Leopoldo Lopez person
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Claims (18)
Leopoldo Lopez served_sentence_for
Goriba riots documented
“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
Leopoldo Lopez member_of
Venezuela documented
“You mentioned Leopoldo Lopez. This guy actually received honors. He got the U.S. Florida Medal of Freedom in 2017. And in 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Or in 2018, he got a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. But that said.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:21:05
Leopoldo Lopez founded
Voluntad Popular documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 55:59
Leopoldo Lopez carried_out_attack
2014 Venezuelan protests documented
“She reportedly attended the USAID summit in Colombia, according to news articles. Officially launched Salida, S-A-L-I-D-A, meaning exit, protest campaign alongside Leopoldo Lopez, who was co-founder of Caprales' U.S.-funded…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 53:22
Leopoldo Lopez headed
Venezuela Popular Will documented
“Wasn't it Juan Guaido that appointed him? And isn't Juan Guaido the president that he was supposed to be advising him? He addressed it to Leopoldo Lopez. What? So what? Osman revealed the true leader of the Venezuelan coup regime was not Gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 42:26
Leopoldo Lopez member_of
Generation 2007 host_asserted
“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 Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 25:04
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
Leopoldo Lopez member_of
Voluntad Popular host_asserted
“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 Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 42:54
Leopoldo Lopez carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 51:32
Venezuela ordered_assassination_of
Leopoldo Lopez host_asserted
“riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 51:32
Leopoldo Lopez member_of
George Mason University host_asserted
“to overthrow governments. Leading DAI's Venezuela team was none other than Vecchio's former Georgetown roommate, Antonio Iskander. As luck would have it, the OTI quickly selected Vecchio's organization, Active Citizenry, as one of its first…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 38:23
Leopoldo Lopez took_refuge_in
Chile host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 13:45
Leopoldo Lopez headed
Venezuelan Opposition Government guest_asserted
“Wasn't it Juan Guaido that appointed him? And isn't Juan Guaido the president that he was supposed to be advising him? He addressed it to Leopoldo Lopez. What? So what? Osman revealed the true leader of the Venezuelan coup regime was not Gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 42:26
Leopoldo Lopez took_refuge_in
Spain host_asserted
“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.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 14:12
Leopoldo Lopez attempted_coup_against
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“in the race to be the new opposition leader. Despite ultimately receiving a 14-year prison sentence over his role in the riots, Lopez continued to command Venezuela's radical opposition from behind bars, adopting a strategy described as pre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 58:49
Leopoldo Lopez covered_up
Diosdado Cabello host_asserted
“where they found sanctuary following Guaido's failed military uprising in April of 2019. Lopez and his family finally relocated back to the capital of the former Venezuelan colonial occupier, Spain. Lopez escalated the opposition delegitimi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 4:30
United States funded
Leopoldo Lopez host_asserted
“hung effigies of the government officials in public and carried out physical attacks against doctors providing health care in under-deserved communities. Lopez and Makedo's commanding role of La Cita were not mere products of fate. Both fig…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 55:28
Leopoldo Lopez briefed_on
Operation Gideon guest_asserted
“become involved, but Leopardo Lopez, the ringleader of Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition, had been briefed on the operation as well. I mean, otherwise, how would he even know his name? Goudreau's honesty was immediately questioned. His law…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:09:51
Mentions (45)
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Battling the Venezuelan government on behalf of his multinational corporation, Vecchio then turned politics, announcing his bid to run for mayor in eastern Caracas' wealthy municipality. Though his candidacy flopped, even the wealthy oligar…
▶ 42:54
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…
▶ 45:43
Vecchio says he and Lopez began to see themselves as leaders of a political organization instead of a movement. By 2009, the dual formally emerged their energy of generation 2007 with Venezuela's covert network of foreign backed NGOs to for…
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attacking democracy. That's exactly what they have done in Hungary, in Georgia, and every place else. Okay, united under Lopez, the opposition's most charismatic and prominent national figure, Volad Popular provided a political home to seve…
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because they were doing so poorly. Yet, despite their failure to garner popular support, Lopez and Vecchio demonstrated an uncanny ability to create chaos in exactly the right times. Valendad's popular presence in Venezuela's streets reache…
▶ 51:32
riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…
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of public incitement, property damage, arson, and conspiracy. Though authorities arrested Lopez within a week, his partner had escaped. Vecchio materialized in New York City months later, explaining to the media that his Baladad popular coh…
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So in other words, he wasn't supposed to be doing what he was doing. As was customary with documents issued by the Guaido fake regime, Haussmann's letter contained a critical error. When he posted a screenshot of his resignation letter, Hau…
▶ 42:26
Wasn't it Juan Guaido that appointed him? And isn't Juan Guaido the president that he was supposed to be advising him? He addressed it to Leopoldo Lopez. What? So what? Osman revealed the true leader of the Venezuelan coup regime was not Gu…
▶ 48:49
doing the research and coming up with one gold mine after another gold mine after another gold mine of tying all these pieces together. And we really haven't even got to, I mean, this was a critical chapter in the story, but there's a few o…
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Less than one year into his stint at the helm of Venezuela's National Intelligence Services, Figueroa sided with Guaido amid the coup leader's attempted military takeover. Exposed as a failed revolt's highest collaborator, Figueroa fled to …
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And again, Leopardo Lopez is the guy basically running this from the United States. Days later, the U.S. Treasury lifted personal financial sanctions on Figueroa. Now that he was in the U.S., he's fine. They had to sanction him because he w…
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when he took over the agency. So it was the other guy, not him. And again, no pictures, no evidence, just this guy's word. The 2020 Human Rights Report relied on outright deception. At the heart of the accusations of political repression le…
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Oscar Perez. While charging Venezuela's government with subjecting Lopez to cruel and inhumane punishment, the report avoided any mention of his role in the violent riots that paralyzed the country in 2014. It also failed to explain why it …
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that he spent with his family to be cruel and humane. So he's involved in riots meant to overthrow the government. He's arrested and put under house arrest, allowed to live in his nice, beautiful villa, and somehow that's cruel and humane. …
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According to Goudreau, a Venezuelan National Guard captain named Antonio Jose Sequela Torres was commanding the ongoing raid. He fled Venezuela in April of 2019 after he participated in Guaido's failed military rebellion and helped coordina…
▶ 1:09:21
that was involved in the planning. Goudreau contended that Silvercorp beat out competing proposals for a private military operation to Alice Maduro, including one that had been put forward by Eric Prince, but Prince denied that. He also ins…
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In February of 2021, Venezuelan opposition leaders, including Leopardo Lopez and Vecchio, traveled to Colombia's capital to attend a closed-door summit at a local Marriott. There, over the course of several days, they enjoyed valuable face …
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The push to sabotage the vote was overseen by Leopoldo Lopez, who coordinated the opposition PR campaign from the comforts of Spain. He's not even in Venezuela. So this is literally the definition of outside interference. After spending rou…
▶ 4:30
where they found sanctuary following Guaido's failed military uprising in April of 2019. Lopez and his family finally relocated back to the capital of the former Venezuelan colonial occupier, Spain. Lopez escalated the opposition delegitimi…
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official Diosdado Caballo proclaiming before a campaign rally, those who don't vote don't eat. The culprits of the humanitarian catastrophe that Venezuela is experiencing blackmail the hungry people with food, Lopez wrote in a message. Lope…
▶ 6:03
merely designed to challenge incoming U.S. President Joe Biden. In their case to undermine the Venezuelan Democrat process, U.S. officials in their lackeys overlooked the cultural and comical context of Kabbalah's remarks. Though Kabbalah d…
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play on an ancient Greek comedy in which women launched a sex strike to force the end of the Polynesian War. Though Lopez himself may have understood his deceit, the Venezuelans' flaying and literary innuendo at play in Kabbalah's comments …
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Caprales Radonsky of the U.S.-backed Primero Justica Party, the son of a successful businessman responsible for bringing craft foods to Venezuela in the 1950s. Caprales had co-founded the party alongside his fellow Caracas aristocrat, Leopa…
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Lopez. Remember that name, Leopardo Lopez. He is used throughout this entire book. Very critical player. Leopoldo Lopez in the year 2000. Just one year later, the U.S. State Department funded International Republican Institute, the IRI of t…
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She reportedly attended the USAID summit in Colombia, according to news articles. Officially launched Salida, S-A-L-I-D-A, meaning exit, protest campaign alongside Leopoldo Lopez, who was co-founder of Caprales' U.S.-funded…
▶ 53:53
political party. With middle class students acting as their shock troops, Lopez and Makedo aimed to sabotage the dialogue between the opposition, moderate opposition, and Maduro, and to isolate Maduro, ultimately forcing his exit from the p…
▶ 55:28
hung effigies of the government officials in public and carried out physical attacks against doctors providing health care in under-deserved communities. Lopez and Makedo's commanding role of La Cita were not mere products of fate. Both fig…
▶ 55:59
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…
▶ 56:53
The U.S. officials invested in Samate because they considered it to be highly effective, well-organized opposition. In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush even hosted Makedo for a friendly meeting and photo op in the White House Oval Office…
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were in direct competition for the gilded throne of Venezuela's most hardline U.S.-backed opposition. Lopez's movement of glory arrived on February 12th when he delivered an impassioned speech directing his followers to march to the office …
▶ 57:53
represented a genuinely violent foreign-backed insurrection that made the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot look like the Macy's Day parade. Venezuelan government quickly issued arrest warrants for Lopez and detained him on February 18th. Salid…
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leaving behind billions of dollars in property damage, at least three dead and hundreds wounded. Though the prolonged terror campaign failed to topple Maduro, it succeeded in polarizing the public, thus sidelining any moderate opposition fi…
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in the race to be the new opposition leader. Despite ultimately receiving a 14-year prison sentence over his role in the riots, Lopez continued to command Venezuela's radical opposition from behind bars, adopting a strategy described as pre…
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Tensions between Lopez's faction and the Venezuelan government reached a fever pitch in December 2015 after the opposition MUD coalition won two-thirds majority in the country's National Assembly. When results in the southern Estado Amazon …
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Dang, that sounds so familiar. Next, they hastily passed a slew of laws that would effectively nullify over 15 years of social gains, including bills to privatize Venezuela's public housing projects, overturn agrarian reform, release violen…
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Venezuela faced an extraordinary political impasse. Though Maduro was not constitutionally up for re-election until the following year, Lopez seized upon the turmoil to call for a fresh round of street protests, this time with this expresse…
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Food distribution centers, vandalized public infrastructure, physically assaulted opponents in the streets. Though the riots would eventually die down, the events of 2017 marked a turning point in Venezuela's political crisis. From that poi…
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You mentioned Leopoldo Lopez. This guy actually received honors. He got the U.S. Florida Medal of Freedom in 2017. And in 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Or in 2018, he got a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. But that said.…
▶ 25:04
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…
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We push forward. We are going to achieve freedom and democracy in Venezuela, he yelled. Sunlight had just begun. Even so, it was clear that only a handful of military personnel, fewer than a dozen, was beside Guaido. Though his statement fa…
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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…
▶ 13:45
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…
▶ 14:12
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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Attorney turned expat turned coup plotter. Yeah. So Rodile came to the United States and was part of, there's a lot of overlap between him and all of the people Anya covered in her book. A lot of overlap. The Lopez, Leopoldo guy, all of the…