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Claims (42)
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
Jordan Goudreau targeted_for_regime_change
Nicolás Maduro documented
“revealing the existence of a covert plan to ignite a popular rebellion in Venezuela that would culminate with the arrest of President Maduro. The plot dubbed Operation Gideon was to be carried out by 300 volunteer combatants, many of them V…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 38:04
Trump administration targeted_for_regime_change
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 3:52
Nicolás Maduro funded
Cuba host_asserted
“in Aravac aircraft to Cuba for medical treatment because they didn't have the supplies because of sanctions to do the medical care. And more importantly, they had to have some currency, if you quote unquote currency, in exchange. So they sa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:34:03
Nicolás Maduro appointed
Jorge Arreaza documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 40:17
USAID attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro 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
National Endowment for Democracy attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro 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
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“And they are partly funded by all these big petroleum companies, ExxonMobil, blah, blah, blah, Chevron. So he is definitely part of this whole system of destabilizing Venezuela and trying to get the greedy fingers in there and hoping to ove…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:09:19
Mike Pompeo ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“show recently and I'm I apologize I'm not going to remember his name the former special ops guy that was used by Pompeo to insert a team to overthrow Maduro during Trump's first administration who's been arrested and they're basically tryin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:46:00
Nicolás Maduro funded
David Boies host_asserted
“Where this gets interesting is the lawyer that I mentioned earlier that Maduro hired to file the original civil action lawsuit was a guy named Bowie, David Bowie. I think I'm saying his name right, but it's B-O-I-E-S. Now, Bowie is pretty w…”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 30:33
Jordan Goudreau carried_out_attack
Nicolás Maduro book_quoted
“The raid was part of Venezuela's response to what is known as Operation Gideon, a foiled plot to capture or kill President Maduro, led by former U.S. Green Beret named Jordan, I don't know how you pronounce his last name, Godreau, G-O-U-D-R…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 31:34
Cliver Alcalá attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“the El Salvador El Pobotango or whatever the name of that airport was. And he didn't even have an official job in the administration other than being attached to the CIA. So who knows? Goudreau was not the only player swept up in Gideon dra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:11:18
Efraín Antonio Guevara attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“the El Salvador El Pobotango or whatever the name of that airport was. And he didn't even have an official job in the administration other than being attached to the CIA. So who knows? Goudreau was not the only player swept up in Gideon dra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:11:18
U.S. State Department financed_via
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“extraordinary confession, the U.S. State Department just happened to indict President Maduro on drug trafficking charges and announced a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest. You see the problem with that? When you do th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:13:11
William Barr ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro book_quoted
“Regardless of whether Washington was directly involved in Operation Gideon, there's no question the U.S. policy towards Venezuelan drove Goudreau and his friends to follow through with their reckless plot. What purpose did the State Departm…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:30:49
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
Cuba supplied_arms_to
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“There's always a Cuban military presence in Venezuela, but they'll see an influx of Cuban troops come in on the streets because Maduro fears that enough of the Venezuelan government could turn against him during those moments and back the p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:52:57
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
Nicolás Maduro appointed
Alex Saab host_asserted
“U.S. officials initiated a plan to hinder his diplomatic efforts to feed and fuel Venezuela once and for all. On June 12, 2020, Maduro dispatched Saab on an official mission to Iran, where he was tasked for procuring medicine, food, and oth…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 34:35
Juan Guaidó attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“is an imperial puppet, she informed everybody. He does not exist in Venezuela politics. Rodriguez's address marked the formal defeat of Guaido's coup at the UN. Moments following its conclusion, a normally subdued Ariza was uncharacteristic…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 8:10
Nicolás Maduro appointed
Delcy Rodríguez book_quoted
“Tasked with addressing the UN General Assembly on the country's behalf was Vice President Dele Rodriguez. As with Ariza and his staff who arrived in New York prior, U.S. sanctions had barred Rodriguez from chartering a plane to the U.S. and…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 4:45
Nicolás Maduro appointed
Jorge Arreaza book_quoted
“juxtapose the image of a vanquished former diplomat with one showing Venezuela, Vice President Rodriguez, UN Ambassador Mankato, and the foreign minister Ariza smiling proudly in their proper Venezuelan seats. For those who had any doubt ab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 13:10
Juan Guaidó attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro book_quoted
“dealing with this election fraud had went on for months. Guaido's strategy was obvious. By insisting to enter the legislature with banned lawmakers, he directed a scene that appeared to prove that Maduro's government was preventing him from…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 22:50
Juan Guaidó attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro book_quoted
“Parra's promise to uphold his civic duties were drowned out by the chaos. Though Guaido's attempt to prevent the vote was unsuccessful, his degrading show at the fence achieved a more important objective. Below are samples of the foreign me…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 24:16
Juan Guaidó attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro book_quoted
“in February of 2019 during what became the first of three extended reporting trips to Venezuela over a two-year period of time. Days before her arrival, a little-known opposition lawmaker named Juan Guaido had stood in the center of John Pa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 5:26
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
Jorge Ramos spied_on
Nicolás Maduro documented
“produced a 13-minute profile of Univision's host. Why Jorge Ramos took on Trump was the name of it. During the report, Ramos admitted that his crew had conspired to stage the confrontation with Trump before they even boarded the plane to Io…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 8:14
Marco Rubio ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“A swarm of reporters greeted the Univision host and his crew as Ramos chronicled his meeting in Caracas for his corporate colleagues. Her partner forced his attention. Did Ramos also plan to confront U.S. officials about their sanctions and…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 40:47
Juan Guaidó attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“Regardless of Washington's and London's official position on the matter, not one government ministry fell to Venezuela's opposition in the wake of Guaido's coup attempt. Venezuela's shadow government similarly failed to gain significant int…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 36:48
Marco Rubio ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“and his wife Elena's arrest taken days before they were both executed. Though none of the snapshots were accompanied with words, Rubio's message was clear. Maduro was going to be assassinated or arrested, whichever. Amid his post, Rubio fou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 41:36
Nicolás Maduro accused
John Bolton host_asserted
“Maduro would go on to say that he couldn't accuse President Trump directly because he didn't think he was involved in it. He said, but I do have all the evidence to accuse John Bolton. He's a criminal and he failed. Bolton would later cite …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 10:02
Mike Pompeo claimed
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“was on the verge of fleeing Venezuela to take up residency in Cuba. He had an airplane on the tarmac, according to Pompeo. He was ready to leave that morning, as we understand it, and the Russians indicate he should stay. The U.S. Secretary…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 15:15
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
Nicolás Maduro funded
FARC host_asserted
“All right, it goes on to say that Chavez viewed Colombia's rebels as allies, famously stating that the FARC was not the enemy of Venezuela while cracking down on right-wing paramilitary in western Venezuela. And by right-wing paramilitary, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 49:52
Gustavo Tarre attempted_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro documented
“coup attempt. Having fled Venezuela in 2014, after he was implicated in an alleged plot to assassinate President Maduro, by the time of his appointment to Guaido's shadow regime, Tari had established himself as a leading voice of Venezuela'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 33:27
Leopoldo Lopez attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“in the race to be the new opposition leader. Despite ultimately receiving a 14-year prison sentence over his role in the riots, Lopez continued to command Venezuela's radical opposition from behind bars, adopting a strategy described as pre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 58:49
Donald Trump ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“Do you think that there was some speculation that maybe this Qatar and Idaho was part of the peace deal? Have you seen anything? It was absolutely not. I told you it started in 2016. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. Very good. Okay. So can we now talk…”
▶ Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16 @ 37:49
United States removed_from_power
Nicolás Maduro caller_asserted
“Trump was able to find enough people inside of Venezuela that he could work with offline to just take Maduro out and then take the sanctions off and reopen that. So they cut all of those middlemen criminal elements out of the deal. So they'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:38:51
John Bolton ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“It became clear that Venezuela's military leadership had rejected his call for a mutiny. A photograph of Guaido standing in the middle of an empty highway with a stunned expression on his face and cell phone expressed the picture of what wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 41:23
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
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro speculative
“Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 6:43
Mentions (120)
▶ 38:19
He did not deny the New York Times report that was referencing that. In fact, he effectively confirmed it. So my question to you, because I know you're a big fan of the CIA, too. What are we doing? And are we playing games with Maduro's min…
▶ 39:47
There were CIA people in Venezuela at the time to overthrow the government and forcibly put him in the seat. Now, my perspective is I don't give a crap who's president. Under no circumstances should the CIA be regime changing, period. Agree…
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I don't know. Honestly, I don't know what to believe about the CIA possibly being involved in Venezuela. I'm not calling the president a liar. I'm wondering if he is playing head games with Maduro. Because here's the tragedy in all of this …
▶ 43:12
Whether it has anything to do with President Trump saying what he said yesterday in the Oval Office, it's going to be linked to him that this tragedy only occurred because now Venezuela was looking for our agents down there because the pres…
▶ 46:13
Well, the woman that just won the Nobel Peace Prize from there that supposedly is the leading opposition force. Well, first of all, if Maduro is a dictator, how is she alive? They don't let oppositions live. OK, that's number one. They'd sa…
▶ 47:37
President Trump referring to the CIA in Venezuela. And now I hear you saying this, shame on me for not knowing this, if she's elected. So what's her background? Like, what are we, what's this? Is she, is her background in politics? USAID CI…
▶ 48:36
Now, I would argue that's not true because they obviously don't know about all the ones I do. And using all possible means to achieve it. It was Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton himself, who confessed that U.S. oil companies w…
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I'm going to, again, ask you unfairly to look into your crystal ball. Where do you see Venezuela ending up with all this nonsense? I have no idea. There are people in Venezuela, just like every place. There's people that don't like Maduro a…
▶ 50:09
It's like Assad in Syria, that he has stood the test of time against an onslaught from the United States. There are countries around the world that admire him for taking the beating, both politically, economically and militarily, being cut …
▶ 52:34
And then reading articles about and books about the fact that the CIA, because they didn't like Chavez or Maduro, was trafficking cocaine secretly through Venezuela so that they could later state that Venezuela was the narco trafficker. Whe…
▶ 27:50
Last summer, I was doing a lot of digging on, well, at the end of last summer, there's an interesting story that came up about Nicolas Maduro. And it led me down this rabbit hole that took me back to 2017. And the TLDR on it is that I'm pre…
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of one of his oil officials. I guess he was cheating on her or something. She brought him this laptop. She said, you know, my husband's corrupt. Here's all the goods on him. Majora takes the laptop, hires a lawyer, an American lawyer, to pu…
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are later prosecuted years later. They're forced to resign. Many of them at Glencore are forced to resign, including the CEO, the president. And I think that guy who was forced to resign in 2019 was arrested last August and is now facing cr…
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massive campaign that Trump has taken up the mantle against. And what led me down this rabbit hole was last summer when Maduro and Elon Musk started having this really silly WWE-style fight online where they were challenging each other to a…
▶ 30:33
Where this gets interesting is the lawyer that I mentioned earlier that Maduro hired to file the original civil action lawsuit was a guy named Bowie, David Bowie. I think I'm saying his name right, but it's B-O-I-E-S. Now, Bowie is pretty w…
▶ 38:06
Finally, here's another. If you want to share my screen one last time, this is from my take from last August. The reason that I really wanted to post this take, even though I was talking about Maduro and the guy being arrested at Glencore t…
▶ 45:13
As you were just pointing out, because it's about oil. So as soon as Maduro gets access to all this incriminating evidence about the corruption of oil executives, you have this massive attack on Maduro. And we're led to believe that he's il…
▶ 1:34
title is A Successful CIA Hack of Venezuela's Military Payroll System, Insider Fights for Spy Agency Resources, and Messy Opposition Politics. A Wired Investigation Reveals a Secret Trump Air Attempt to Oust an Autocratic Rule, Nicholas Mad…
▶ 3:01
some disgruntled Trump administrative people. And so let me get into the article. On September 26th, 2018, Venezuelan President Maduro approached the lectern at the UN in New York wearing a black suit, red tie, blah, blah, blah. At home, Ma…
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The former bus driver turned autocrat had ruled Venezuela for five years and recently, quote unquote, won re-election in a contest widely considered to be fraudulent, widely considered to be fraudulent by the United States, who is absolutel…
▶ 3:52
Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…
▶ 4:50
In fact, then President Donald Trump had even mused publicly about exercising a possible military option if necessary to deal with Venezuela. The day before Maduro's General Assembly address, Trump stood at the same U.N. podium, called the …
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Trump did not call them a communist and socialist regime. This person who's writing this did. The U.S. president then announced the imposition of new sanctions, basically on members of the Maduro government. When Maduro began his U.N. addre…
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by an imperialist United States, he and all of the rest of Latin America. He said Venezuela's attempt at geographical independence and huge oil and petroleum reserves had aroused the ire of the, quote, oligarchs of the continent and those w…
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Unequivocally true. What he just said was true. Maduro's words got darker. He claimed that a recent attempt on his life when two drones had exploded during an address was that he was giving out doors had been masterminded by shadowy actors …
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In recent days, Maduro had even said he was considering skipping the U.N. meeting altogether because he was worried about another assassination attempt, and rightfully so. As bitter adversaries, the Trump administration and Maduro's regime …
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After the U.N. meeting, the Trump administration amped up their efforts around the world to isolate and depose the leader, including levying additional punishing sanctions against his regime. Much of that diplomatic maneuvering played out i…
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to the U.S. regime change campaign, a covert CIA-run initiative to help overthrow the Venezuelan strongman. The campaign would pull off at least one disruptive digital sabotage operation against the Maduro regime in 2019. Now, I'm going to …
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80 times, particularly when they are not aligned with larger U.S. foreign policy objectives, not U.S. foreign policy objectives, the international syndicates policy objectives. And it provides new insight into how a second Trump administrat…
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Good conservatives, more like Khan Inc. Okay, according to the article, on January 23rd, Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido, the guy that was basically trying to get himself installed instead in Venezuela, stood before cheering protest…
▶ 13:31
With his right hand held aloft, he declared himself the interim president of Venezuela with the full backing of the National Assembly, the country's highest legislative body. That day, he vowed to reestablish the Constitution, which many be…
▶ 14:22
Pay enough people in their General Assembly, which is exactly what they did in Chile and what they tried to do. Let me rephrase that. And then, you know, say, get Trump to recognize him not having told him any of the actual details and then…
▶ 14:46
was not intimidated and didn't go happily into the night like many of the other people, despite the CIA offering in the past these people hundreds of millions of dollars just to walk away so they could now control the resources for the inte…
▶ 15:14
the administration recognized him as Venezuela's rightful acting leader and went to work lobbying other countries to do the exact same thing. So where have we seen this before? In every freaking country. Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras. This is…
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Around the time the administration turned to the CIA to seek the agency's help in ousting Maduro, according to former U.S. officials familiar with the secret program, so secret that Wired magazine is writing about it, sources requested anon…
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Ultimately, the CIA successfully carried out a disruptive strike. Do you know what that destructive strike was? They managed to hack in to the military payroll system to keep the Venezuelan military from getting paid one time and was bettin…
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that it was a digital sabotage operation enabled by agents on the ground. Who gives a crap? Who gives a crap? It's ridiculous. And they spend an entire, I'm not even going to go through all, they spend an entire paragraph talking about some…
▶ 27:42
But she goes on saying, which is basically what we have the CIA for. Trump dispatched the CIA to do what it does best, which is overthrow regimes creating problems so that we don't have to send in the Marines. What? It was about as legitima…
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into Joe Biden's open border crisis and turning his government over to Putin, Cuba, and Hezbollah. Oh, so we've added another element here. You know, all of the hated entities. He even infiltrated the rap industry, according to this author.…
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Trump and John Bolton at the National Security Council started thinking about using covert means of getting rid of Maduro. Given that popular momentum was there and the Venezuelans were lined up ready for the overthrow. So far, so good. Bet…
▶ 1:26:57
Great. Thank you so much. Okay. Anybody else have any questions? Can I ask something that's off topic? Sure. Okay. So like what's going on in Venezuela? So the Maduro guy, we have two evil people that are really bad. One was inserted in and…
▶ 1:27:32
Do you think that he might be someone that was like a Gaddafi or a possibility, someone that, well, he's not doing what the deep state wants him to do. So that's why there's issues and why they wanted to have him removed. But do you think t…
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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…
▶ 1:30:26
You really have to go to alternative sources of information to find out. What I unequivocally know today is that Maduro knows that the multiple coups that have been launched against him are at the hands of the CIA, and he says so on a daily…
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Is there any privately owned media in Ukraine? No. No, there's not. It was all shut down. Why didn't the dictator Maduro shut down the media in Venezuela when the guy that's supposedly the most democratic thing that ever has been hatched on…
▶ 1:31:53
the heart of your question about him wanting in bricks, that tells you everything. So he has had to in the past because of our sanctions against Venezuela. And again, we're the 300 pound or 3000 pound elephant in the room. So we decided tha…
▶ 1:32:22
Because he is no national security threat to the United States at all. Zero. Absolutely zero. Like a negative zero. He could have stayed down there until he passed away. God rest his soul. Get another leader, whatever. We don't have to be i…
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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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What I do know is Maduro is nowhere near as bad as the people the CIA has installed in country after country, over 80 countries where they killed millions of people, not tens of thousands, millions of people, country after country after cou…
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I feel like it's the CIA that runs that country and not him. He's just a front guy. Now, I wouldn't say that. I'm not going to go that far. Maduro is definitely in charge of Nicaragua. But there is a lot more freedom in Venezuela than we've…
▶ 1:07:56
But I do feel that it's an exposure thing because Bolton's as dirty as they could be. And he has those ties with the Middle East as well. And yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I agree with you 100 percent. Go ahead, Renee. Yes, exactly. Hi, every…
▶ 1:09:19
And they are partly funded by all these big petroleum companies, ExxonMobil, blah, blah, blah, Chevron. So he is definitely part of this whole system of destabilizing Venezuela and trying to get the greedy fingers in there and hoping to ove…
▶ 1:09:43
So, like, if Maduro falls, they're all ready to go in there and take outside of that area. What is it called? Esquiba or something. That whole zone that's right on the border of Guyana. Yeah. Yeah, where there's big conflict because there's…
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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…
▶ 8:33
where Washington was not simply behind the action, but in front of it and using all means possible to achieve it. It was Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton himself, who confessed that the U.S. oil companies were ready to come in…
▶ 11:02
to an act of issuing official statements describing the government of President Maduro as only effective government that has existed in Caracas since 2013 as Venezuela's former government. When I was personally sanctioned in April of 2019 w…
▶ 13:31
With a surreal Cold War mentality, he first approached my team, talking about Elliott Abrams, to ask that we turn against our government and facilitate President Maduro's exit. So Elliott Abrams is in New York trying to convince this guy to…
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Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …
▶ 18:33
Over two thirds of the world's nation have respected the will of the Venezuelan people and continue to recognize Maduro as the country's legitimate leader. These friends stood by our side at the U.N. and particularly were instrumental in bl…
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upon the population which they are imposed upon. In his book, The Art of Sanctions, A View from the Field, Nephew specifically described a massive retraction in Iran's economy as a tremendous success resulting from the policies that he hims…
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had founded in 2019. Throughout the last four years, she's developed and maintained friendships with a diverse assemblage informing all sides of U.S.-Venezuela standoff, U.S. politicians, Venezuelan government officials, Venezuelan oppositi…
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to classify Venezuelan as a national security threat. So he came after all the chaos that USAID's Office of Transition Initiative came here to blame all of the shit that they had done on the Venezuelan government and convinced Obama to decl…
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Chavez and now Maduro was trying to do with their oil revenue. If it is wrong for a country to nationalize their resources and use the money that is generated from that national resource, because you can't argue it's a national resource. An…
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She did a lot of research. Haussmann proceeded to rattle off a litany of Venezuelan opposition talking points as if she'd been handed the script from USAID. Maduro was an illegitimate dictator who single-handedly squashed the opposition-con…
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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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Osman delivered one of his performances in November 2018 when he appeared to reveal prior knowledge of the impending regime change operation that would target Venezuela two months later. Quote, the international community is now focused on …
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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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He says, please disclose how much money you have received from Maduro. What have you been doing with the dictatorship? She noticed that as of Friday afternoon turned evening, the Harvard professor started making all kinds of spelling errors…
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his free time cooking Indian food and relaxing, not orchestrating government overthrows. At precisely 3.31 a.m., Haasman launched his final WhatsApp barrage demanding to see one article in which I questioned or criticized any of the Maduro'…
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This meant that Caracas had to guarantee at least 55 of its own friends also attended. Or the U.S. would call to block their representative from speaking when, by a simple majority, initiate the process of removing Maduro's government from …
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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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Bolivia took 18 days. We have been at it for years, Guaido said. By then, his future in the fast-approaching New York looked bleak. Each day that President Maduro remained as president weakened Guaido's position even among the ranks of the …
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dealing with this election fraud had went on for months. Guaido's strategy was obvious. By insisting to enter the legislature with banned lawmakers, he directed a scene that appeared to prove that Maduro's government was preventing him from…
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Parra's promise to uphold his civic duties were drowned out by the chaos. Though Guaido's attempt to prevent the vote was unsuccessful, his degrading show at the fence achieved a more important objective. Below are samples of the foreign me…
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Voice of America, the CIA rag. Venezuela's Guaido blocked from Congress as rival lawmaker claims speaker's post. The Washington Post, another CIA rag. Venezuela's last democratic institution falls as Maduro's attempts de facto takeover of t…
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Guaido and his allies capitalized on this sloppiness of the vote within minutes of its conclusion, accusing Parra of collaborating with Maduro and his party to carry out a parliamentary coup against the Venezuelan opposition bloc. But Parra…
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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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The raid was part of Venezuela's response to what is known as Operation Gideon, a foiled plot to capture or kill President Maduro, led by former U.S. Green Beret named Jordan, I don't know how you pronounce his last name, Godreau, G-O-U-D-R…
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revealing the existence of a covert plan to ignite a popular rebellion in Venezuela that would culminate with the arrest of President Maduro. The plot dubbed Operation Gideon was to be carried out by 300 volunteer combatants, many of them V…
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since his own defection from Caracas in early 2019. Over the course of two days meeting at a Marriott, Alcala informed Gaudreau that he was overseeing roughly 300 men, including participants in previously botched assassination attempts agai…
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So we're going with a bunch of losers. But this time, it's not going to work either. Hoping to capitalize on the Trump administration's growing interest in toppling Maduro, Goodman explained to Goudreau and Akala, and they hatched a plan to…
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Rendon's version of events appeared on May 6th in none other than the Washington Post, reporting how Venezuelan opposition leaders had smooched with Goudreau at the consultant's glittering Miami high-rise, complete with obligatory mention o…
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tasked with investigating ways to forcibly remove Maduro from power. We went through every law possible, Rendon later told Vice. In our process, we discovered we cannot use law. So we studied what it is possible if someone else, a third par…
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and come with them to Venezuela to Caracas. He was told the U.S. government would dispatch a plane to collect Maduro. When Denman and Berry departed from the Colombian coast aboard a fishing boat accompanied with a team of 60 or so hungry m…
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rank-and-file soldiers and average citizens joined their march. They expected them to join their march to the capital, sweeping out Maduro. They didn't know they were going to end up in handcuffs. It is difficult to explain why they went ah…
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alongside Gaudreau, also asserted the CIA and other U.S. agencies was aware. According to his attorneys, Alcala's effort to overthrow Maduro's government was reported to the CIA, National Security Council, John Bolton, and the Department of…
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On his ex-account from his apartment in Colombia, Alcala proceeded to announce his involvement in a military operation against the Maduro government, which he claimed to have planned alongside Guaido and Rendon, which seems very odd. You do…
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extraordinary confession, the U.S. State Department just happened to indict President Maduro on drug trafficking charges and announced a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest. You see the problem with that? When you do th…
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Colombia, without the ambassador knowing it, including Americans who had to issue the visas to get in this country to begin with. Just a few questions I have. Then consider the statement Secretary Pompeo delivered April 29th, days before Gi…
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I've asked my team to update our plans to reopen the U.S. embassy in Caracas so we're able to go, be ready. As soon as Maduro steps aside, I am confident that we will raise the flag again in Caracas, like literally days before this mission …
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Story was going to go back to Caracas. Considering Story's past work in the State Department Narcotics Division, did he have any role in the decision to offer $15 million rewards for information leading to Maduro's capture day before Gideon…
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Regardless of whether Washington was directly involved in Operation Gideon, there's no question the U.S. policy towards Venezuelan drove Goudreau and his friends to follow through with their reckless plot. What purpose did the State Departm…
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Excuse me, a legal memo that provided justification for the U.S. invasion of Panama. I'm sure that's a coincidence. The ensuing Operation Just Cause, which George H.W. Bush administration launched in December 20th, 1989, resulted in the arr…
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to Maduro. The end of that chapter. That's freaking crazy. Weird how these same names keep coming up, doing the exact same thing, time after time after time. I believe Bridget and I call that a pattern. Bridget, I tried to throw you, go ahe…
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And when I was looking over this last night, preparing for today, when I started this chapter, which we're going to talk about elections, one of my first thoughts was, hold on just a second. The opposition won seats in their legislature, bu…
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Again, details matter. And these are the things that you don't learn if you don't read alternative sources of information. So the December 6th vote not only presented the Maduro-lined Gran Palo Politico-Simón Bovaler party, it's an abbrevia…
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had a dubious position there anyway. By refusing to take part in the vote, Guaido and other members of the U.S.-backed coalition intensified their tried and true strategy of delegitimizing Venezuela's election process in international media…
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official Diosdado Caballo proclaiming before a campaign rally, those who don't vote don't eat. The culprits of the humanitarian catastrophe that Venezuela is experiencing blackmail the hungry people with food, Lopez wrote in a message. Lope…
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a since-deleted December 4th letter accusing Venezuela's government of threatening to withhold food from citizens who refused to participate in what they characterized as a sham election. Their denunciation was parroted by Wall Street Journ…
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Chavista Coalition to sweep the election unchallenged. To intimidate candidates into complying with the boycott strategy, Washington levied sanctions against a variety of opposition figures who dared to challenge it. So not only are they sa…
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That's crazy. Among those people that were targeted was Luis Parra, the anti-Maduro lawmaker and former Guaido ally who was elected leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly in the disputed January 2020 vote when Guaido climbed over the fe…
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for the December 6th vote. To obscure this reality, Reuters openly asserted that opposition candidates who participated in the election were secretly collaborating with Maduro, running a December 3rd article accusing those who defied the bo…
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Critics of the EU decision claimed it was meant to delay Caracas' ability to legitimize the vote with the presence of an international observer. Regardless of over 300 foreign observers from 34 countries who did travel to Venezuela to monit…
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And in some cases, before the polls even closed and they announced the results. So it was unfair before it was even over. Venezuela's electoral fraud has already been committed, Pompeo went to Twitter and announced. The results announced by…
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As more than 14,000 candidates from over 100 parties, the majority of which oppose Maduro's government, competed for 277 seats in the Venezuelan legislature. Though the radical opposition boycott resulted in lower voter participation rates …
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The vote was touted as a final defeat of the U.S. regime change policy as it left Washington's coup leaders without a legitimate claim to any government office whatsoever. And so what happened was the people in Venezuela was so pissed off o…
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for all intents and purposes. Even the opposition parties voted for people that supported Maduro. So it literally fits the definition of blowback when we try to do something to achieve one result and you achieve the exact opposite of what y…
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After backing his regime change efforts for nearly four years, even as moderate forces within the opposition mounted official challenges to his authority, Guaido's allies within the hardline coalition had ultimately spearheaded an effort to…
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One of the G4 people said he was stressing the opposition gold was still to defeat Maduro. Considering G4's deep financial and political links to the U.S., primarily at the time USAID, their move to drop Guaido reflected a decision made in …
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Quote, if the money is transferred, it will be used by the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro to repress and brutalize the Venezuelan people, unquote. Not to feed them, not to provide anything for them, just for Maduro himself. London of…
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By calling into question which government, the fake one or the real one, could claim rightful ownership of Venezuela's foreign assets, the reality that Maduro's government controlled every single financial institution, including Venezuela's…
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In other words, Guaido effectively facilitated London's indefinite seizure of Venezuelan's gold assets in contradiction of an explicit repatriation request from the country's elected government. London's modern treatment of Venezuela recall…
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these cases did not constitute the bulk of the international heist committed against Venezuela thanks to Guaido's U.S. direct coup efforts. Portugal's Novo Banco, which is majority owned by a U.S. private equity fund, similarly blocked the …
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away from the private citizens in, I believe it was 2015, 2017. And then with mass protests against, I think by then it was Maduro, started issuing guns to grannies and kids and anybody that was a Chavista was allowed to have a gun provided…
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I want people to understand the whole picture of this, that because the CIA has lied to us so often about so much, it's almost impossible to believe anything at this point. Go ahead. Sure. So here's my point of view, and it's not necessaril…
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The transition to the civilian world has not been easy at all. But in my opinion, I think they would rather have the Maduro regime in place. I think they would rather have the Petro regime in place here in Colombia. I see the situation esca…
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immigrants into the U.S. during the Biden regime, backed by the Maduro regime. You have Tren de Aragua, you have Clan de Golfo, which I have a lot of hatred for right now since they beat up and extorted my wife in Santa Marta last month. So…
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The CIA benefits more by keeping the drugs flowing and the people flowing and having those two regimes in place than they do toppling the Maduro regime. Is there oil in Venezuela? Yes. Is there gold in Venezuela? Yes. Does it all come down …
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from Iranians on those faces. They were not happy with me for bringing it up, and I was stupid, and I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm like, okay, I worked at Target for 21 years, but I speak Farsi. But I feel it's the same way with V…