2019 Venezuelan crisis event
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to the U.S. regime change campaign, a covert CIA-run initiative to help overthrow the Venezuelan strongman. The campaign would pull off at least one disruptive digital sabotage operation against the Maduro regime in 2019. Now, I'm going to …
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for the actual boss called the president. So just let that sink in for a second. That needs to marinate a little bit. Okay, hold on. Let me get back to my place. It shows the limitations of covert CIA-assisted regime change schemes. There's…
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whose latest sham reelection in July of 2024 has again thrust his country into chaos. The details of that covert CIA-assisted campaign told exclusively to Wired by eight Trump administration and former agency officials with knowledge of the…
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Remember, the OAS recognized the fake officials as being the real officials. And they're now occupying the Venezuelan embassy with a fake government. And international bodies are now dealing with all of these fake people to include the $150…
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that have to be dug up in order to expose these operations. So my hat's off to her. And the reason why I wanted to share the book with you guys, because it does give us an inside view of the machine and literally how compromised most of the…
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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…
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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…
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The Bank of England's decision came despite the fact that Caracas lodged its expatriation request for its gold way back in November of 2018. Months before any of this happened, they just refused to comply. Probably, since all roads lead to …
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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…
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Quote, if the money is transferred, it will be used by the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro to repress and brutalize the Venezuelan people, unquote. Not to feed them, not to provide anything for them, just for Maduro himself. London of…
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By calling into question which government, the fake one or the real one, could claim rightful ownership of Venezuela's foreign assets, the reality that Maduro's government controlled every single financial institution, including Venezuela's…
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visited Washington in the early days of the fake government and expressed that London was delighted to cooperate on steps they could take to support the fake government, including phrasing all of Venezuela's gold deposits. That was in Bolto…
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that it quickly prepared plans to further exploit Venezuela's natural wealth in the event of the coup's success. In May 2020, British journalist John McEvoy obtained UK government documents via a FOIA request that revealed the Foreign Commo…
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Guaido presidency. Well, that's weird. Though the Foreign Commonwealth Office established its Venezuelan reconstruction unit led by Venezuelan former ambassador to Caracas in the fall of 2019, it had been kept in secret. So they were planni…
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We cannot understand why they created this unit to reconstruct Venezuela when it was not destroyed, Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Ariza said. Following McElroy's expose, Ariza summoned the British charge de l'affaire and Caracas' Duncan …
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If they wanted to bomb and attack Venezuela like they did Iraq, like they did Afghanistan, like they did Syria, to reconstruct Venezuela with their companies and win profits out of Venezuelan tragedy and bloodshed. Venezuela's foreign minis…
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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…
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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…
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They're using Caracas's money to pay for the fight against Caracas getting their money back. Bastards. Ensuring that Venezuela's gold remained forever in the Bank of England vaults. Convenient development as London was also dealing with a b…
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Then stick a fake government in, recognize them immediately, and tell everybody they can't have their gold back. Brilliant. What's more, the market price of gold has skyrocketed in recent years, and Venezuela's U.K. stored reserve is now wo…
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In other words, Guaido effectively facilitated London's indefinite seizure of Venezuelan's gold assets in contradiction of an explicit repatriation request from the country's elected government. London's modern treatment of Venezuela recall…
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seize ships and New World territories so they could control them. They invented a government in Narnia, a government of fantasy, to steal companies' money accounts and to steal gold from Venezuela, Maduro said. Across the Atlantic, meanwhil…
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directly coincided with the U.S. effort to hold Venezuela's New York gold reserves. In March of 2019, Citigroup announced that it would sell off $1.3 billion worth of Venezuelan gold bullion housed in its vaults after the governor, Caracas,…
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Trump's sanctions introduced in 2017 banned all transactions from the Venezuelan government in U.S. financial markets. So you can't pay your debt. So we're going to steal your gold to pay your debt that you would have otherwise paid in oil …
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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…
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put it in a bank account, and gave Guaido a signature card. Though sanctions officially rendered those monies frozen, Venezuela's opposition later approved a U.S. Treasury request to transfer the funds out of City Vault and into account mai…
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Venezuela's government denounced the decision, accusing Guaido's operatives of coordinating with the U.S. Treasury to enable the plunder of their country's wealth. As with London's indefinite seizure of their gold, the U.S. Treasury and cit…
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these cases did not constitute the bulk of the international heist committed against Venezuela thanks to Guaido's U.S. direct coup efforts. Portugal's Novo Banco, which is majority owned by a U.S. private equity fund, similarly blocked the …
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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…
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how Guaido's envoys in Colombia blew thousands of dollars earmarked for Venezuelan refugees on luxury shopping sprees and hotel stays. That same month, Venezuelan government accused Guaido's U.S. representatives, Carlos Vecchio, of personal…
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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…
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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…
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Today, January 23, 2019, this is a quote. Today, January 23, 2019, I swear to formally assume the powers of the national executive as president in charge of Venezuela, Guaido declared. Though the 35-year-old lawmaker exercised no control ov…
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Around the time that, oh, there she is. Let me bring Bridget in. Okay. Around the time of Ramos's February 2019 visit with Maduro, Washington announced its intent to force a convoy of humanitarian aid into Venezuela and began assembling a m…
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on the border with Colombia to accompany the aid package. Venezuelans officials and many citizens viewed the shipment, which was scheduled for February 23rd, as an attempted invasion of their country. They noted that because neither the UN …
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had already fulfilled his duty to create news, a new controversy. Washington-hyped campaign for its February 23rd invasion of Venezuela under the guise of humanitarian aid missions transcended Univision's studio. Leading the festival of int…
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of Washington's February 23rd Venezuela's aid invasion. According to regime change media mill, Maduro's rejection of the U.S. military's presence on his border was rooted because he was a despot regime guy. Humanitarian aid arrives. This wa…