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in 1998 based on the promise of a political and economic revolution that broke the Washington Consensus. The officials who filled the ranks of Venezuelans' U.S.-backed coup regime in 2019 were leftovers from Caracas' neoliberal heir, local …
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So, yeah, that would have been around 2015. So Venezuela was nothing like what I thought it was going to be like because everybody had told me how horrible it was. It wasn't horrible at all. We flew into I don't think it was Caracas proper,…
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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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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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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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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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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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Regardless of the Times' opinion on the matter, the Venezuelan public moved swiftly to reject the overthrow of their government. Throughout the country, masses of people poured into the streets to demand the president's freedom. As the popu…
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Just after midnight on April 13th, a military helicopter returned Chavez to the cheers of his supporters outside the presidential palace. To Venezuelans' overwhelming Catholic population, Chavez's comeback mirrored something like a resurrec…
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USAID opened an OTI branch in Caracas and began doling out tons of your taxpayer dollars to fund further chaos. To identify organizations fit for the task, OTI contracted Development Alternatives Incorporated. And I've talked about this on …
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to overthrow governments. Leading DAI's Venezuela team was none other than Vecchio's former Georgetown roommate, Antonio Iskander. As luck would have it, the OTI quickly selected Vecchio's organization, Active Citizenry, as one of its first…
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Battling the Venezuelan government on behalf of his multinational corporation, Vecchio then turned politics, announcing his bid to run for mayor in eastern Caracas' wealthy municipality. Though his candidacy flopped, even the wealthy oligar…
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Heralded in the press as the greatest threat to Chavez's continued reign, Generation 2007 was not a natural phenomenon. Under the command of Vecchio's Georgetown roommate, USAID had actively trained and funded the movement's student leaders…
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He joined it, too. As was the case with nearly all Vecchio's endeavors, the hidden hand of the U.S. government gave them their first push. According to a former Office of Transition Initiative Caracas employee, actually admitted they gave t…
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and Rebecca Hansen in 2019. Quote, they were pulling people away from Chavez in a subtle manner. Gill and Hansen detailed the Caracas Office of Transition Initiatives method. This is a quote. Since USAID Office of Transition Initiatives cou…
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At the time, my ex was Colombian but raised in Caracas. And, you know, Venezuela was very dear to her. I think she probably felt more Venezuelan than she did Colombian because she grew up there. And a lot of Venezuelans put a lot of hope in…
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Yeah, my father-in-law is from Maracaibo. My wife has traveled there a couple of times. She entered the U.S. with a Venezuelan passport because we had problems getting her Colombian passport. During those trips that my wife has gone, my fat…
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noticed them or your wife first noticed them? Yeah, I mean, you got to realize I don't have access to any kind of intel on that target. And I've been out of the intelligence community now for almost five years. So when they're coming in, wh…