Carlos Vecchio person
also: Guaido's ambassador, Guaido's OAS envoy, Vecchio, Becchio, Carlos Becchio, ambassador of Exxon, former Exxon lawyer
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Claims (14)
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
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
Carlos Vecchio attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“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
Carlos Vecchio member_of
Harvard Kennedy School documented
“Vecchio continued his journey through the U.S. Ivy League circuit after graduating from Georgetown, pursuing a degree in public administration at the boot camp for neoliberal thought leaders, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which is…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 19:38
Carlos Vecchio member_of
George Mason University documented
“Though Vecchio did not disclose the content of his reply, the State Department apparently found it worthy of a full-ride scholarship to study English and tax law in Georgetown University, which, of course, is a favorite CIA recruiting groun…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 19:16
Carlos Vecchio worked_for
Mobil documented
“of Venezuela's expat community. Though he clearly enjoyed basking in the admiration, earnestly shaking his hands and posing for photographs, Vecchio had not set out for life in politics. Instead, he spent his early days of his career as a c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 16:55
Carlos Vecchio worked_for
PDVSA documented
“to Mobil before it merged with Exxon, and then moving to the country's state oil company, Petrolis, which has the initials PDBSA. Like other leading figures in the opposition, Vecchio belonged to the replacement generation of pro-U.S. Venez…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 17:24
Carlos Vecchio 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
CIA recruited
Carlos Vecchio book_quoted
“Now, we've talked about the Fulbright Scholarship, which is kind of like the U.S. version of the Oxford Scholarship for people in which the CIA used to recruit foreigners into their ranks. According to the 2018 memoir, U.S. operatives pluck…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 18:21
Carlos Vecchio member_of
ExxonMobil host_asserted
“He is also over there in the U.S. Carlos Vecchio is a lawyer from Exxon. Carlos Vecchio is not an ambassador of Juan Guaido. He's an ambassador of Exxon. Cabello gestured towards his bulletin board and placed a hand on Hernandez's photo. Ju…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 46:40
Carlos Vecchio pocketed_funds_from
PDVSA host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 50:04
Carlos Vecchio served_as
United States host_asserted
“He will continue to serve as a de facto liaison between Venezuela's radical opposition and U.S. politicians vying for votes in South Florida. Meanwhile, until Washington restores official diplomatic ties with the actual government of Venezu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 57:01
U.S. State Department funded
Carlos Vecchio host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 15:29
U.S. Secret Service covered_up
Carlos Vecchio host_asserted
“filmed physically blocking the postman's access to the compound, which is a federal crime. Though international diplomatic law stipulated that it was the responsibility of the Secret Service to prevent damage to the embassy, they looked on …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 11:08
Mentions (38)
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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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The country's embassy in Washington, D.C. represented Vecchio's ultimate prize. Situated on Georgetown's scenic Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Diplomatic Command and Control Center was officially vacated on April 21st when Washington kicked…
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to the ambassador's office seemed inevitable. And it would have been, had it not been for a group of U.S. peace activists who mounted an extraordinary defense of the compound. Venezuelan's Embassy Protection Collective was born as a respons…
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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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After setting up their encampment, an act U.S. authorities would have never permitted on the grounds of any foreign embassy, the mob proceeded to block food and other supplies from entering the building. They blasted Bluetooth speaker music…
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I had no idea that I would remain inside the building for the next 10 days, hostage of an aggressive expatriate class that appeared to enjoy total immunity from the law. In plain sight of Secret Service agents deployed to the property, Vecc…
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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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Flak vest, night vision goggles, looking like they were going to raid the Bin Laden complex, took a battering ram to the door and arrested the four remaining people. Carlos Vecchio's first official act as Guaido's representative in Washingt…
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Vecchio staffs in a dispatch to the State Department formally requesting that it support their effort to take physical occupancy of the Venezuelans U.S. diplomatic compound. In the April 26th letter, which was obtained later, Vecchio even p…
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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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of Venezuela's expat community. Though he clearly enjoyed basking in the admiration, earnestly shaking his hands and posing for photographs, Vecchio had not set out for life in politics. Instead, he spent his early days of his career as a c…
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to Mobil before it merged with Exxon, and then moving to the country's state oil company, Petrolis, which has the initials PDBSA. Like other leading figures in the opposition, Vecchio belonged to the replacement generation of pro-U.S. Venez…
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ever since he and others among the scorned ruling class had colluded with Washington to reassert U.S. corporate interest in Venezuela in the ill-fated effort culminating in Guaido's self-declared presidency. Around the time of Chavez's inau…
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Now, we've talked about the Fulbright Scholarship, which is kind of like the U.S. version of the Oxford Scholarship for people in which the CIA used to recruit foreigners into their ranks. According to the 2018 memoir, U.S. operatives pluck…
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And who exactly would that embassy staff be besides the CIA and Caracas? Vecchio recalls that during his Fulbright audition, U.S. officials were particularly keen to know what he would do if he were the Venezuelan finance minister. So inter…
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Though Vecchio did not disclose the content of his reply, the State Department apparently found it worthy of a full-ride scholarship to study English and tax law in Georgetown University, which, of course, is a favorite CIA recruiting groun…
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Vecchio continued his journey through the U.S. Ivy League circuit after graduating from Georgetown, pursuing a degree in public administration at the boot camp for neoliberal thought leaders, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which is…
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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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Washington consensus and return their oil to U.S. control. He reflected that while at Harvard, he learned a lot more about the best political practices and how they could be used in his country. As Vecchio drilled English grammar and tax la…
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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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and who accused Hugo Chavez of crimes against humanity. One year after Venezuelan's government moved to ex-appropriate his private ranch as part of its efforts to expand domestic agricultural capacity. Also present was Guaido's U.S. quote-u…
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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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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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In other words, Hernandez had provided material support for a lawsuit filed against the very government whose legal strategy he would go on to direct in the fake government. So he's an opposing witness while pretending to be a part of the f…
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He is also over there in the U.S. Carlos Vecchio is a lawyer from Exxon. Carlos Vecchio is not an ambassador of Juan Guaido. He's an ambassador of Exxon. Cabello gestured towards his bulletin board and placed a hand on Hernandez's photo. Ju…
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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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When my name started to float as attorney general, I spoke with Ambassador Carlos Vecchio. I prepared him a memo, but you don't work for him. You're the attorney general of a fake president that you actually work for, not his ambassador. As…
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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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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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who remains forever encased in an ivory tower of neoliberal delusion. Haasman will never again have the chance to test his failed economic vision on the Venezuelan population and is instead left in Boston with his Saudi-sponsored professors…
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This is an asset that belonged to Venezuelan Carlos Vecchio, who was Guaido's ambassador to the U.S. shortly after removing a portrait of Maduro from the wall of Venezuelan's military attache office and replacing it with a Guaido picture. S…
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They indexed the name of several State Department and USAID officials, along with Guaido's D.C.-based representatives, including his quote-unquote U.S. ambassador, Carlos Becchio. Representatives from Brazil and Colombia's U.S. embassies we…