware that partisan divides in Venezuela do not carry the same social implications as they do here. For example, Venezuela's revol…
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The U.S. and European interests commanded authority in the country's natural wealth and domestic policies until the dawn of the 21st century. Venezuela's post-war neoliberal government eventually enacted a series of IMF prescribed reforms t…
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As a patriot within the army who understood that his country was not free as long as the U.S. and Europe owned its land and government, Chavez organized a clandestine group dedicated to reviving the vision of Venezuela's neocolonial hero, S…
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Chavez realized Venezuela's route to revolution ran not through the military, but through the hearts and minds of the people. Upon his release from prison for that attempted coup in 1994, Chavez spent four years traveling the entire country…
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carried Chavez to election in 1998 and on to the revolution that awaited Venezuela. As he broke the chains binding Venezuela to neoliberalism, Chavez did not seek war with his neighbors. He simply asked to recall our own destiny as an imper…
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It's worth saying that 20 years ago, if you were an oil investor, you probably didn't support the coup against Chavez, but you were kind of annoyed about losing your oil rights. And you also didn't necessarily know the history from the 30s,…
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to Mobil before it merged with Exxon, and then moving to the country's state oil company, Petrolis, which has the initials PDBSA. Like other leading figures in the opposition, Vecchio belonged to the replacement generation of pro-U.S. Venez…
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ever since he and others among the scorned ruling class had colluded with Washington to reassert U.S. corporate interest in Venezuela in the ill-fated effort culminating in Guaido's self-declared presidency. Around the time of Chavez's inau…
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bureaucrats aspiring to command influence in Washington and U.S.-aligned foreign capital, Harvard's Kennedy School is both a rite of passage en route to the halls of power and a comfortable place to land once your party's not in power anymo…
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Washington consensus and return their oil to U.S. control. He reflected that while at Harvard, he learned a lot more about the best political practices and how they could be used in his country. As Vecchio drilled English grammar and tax la…
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because that's what they want here. Yet before Chavez could escalate his transformation of Venezuela, he would have to win a fresh mandate under the country's updated constitution. When an election was set for November 2000, the United Stat…
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Even though at home, it's exactly what the Democrats tell you they want to do. As Chavez gained popularity and overturned the pro-corporate agenda, Washington and Santana launched an active campaign to sabotage his leadership at every turn.…
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Santana's bid to impair Venezuela's revolutionary momentum failed. Chavez won nearly 60% of the votes in the November 2000 election, securing a new term under Venezuela's new constitution. He then endeavored to revamp the national education…
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and established a joint venture to fund sports and literacy programs for Venezuelan youth. For his political rivals, Chavez's open partnership with other countries that they viewed as less desirable, to include Cuba, was a red line. When Ca…
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The first sustained phase of civil revolt against Chavez had finally arrived. With its prior efforts to stop Chavez in its tracks, Santana quickly materialized at the uprising's forefront. Chavez tried to mess with our schools and civil soc…
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that this was the largest protest against President Chavez to date. Known as Movement 1.011, the street campaign heated up just as Vecchio's studies in the U.S. wound to a close. Near the end of his time at Harvard, the young lawyer accepte…
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Vecchio thus began his ascent into the clandestine network of U.S.-funded civil society groups opposing Chavez by any means necessary. Their offensive reached a head in April of 2002 when Chavez initiated a complete overhaul of the country'…
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The events of April 11, 2002 was well established in popular history in response to the shakeup at the state-run oil company. Venezuela's business elite collaborated with rogue military forces to kidnap Chavez and detain him on a prison isl…
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as the head of the national transition government. So Guaido wasn't their first attempted fake coup. The document, known as the Carmona Decree, established a de facto dictatorship and dissolved Venezuela's newly formed National Assembly and…
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Nothing says democracy like getting rid of the Constitution. For several hours, Western media celebrated Chavez's coup. The New York Times even printed a glowing profile of Kimona, the Chamber of Commerce guy, within hours of the coup, legi…
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A strong-willed populist known for his rambling speeches to a mild-mannered businessman who occasionally chooses every word very carefully. The paper read, the Times ran an official staff op-ed rejoicing, actually called it Venezuelan democ…
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Regardless of the Times' opinion on the matter, the Venezuelan public moved swiftly to reject the overthrow of their government. Throughout the country, masses of people poured into the streets to demand the president's freedom. As the popu…
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Just after midnight on April 13th, a military helicopter returned Chavez to the cheers of his supporters outside the presidential palace. To Venezuelans' overwhelming Catholic population, Chavez's comeback mirrored something like a resurrec…
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It had failed in less than 48 hours. Diplomatic sources at the OAS in Washington eventually charged U.S. officials with directing the plot, revealing to The Guardian, quote, Venezuelans plotting a coup included Carmona himself, unquote. He …
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As a lawyer for a private oil industry at the time, he and Santana managed to leave their mark on the U.S.-directed coup. Just three months prior to the short-lived coup in January of 2002, the pair co-founded a Caracas-based quote-unquote …
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part of an actual insurrection in Venezuela. She also wound up on Washington's payroll that year when her organization, Sumate, scored a $53,400 handout from the U.S.-backed National Endowment for Democracy. When the U.S. government initiat…
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In 2004, Venezuela's opposition introduced a petition to subject Chavez to a recall, an effort that required over 2 million signatures to succeed. Active citizenry in Sumatra led the drive to collect signatures, eventually gathering enough …
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We're up to like three or four at this point. A record number of Venezuelans participated in the recall, which delivered a resounding no vote by a 16% margin. Lines at the poll were so long, in fact, that voting hours had to be extended twi…
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Vacchio had established a lucrative career with ExxonMobil in Venezuela while moonlighting as a U.S.-backed civil society activist. His path was upended that June when Chavez drove ExxonMobil out of Venezuela as part of his effort to nation…
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I will be fired, Vecchio said. The government will discriminate against me, he said. By then, Vecchio had been mounting a fruitless legal challenge against Chavez's effort to restructure Venezuelan's oil sector for years. After losing his c…
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It's been a dictatorship for a long time. Then how is USAID even there? How is any of these people not in jail? Small questions. Okay. In August 2007, Chavez introduced a proposal to amend 32 articles of the Constitution, having won a third…
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a high-ranking Venezuelan official prior to Chavez's presidency, but established himself as an influential academic at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government after moving to the U.S. in the 1990s. He literally had nothing to do with Maduro …
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that he was abroad at Oxford during this rebellion. His book that he has written, We Created Chavez, A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, charted Chavez's rise as a product of the IMF-prescribed neoliberal economic program that …
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Boys Delivered had set the stage for the Chavez revolution and the 1998 electoral victory. Chavez's election was an indirect response to neoliberalism, born of a mass resistance in the streets. In power, it remained largely faithful to its …
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election victory, Haussmann had been living outside of Venezuela for several years. In 1994, he relocated to Washington, D.C. to work as a chief economist at the IBD before moving to Boston in 2000 to work at Harvard. Even as they built the…
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His wife, Ana Julio Jotter, served as an executive committee on the executive committee supporting Maria Karina Marcato at her U.S.-funded USAID machine, Sumate, which led to the failed effort to remove Chavez during a recall vote in 2003. …
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For Haasman and his wife, the tireless campaign to defeat the Chavez and later Maduro agenda within Venezuela's border was a family tradition at this point. Haasman's father-in-law, Braulio Jartar Dotti, was a high-level official in Venezue…
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the quote-unquote extreme right, left, sorry. So, as in all of the coups throughout Latin America, they use the label left for people who just want their country back. When Haasman's daughter, Joanna, pledged to provide viewers with the fac…
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Were they around since the 1960s as self-defense militias? Though colectivos overwhelmingly lined up behind Chavez once he was elected, McAvoy insisted Bachelorette's report stripped the Venezuelan political situation of all historical cont…
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was quoted as saying, they could not, nor will they. They could not with Chavez, they cannot with Maduro, and they cannot with the Venezuelan people, not anyone. Indeed, though U.S. officials often referred to the international community as…
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Anya spoke with Venezuelan Vice Minister for African Affairs, Yuri Penentral, about his government's relationship with the African continent. In relations of the Venezuelan government with the African continent are very strong, and it's not…
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The late president, Hugo Chavez, always told us that we had to strengthen our relations with Africa. For Chavez, establishing ties with the continent he routinely called Mother Africa was a top priority. When he took office in 1999, Venezue…
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I speak about 54 countries, even though one of them is not recognized by the UN because we recognize the Western Sahara as an independent country. He's referring to the Northwest African territory that has struggled against Moroccan occupat…
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and who accused Hugo Chavez of crimes against humanity. One year after Venezuelan's government moved to ex-appropriate his private ranch as part of its efforts to expand domestic agricultural capacity. Also present was Guaido's U.S. quote-u…
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Chavez's command to nationalize the property of foreign country companies in Venezuela's domestic oligarchy were often dictated on his weekly Sunday programs. He would talk about he had rambling like sometimes as much as eight hours of conv…
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On February 7, 2010, in this building, Chavez pointing to a multi-storefront situated on the corner in Caracas, emblazoned with the words gold market in English. His colleagues informed him the building was the site of several jewelry store…
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His government later alleged the building had been a black site for money laundering. Television was a central means of communication for Chavez, a medium through which he unveiled policy initiatives, engaged with constituents, and articula…
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The show produced a total of 378 episodes between the years 1999 and 2012, each one running between four and eight hours. So he was not shy to talk to the people in Venezuela. While Maduro quickly rose to the occasion and won the Venezuelan…
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At some point then, around February of 2014, a military captain turned Chavista politician named Dios Dado Cabala established a new program. In launching the program, he inherited the task of communicating the actions of the Maduro governme…
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called H-I-L-S-I-N-G-E, Helsinge Incorporated. Having established this consulting firm, Helsinge, amid Chavez's efforts to reform Venezuela's oil sector in early 2000s,…
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year 2000 and everybody thought the computers were going to crash and all that stuff. I was at a New Year's Eve party where I was all Latino. I was the only gringo. I have spoken fluent Spanish since I was 19. And we had a couple of Colombi…
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They told me that night, they said, we're not going back. We are scared to death of Chavez, and we're not going back. And shortly after New Year's Day, they disappeared. It was in the press and everything, and they were trying to find them …
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for supporting the failed coup. Among those detained was Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Rafael Chavez, a paratrooper from humble beginnings in Venezuelans' rural plains, who had been organizing rebel patriots within the army ranks since 1982. He f…
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which was nicknamed MBR 200, described by Venezuela's current government as an organization led by young military men that was born to fight against the neoliberal system. MBR 200 saw themselves as continuing the Latin American liberator, S…
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until the chains binding their people were shattered. Bolivar famously uttered the same words to his mentor and tutor, Samuel Robinson, in 1805, just five years before the start of the Venezuelan War of Independence. To understand Chavez's …
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that he never completed. Bolivar died on December 17, 1830, as he awaited a ship to carry him from the modern-day Colombia to Europe. Though history books officially attributed his sudden demise at 47 to tuberculosis, others, including Chav…
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combined subservient to the neoliberal order, eventually gave way to unprecedented political upheaval, a social crisis that set the stage for Chavez's democratic election in 1998. The average Venezuelan were first introduced to Hugo Chavez …
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depose President Carlos Andres Perez as they slept. Quote, comrades, regrettably for now, the objectives that we were not, were not achieved in the Capitol. Unquote, said the young Lieutenant Colonel, calling on his troops to surrender and …
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It is time to reflect. New situations will arise. The country must move decisively towards a better destiny, unquote. Chavez's appeal, known as Por Ahura, for now, address, was hardly one minute long, yet it marked on Venezuela's history wa…
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With the phrase, for now, he instead suggested his followers would one day rise again. Though Chavez and his collaborators were jailed for their participation in the coup, the events of February 4, 1992, ultimately spread his revolutionary …
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In an effort to unify the country, Perez's successor, Rafael Caldera, released Chavez and his cohort from prison in March 1994. As Chavez predicted, a new political situation did eventually rise in Venezuela, which carried him to the presid…
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He used that experience to shape the platform of a populist presidential campaign, running on the promise to convene a national constitution and rewrite their constitution according to the public's desires. Chavez won a landslide victory on…
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Venezuela approved their new constitution on December 15th, 1999, less than one year after his swearing-in ceremony, formally establishing the Bulgarian Republic of Venezuela by an overwhelming 42% margin. In 1999, the constitution and subs…
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are the properties of the republic. They are public domain and therefore inalienable and not transferable. In other words, Venezuela nationalized its vast national wealth, including the oil reserves, the largest in the world, and vowed to i…
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As a result of its 1999 constitution, Venezuela doubled investment in government programs and raised social spending to 22% of its GDP by 2011. In turn, the country saw a 20% drop in poverty and a 50% reduction in extreme poverty during the…
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By 2011, that was over 2 million. These are just a few examples of the transformation, a political project that Chavez himself would eventually brand as the 21st century socialism. As Venezuela's thrived, however, the health of its leader d…
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At the end of the month, he emerged to speak before the public and revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer. He had been neglecting his health. He died shortly before 4.30 p.m. on March 5, 2013, at the age of 58. Immediately, U.S. and Eur…
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Mr. Chavez's departure from a country he dominated for 14 years cast into doubt the future of his revolution, reported the New York Times. It went on to say his death is sure to bring vast uncertainty as the nation rises to find its way wit…
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Pain and uncertainty in Venezuela after the death of Chavez was the headline in the Spanish newspaper. Up until his death, Chavez, I don't even know how they say that, Chavismo, which is what they name, kind of like MAGA is named, Chavismo …
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virtually undefeated at the ballot box. For 14 years, Venezuela's opposition failed to win a presidential election or gain any significant majority in the legislature. Would Venezuela's revolutionary project die alongside Chavez? Many hoped…
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Capriles ran against an ailing Chavez in October 2012 and had lost by a million votes. In his chance at electoral redemption, Capriles faced a man who had risen from union leader to National Assembly member to foreign minister to Chavez-tru…
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Chavez made a televised address in which he urged the country to support Maduro if his health took a turn for the worse. This is, quote, choose Maduro as president of the republic, he said. I am asking you to do this with all my heart, unqu…
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in its coverage of Maduro. U.S. and European media reports on Venezuela's 2013 election almost universally reduced Maduro's character to that of Chavez's hand-picked successor, which is not untrue. He was. While sowing doubt that someone wh…
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Maduro's journey was a strange one. He had risen from being a lowly bus driver to a powerful union leader to eventually being Chavez's vice president. That was written about in The Atlantic in 2013. Yes, quote, yes, a former bus driver may …
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Caracas Metro in 1991, Maduro rapidly rose the ranks of the union leadership to the fact that he was driven, friendly, committed to work interests, and charismatic, according to another book. It was in his capacity as union leader that Madu…
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with labor leaders, including Maduro, in December 1993. Following the encounter, Maduro became a top advocate for Chavez's release and eventually elected to the 1999 National Constitution Assembly. In this context, the fact that Chavez entr…
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Venezuela's heeded their revolutionary leader's call and elected Chavez as president on October 14, 2013. Venezuela's National Electoral Council declared Maduro's victory over Capriles by a narrow margin of 234,934 votes. Though Capriles in…
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Henry Falcon, the opposition leader, words were directed at U.S.-backed elements within Venezuela's opposition that considered engagement with Maduro not only unacceptable but tantamount to treason. Indeed, the fact that such unprecedented …
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The document was prepared by a D.C. consulting firm and several Colombian foundations. Columbia. That's weird. Including one led by the country's former president, Alvaro Uribe. Uribe. The guy that was in bed with the narco elite. That Urib…
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will be absolutely null, effectively declaring Venezuela's legislature defunct until it was resolved. Despite the high court's declaration, opposition lawmakers wasted no time in wielding their newfound power to launch a concerted attack on…
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But NATO ensured their continued label as that for decades. Only now are you seeing the reemergence of fierce leaders and breaking free of that financial, economical, political colonialism throughout the continent of Africa. End of soapbox.…
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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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Following GMBV's initiation, others were procured through the federal expropriation of existing constructs like Verte Tiona, a military base in southwest Caracas that Chavez partially converted into public housing, which is exactly what we …
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has proven more consequential for Venezuela than its blossoming partnership with Iran, a top target of U.S. hybrid war ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Chavez prioritized a friendship with Iran from the outset of his presidency, anot…
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They did not want intervention. They did not want war. Had anyone paid or coerced them to participate in the action, she asked. Every one of them said no. We're here of our own free will for the legacy of our country and Hugo Chavez. We are…
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that form Washington's elite. Back in 2007, Guaido was concluding his university studies and Chavismo had established itself as a political juggernaut in Venezuela and the surrounding region. Progressive governments allied with Chavez had c…
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After almost 10 years of revolution, Chavismo appeared unstoppable. That summer, Chavez introduced a ballot referendum to enshrine his vision called 21st century socialism. In Venezuela's constitution and scheduled a vote for December 2nd, …
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the abolition of presidential term limits, and official declaration that Venezuela was a socialist nation. The opposition's rare triumph over Chavismo had not been delivered by the existing party or prominent political detractors, but by a …
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actively supported the U.S.-backed military coup, which temporarily removed Chavez from power in 2002. While those demonstrations ultimately died down, they reunited in the weeks leading up to the December 2nd constitutional referendum. Thi…
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Some here say they feel that the situation is as tense as 2002, said a journalist, Fred Fluentes, which was part of the U.S.-directed military coup. Weeks later, on November 28th, opposition rioters shot and killed a chavista in the city of…
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Voters rejected Chavez's ballot initiative by a narrow 2% margin. Having delivered Chavez's first defeat at the ballot box since its inception 10 years earlier, the students behind the anarchic street demonstrations were credited with the s…
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And they formed a political party, just like the political warfare cadre academy in Taiwan taught all of these people to do. The opposition bloc was at the forefront of violent riots that swept Venezuela following Chavez's death. By January…
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He even embarked on a multi-city week-long tour of Africa. So much experience, wisdom, and advice for resisting the Western advances. A former university professor, Ariza, first joined Venezuela's government under Hugo Chavez, whose daughte…
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as the family's de facto spokesperson throughout the president's later years, delivering bedside updates to the press as Chavez's health declined. In 2013, Maduro selected him as his running mate, and basically he first served as vice presi…
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Chavista governor who fled on corruption charges in Venezuela in 2009. So he was actually in Chavez's government and charged with corruption and fled the country. So he's now down in Costa Rica confiscating the Venezuelan embassy. The Minui…
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Jesus Faria Rodriguez had fled Venezuela in 2006 after breaking out of prison where he was serving a nine-year sentence for overseeing the Dakari farm plot, a foiled plan to assassinate Hugo Chavez by disguising himself as a Colombian param…
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aligned governments that emerged throughout Latin America and the Caribbean around the turn of the century. Seemingly overnight, progressive leaders, many of them inspired by Venezuela's revolution, arrived at the helm of their governments …