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Claims (96)
Juan Guaidó appointed
Carlos Vecchio documented
“They had no authority to force Caracas to satisfy the debt and no legal avenue to collect. That's where Guaido comes into play. Unlike his colleagues in the Guaido shadow government, Attorney General Jose Ignacio Fernandez avoided the limel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 43:38
Juan Guaidó appointed
Jose Ignacio Hernandez documented
“During this episode and the bulletin board segment, a guy by the name of Jose Ignacio Hernandez was mentioned. Though Guaido had tapped the young lawyer as his attorney general, in the initial days of his quote unquote presidency, Hernandez…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 35:15
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 31:09
John Bolton installed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:28:09
Juan Guaidó appealed_to
Theresa May documented
“The U.S.-backed coup leader inserted himself into the drama on January 28, 27, when he published an extraordinary letter begging the U.K. officials not to give Venezuela back its gold. In the letter, he wrote, I am writing to ask you to sto…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 39:54
Juan Guaidó appealed_to
Mark Carney documented
“The U.S.-backed coup leader inserted himself into the drama on January 28, 27, when he published an extraordinary letter begging the U.K. officials not to give Venezuela back its gold. In the letter, he wrote, I am writing to ask you to sto…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 39:54
United Kingdom recognized
Juan Guaidó documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 40:28
Juan Guaidó looted
Venezuela documented
“so we should have used one of them sneaky names like We Support Venezuela Unit. At the time of this book's publication, Caracas' UK-stored gold reserves remain in legal limbo. Regardless, UK's authorities had already allowed Venezuelan oppo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 43:49
Juan Guaidó paid
Bank of England documented
“McEvoy uncovered court documents revealing that Guaido officials tapped into Venezuela's U.K. bank accounts to satisfy 400,000 pounds of attorney fees stemming from the Bank of England's gold case. Fortunately for U.K. authorities, the unre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 44:20
Citigroup transferred_funds_to
Juan Guaidó documented
“into a bank account in New York, while Reuters failed to disclose its beneficiary. But it was eventually revealed that Citi dropped the funds into an account owned by Venezuela's central bank, which by then had been turned over to the Guaid…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 47:45
Juan Guaidó spent_funds_on
Colombia documented
“Months later, a Congressional Research Institute report found that the U.S. Treasury attempted to divert millions of dollars raised from its prosecution of the Venezuelan interests, like the ones we've already discussed, to bankroll the con…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 49:31
Juan Guaidó paid_salaries_to
Venezuela documented
“state oil company PDVSA. The following April, AP Joshua Goodman revealed Venezuelan opposition lawmakers appropriated a portion of their country's seized assets to pay themselves $5,000 monthly salaries after transferring $80 million to fin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 50:31
Juan Guaidó transferred_funds_to
Venezuela documented
“state oil company PDVSA. The following April, AP Joshua Goodman revealed Venezuelan opposition lawmakers appropriated a portion of their country's seized assets to pay themselves $5,000 monthly salaries after transferring $80 million to fin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 50:31
USAID funded
Juan Guaidó guest_asserted
“As far as narcotics trafficking. He was funded by USAID. Him and Maria Marcato as well. Yep. Machado probably is as well. The people tend to like her a lot more, and she has sacrificed a lot more and put her wife on the line more times publ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:17:25
CIA trained
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“which he did not. He was trained by USAID and he worked for the CIA. We all know that. And they went on to say that Mercado, the Nobel Peace Prize, she's amazing. She is absolutely amazing. But of course, she was trained by the same people …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 29:37
Juan Guaidó worked_for
CIA host_asserted
“which he did not. He was trained by USAID and he worked for the CIA. We all know that. And they went on to say that Mercado, the Nobel Peace Prize, she's amazing. She is absolutely amazing. But of course, she was trained by the same people …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 29:37
United States installed
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“us to break all diplomatic ties with Washington. In the immediate aftermath, I participated in several meetings with U.S. officials in New York, during which Elliot Abram, and we're going to go over him in a minute. Elliot Abram's name keep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 12:00
Las Rastrosas supplied_arms_to
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Days before the U.N. General Assembly kicked off, images of Juan Guaido posing with members of a Colombian drug gang called Las Rastrosas had surfaced online. Subsequent media reports revealed that the notoriously violent narco paramilitary…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 6:15
United States funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“when he participated in the U.S.'s botched attempt to move the humanitarian aid across the border. So they were going to use some of the paramilitary folks as part of that campaign. For the coup leader and his backers in Washington, the ima…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 6:44
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
United States funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 8:42
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) host_asserted
“Talking about the momentum that was addressed on January 5th, 2020, when Guaido's term as president of Venezuelan's National Assembly was set to expire. Considering he based his entire claim to being the president as his role as part of the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 17:34
Juan Guaidó attempted_coup_against
Luis Parra book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 27:11
United States funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“by U.S. instruction, agree to accredit Venezuelan opposition members as part of their delegations. It really illustrates to the world the power of U.S. political warfare. One member of the actual Venezuelan delegation, Gessie Gonzalez, twee…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 12:42
Juan Guaidó member_of
G4 Coalition book_quoted
“provided the base of Guaido's support in the legislature following his initiation of his self-declared presidency. Though Primero Justica had expelled Pera weeks before the AN vote because they were afraid of him, his willingness to break w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 19:55
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 member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“designed to cast himself as a victim of a repressive regime rather than a political insecure showman. Faced with possible defeat, he launched a panicked attempt to deny his colleagues the 84-person quorum needed to proceed with the election…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 21:20
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 member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 27:11
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“in the offices of a local newspaper that had been on the payroll of the CIA and decided at the end of that fake meeting that Guaido was still in charge of a political party. Though 100 legislatures participated in the vote at this fake meet…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 27:41
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“Rodriguez said that he estimated under normal conditions, not when they're having knock down, drag out brawls in the legislature, Guaido would have won reelection of the National Assembly by an 86 vote to Parra's 71. However, he noted that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 28:38
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“So no matter what, he wouldn't have won. The 2020 vote for the AN president left Venezuelans' opposition permanently disfigured. Following the events of January 5th, 2020, contradictions between its competing factions were on permanent disp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 29:08
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“protest of Guaido's claim to authority. So basically, they disassociated themselves with him. While generating sympathy from the international press, Guaido's exhibition at the National Assembly fence left his colleagues in Venezuela unimpr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 29:39
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“Here's this guy trying to climb over the fence. It was hysterical. Perhaps he hoped that the foreign media, eagerly documenting his humiliation from below, might at the very least still consider him president of something. That's just crazy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 30:06
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Assembly (Venezuela) book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 30:37
National Assembly (Venezuela) installed
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“And the diddy made me do it argument. The opportunity came when, by order of Venezuelan's legislature, Juan Guaido was installed as Venezuelan's acting president in 2019, following a fraudulent election in 2018, which I absolutely love that…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 29:03
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
USAID funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“announcing a direct challenge to the authority of President Nicolas Maduro and sparking an international political crisis that lingers to this day. Up until that point, the entirety of Guaido's career had been defined by his ascent within f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 5:56
Office of Transition Initiatives funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“And by foreign, she means U.S., primarily USAID, Office of Transition Initiatives, and all of those that we've talked about before. After studying at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which is known for a hotbed of CIA recru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 6:23
Juan Guaidó member_of
Voluntad Popular book_quoted
“And by foreign, she means U.S., primarily USAID, Office of Transition Initiatives, and all of those that we've talked about before. After studying at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which is known for a hotbed of CIA recru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 6:23
Mike Pence funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Caracas-based pollster Hitterless found that a whopping 81% of Venezuelans had no idea who he even was. Even so, the novice politician managed to woo officials in Washington. According to a Wall Street Journal article, his confidence was in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 7:22
United States installed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“and Venezuelan opposition they sponsored. And the OAS set the stage for Washington's January 2019 recognition of Juan Guaido, a virtually unknown opposition lawmaker as Venezuela's president. As we will see, the fantasy of Guaido's presiden…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:11:31
Ricardo Hausmann appointed
Juan Guaidó documented
“Late night tantrums against Anya eventually cost him his job in the Guido coup administration. In March of 2019, Guido selected Haasman to serve as his representative to the Development Bank, a regional financial institution focused on prom…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 8:12
Ricardo Hausmann appointed
Juan Guaidó documented
“2019, Haasman had also taken over as Guaido's top economic advisor to the fake president and was a representative before the Inter-American Development Bank, which is like the IMF for Central America. Multiple sources who have worked with H…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 6:41
Juan Guaidó exiled_to
Miami documented
“And it's an organization that was working behind the scenes that I've never come across. So I can't wait to share all that with you guys. But I got to know how the story ends. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everybody for her…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 51:33
Juan Guaidó targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Yeah, he's good. Yeah, I agree. Okay, so let's get started. We're on chapter four, and I love the name of this chapter. Juan Guaido, Imperial Incubator Baby. And there's probably no better description once you understand the background here…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 0:29
USAID funded
Juan Guaidó documented
“Throughout February 2019, international media were completely captivated by the made-for-TV drama playing out on the Colombian-Venezuela border. In the Colombian town of Cucuta, a caravan of tractor trailers packed with cardboard boxes disp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 0:55
Juan Guaidó appointed
Venezuela documented
“He revealed that he would travel to Colombia and participate in the U.S. military effort to cross the Venezuela border on February 23rd. Considering Caracas had placed Guaido under an international travel ban at the start of his coup attemp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 7:15
United States installed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“political rise. In just a matter of days, he had transformed from an anonymous lawmaker into the quote-unquote president of Venezuela. In the eyes of Washington and its allies in foreign capitals and the international media, just a few week…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 7:46
Mike Pompeo recruited
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Oh, this is Mike Pompeo. In the weeks prior to switching our recognition, about half of the parties of the National Assembly didn't recognize Guaido as the country's legitimate leader, said Mike Pompeo in his memoir. Thankfully, our capable…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 8:18
James Story recruited
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Oh, this is Mike Pompeo. In the weeks prior to switching our recognition, about half of the parties of the National Assembly didn't recognize Guaido as the country's legitimate leader, said Mike Pompeo in his memoir. Thankfully, our capable…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 8:18
United States recruited
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“You know, not like it's election interference or anything. The Venezuelan journalist Diego Siclara told the Gray Zone at the time the U.S. preferred Guaido over the recognizable opposition figures because he was a common mestizmo features l…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 8:48
Juan Guaidó member_of
Generation 2007 host_asserted
“When you see students at five Venezuelan universities hold simultaneous demonstrations, you will know that the training is over and the real work has begun, Stratfor said. Within weeks of Stratfor's report, Generation 2007 was born. Having …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 24:35
Juan Guaidó member_of
Voluntad Popular host_asserted
“Two years later, he and his cohort co-founder Leopoldo Lopez. That's the guy we came across a couple of chapters back. That was both part of the Validad Popular Party. So they are basically CIA assets in Venezuela, having been trained in re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 25:04
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies trained
Juan Guaidó documented
“Two days before the fifth anniversary of Milosevic's ouster, Canvas convened a conference in Serbia's capital to train the next generation of international U.S.-backed regime change operatives. Among the foreign activists who came to Belgra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 23:44
Srdja Popović recruited
Juan Guaidó documented
“The electric went down at their airports. They had no way of keeping backup power to communicate with airplanes. These people are evil. Though Washington denied official responsibility for the blackout, Popovich enthusiastically detailed hi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 32:57
Tim Gill recruited
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“G-I-L-L, and Rebecca Hansen, a U.S. government contractor for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives. We got these guys all covered. Similarly boasted of having nurtured Guaido and his generation 2007. They have to brag about it. That's h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 34:21
Rebecca Hansen recruited
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“G-I-L-L, and Rebecca Hansen, a U.S. government contractor for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives. We got these guys all covered. Similarly boasted of having nurtured Guaido and his generation 2007. They have to brag about it. That's h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 34:21
United States installed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“and its allies were concerned. The change of government took place in January 2019 when they recognized Guaido as Venezuela's leader. Finally, an international media printed promising profiles introducing the world to Venezuela's new presid…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 35:49
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
Maria Farmer appointed
Juan Guaidó documented
“Faria, whom Guaido named as his quote unquote ambassador to Costa Rica, had broken into the Venezuelans diplomatic compound in San Jose early that morning. A senior Venezuelan official later said that she had gained access to the embassy by…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 5:26
Juan Guaidó appointed
Gustavo Tarre documented
“to install representatives of Guaido's shadow regime at the OAS, completely flouting the organization's rules and furthering his own career. Following the self-declared presidency, Guaido appointed a seasoned lawyer named Gustavo Tarre, T-A…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 17:48
Mike Pence carried_out_attack
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“Within 24 hours of Trujillo's victory at the OAS, the U.S. sent its forces to a new theater of diplomatic war, the United Nations. Leading the effort was Vice President Mike Pence, who appeared before the U.N. Security Council on April 10 w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 36:01
USAID funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“while USAID was funding Guaido's rise to power. On the evening of August 4, 2018, Maduro was delivering an outdoor address to the ranks of Venezuela's National Guard when a thunderous explosion erupted from the sky above him. Venezuela's pr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 5:03
John Bolton bolstered
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“By then, Trump had adopted the view that Guaido was a kid who nobody had ever heard of and recognized that Maduro still maintained complete control of Venezuela. Bolton, on the other hand, bolstered Guaido's estimate that 80% of Venezuelans…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 10:56
Juan Guaidó called_for
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“20 minutes after Bolton and Pompeo's conversation, Guaido launched a Twitter live stream from his position in the middle of the highway, just outside of an airbase. The wannabe leader proceeded to call for a military uprising against Maduro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 12:16
Tucker Carlson exposed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“pointing to the images of Guaido's botched revolt flashing on the screen. I mean, this is the kind of message from Syria. Tucker's carefully staged anti-interventionist theater, capped by the performance of Colonel McGregor, who would go on…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 34:19
United States government funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“maintaining official ties with Maduro's UN-recognized government while providing critical assistance to the Washington regime change led by John Bolton. Most notably, the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights issued consequential rep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 4:59
USAID funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Washington's anti-Maduro narrative, accusing Venezuela's government of crimes against humanity while completely overlooking the abuses committed by the U.S.-backed opposition, which was paid for by USAID. The Human Rights Commission reports…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 5:24
Michelle Bachelet covered_up
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 10:02
United States government funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“The U.S. State Department, on this fact sheet, celebrated the following accomplishments. Guaido had announced his interim presidency. $3.2 billion worth of Venezuela's overseas assets were frozen. Maduro's government was cut off from U.S. f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 17:25
United States government funded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“as Maduro's assigning blame for his own shortcomings. Her analysis was not only contradicted by evidence presented throughout this book, but also by the U.S. government itself. Months before Bachelet released her report, the U.S. State Depa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 16:26
Jose Ignacio Hernandez member_of
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Renee, I'm going to bring you up as co-host until Bridget or with Bridget if she shows up. So the fraud of Mr. Hernandez is against Guaido and the National Assembly. Jorge Alondra Rodriguez said, who again is part of the opposition.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 2:04
Jorge Rodriguez exposed
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“Denunciation of Hernandez, Vecchio, and Guaido with handheld photos of each coup official plastered with text reading, thief. Jose Ignacio Hernandez is a criminal mastermind behind the whole process to deprive Venezuela of its assets and re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 11:57
Juan Guaidó recruited
Juan José Rendon documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 55:34
Juan Guaidó member_of
Operation Gideon host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:12:46
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“during which U.S. and Guaido officials discussed possible scenarios of a small special operations targeted directly at Maduro. Then, out of the blue, one of Guaido's colleagues looked at Esper across the table and said something like, we ha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:28:22
Carlos Vecchio appointed
Juan Guaidó documented
“Guaido's quote-unquote ambassador in Washington, D.C. Vecchio was on a mission to complete his shadow regime takeover of the Venezuelan government buildings in the United States, though the U.S. authorities had previously aided his seizure …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 3:59
United States installed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“to Exxon maybe, not to you and I, as well as subsequent escalations against Maduro's government at the OAS. In his memoirs, Vecchio took credit for preparing the OAS report that inspired Venezuela's government to initiate its withdrawal fro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 53:58
Antonio Vecchiana appointed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“Validad Popular Bloc as Venezuela's ruling party, even though they've never won an election. Vecchio was perfectly situated to take over as the coup regime's highest ranking official in the United States as the fake Venezuelan ambassador, b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 54:30
Juan Guaidó carried_out_attack
Venezuela documented
“where they found sanctuary following Guaido's failed military uprising in April of 2019. Lopez and his family finally relocated back to the capital of the former Venezuelan colonial occupier, Spain. Lopez escalated the opposition delegitimi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 4:30
Donald Trump installed
Juan Guaidó documented
“by close to 20% in 2022 alone, and gold market prices is on a track to shatter its all-time highs. It's no surprise, then, that foreign corporations and governments alike are keen to exploit Venezuela's vast gold supply. The Trump administr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 38:27
United Kingdom supported
Juan Guaidó documented
“the announcement that he was president in January of 2019. As the U.S. lobbied its allies to do the same, it found no accomplice more zealous than the U.K. Within days of the self-directed swearing-in ceremony, the Bank of England blocked V…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 39:02
United States government installed
Juan Guaidó guest_asserted
“The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 46:19
International Republican Institute funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“The Freedom House was actively involved in Venezuela for years. The International Republican Institute that John McCain ran was actively involved funding this Mercado chick and Guaido that John Bolton wanted to regime change. So if you want…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 25:13
Mike Pence ordered_assassination_of
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“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
Venezuelan Opposition Government member_of
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 21:20
Vladimir Padrino Lopez duped
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“They eventually settled in Spain's Caracas embassy, and Guaido was nowhere to be found. Multiple accounts, including Bolton's, later revealed that Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez had duped Leopoldo, Guaido, and their U.S.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 14:12
Venezuelan Opposition Government funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 21:50
Luis Parra succeeded
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“as warring lawmakers exchanged charged words and resorted to physical blows. Parra declared victory amid the mayhem, claiming he had secured 81 of the 150 votes cast. Parra's swearing in was less than ceremonial. As he raised a hand and mad…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 23:46
Juan Guaidó carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“Enabled by the U.S. and Europe's outsized command of the global finance system, the characters behind Guaido's coup regime would eventually execute an extraordinary heist of Venezuelans' internationally stored wealth on behalf of their fore…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:11:59
John Bolton funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“his most enthusiastic cheerleader inside of the White House. Days after the Trump administration's January 2019 recognition of Juan Guaido, Bolton appeared on Fox Business to articulate the stakes of Washington's new Venezuelan policy. Quot…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 2:07
United States funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“To annul this government is to leap into the void, Guaido said. Who is going to take over in this power vacuum? The only power you had was in the U.S. to bankrupt your supposed country. You literally had no power in Venezuela. The December …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 20:50
CIA funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“How would you not concede that the operation that he was conducting could not have anything to do with the benefit of America? But he was the one behind the Guaido. Oh, my God, it's a bad election. And he's really the president and telling …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 25:42
Juan Guaidó funded
Operation Gideon guest_asserted
“the Colombian border with Venezuela, evading local police to carry out Operation Gideon. You had 60 Venezuelans who were hungry, still training, thinking about liberation. His men's dire conditions was the fault of Guaido and his allies, wh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 51:14
CIA recruited
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“2019 helped cement the U.S. National Security Advisor's John Bolton's conviction that it was time to turn the screws on Maduro. Now, of course, in the aftermath of this, most people recognize him as having been a CIA asset inserted into thi…”
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Mentions (120)
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coup orchestrated under the Trump administration, under the tutelage of Bolton with Guaido during his first administration. So that's the guy who, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that the guy that we say legitimately won the election? Am I m…
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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…
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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…
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2019 helped cement the U.S. National Security Advisor's John Bolton's conviction that it was time to turn the screws on Maduro. Now, of course, in the aftermath of this, most people recognize him as having been a CIA asset inserted into thi…
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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…
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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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And the diddy made me do it argument. The opportunity came when, by order of Venezuelan's legislature, Juan Guaido was installed as Venezuelan's acting president in 2019, following a fraudulent election in 2018, which I absolutely love that…
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foreign minister of the Maduro regime. The sanctions issued against me, part of a new toolkit the U.S. formed to overthrow a government that opted to write its own history rather than follow Washington's script. Never in 200 years did tensi…
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In ensuing months, Venezuela endured every possible obstacle, including gasoline shortages and power outages induced by the US. Years later, we found that despite having enough money in our foreign bank accounts to cover the cost of vaccina…
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that had a class system in Venezuela that Chavez was aiming to get rid of. So you have a lot of the elites that migrated to South Florida, just like we did with the Cubans. And it is these expats, as you're going to see throughout this book…
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and that there were people buried in all of the different branches of the government that worked against that agenda. The current international campaign to ditch the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency break away from the petrodolla…
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We talked throughout this the first several chapters of this book about the guy named Carlos Vecchio and his role in the fake government of Juan Guaido. We're going to go into a little bit more depth on that during this chapter. So on the a…
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standing in the middle of the streets at Caracas where no one showed up, Carlos Vecchio marched down the 13th Street in Washington, D.C., upscale Georgetown District, prepared for a coup of his own in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Guaido. …
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Guaido's quote-unquote ambassador in Washington, D.C. Vecchio was on a mission to complete his shadow regime takeover of the Venezuelan government buildings in the United States, though the U.S. authorities had previously aided his seizure …
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By simply maintaining a constant presence inside the building at the invitation of the Venezuelans' actual government, the EPC forced Washington's hand. Would U.S. authorities violate international law in order to enter the embassy, arrest …
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The carnival-like atmosphere at the embassy came to an abrupt halt on April 30th, the day of Guaido's failed military revolt. In coordination with his coup regime effort to ignite an insurrection in Caracas, Vecchio summoned their supporter…
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We were informed that Turkey had agreed to take over Venezuela's diplomatic offices and that the U.S. had entrusted its Caracas embassy to Switzerland. Two days after the water was shut off, however, Secret Service posted a notice on the em…
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and vowed not to pursue charges against any U.S. agents that damaged any of the property. Vecchio's mission, which openly flaunted his obedience to U.S. authorities in absolute disregard for Venezuela's independence, offered to perfect dist…
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was only made possible by U.S. Secret Service by May 2019. It was clear that Guaido and his band of activists would only come to power in Caracas on the back of U.S. tanks. Though Guaido served as the official face in Washington, during his…
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Anya realized that lesser-known figures such as Vecchio were the plot's true power players. As she ventured to learn more about Guaido's team, enlisting the help of Caracas-based friends and colleagues, she discovered that Vecchio's past un…
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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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attacking democracy. That's exactly what they have done in Hungary, in Georgia, and every place else. Okay, united under Lopez, the opposition's most charismatic and prominent national figure, Volad Popular provided a political home to seve…
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to Exxon maybe, not to you and I, as well as subsequent escalations against Maduro's government at the OAS. In his memoirs, Vecchio took credit for preparing the OAS report that inspired Venezuela's government to initiate its withdrawal fro…
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She was a New York City-based nightclub comedian. She is best known for her work supporting Washington's coup against her family's homeland, Venezuela. In the weeks immediately following the U.S. recognition of Juan Guaido, Haussmann emerge…
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Jokes in her routine and one-liners on Twitter. Her first video on the subject posted on her personal YouTube and Facebook pages within a week of Guaido's swearing-in ceremony, and that's in air quotes too, racked up nearly 4 million views …
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harming the medical infrastructure, and limiting the amount of food available. Following her arguments, Haussmann launched a wholehearted defense of Guaido, informing viewers that he did not just declare himself president. He was not right-…
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Late night tantrums against Anya eventually cost him his job in the Guido coup administration. In March of 2019, Guido selected Haasman to serve as his representative to the Development Bank, a regional financial institution focused on prom…
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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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during a talk before the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, a foreign policy gathering funded by none other than the petroleum industry. During the meeting, Haasman detailed his vision for the morning after the regime change in Carac…
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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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her father's role in Guaido's coup government, her mother's U.S.-backed campaign with USAID to remove Chavez from office, and her grandfather's dirty war on killing resistant fighters. Anya uncovered the saga and put it on the record in Mar…
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the neoliberal brain behind Juan Guaido's economic agenda. She noted that Joanna not only neglected to disclose her family ties to the coup government, but had merely parroted her father's own pro-regime change arguments, which he outlined …
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This time, Joanna's tirade took aim at the U.S. left, which she complained was far too focused on what Trump is doing about Venezuela and spreading rumors that the U.S. is considering military intervention in the country, the very type of m…
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Hands off can actually mean blood on your hands, Joana went on to say, mocking the anti-war movement, hands off Venezuela slogan, before urging viewers to support Guaido's efforts to restore democracy. Nothing says democracy like a good old…
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figure that tells her what to say. Seriously? No, but I'm sure you helped draft her talking points. Meanwhile, Guaido's shadow regime was relying on the professor to craft policies that would hand Venezuela's economy over to the highest for…
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and consulting services in Peru, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Additionally, Haasman participated in paid engagements with the IMF, you know, the one that likes to loan people money and take their resources in exchange. Also…
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Cut to the core of a scandal surrounding his work for Guaido's coup administration. Should a government official, because he's supposedly a government official as an economic advisor to Guaido, be allowed to maintain a private consulting fi…
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Other Guaido appointees, such as the PDVSA, that's their oil company chair, Alondra Gristani, and OAS quote-unquote ambassador, Tari, were required to quit their jobs before they were appointed to the fake government. Now, keep in mind, thi…
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Though Haasman claimed to exercise no government function, Guaido had tapped him to represent Venezuela's fake regime at the IDB five months prior. In addition to that role, Haasman was overseeing Guaido's $150 billion debt restructuring pl…
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Even though they don't have anything to do with Venezuela and they're not even in Venezuela. If these activities do not constitute government functions, then Haasman was admitting that what many of the critics in Washington already knew. It…
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So in other words, he wasn't supposed to be doing what he was doing. As was customary with documents issued by the Guaido fake regime, Haussmann's letter contained a critical error. When he posted a screenshot of his resignation letter, Hau…
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Wasn't it Juan Guaido that appointed him? And isn't Juan Guaido the president that he was supposed to be advising him? He addressed it to Leopoldo Lopez. What? So what? Osman revealed the true leader of the Venezuelan coup regime was not Gu…
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for the weekend to go hunting deer over the weekend. So she probably will not be chit-chatting with us today, but I thank her for being here, hanging out and listening. Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. I was just doing some read up on Guid…
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Oh, my Lord. Name off some of the... Didn't we just do this everywhere else? Name off some of the countries that accepted him after the U.S. did that. Some of the countries that accepted him... Well, I can tell you ones that rejected it rea…
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The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…
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And it's an organization that was working behind the scenes that I've never come across. So I can't wait to share all that with you guys. But I got to know how the story ends. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everybody for her…
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And you want to know where he's currently at? Go ahead and tell everybody. I know where he's at. Miami, Florida. That's where he's at. And at some given point, I expect to hear Guido's name again. We'll change his name somehow, give him an …
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which was the plan of World War II all along. Rather than disengage from the UN, the U.S. officials have instead treated it as a projector of their worldview. And they used it in relationship to this book when Vice President Mike Pence addr…
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who had fallen victim to U.S.-backed extremist violence in the country. And they're talking about those riots that were funded and led by Maria Malkato and Juan Guaido. Among them was Ingas Esparosa. During the riots in 2017, an opposition …
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as Maduro's assigning blame for his own shortcomings. Her analysis was not only contradicted by evidence presented throughout this book, but also by the U.S. government itself. Months before Bachelet released her report, the U.S. State Depa…
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The U.S. State Department, on this fact sheet, celebrated the following accomplishments. Guaido had announced his interim presidency. $3.2 billion worth of Venezuela's overseas assets were frozen. Maduro's government was cut off from U.S. f…
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Less than one year into his stint at the helm of Venezuela's National Intelligence Services, Figueroa sided with Guaido amid the coup leader's attempted military takeover. Exposed as a failed revolt's highest collaborator, Figueroa fled to …
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all of his assets back. Though most Venezuelans' officials do not maintain U.S. bank accounts, therefore dodging the impact of these unilateral asset freezes, a June 2019 Washington Post reported revealed that Figueroa's wife had already be…
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What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…
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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…
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to recognize Juan Guaido. He went on to say, quote, battling, meaning campaigning. We are talking, persuading, convincing the world, and we are right now pretty sure they don't have the numbers, unquote. And that would mean the numbers to r…
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Only about 55 of the U.N. 193 member states recognized Juan Guaido's legitimacy. It was unlikely the U.S. would succeed in dismissing him. To remove him and install a Guaido representative, Washington would have to rally the support of two-…
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U.N. General Assembly participation in a similar fashion, triggering a game of numbers between Caracas and Washington in the months leading up to the U.N. meeting in September. Throughout this period, Washington worked to ensure delegates o…
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Days before the U.N. General Assembly kicked off, images of Juan Guaido posing with members of a Colombian drug gang called Las Rastrosas had surfaced online. Subsequent media reports revealed that the notoriously violent narco paramilitary…
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when he participated in the U.S.'s botched attempt to move the humanitarian aid across the border. So they were going to use some of the paramilitary folks as part of that campaign. For the coup leader and his backers in Washington, the ima…
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When Rodriguez finally took the podium, US officials were forced to confront reality. The world had rejected their fanatical Venezuela regime change. Rather than call for a vote to block her from speaking, US representatives and their allie…
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that had recognized Guaido's authority with committing one of the worst mistakes in diplomatic history, characterizing the coup leader as a criminal element who had been introduced to breach the peace in Venezuela. She held up a picture of …
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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…
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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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Though the U.S. failed to officially install Guaido's allies at the U.N., a handful of his representatives were granted U.N. General Assembly credentials by U.S.-allied Latin American countries, including Colombia, Brazil, and Honduras. Amo…
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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…
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They are wandering around like ghosts at the UN, Ariza told reporters. They are wandering around with credentials from a foreign government. It's the most absurd thing, absolute desperation, Vecchio said. Three days before Venezuela took to…
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the importance of Washington's pro-Guido minority coalition. And this is a quote from Trump. Since I last spoke in the hall, the U.S. and our partners have built a historic coalition of 55 countries to recognize the legitimate government of…
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on the General Assembly floor. So even though they played that speech from Trump, Venezuela did not get up and walk out. In the aftermath of Venezuela's meeting at the UN, it seemed Washington forgot all about its coup in Caracas. In Octobe…
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Venezuela's extremist opposition welcomes the development, even as it underscored their own failure to seize power. Now, this is very, very important because remember Evo Morales and we're dealing with Bolton and his sidekick, Elliot Abrams…
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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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If you're not going to have Christmas, neither will they, he said. But Venezuela proceeded to have Christmas anyway. Families received their government-subsidized Christmas hams in their clap food program as 2019 came and went. Even mainstr…
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Reuters described one of his November rallies as significantly smaller than those earlier in the year, with participants less optimistic about any change. The Associated Press made similar observations, noted that the gathering had signific…
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Talking about the momentum that was addressed on January 5th, 2020, when Guaido's term as president of Venezuelan's National Assembly was set to expire. Considering he based his entire claim to being the president as his role as part of the…
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No nothing. He just stands up and says, I'm president and 55 other countries recognize him. If that was allowed to happen, it would be a crazy precedent. But that's exactly what the U.S. was advocating. But even that was getting ready to ex…
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of the political party that supposedly put him in that position, he was going to be on significantly shaky grounds. The scenes that emerged from the January 5th vote for the AN political party were some of the most infamous of the entire Ju…
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declared his last-minute candidacy for president. Not president of the country, president of the political party. A member of the Primero-Justica party, Pereiro's 11th-hour challenge from within the halls of the legislature came as a surpri…
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volunteer popular party, the Un Novo Tempio and Ascension Democratica, Primo Justica was part of a G4 coalition that they all had joined as quote-unquote opposition. G4 was only historically aligned itself with U.S. objectives in the countr…
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provided the base of Guaido's support in the legislature following his initiation of his self-declared presidency. Though Primero Justica had expelled Pera weeks before the AN vote because they were afraid of him, his willingness to break w…
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Renee, I'm going to bring you up as co-host until Bridget or with Bridget if she shows up. So the fraud of Mr. Hernandez is against Guaido and the National Assembly. Jorge Alondra Rodriguez said, who again is part of the opposition.…
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special counsel to the Venezuelan National Assembly, because again, Guaido was basically the Speaker of the House, not the President, and had zero authority to be doing any of this. He was tasked with evaluating creditor claims against Vene…
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Denunciation of Hernandez, Vecchio, and Guaido with handheld photos of each coup official plastered with text reading, thief. Jose Ignacio Hernandez is a criminal mastermind behind the whole process to deprive Venezuela of its assets and re…
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until June of 2020. Though the lawyer offered no explanation for his sudden departure, it came on the heels of yet another scandal regarding his conduct as a fake Attorney General. On June 18th, Vice President Rodriguez's office published a…
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nor should it be influenced in their decisions by political character of the member or members concerned, meaning the countries, which they clearly violated. While Ma Paz's office ignored the leak, Hernandez announced his resignation from G…
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bungled his departure from the Venezuelan fake regime. Though he publicly announced his exit from Guaido's team on June 18, Hernandez claimed to have submitted his resignation on May 28, a clear attempt to downplay the significance of the e…
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The Guaido critic among Venezuelan opposition personally offered a $1,000 prize to anyone who could prove the lawyer did in fact resign in May. The circumstances surrounding Hernandez's resignation demonstrated the anti-Chavista opposition …
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Several opposition parties were boycotting legislative committee hearings in protest of Guaido, having recognized opposition lawmaker Louis Parta as the interim president. So they basically fired Guaido from the only semi-legitimate, becaus…
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The lawyer acknowledged the betrayal moments after the recording surfaced, complaining on X that the leak was only possible if there were internal participants. To fully illustrate, Hernandez's corrupt character within the single chapter of…
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from Venezuela. That's crazy. In August 2018, just five months before Guaido's tapped the lawyer as his top legal representative, you know, the fake AG to the fake House of Representatives in Venezuela, the oil companies charged in the cont…
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Prior to his ascent within the Guaido coup regime, Hernandez served as the opposing team's star witness at at least three separate legal battles involving the Venezuelan government in U.S. courts and international arbitration tribunals. Her…
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a perverted allegiance that ultimately placed his country's most valuable asset, Sitco Petroleum, in peril. A Delaware court confirmed this fact in March 2023 when it ruled that four additional foreign corporations could collect debts owed …
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was nothing new. This time, the court explicitly cited the actions of Guaido's government that really didn't even exist for its basis. The court specifically asserted that Guaido's policy of treating Venezuelan sovereign debt as equal to de…
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Days after the Delaware decision, members of Venezuela's once solidly pro-Guido G4 coalition called for a formal investigation into the conduct of these U.S.-based traitors. Though Hernandez's manner eventually forced his departure from off…
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in their recognition of Guido, merely a veil to grab Sitco, because that's, in fact, what it was used for, which is absolutely crazy. I just sent you a co-host, Bridget, into SR. Renee here was here earlier, but then she disappeared.…
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According to their accounts, Goudreau first linked up with Venezuelan opposition in February 2019 when he traveled to Colombia to provide security for the Live Aid concert that we talked about earlier in the book for Richard Branson. So it …
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According to Goudreau, a Venezuelan National Guard captain named Antonio Jose Sequela Torres was commanding the ongoing raid. He fled Venezuela in April of 2019 after he participated in Guaido's failed military rebellion and helped coordina…
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talking about the gold trinket, samurai swords, and Buddha shrine, all that makes up his house. Throughout 2019, the condo in the upscale district provided the backdrop for planning for Operation Gideon. The political consultant's involveme…
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the Colombian border with Venezuela, evading local police to carry out Operation Gideon. You had 60 Venezuelans who were hungry, still training, thinking about liberation. His men's dire conditions was the fault of Guaido and his allies, wh…
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He flipped through a stack of papers and held a singular sheet up for the camera, revealing four signatures, his own, Rendon's, that of Guido advisor Sergio Vergara, and a purportedly scribbled signature, which was purported to be Guido's. …
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who had infiltrated the plot. Goudreau's claim to an alleged contract with Guaido and his advisors placed Rendon's on the defensive. With the responsibility for dead men and captured ex-Venezuelans placed directly on his high-rent doorstep,…
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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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Rendon insisted that he and others within Guaido's circle, including the interim president, the fake president, eventually grew suspicious, you think, and began to doubt key elements of the plan. Rendon told the Post that as of November 201…
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ex-Green Beret's statements. Hush! Hold on a second. My husband's coming back from his meeting. Though Gaudreau had published a contract that included Guaido's signature, Rendon insisted Venezuelan coup leader never signed the agreement and…
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Even this admission undermined Guaido's official statement on Operation Gideon, which not only asserted he didn't sign the contract, but that he had no idea it was even going on. In response to Guaido's cries of innocence, Goodrow published…
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Sign the agreement. I do have concerns, but we are doing the right thing for our country. The voice that's Guido's said. Who was telling the truth? Anya tried to call as many as the characters involved in Operation Gideon while she was writ…
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hardly a day since Venezuelan authorities first responded to Operation Gideon, and hours after they had detained a second group of Gaudreau's men, including two U.S. citizens. He admitted that they were his guys. In light of the open disdai…
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The following afternoon, AP revealed the U.S. government had opened a federal investigation into the former Green Beret for arms trafficking, a move that virtually muzzled him from any future media events. Though she was interested in his d…
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who had all been teammates with them. I just wish the guys went back to doing the school security stuff. Why did Jordan Gaudreau claim to have a State Department contract? Was he a patsy placed in the line of fire for more powerful forces b…
▶ 1:09:21
that was involved in the planning. Goudreau contended that Silvercorp beat out competing proposals for a private military operation to Alice Maduro, including one that had been put forward by Eric Prince, but Prince denied that. He also ins…
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become involved, but Leopardo Lopez, the ringleader of Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition, had been briefed on the operation as well. I mean, otherwise, how would he even know his name? Goudreau's honesty was immediately questioned. His law…
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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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even though he had already defected from Venezuelan's government. We know why. Why did Alcala reveal details of Gideon, including the involvement of Guaido and Rendon, before turning himself in to U.S. authorities? Most puzzling, why did Op…
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if it hasn't already. At the center of the State Department operation in Venezuela was James Story. James Story, that name keeps coming up. He's a career Foreign Service officer from South Carolina who took over Washington's Caracas, charge…
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the opposition forces. You're supposed to be there working with the government, not their opposition. In a Facebook post from March 3rd, 2019, he shared a photo of himself hiking with a former opposition presidential candidate and said the …
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You're not supposed to just be walking around with the opposition. You're supposed to at least pretend you're there to work on behalf of the U.S. government with the actual government. Venezuelan's government kicked Story out of the country…
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After a brief return to the state, Story established a virtual U.S. embassy in Venezuela to Venezuela, housed in a Washington diplomatic office in Bogota. So he went back to Colombia. From there, he managed a command post for Venezuela U.S.…
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remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …
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during which U.S. and Guaido officials discussed possible scenarios of a small special operations targeted directly at Maduro. Then, out of the blue, one of Guaido's colleagues looked at Esper across the table and said something like, we ha…
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Esper continued in his description of the meeting. I looked directly at him about 15 feet away from me down the table to my left. He turned to me and our eyes met. His face immediately went blank. Something was up. Esper let his suspicion p…
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with an opportunity to regain a majority in the legislature, but marked the formal conclusion of the Guaido fake presidency. With his Validad Popular Party officially boycotting the election, Guido, Guaido, was guaranteed to lose his seat. …