Elias Santana person
also: U.S.-backed activist, Santana
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Elias Santana funded
We Want to Choose documented
“was a U.S.-backed activist, Elias Santana, whom Vecchio met while studying at Harvard. Santana had been pocketing paychecks from Washington since 1993. His organization, We Want to Choose, partnered with U.S. government to promote voter edu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 24:02
Elias Santana founded
Active Citizenry documented
“As a lawyer for a private oil industry at the time, he and Santana managed to leave their mark on the U.S.-directed coup. Just three months prior to the short-lived coup in January of 2002, the pair co-founded a Caracas-based quote-unquote …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 33:32
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because that's what they want here. Yet before Chavez could escalate his transformation of Venezuela, he would have to win a fresh mandate under the country's updated constitution. When an election was set for November 2000, the United Stat…
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was a U.S.-backed activist, Elias Santana, whom Vecchio met while studying at Harvard. Santana had been pocketing paychecks from Washington since 1993. His organization, We Want to Choose, partnered with U.S. government to promote voter edu…
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Even though at home, it's exactly what the Democrats tell you they want to do. As Chavez gained popularity and overturned the pro-corporate agenda, Washington and Santana launched an active campaign to sabotage his leadership at every turn.…
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openly thanked the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank for funding its production, which works hand-in-hand with USAID. Santana ran a failed effort to halt Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly process the following year that wa…
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And according to Latin American researcher Richard Lawlander, Santana and his Quirimos Aligar colleagues played important roles opposing the vote and were even called to the Supreme Court as voices of Venezuela's civil society to present ar…
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Santana's bid to impair Venezuela's revolutionary momentum failed. Chavez won nearly 60% of the votes in the November 2000 election, securing a new term under Venezuela's new constitution. He then endeavored to revamp the national education…
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The first sustained phase of civil revolt against Chavez had finally arrived. With its prior efforts to stop Chavez in its tracks, Santana quickly materialized at the uprising's forefront. Chavez tried to mess with our schools and civil soc…
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that this was the largest protest against President Chavez to date. Known as Movement 1.011, the street campaign heated up just as Vecchio's studies in the U.S. wound to a close. Near the end of his time at Harvard, the young lawyer accepte…
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of demonstrations in Caracas that would forever change the course of his career. Having received his first taste of U.S. taxpayer gravy train training, driving opposition to Chavez's government, Vecchio writes upon his return to Venezuela a…
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Vecchio thus began his ascent into the clandestine network of U.S.-funded civil society groups opposing Chavez by any means necessary. Their offensive reached a head in April of 2002 when Chavez initiated a complete overhaul of the country'…
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Serving as a crucial figure overseeing a scheme from his post on Bush Jr.'s national security team was none other than Elliott Abrams, the same guy that John Bolton used in 2019 to do the exact same thing. The guy just keeps coming back. Do…
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As a lawyer for a private oil industry at the time, he and Santana managed to leave their mark on the U.S.-directed coup. Just three months prior to the short-lived coup in January of 2002, the pair co-founded a Caracas-based quote-unquote …