Voluntad Popular organization

“volunteer popular party, the Un Novo Tempio and Ascension Democratica, Primo Justica was part of a G4 coalition that they all had joined as quote-unquote opposition. G4 was only historically aligned itself with U.S. objectives in the countr…”

“And by foreign, she means U.S., primarily USAID, Office of Transition Initiatives, and all of those that we've talked about before. After studying at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which is known for a hotbed of CIA recru…”

“By 2014, Lopez was leading the Validad Popular, a party he founded in 2009, that, as we will see, the U.S. State Department intentionally cultivated a pro-Washington alternative to Maduro. Meanwhile, a U.S. diplomatic cable published by Wik…”

“Two years later, he and his cohort co-founder Leopoldo Lopez. That's the guy we came across a couple of chapters back. That was both part of the Validad Popular Party. So they are basically CIA assets in Venezuela, having been trained in re…”

“the guy we've talked about many times in this book. He was the aristocratic poster boy for Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition. In Vecchio's words, he actually wrote this in 2018, he and Lopez swiftly became political brothers. Their friends…”

“the guy we've talked about many times in this book. He was the aristocratic poster boy for Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition. In Vecchio's words, he actually wrote this in 2018, he and Lopez swiftly became political brothers. Their friends…”

“from Chavez's policies by adopting a leftist veneer. In 2014, the party was admitted into the socialist international status that enabled it to cast itself as a progressive, not only to Venezuelans, but self-proclaimed leftists in the West,…”

“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…”