2002 Venezuelan coup attempt event
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United States carried_out_attack
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt book_quoted
“and the nations by consolidating the right to self-determination and political independence. The historic tension between the North and the liberty of the South is what this book is all about. Washington, this is again, the foreign minister…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 5:32
Jake Tapper tweeted
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“Quote, CNN live in Venezuela as Maduro government mows down citizens in the street. Tapper tweeted on the afternoon of April 30th, attaching a photo of Venezuelan soldiers firing their gun at a target beyond the camera's view. There was jus…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 17:14
Jose Ignacio Hernandez member_of
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“His distaste for public examination was well-founded. Anya discovered that behind his demeanor, Hernandez served as one of the most consequential members of Venezuela's U.S.-backed shadow administration. While chronicling his role in Guaido…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 35:46
Ricardo Hausmann exposed
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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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 22:18
Joanna Hausmann carried_out_attack
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 1:06
Ricardo Hausmann carried_out_attack
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“He was confident that a coup would result in the opening up of the oil industry. Quote, we need to change the oil law so that we can allow private investment in the oil industry, unquote. Haussmann's morning after prescription for Venezuela…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 12:19
Ricardo Hausmann funded
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“His wife, Ana Julio Jotter, served as an executive committee on the executive committee supporting Maria Karina Marcato at her U.S.-funded USAID machine, Sumate, which led to the failed effort to remove Chavez during a recall vote in 2003. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 19:12
John Bolton carried_out_attack
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“some might say criminals, that kind of assembled around him. And it's very telling of, and this is obviously an effort that John Bolton led almost exclusively inside the Trump administration. And that's why I don't really take this as a Tru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 1:06:33
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
Leopoldo Lopez member_of
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“the star of Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition who was widely believed to be pulling the strings of his shadow regime. As a key architect of the coup attempt underway, dubbed Operation Freedom, Lopez had successfully broken out of house arr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 13:13
Ricardo Hausmann member_of
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“the Inter-American Development Bank representative who then had to resign because he got outed, says, quote, in my professional career, I have never worked with someone more capable, more hardworking, more dedicated, more knowledgeable abou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 1:02:48
John Bolton covered_up
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“and control over the flow of information in the White House to sabotage nearly everything that Trump tried to do. In his memoirs, Bolton boasted of undermining Trump's push to draw down the U.S. military occupation in Syria, as well as the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 38:59
Mentions (92)
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And I would tell you that Deloitte, I've actually talked about in the show that I was on with Ash in America, where we were talking about the H-1B visas. They are all working in collaboration with the CIA. So here we go. DAI was contracted …
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and the nations by consolidating the right to self-determination and political independence. The historic tension between the North and the liberty of the South is what this book is all about. Washington, this is again, the foreign minister…
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Basically, he's saying that there was a coup in 2002 in Venezuela orchestrated by Washington and their NGOs tasked with destabilizing Venezuela and forcing regime change. And again, I'm speaking for the foreign minister. I was named foreign…
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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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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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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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Vecchio thus began his ascent into the clandestine network of U.S.-funded civil society groups opposing Chavez by any means necessary. Their offensive reached a head in April of 2002 when Chavez initiated a complete overhaul of the country'…
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The events of April 11, 2002 was well established in popular history in response to the shakeup at the state-run oil company. Venezuela's business elite collaborated with rogue military forces to kidnap Chavez and detain him on a prison isl…
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as the head of the national transition government. So Guaido wasn't their first attempted fake coup. The document, known as the Carmona Decree, established a de facto dictatorship and dissolved Venezuela's newly formed National Assembly and…
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Nothing says democracy like getting rid of the Constitution. For several hours, Western media celebrated Chavez's coup. The New York Times even printed a glowing profile of Kimona, the Chamber of Commerce guy, within hours of the coup, legi…
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A strong-willed populist known for his rambling speeches to a mild-mannered businessman who occasionally chooses every word very carefully. The paper read, the Times ran an official staff op-ed rejoicing, actually called it Venezuelan democ…
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Almost exactly. Since the military intervened and handed power to a respectable business leader. What? Yes, thanks to the intervention by the country's U.S. aligned armed forces, Venezuelan democracy was no longer threatened by a president …
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Regardless of the Times' opinion on the matter, the Venezuelan public moved swiftly to reject the overthrow of their government. Throughout the country, masses of people poured into the streets to demand the president's freedom. As the popu…
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Just after midnight on April 13th, a military helicopter returned Chavez to the cheers of his supporters outside the presidential palace. To Venezuelans' overwhelming Catholic population, Chavez's comeback mirrored something like a resurrec…
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It had failed in less than 48 hours. Diplomatic sources at the OAS in Washington eventually charged U.S. officials with directing the plot, revealing to The Guardian, quote, Venezuelans plotting a coup included Carmona himself, unquote. He …
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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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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 …
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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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Venezuelan voices, and I put that in air quotes because she's lived in New York City forever, on the internet. All right, there we go. Let's get Bridget up here and we'll get SR. So you have this comedian who supposedly has, other than her …
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Twitter at the time, talking up the impending regime change in Venezuela, seemingly disconnected from the whole thing as if she's not in direct relation to the coup machine itself. She was packaging all of the information John Bolton and El…
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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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His wife, Ana Julio Jotter, served as an executive committee on the executive committee supporting Maria Karina Marcato at her U.S.-funded USAID machine, Sumate, which led to the failed effort to remove Chavez during a recall vote in 2003. …
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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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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…
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His distaste for public examination was well-founded. Anya discovered that behind his demeanor, Hernandez served as one of the most consequential members of Venezuela's U.S.-backed shadow administration. While chronicling his role in Guaido…
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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…
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A ruling that placed Sitco, Venezuela's most valuable international asset, on the verge of liquidation. For those of us in the U.S., Sitco was just another gas station. For Venezuelans, however, the company was a national pride. Venezuelan …
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prevented Sitco from issuing dividends back to its parent company, PDVSA. The order effectively blocked the government in Caracas from accessing its U.S. revenue. Washington turned up its assault on Venezuelan oil industry within days of re…
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The restrictions not only banned the sale of Venezuelan oil in U.S. markets, but officially placed the country's U.S.-based financial accounts, including those belonging to Sitco, under the authority of Guaido's fake government. Venezuelan'…
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Following the Delaware decision, Anya became acquainted with Rodriguez and the other members of the Venezuelan opposition who helped her understand the link between Guaido's coup and Kristillic's billion-dollar triumph. I discovered that wh…
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Sitco Holdings appointed a board of Sitco Petroleum. These rules placed a comfortable distance between the Venezuelan state and Sitco's day-to-day operations, making it difficult to claim the U.S.-based company was simply an instrument of M…
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directly appointed not only an ad hoc PDBSA board, but also the top executive of all three of the U.S. subsidiaries. This meant that under Guaido's leadership, Venezuela's National Assembly placed a government hand smack in the middle of th…
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an alter ego of Venezuela. Critics, like opposition-aligned engineer Rodriguez, argued that the Guaido top legal advisor, it was up to Hernandez to prevent the National Assembly from appointing Sitco's boards, thereby jeopardizing Venezuela…
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towards his fellow citizens. Outrage towards Hernandez was not confined to Venezuelan's government. Having squandered their country's most valuable international asset less than a year into their political project, Guaido's officials began …
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a television station in Miami sporting an unkept beard and dismissed the accusations against him as false and asserted that by the time he entered the shadow government, the Christelix case was in its final stages, which is a flat out lie. …
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that crafted the legal strategy of the Chrysillics case. They weren't allowed to participate. While that claim, Hernando's version of the events overlooked several facts presented before the court. On April 10, 2019, Chrysillics submitted a…
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In hard copy and stamped with a date. If Guaido's team had been maintaining government records, according to Venezuelan law, which they were not, they should have been able to verify the letter with a hard copy wet signature. But they never…
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has since informed Anya that Hernandez was actively directing their legal strategy during the entire time. Regardless, the letter itself was very significant because it offered an inside glimpse into a very weird chain of command. Hernandez…
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but to Carlos Vecchio, who was really a nobody in the fake government. The curious act was tantamount to the Attorney General of the U.S. submitting a recusal letter to the Washington ambassador in London, rather than the U.S. president. He…
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emerged among the most prominent defenders. Hours after the Venezuelan Attorney General opened a criminal investigation into Hernandez's relationship with Christilix, Guaido's U.S.-based fake government circled the wagons for their embattle…
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the Inter-American Development Bank representative who then had to resign because he got outed, says, quote, in my professional career, I have never worked with someone more capable, more hardworking, more dedicated, more knowledgeable abou…
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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…
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born from foreign-sponsored student protests that rocked Venezuela throughout 2007. By 2016, Guaido was representing his native Estado La Guerra in the country's national legislature at a tender age of 32. When he announced his self-declare…
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Washington had declared its regime change mission in Caracas accomplished before a physical transition of government had actually taken place, and it would never take place. Today, Guaido's name is primarily evoked as a punchline, synonymou…
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actively supported the U.S.-backed military coup, which temporarily removed Chavez from power in 2002. While those demonstrations ultimately died down, they reunited in the weeks leading up to the December 2nd constitutional referendum. Thi…
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Some here say they feel that the situation is as tense as 2002, said a journalist, Fred Fluentes, which was part of the U.S.-directed military coup. Weeks later, on November 28th, opposition rioters shot and killed a chavista in the city of…
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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…
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Softly, Mankato communicated with intensity. During Anya's conversation in New York, Mankato described how Washington's plan to repeat its OAS strategy at the UN and replace him with a representative from Guaido's regime was made apparent b…
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Such a decision was technically required to clear the UN annual General Assembly meeting with a two-thirds majority vote and a solid plurality of member states. Rejected Guaido's coup. Still, Mankato believed that the U.S. would use its OAS…
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Dedicate your life to stopping that catastrophe is worthwhile. For most dignitaries stationed at the UN in New York, the job is a glamorous gig that enables fruitful connections and future job opportunities in the international diplomacy co…
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are actively working with the oligarchs in the United States to basically go back and exploit their country because they know they're going to be in that elite group when their country is overthrown and they're going to have some big positi…
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At least two of the people we just talked about were criminals. So when you have a criminal element, a corrupt element in a foreign government that the U.S. oligarchs, the Western oligarchs, set their sights on, you bring them into the Unit…
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Venezuelans that are patriotic and want their government back when in fact they're not that at all. In many cases, they are criminals that had been held account by the government, which is why they don't like the particular government they …
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Obviously, there were several people, Mike Pence, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, that knew exactly what was going on because several of them were working with the game playing of overthrowing a government. So very interesting. Anyway, agai…
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in my memoir, and it turned out not to be successful. So this is John Bolton admitting on national television that he ran a coup against Venezuela. For Venezuelans, Bolton's confession underscored his already transparent role in directing t…
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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…
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only caving after Vice President Pence held a phone conversation with the unknown Venezuelan politician on the eve of his fake swearing-in ceremony not before. Bolton happened to be on hand for that discussion. He later recounted how after …
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to shake hands with him saying this is a historic moment. So this was basically a Pence, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo staged coup. Trump was not in favor of any of it. And notice that John Bolton, who is the national security advisor for the Tr…
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of Maduro's accusation against him. So John Bolton was very proud of the fact that he was accused of trying to assassinate Maduro. Bolton built up his street creds as one of the most ruthless coup regime change artists in April 2019, roughl…
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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…
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On April 30th, Bolton would put his confidence to the test. By Bolton's own account, the date represented a turning point for which Guaido and his U.S. backers had long prepared. He recalled starting the day at 8.25 a.m. phone call with the…
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A contingent of Venezuelan opposition activists began shutting down sections of Caracas. Then, for the first time since joining the White House one year prior, Bolton made the decision to wake the president up to deliver important news of a…
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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…
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the star of Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition who was widely believed to be pulling the strings of his shadow regime. As a key architect of the coup attempt underway, dubbed Operation Freedom, Lopez had successfully broken out of house arr…
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Nonchalant Venezuelan officials assured me that his attempted insurrection was doomed. By mid-afternoon, Reuters reported that an uneasy peace had returned to the streets, and there was no indication that the opposition planned to take over…
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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.…
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Bolton remained convinced that Padrino Lopez was their man on the inside that was going to help them overthrow Maduro. Throughout the day, Guaido's miscarried mutiny, credulous corporate media correspondents repeatedly asserted to U.S. offi…
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Bolton continued to publicly indulge his regime change fantasy. Quote, your time is up. This is your last chance, he tweeted. Accept interim President Guaido's amnesty. Protect the Constitution and remove Maduro, and we will take off our sa…
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fixed on Tucker's show throughout the Trump years, belonged to the president himself. As Washington's dime store foreign policy experts leapt to rally support for Guaido's coup, Anya reached out to Tucker with a request. As Guaido summoned …
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page, perhaps unseen on cable news since 2003, when MSNBC host Phil Donahue, militant opposition to the Iraq invasion, made him a network highest rated host. It also led to his termination because you're not allowed to go against the war ma…
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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…
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exchange on state television. Days later, Tucker informed me that our interview not only garnered top ratings, but had caught the attention of President Trump himself. According to Tucker, the president phoned him shortly after the events o…
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than his promotion of the catastrophic Iraq war. Though Trump did not fire Bolton until September, the president's frustration with his national security advisor reached a breaking point following the events of April 30th, 2019. Echoing Tuc…
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who claimed the president felt misled by Bolton and other advisors and that he was believed to have underestimated Maduro. The president's dissatisfaction crystallized around national security advisor John Bolton and what Trump had said is …
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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…
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Though who exactly was on the other line was unknown. Many social media joked that Pompeo and Bolton were most likely scolding him for embarrassing them so badly. Designed to convince Trump of Guaido's strength, the botched revolt instead l…
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So that's the end of that chapter. And I don't think we have time to go into the next one. But I will tell you, this is the one that we're really going to want to spend a little bit of time on. So I'll wait until tomorrow because this is th…
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Tensions in bilateral relations with Venezuela under the George Bush administration turned especially sour in the aftermath of President Chavez, the coup that the CIA did on Chavez in 2002. Venezuela alleged U.S. involvement in the ouster w…
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a firm that was associated with South African diamond mining. Reports in foreign press revealed that the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, was implicated in the plot, which was intended to overthrow the governmen…
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And just so that you guys know, this is a great way of, quote unquote, disposing of aircraft that are no longer accountable and can be used for covert operations. Dotson addressed the plane seized in Zimbabwe by saying that his company boug…