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Anya met
Tucker Carlson host_asserted
“Having met Tucker Carlson during one of the most consequential diplomatic meetings of Trump's presidency, I was confident the Fox host would be ready to spill the beans. In the summer of 2018, she had traveled to Helsinki, Finland, to cover…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 18:17
Anya worked_for
RT host_asserted
“At the time, she was working for Russian television RT. Though she had obtained official White House press credentials as a correspondent for RT America, the outlet at the center of Putin's alleged conspiracy to influence the U.S. populatio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 18:47
Anya member_of
The Grayzone host_asserted
“Almost guarantee you, you've never heard anything that we're going to discuss in this book. So first of all, this book, as it says in the prompt, is called Corporate Coup by Anna Parampil. I'm not sure if I pronounced her last. She works at…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:00
Anya member_of
RT book_quoted
“U.S.-backed coup in January 2019, I was stuck in the right place at the perfect time to pursue a front-row seat to the high-stakes drama. The previous month, Russia's state-backed media outlet in Washington, D.C., RT America, terminated my …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 26:06
Anya member_of
The Grayzone book_quoted
“from a network TV host job to join Max Blumenthal and decided to write a book about Venezuela. She visited Caracas. The trip represented my first official trip as a member of Grayzone, a new site that Max Blumenthal…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 26:37
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Almost guarantee you, you've never heard anything that we're going to discuss in this book. So first of all, this book, as it says in the prompt, is called Corporate Coup by Anna Parampil. I'm not sure if I pronounced her last. She works at…
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a regime change operation that was not only aimed at deposing President Maduro, but sought to punish all Venezuelans. It is a policy that seeks to exact irreversible damage to Venezuela's economy and make the possibility of an independent V…
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Why Venezuela? Why are you so interested in Venezuela? Anya's answer to this question varied according to different stages in her life. When she was younger and idealistic, her interest in Venezuela was driven by a romantic fascination with…
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On September 6, 2020, seven months after the legal fight came to an end, one of them passed away unexpectedly in his sleep. That afternoon, Anya recalled their memories of him and his fight. And that's the end of that chapter. So, comments?…
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You spelled his name H-A-U-S-M-A-N-N. He was an economist that wrote prolific information that supported the Washington's position of whatever they wanted to do in Venezuela. And we'll get to him. But Anya opens up this chapter with his dau…
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Fifteen seconds when U.S.-Venezuela policy was hijacked by the far right, a separate acquaintance remarked to Anya saying that he blew even that. That same source who worked in the U.S. financial sector described Haussmann as an academic wi…
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Osman delivered one of his performances in November 2018 when he appeared to reveal prior knowledge of the impending regime change operation that would target Venezuela two months later. Quote, the international community is now focused on …
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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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Though much of Joanna's script tracked with her father's, the elder Haussmann added an opening declaration of bloodlust for his homeland, insisting that military intervention by a coalition of regional forces was the only way to resolve the…
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I aim to inform the public that the video racking up millions of views on social media had not been produced by a common Venezuelan, but one with a clear stake in the regime change. Yet within weeks of her article publication, Joanna was ma…
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That employed her father snowballed on social media. My article documenting the Hossman's family dark history went viral. Joanna replied by blocking Anya on Twitter. She then goes on, despite having blocked her from commenting, and says, I'…
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Samantha Powers was required to take public service leave from Harvard while she fulfilled her duties at the coup machine USAID. Why didn't Harvard apply those same standards to Haussmann? Or his underling at Harvard, Guaido's attorney gene…
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ethical questions inquiring whether it was typical to have active government officials on their faculty. She also pressed Harvard to follow through on its commitment to transparency and require Haussmann to name the clients of his private c…
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On a late afternoon in August of 2019, Anya obtained Haasman's personal cell number and fired off a series of questions via WhatsApp. I can't think of one example of someone who worked an academic job while serving in government. How do you…
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of which is compensated. So, you do exercise government functions, Anya replied, highlighting that both Garasani and Tari were required to quit their jobs before joining Venezuela's fake government, regardless of whether they were getting p…
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defense dissolved from logic to babble. He responds, you are not a journalist, nor are you interested in the truth. You're an advocate for a cause and you produce biased and untrue stuff that advances your political agenda. Anya replies, ok…
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U.S. law or Harvard norms? Anya replies, okay, but shouldn't you disclose your private consulting clients if you're a government advisor? Rather than answer that question, Hosman changed the subject. You tried to disqualify my daughter just…
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So he may have been at a happy hour somewhere. The coup official's desperate devolution into accusations that Venezuelan government funded my work suggested that he had finally realized the grave error he made in engaging her. While she ope…
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She had never accepted payment from a state or a state-funded institution. Unlike Haasman, the gray zone where she worked had never received funding or support from any government. Anya then hits with, so how much did the Wahhabi kingdom pa…
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Considering his professional rank in the quote-unquote government, I was astonished by his behavior and his tantrum. Our exchange, which began at roughly two in the afternoon, went on for over 12 hours. Throughout the evening, he descended …
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his free time cooking Indian food and relaxing, not orchestrating government overthrows. At precisely 3.31 a.m., Haasman launched his final WhatsApp barrage demanding to see one article in which I questioned or criticized any of the Maduro'…
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At around four in the morning, Haussmann had blocked her number and prevented himself from issuing any further responses. His self-restraint had arrived a little too late. On September 6th, I published the contents of the revealing WhatsApp…
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but an intelligence gathering operation that spied on opposition families while blocking them from receiving benefits. Her evidence-free assertion are thoroughly dispelled by what we talked about earlier, where Anya, the author of this book…
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In April 2019, the report boasted that sanctions had successfully cut Venezuela's government off from U.S. financial markets and impaired its ability to generate oil revenue. Though the State Department deleted the fact sheet within hours o…
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Uniquely susceptible to Treasury's attempt and probably used as the leverage to get him to turn on his government. While reviewing the September 2020 Venezuela human rights report, Anya discovered that virtually every accusation of human ri…
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in a building that originally housed the League of Nations. It was located in a plush area of Geneva. Anya encountered the people at the UN Human Rights Council in March 19, 2019, speaking alongside a UN special representative, Alfred D. Za…
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the host, an Italian lawyer, that the UN Watch had booked the room for a session immediately following ours. And so as they go into session, this guy sat so that at exactly the right time, they could kick Anya and her, whether they went lon…
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The set, constructed in the headquarters of Venezuelan's oil company on one show, Anya went to this show, had the logo, loyal always, traitors never. When he appeared on stage for his opening monologue, Cabello took aim at the U.S. media fo…
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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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Año first spoke to Rodriguez, who was at the time in Switzerland in August of 2019. He said to her, I'm 110% against Maduro. But Rodriguez, as an influential member of Venezuela's opposition party, had uncovered a scandal brewing in the Gua…
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remained from public view. By the time Anya began investigating the Crystilex case in August of 2019, Sitco's survival was officially on the line. The previous month, a Delaware court had authorized Crystilex to seize the $1.2 billion worth…
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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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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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It was not hard to imagine a scenario in which an oil giant profited from Sitko's liquidation. Quote, I was not aware of any of his relationships, said Rodriguez of Vecchio, telling me he was quite annoyed when he read Anya's expose on the …
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trail of court records, Hernandez's lies were apparent not only to Anya, but to Venezuelan governments and their opposition alike. On October 1st, 2019, Vice President Delaney Rodriguez delivered a nationally televised press conference base…
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Anya discovered yet another nefarious mark on the lawyer's record, this time related to his work on behalf of foreign oil giants that had successfully defrauded Venezuela's government out of billions of dollars. The investigation was diffic…
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Days after the Delaware decision, members of Venezuela's once solidly pro-Guido G4 coalition called for a formal investigation into the conduct of these U.S.-based traitors. Though Hernandez's manner eventually forced his departure from off…
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It will do it like three days in a row, multiple times. And then for the next three or four days, it's fine. So I don't know what's going on. Right. All right. We're on Chapter 16. When Anya visited Venezuela in December 2020, she covered t…
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boycott, the extremist bloc zero-sum strategy was complicated by the fact that moderate forces within the opposition actually wanted to engage in the Democrat process. As one of the AP parties explained to Anya, many opposition leaders were…
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exploits, including the people of Venezuela. As Anya visited polling stations and chatted with voters throughout the election day on December 6th, one talking point reigned supreme. One older gentleman said, we're used to voting. On the oth…
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Based on Anya's experience covering the 2020 legislative election in the country, such comparisons were not unfounded. In Venezuela, voting machines were activated through a two-step verification process consisting of a physical check of th…
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against a random sampling of 54% of the physical ballot receipts submitted by voters at the polling station. This multi-step process is what once prompted former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to characterize Venezuela's elections as the best …
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Her friend that was hiking had hurt her knee in the middle of the hike. And the locals took her to an area that looked like a sinkhole below the waterfall. And they rubbed some of the precious minerals that, like, in the bottom of the water…
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is a gathering of minerals that come out of the mountain on the fall of the water down, wherever it tracks through. And they rubbed it on her knee. And the woman was explaining to Anya that almost immediately all of the pain in her knee was…
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more holistic view of the organization, noting that its power does not lie in the Secretary General's office. Almagro has unfortunately put himself in a situation in which he gets blamed for a lot because he talks too much, Sir Ronald Sande…
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to debate a resolution that would install Tari as Venezuela's representative before the body. Anya, the author of the book, attended the April 9th session, aware that Trujillo's success was entirely dependent on his colleagues' willingness …
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We've got a fake government, a fake OAS representative. And moments after the vote, Trujillo cheerfully mingled with his fellow reporters and Guaido delegates, including Tari, in the OAS gallery. I approached the U.S. representative and ask…
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to Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in March of 2020. So, Trujillo's total lack of regard for diplomatic law, Trump's administration successfully converted the OAS into an instrument of the coup policy. On another…
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before joining CSIS as a senior associate. Considering his history, it isn't surprising to find Tari's name listed among the individuals that gathered to plot the next coup. Following this exposure, Tari was tracked to the OAS halls to ques…
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David Samolansky, a Tari underling who earned his stripes as part of the US-backed Generation 2007 movement, which we already covered, she asked, why was your name on the CSIS list? Suddenly, he got a very straight face and said, you know, …
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He said, I was there. I was invited to the meeting. When asked to share what was discussed at the session, he accused Anya of supporting a Russian and Cuban invasion of Venezuela and stormed off. His boss did not. Anya then turned around to…
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Guaido's staged scene and Tapper later deleted the tweet. As Guaido floundered before the world, Washington's sole victory on April 30th was a theater of propaganda. Anya called someone that she knew that would be willing to interrupt the m…
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Having met Tucker Carlson during one of the most consequential diplomatic meetings of Trump's presidency, I was confident the Fox host would be ready to spill the beans. In the summer of 2018, she had traveled to Helsinki, Finland, to cover…
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At the time, she was working for Russian television RT. Though she had obtained official White House press credentials as a correspondent for RT America, the outlet at the center of Putin's alleged conspiracy to influence the U.S. populatio…
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While waiting to clear security for the presser in the hotel dining room, she listened as U.S. network personalities anguished over the idea of our president would even meet someone like Vladimir Putin. At one point, she overheard a reporte…
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public personas to shield their vanity and lack of real charm, the larger than life personality of Tucker displayed his genuine character. And though he could provide an endless stream of fascinating life stories about himself, he was just …
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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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And when we did the Venezuela coup book that Anya wrote, the legal authority is whatever they want it to be to include backdated Interpol arrest warrants. So in the case that she talked about was the quasi-ambassador.…