The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Hello, Bridget. How are you? Good. Good. Finally got above freezing. Thank God. You will notice one of the very few times I guess I need to get my rumble thing going. One of the only times you will ever see me in a sweatshirt today because it's freezing here.

0:30 Not your freezing, my freezing. Still, that's crazy, isn't it? Yeah. It's cold here. So, and my poor son-in-law had to go caddy for golf the first thing this morning. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. And he was like, the only good thing is you can use the golf cart.

0:58 You don't have to necessarily carry the bags on these cold mornings, but that really doesn't help because the speed of the golf cart makes it even colder. Amen. It went quicker, but it was still freezing. I can testify to that one. Okay. But I will say the sun's out and shining, so that'll make it at least a little bit better. It doesn't stay cold long here.

1:29 Can you add SRA as a co-host as well? I just did. Okay, great. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. As I said yesterday, this Chapter 7 talks about the Organization of American States, OAS. And if you guys remember when we were first doing Operation Gladio, we came across OAS in Latin America. And that's different from the OAS.

1:58 unit in France. They were also referred to as OAS. So just for clarification, the Organization of American Satellite States or American States came up much earlier a few years ago with its affiliation with the World Anti-Communist League, WACL, and the

2:29 Gladio operations throughout Latin America. So we have talked about this organization before. Basically, it functions somewhat as a non-military type NATO organization, like the OCN.

2:54 In Southeast Asia, that type of an organization where they get together and kind of supposedly cooperate with each other. But we're going to see how nefarious they are today. This chapter starts off in February 20th of 2019, where Maria Farla Faria.

3:28 made the most important statement of her diplomatic career on Twitter. Quote, in fulfillment of the diplomatic function assigned by President Juan Guaido and recognition by the Costa Rican government, we assume control of the administrative headquarters of the Embassy of Venezuela in San Jose. Faria tweeted.

3:56 attaching an image of herself shooting a blue still gaze past the camera. Behind her, staffers were propped up uncomfortably beside a Venezuelan flag. So, just to clarify, in Costa Rica, which we know based on all of the past exploration of Costa Rica and its government and the semi-

4:27 Control that is exercised over Costa Rica and who claims to be a neutral country and everything we in Dark Alliance, Gary Webb's book found out that Costa Rica is where all of the DEA CIA assets were housed during the Iran Contra Contra version portion of.

4:55 the operation in Central America. So they are by no means neutral and they are oftentimes used because of their neutrality as a staging point to run operations out of. So they step right up and announce that they're taking over the embassy in Venezuela on behalf of Guido, Guido, however you say his name.

5:26 Faria, whom Guaido named as his quote unquote ambassador to Costa Rica, had broken into the Venezuelans diplomatic compound in San Jose early that morning. A senior Venezuelan official later said that she had gained access to the embassy by bribing the building's owner into handing over the keys, putting on her diplomat hat.

5:59 She looked proud of her feet in the image she posted on Twitter. But as the day progressed, that feeling must have given way to humiliation. Within hours of the break-in, Costa Rican's foreign ministry declared the government in San Jose deplored her unacceptable entry into Venezuelan's embassy and expressed a strong rejection.

6:27 of the performance that she posted. Having sufficiently outraged her host country through her unilateral takeover of the Venezuelan embassy, she was forced to cancel a press conference scheduled for later that afternoon, telling reporters she would instead spend time discussing her action with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Ventura Nobles.

6:57 It was only her first day and she had already been summoned to the principal's office. Though Costa Rica was among a handful of U.S. allied governments that officially recognized Guaido as president of Venezuela, it had given representatives of Maduro's government an April 15th deadline for departure from the country.

7:24 meaning until that date, Maduro's diplomats legally represented Venezuela in San Jose. When those dignitaries arrived for work on the morning of her break-in, a group of violent Guaido supporters physically blocked them from entering the embassy. Two of the thugs photographed assaulting the diplomats were identified as the son of Eduardo Manuet, a former

7:53 Chavista governor who fled on corruption charges in Venezuela in 2009. So he was actually in Chavez's government and charged with corruption and fled the country. So he's now down in Costa Rica confiscating the Venezuelan embassy. The Minuit boys.

8:25 were the perfect duo to play diplomatic bouncer for the new fake diplomat. She also was this Maria Faria, however you say her name. She also had a father who was a Venezuelan fugitive. Her father, Colonel...

9:01 Jesus Faria Rodriguez had fled Venezuela in 2006 after breaking out of prison where he was serving a nine-year sentence for overseeing the Dakari farm plot, a foiled plan to assassinate Hugo Chavez by disguising himself as a Colombian paramilitary fighter and plotting a coup in Venezuela.

9:32 So two criminals now. At the time of the elder Faria's prison break, a since-deleted article in the Venezuelan outlet El Nacional reported that the retired colonel had three children, including a daughter who had recently graduated as an accountant. The younger Faria, education left her seemingly unprepared for her diplomatic job.

10:03 as Costa Rican's government said her break-in at the embassy and subsequent tweet violated diplomatic norms of respect and trust in relations in international community. The episode provided the perfect metaphor for Guaido's entire shadow regime, which was fed more active on social media than within the real-world government buildings. With U.S. assistance, however,

10:34 That would soon change. The hostile takeover of the Venezuelan embassy in Costa Rica was just the opening act in an all-out assault on Maduro's government. In the days following that incident, U.S. authorities escorted Guaido's officials as they seized three Venezuelan government offices, including a military attache office in D.C. and one in New York.

11:05 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. Still a few U.S. assisted gains, Guaido faced a crisis of legitimacy.

11:33 in the months following his self-declared presidency. By April, his project was losing momentum, a reality most clearly reflected by the U.N.'s continued recognition of the Maduro government. Before taking Guaido's, his quote-unquote administration to Manhattan, however, the Trump administration would test its regime change strategy on the U.N.'s regional equivalent of the Americas.

12:05 A former Honduran government minister once wondered aloud, what happened to Luis Almagro? What did the U.S. government have on the OAS secretary general that made him so eager to act as perhaps the most loyal servant of Washington? Having served as the foreign minister of Uruguay under.

12:35 Jose Pepe, I'm not even going to try to say his name, Muhaka, the OAS Secretary General, received support from progressive regional governments during his initial bid to lead the OAS in 2015. After emerging victorious, however, Almagro abandoned any pretense of independence from Washington's consensus.

13:07 and used his position as the Secretary General to issue a denunciation of any government that was opposed by the U.S. State Department. Critics accused Almagro of providing the OAS with a progressive face as it advanced Washington's position on regional affairs. Yet those with knowledge of the inner workings takes a

13:36 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 Sanders said to Anya, referring to his regular Twitter activity and provocative public statements.

14:04 According to Ambassador Sanders, who had represented Antigua in Bermuda before the OAS since 2015, though the charge that Almagro dictated the organization's agenda is a popular opinion, it just isn't true. The OAS is its member states, the dignitary said.

14:28 He insisted that OAS policy was not set by the Secretary General, but by the representatives of the 34 member states. Such a comprehensive evaluation of OAS's function did not let Washington off the hook for its effort to subjugate regional governments. The decidedly pro-U.S. bend of

14:54 Almagro's OAS directly coincided with several U.S.-backed regime change campaigns. In years preceding President Obama's rise, the U.S. foreign policy was largely focused on carrying out President George Bush's war on terror in the Middle East, a distant obsession that created space for the rise of the so-called Pink Tide, a collection of

15:22 aligned governments that emerged throughout Latin America and the Caribbean around the turn of the century. Seemingly overnight, progressive leaders, many of them inspired by Venezuela's revolution, arrived at the helm of their governments in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and other states, nations, with Chavez as their de facto

15:52 Lone Star. This united bloc of independent governments threatened to outweigh Washington's grip on the American continent for the first time in history. During that period, Chavez even initiated a plan to establish a regional Latin American bank that U.S. financial institutions didn't control, which again, as we noted earlier, is what Gaddafi tried.

16:20 And it ended up in his death. While Obama attempted to draw down the U.S. presence in the Middle East, he renewed Washington's focus on Latin America. Throughout his presidency, Washington effectively rolled back any nationalistic gains throughout Latin America. As the dominoes of progressive change on the American continent fell one by one, Venezuela

16:50 was one of the last countries standing. Like many of Trump's high-level Foreign Service appointees, Carlos Trujillo was not a career diplomat. A commercial lawyer by training, Trujillo was first elected to Florida State Senate when he was just 27 years old, but his ambition transcended Tallahassee.

17:18 another son of an anti-Castro Cuban exile, they just pop up everywhere. Trujillo quickly established himself as an ally of the hardline Florida Republicans and was summoned to Washington in 2017 when he was appointed the U.S. representative to the OAS. Trujillo emerged as one of Washington's most effective coup mongers when he oversaw the campaign.

17:48 to install representatives of Guaido's shadow regime at the OAS, completely flouting the organization's rules and furthering his own career. Following the self-declared presidency, Guaido appointed a seasoned lawyer named Gustavo Tarre, T-A-R-R-E, to represent the, his,

18:16 Government before the OAS, meaning Guidos. Established in 1948, the OAS was partial to U.S. policy by design when Washington supplying between 50 and 60 percent of its annual budget. Another common denominator like U.N. or NATO or anything else we're in. The organization provided a theater for diplomatic attacks on regional adversaries throughout the Cold War.

18:49 Fidel Castro famously called it the Yankee Ministry of Colonies. Even so, the OAS support for Guaido was hampered by rules enshrined in its founding charter, which established two decision-making bodies tasked with codifying the organization's policy, the Permanent Council and the General Assembly. The Permanent Council contained one representative from each member state.

19:18 and met in D.C. on a regular basis to debate and vote on OAS affairs. Isn't that weird that the OAS with 30-some countries would meet in Washington, D.C.? Yet its charter defined the General Assembly, a yearly summit of member states, foreign ministers, as its supreme organ.

19:43 tasked with dictating major policy decisions, including changes to its structure. This meant that according to OAS rules, the group could not alter its structure and accept Tari as Venezuela's representative without the approval of its General Assembly, which was slated to convene in Colombia in June of 2019. For Trujillo, waiting to confirm Tari at the General Assembly was not an option.

20:12 Guaido's star was not only fading with each passing day, but OAS rules stipulated that its General Assembly required support from two-thirds of its member to approve a resolution. Though Washington had successfully pressured a few dozen allies into recognizing the Caracas coup, the pro-Guaido bloc still represented a regional minority in the Americas.

20:39 Lacking the votes needed to rubber stamp his authority in accordance with OAS rules, Trujillo instead launched a personal campaign to force Tari's recognition through the organization on its own terms. As soon as the U.S. took over as chair of the OAS Permanent Council in April of 2019, Trujillo convened a special session

21:04 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 to change rules.

21:26 According to its charter, the OAS had been established by member states to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence. Accepting Tari, the representative of an unelected U.S.-backed coup, directly undermined that mission.

21:49 This reality was not lost on all member states. While arguing against the resolution to receive Tari, Ambassador Sanders of Antigua and Bermuda asserted in international law and practice, such recognition is based on the test of who is in charge of the country, who administers its affairs, and controls its borders.

22:14 Because Guaido controlled no government ministries and exercised no authority in Venezuela, Sanders argued that accepting his OAS representative was tantamount to ignoring the essential test of international law. Tarek's entry was further complicated by the fact that Venezuela's elected government had initiated the formal process of withdrawing from OAS years before his nomination. Then Foreign Minister

22:43 Delcy Rodriguez announced Venezuela's exit from the group in April of 2017, citing OAS vocal support for the riots that was another coup attempt by USAID. While making the announcement, Rodriguez noted that OAS withdrawal process took two years to finalize, meaning Venezuela's official exit.

23:10 happened to perfectly coincide with Washington's April 2019 attempt to install Tari as the country's legitimate representative. So they're actually technically not in OAS. At the same time, they're trying to force a Venezuelan representative to represent Venezuela, who has officially withdrawn from OAS, just so that you guys get that.

23:40 That's it in a nutshell. None of those concerns troubled the U.S. representatives, which pressed ahead with a vote on Tari's recognition by pushing Tari's acceptance onto the permanent council, a body that required the approval of a simple majority of member states to pass resolutions. Trujillo hoped to sidestep the higher two-thirds majority needed at the General Assembly, which is where it should have been.

24:11 brought to, but they couldn't wait because if they waited for the General Assembly, then Venezuela would not technically completely be out of the OAS. So it was imperative that this be brought in April when they still were technically not in OAS, but at least it was the same month. So, quote,

24:38 The presentation of this resolution is part of a disturbing trend in which any simple majority of 18 member states can impose their will on all other states, unquote. Those fears were shared by the Guyana counterpart, Riyad Nsanali, who asserted a decision to recognize Tari would set a dangerous precedent.

25:07 and ultimately damage irreparably the institution's framework of the OAS. There was lots of debate which took place, and it was ironically taking place in a room named after Bolivar, the guy who was the inspiration for Chavez's entire campaign.

25:34 It reached its apex when Trujillo was forced to yield the floor to Venezuela's actual representative, Aspina Marin. Quote, I am the Venezuelan representative and there is no other. That is why I am seated here, unquote. She turned to face the U.S. counterpart and stated, quote, you cannot appoint a head of my delegation. You, Mr. Chairman, do not have that power, unquote.

26:07 Unfazed by Marin's intervention, Trujillo moved the meeting along without acknowledging her comments. Minutes later, a simple majority of present OAS permanent council representatives voted to accept Tari by a margin of 19 to 6. Six other countries, including Venezuela's ally, Nicaragua, abstained from a vote, while another, Belize, missed the session altogether.

26:37 You have converted the OAS into an empty shell that has violated its own principles, and you're now proving that our decision to withdraw was the correct one. We are leaving the OAS and we will never come back, Marin declared. Exiting OAS grounds with her head held high, Venezuelan adhered to its original plan to depart the OAS organization.

27:03 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 asked why he had rammed a vote on Tari's acceptance through the permanent council rather than waiting for the General Assembly. His response, quote, I am sure it will be revisited at the General Assembly, unquote.

27:35 But what was the legal basis for the vote, she asked him. What about the OAS charter? Trujillo suddenly reminded me of a frat boy asked to summarize the weekly's reading assignment during a university lecture. His response was stuttered. Article, article, yeah, in the charter.

27:59 Apparently, Trujillo did not expect to be quizzed on the rules and regulations governing the organization where he worked and who could blame him. As Ambassador Sanders told me in 2022, Trujillo always had his eye on becoming the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, but could only secure that post if he did what he was told at the OAS. He was later promoted.

28:28 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 evening in April, following the OAS vote to accept Tari, the author

29:05 was in Washington, D.C., and had looked at papers that had the logo of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, think tank. And beneath the title on the paper was the title, Assessing the Use of Military Force in Venezuela.

29:37 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 were also listed, as were heavy hitters, including former head of U.S. South Com, Kurt Tidd, T-I-D-D.

30:06 and Roger Noriega, Washington's OAS representative under the administration of George Bush. The documents confirmed what many Venezuelans feared. U.S. officials, their regional allies, and Guaido's coup regime were actively gaming out scenarios for a military offensive against their country. The following day, while most

30:36 play dumb, two attendees at the meeting acknowledged their participation in the April 10th roundtable discussion, which was revealed to have taken place where they were actually wargaming military intervention. And interesting that you would have South Com's former commander as part of this gaming scenario.

31:05 Venezuela's UN ambassador, Samuel Moncada, swiftly condemned the event, meaning the roundtable, as a sinister meeting that will remain marked by the disgraceful history of coup regimes by the U.S. CSIS, funded by the largest U.S. oil companies, arms producers, and the U.S. government,

31:33 can only be what it is, an organ promoting U.S. colonial wars, the Venezuelan diplomat said. Indeed, since its founding amid the Cold War, CSIS had established itself as one of Washington's premier pro-war think tank. And it's come up in many of our regime change conversations as well.

31:57 It was founded as part of a Georgetown University International Relations Department. And again, Georgetown is a favorite recruiting place of the CIA. CSIS evolved into a private project of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger upon his retirement from government in 1977. It's very similar to the one that Kissinger set up as a CIA front.

32:27 On Harvard, that got outed as a CIA front. Drawing on seemingly endless streams of arms, banking, and oil industry supplied funds, CSIS provided a training camp for some of Washington's most influential policymakers, including Madeleine Albright and Anthony Blinken. While priming the minds of Washington's neoliberal

32:57 diplomatic corps, CSIS served as an incubator for U.S. foreign collaborators abroad, including the man eventually tapped to represent Venezuela's U.S.-backed coup government at the OAS, Gustavo Tari. So Tari, the guy who's pretending to represent Venezuela at the OAS, was a graduate of the school. Tari's background highlighted the nature of the Venezuela.

33:27 coup attempt. Having fled Venezuela in 2014, after he was implicated in an alleged plot to assassinate President Maduro, by the time of his appointment to Guaido's shadow regime, Tari had established himself as a leading voice of Venezuela's opposition within the DC think tank network. Working as an advisor to the Inter-American Dialogue,

33:55 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 question them about their participation in the summit. Anya's first encounter with

34:28 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, that because you were the one that published it.

34:59 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 Tari and asked him, what does your government control in Venezuela? His response?

35:34 the streets. She then responded to him saying that she had visited Venezuela just two months ago and found no evidence that Guaido controlled anything in Venezuela. He removed his glasses and waved them in front of his face, explaining that she needed to use his glasses so she could improve her eyesight.

36:01 Within 24 hours of Trujillo's victory at the OAS, the U.S. sent its forces to a new theater of diplomatic war, the United Nations. Leading the effort was Vice President Mike Pence, who appeared before the U.N. Security Council on April 10 with a simple mission to pressure the members into following the OAS lead and officially recognize Guaido's coup.

36:28 in Venezuela as the legitimate government. Quote, this is what Pence said, this body should revoke the credentials of Venezuelans representatives to the UN, recognize President Guaido and seat the representatives of the free Venezuelan government in this body without delay. Then the Venezuelan UN ambassador at the time, by the way, was Samuel Moncada, who we've talked about.

37:01 With all due respect, Mr. Ambassador, you shouldn't be here, Mike Pence went on. You should return to Venezuela and tell Nicolas Maduro that his time is up. It's time for him to go. Marcato took breaks from looking at his phone to look at the vice president directly and shook his head. Anya then traveled to New York City shortly before Pence's performance to discuss the escalation.

37:33 diplomatic row with Ambassador Mankato and followed up on the previous interview she had done with the foreign minister, Aziza, who was also in town, by the way, for this meeting. On the day of her scheduled interviews, the U.S. secretary hit Aziza with personal financial sanctions, marking the first time in history that Washington targeted a sitting foreign minister with such penalties.

38:05 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made it clear the measures were designed to punish Ariza for simply doing his job. Treasury will continue to target corrupt Maduro insiders, including those tasked to conduct diplomacy and carrying out justice on behalf of what Steve Mnuchin labeled an illegitimate regime.

38:33 And he said this while announcing the sanctions. When Anya met with Venezuelans delegates in New York following the Treasury announcement, Aziza didn't seem bothered by it. Quote, it's supposed to mean that all my goods, assets and bank accounts in the U.S. are frozen. He said, I have one bank account in Caracas in their currency.

39:02 Ariza explained that while he was not impacted by the sanctions financially, they could complicate any further travel to the U.S. In conjunction with economic measures, the U.S. placed physical restrictions on Aziza and people that work for him, including Venezuelans, full-time U.N. delegation that limited their movement to 25 miles around the U.N. headquarters.

39:31 In Aziz's view, the measures were meant to send a message to other foreign officials not to challenge Washington like he did. Washington penalized the diplomat hours after he launched an official U.N. campaign to research and document the impact of unilateral U.S. sanctions on Venezuelans population. Quote, I knew they would react this way because they have an instinct.

40:01 in this administration. They are like things in a barrio. To illustrate their behavior, Ariza informed me that U.S. officials had previously attempted to bribe him and his colleagues into defecting from Venezuela. He claimed that Elliott Abrams and others had promised money, visas.

40:29 to live in the U.S., green cards, and places at universities for their children if they would just leave Venezuela and Maduro. Following the interview, Ariza grabbed his suitcase and hurried off to catch his flight back to Caracas. A member of his staff later told Anya they spent the entire journey home worrying that U.S. officials would arrest them for violating Washington's

40:59 restriction on their movement. Having finalized their travel arrangements before the rules were imposed, they had a layover in Atlanta, Georgia, which of course was beyond the 25-mile radius, and they were afraid they were going to get arrested. Ambassador Mankato basically said that he was not certain he would get home to Venezuela. While Ariza spoke,

41:37 Softly, Mankato communicated with intensity. During Anya's conversation in New York, Mankato described how Washington's plan to repeat its OAS strategy at the UN and replace him with a representative from Guaido's regime was made apparent by Mike Pence's statement. As with the OAS,

42:03 Such a decision was technically required to clear the UN annual General Assembly meeting with a two-thirds majority vote and a solid plurality of member states. Rejected Guaido's coup. Still, Mankato believed that the U.S. would use its OAS precedent to call for a vote on his removal during an ordinary Security Council session and succeed in doing so by winning a simple majority.

42:31 of whatever member states happen to be present. They are trying, Mankato said. They even sent their own vice president to announce the action, and nobody does that kind of thing just to be doing it. Anya asked Mankato to recall the day Vice President Pence had visited the Security Council and ordered his return to Venezuela. Mankato's response.

43:01 How dare you? What gives you the right? Moncato said. According to Moncato, Pence's grandstanding had backfired. That's not diplomacy, it's bullying, and it will be viewed as bullying by everyone else. He continued, I thought this can only act in our favor if he thought that he was doing harm to myself or to Venezuelan government.

43:30 I think he overdid it in such a way that we gather sympathy from the rest of the world. Monquito was not a career diplomat. For decades, he worked as a professor in history in Venezuela, only entering government when Chavez tapped him to be the minister of higher education in 2004. From there, he went to work as Venezuelan's ambassador to the UK before serving a brief time.

43:58 as foreign minister in 2017. Mankato worked in the UN since then, representing Venezuela before both the OAS and the UN. Despite a decade of experience, Mankato revealed that he will always be a historian at heart, often punctuating his analysis with antidotes and analogies from history. He displayed this

44:27 especially when discussing the secret CSIS meeting to plan the invasion of Venezuela. He compared the gathering to the notorious Juan C. Conference of 1942, where Nazi and U.S. and S.S. officials devised the final solution. Of course, it is not the same scale, but it's a similar feeling.

44:53 Forty people met in Washington to plan the killing of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. Moncada was particularly concerned that the OAS would escalate threats against his country following the acceptance of Tari. They just picked someone from a Washington think tank, which is paid by weapons manufacturers and oil companies, and they put him there as a Venezuelan representative. Believe me.

45:21 What that man is going to do, he is going to ask sooner or later for military intervention in his own country, which we see Maria doing on X every day. Mankato unease was not unfounded. In the months following, the OAS voted to invoke an Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, a regional agreement similar to NATO's Mutual Defense Pact.

45:51 against Venezuela, declaring the country a threat to the security of the region. As Monquito predicted, Tari voted in favor of applying TIAR, also known as the Rio Treaty, to his own homeland. Tari did not hide his lust for war while participating in a subsequent CSIS panel labeled, Can the Rio Treaty Help Venezuela?

46:20 Seated next to Bush Jr., devotedly an anti-Venezuelan person, along with William Brownfield, Tari declared that all possibilities opened by the treaty must be on the table, conceding that most OAS governments would not support direct military intervention. Tari instead advocated for the imposition.

46:50 of a no-fly zone in Venezuela, a policy that would require member states to use military force against any aircraft flying in the country's airspace. That's crazy. In Syria, there had been the use of force to give food and medicine to people, Tari insisted, and I am openly open to that type of solution. So he wants to turn Venezuela into Syria.

47:21 It is hard to imagine how anyone could look at a decade-long U.S.-backed war in Syria, a violent and costly campaign that left hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers dead, and advocate for using it on your own country. Of course, that man doesn't have his family in Venezuela, Moncato said of Tari, asserting he and his CSIS colleagues sought to spill U.S. soldiers' blood.

47:51 in Venezuela as well as Venezuelan family blood. Indeed, Tari and CSIS financial backers, including Chevron, Northrop Drummond, ExxonMobil, and Boeing, would get rich from a war in Venezuela that resulted in the reprivatization of natural wealth. According to Mankato, never in the history had Venezuela faced a threat of such bloodshed.

48:20 Dedicate your life to stopping that catastrophe is worthwhile. For most dignitaries stationed at the UN in New York, the job is a glamorous gig that enables fruitful connections and future job opportunities in the international diplomacy core. This is not the case for Mankato and his staff. They were there to prevent the next regime change occurring.

48:53 in Venezuela. For Venezuelans seeking to prevent a U.S. invasion of their homeland, the sacrifice was worth it. Personally, my family lives in Venezuela, and the only one outside is myself, he said. They could be subject to all the killing and the awful stuff that they are advocating. So, that's the end of that chapter.

49:28 Nice how these chapters end up being one hour increments for the progression of our book. But anyway, go ahead, Bridget. I was just going to say I really enjoy this. I have enjoyed this book for perspective, especially on current events. You know, it just adds so much more context.

49:56 Well, you know, and again, you can't take everything as the gospel, but it's another perspective. And that's so that's kind of my take on it. You can take whatever information you want away from the author. She uses a lot of kind of provocative words, which I tend to leave out. The facts matter.

50:22 And you're getting an inside viewpoint of what it's like to be one of those countries while this is going on. Because oftentimes, well, every time that we've looked at this in the past, you generally do not get.

50:37 the inside viewpoint because the history of them are written, you know, two or three decades later. And this is very unique in that it is giving you basically real-time information on the person on the other side, the people on the other side, the dignitaries on the other side. And one of the things that I find most fascinating about this is

51:06 Well, a couple of things. All of the people that you're going to become acquainted with in this book are from two factions in Venezuela. The expat community that left Venezuela, that were the elites that came to the United States.

51:32 are actively working with the oligarchs in the United States to basically go back and exploit their country because they know they're going to be in that elite group when their country is overthrown and they're going to have some big position in the newly formed government. And so dealing with, and in some cases,

52:02 At least two of the people we just talked about were criminals. So when you have a criminal element, a corrupt element in a foreign government that the U.S. oligarchs, the Western oligarchs, set their sights on, you bring them into the United States and they form the basis of the information being fed to the CIA and the State Department for regime change. And they're presented to you and I as criminals.

52:33 Venezuelans that are patriotic and want their government back when in fact they're not that at all. In many cases, they are criminals that had been held account by the government, which is why they don't like the particular government they have. So it would be like a Democrat during the Trump administration, which actually happened, going over to London and orchestrating a coup

53:01 Against President Trump, which, by the way, just happened in 2020. It happened in 2016 when this future CIA director at the time, the CIA London chief, was instrumental in orchestrating a coup before election interference. So he didn't win the election, but then a coup.

53:27 after he won the election and repeated coups during his tenure. So those types of people going over to a foreign government to have them actively meddle in the government of the United States because they don't like the current administration. We are literally reading a parallel version of what was done to President Trump.

53:52 by people in President Trump's administration that were criminals like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams doing it to Venezuela while we're watching it having happened here. That to me was just like mind blowing. And that's why you can't just anybody that is here advocating that the United States invade their country are treasonous.

54:23 to their country. I don't care who's in charge of their country. You go back to Venezuela and not with U.S. resources, not with U.S. soldiers, you figure out your own country. Don't come here as a criminal and advocate that the U.S. invade your country on behalf of a bunch of oligarchs. It's crazy. SR, did you have anything?

54:59 Thank you, Colonel, and welcome everyone today and Veterans Day for all our veterans. Oh, yes. Happy Veterans Day. As well. So a shout out to all the vets. That said, thank everybody for being here and on Rumble. But I'm looking at the OAS, the Organization of American States. That was created in 1948. Okay. In 1945.

55:30 The UN was created. Venezuela and practically every country that we're talking about, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, you name it, we're all part of the UN. So it sort of blows my mind as to why we needed OAS, a specific organization that's supposed to monitor elections, supposed to monitor human rights.

56:00 They're supposed to monitor drug trafficking, terrorism and organized crime and foster economic growth. When that should have been done by the U.N., it just blows my mind that we created one specifically for South American countries in that region. So I think it's all of I'm not going to say it's I have two thoughts on that.

56:33 It makes sense to have regional, geographically regional, organizations to collectively work together. We have the one for Southeast Asia, like SEAN or OSEAN, whatever it is.

57:03 collectively work out trade among themselves. So, and you're right, they were all formed in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and most of them have been co-opted to do things that they weren't originally designed to do. So, it's almost like having many UNs just for your region. Could it have all been done under the UN? Yes.

57:33 But it does make sense that if you live in Latin America and you want to trade with your neighbors, that you would have kind of like a co-op in order to work out all of those details from a regional perspective. Because trade in Latin America among themselves is very different than trade like, for example.

57:57 with the Asian culture in Southeast Asia, which is what the SCAN is for. So having those regional trade associations, obviously the nefarious part of that, so that's the good part of it. And that part makes sense to me. The nefarious part of it was why they were actually set up to begin with.

58:26 And if you look at the EU, the EU was birthed from a trade association that was set up for steel and things like that in the immediate aftermath of World War II as a stepping block to create the EU because the EU was going to be a mechanism to control all of Europe financially.

58:55 trade-wise in a bad way. And that's exactly what OAS ended up, and that's exactly what the Southeast Asia one ended up being, because they were all controlled by the nefarious bad guys. And the only one that was not formed by the nefarious bad guys was the organization that

59:24 Sukarno was one of the original founders of the non-aligned, which is now basically BRICS, organization that had everybody that didn't want to participate in the organizations like OAS and the EU and those, the non-aligned movement. They all, and it was most of Africa.

59:49 They all got together and basically said, we don't want to be in the Soviets camp and we don't want to be in the West camp. We just want to trade together. That was one of the only legitimate groups that knew they could not sustain their own independence from the West and the oligarchs, the international syndicate, unless they grouped together.

1:00:18 independent of their control. And of course, we know what happened to almost every one of those countries. They were eventually overthrown, as was the case in Indonesia. And Sukarno was severely punished. They attempted to coup him and then finally did get him couped. And Indonesia, you know, lost hundreds of thousands of people in the aftermath of that second coup.

1:00:45 all under the auspices that they were communists, when in fact they were not aligned. Even the communists that called themselves communists in Indonesia didn't really want anything to do with the Soviet Union. They were independent and they just wanted to be Indonesians. So you can see how it can be sold as a trade association of like brethren.

1:01:14 But at the same time, the nefarious hand behind all of it was there to control them and to use that forum, which OAS was used, like I said, to force the quote unquote anti-communist apparatus under the World Anti-Communist League down the throats of Latin America. And anybody that rejected it was.

1:01:41 Like Nicaragua did, Honduras did originally. They just overthrew the government and imposed whatever it was that they wanted to. So it's like they corrupt everything. I can understand that, Colonel. I can understand that kind of organization forming. But it took on much more than just economic barriers. And that is troubling.

1:02:15 Yeah, they're going to try to control anything like that. And I mean, you know, going back to Gaddafi, that's the whole reason they assassinated him is because he was going to have a gold standard in Africa. He was going to get a trade association type thing set up with the African countries so they could all be non-aligned. They could get the West out of there that was basically stealing all of the resources.

1:02:42 So that the African continent could finally, once and for all, exist and benefit from their own wealth. And there was no way the West was going to allow that to happen. So anyway, anybody else got anything? Okay. So I do want to, again, echo what SR said about Happy Veterans Day.

1:03:21 Definitely say your prayers for all the veterans out among us and because there's definitely several of them, as you can see on Twitter, going through some hardships. And this is the day that we celebrate the sacrifice that everybody made in joining the military and serving their country, which.

1:03:50 obviously, I think is a very good thing. And there is a lot of baggage for a lot of people that chose that as their career, even if it was for a relatively short time. So yeah, gotta love those veterans. And I just want to say, give a shout out to places like Publix.

1:04:21 And all of the restaurants, I know I've been bombarded with go to one of the chain restaurants. Several of them do that and give veterans free dinner on Veterans Day. Publix gives everybody shopping there today that's a veteran a 10% discount on their grocery bill. And it's just such an awesome thing to see.

1:04:48 that the businesses honoring our veterans. I made the mistake, I don't know, I never, because I didn't consider myself a veteran when I was on active duty, although I'm sure you could partake of that.

1:05:04 The first year that I was retired, I can't remember what restaurant it was. It was maybe Applebee's or Outback or something that was giving all the veterans a free dinner. And so I loaded up my two girls in the car and holy crap, there was like a billion people at the restaurant. And I looked at my kids and I'm like, I'd rather pay for my dinner. And we went somewhere else.

1:05:32 There was so many people there. But again, I think it's awesome that they do it. I'm just not going to wait for an hour to eat. I don't do that. But there's so many restaurants out there that are so awesome. And other stores, you know, the home improvement stores giving veterans discounts and stuff like that. So that's all awesome. But anyway, all right.

1:06:03 Thanks for being here, everybody. Let me tell you what our next chapter is. The next chapter is dealing with the intricate players that make up Guido's, Guido's, whatever his name is, quote unquote cabinet, because there's a lot of really interesting people.

1:06:33 some might say criminals, that kind of assembled around him. And it's very telling of, and this is obviously an effort that John Bolton led almost exclusively inside the Trump administration. And that's why I don't really take this as a Trump effort. I don't know how much of any of this.

1:07:01 Trump was told about the reality. I doubt that he was told that the entire apparatus was made up of criminals. And so I think it's just very interesting to see what can take place in an administration and whether or not, to what extent, the rest of the administration even knows what's going on.

1:07:24 Obviously, there were several people, Mike Pence, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, that knew exactly what was going on because several of them were working with the game playing of overthrowing a government. So very interesting. Anyway, again, this book's not too much longer, but.

1:07:55 Like Bridget said, I think it's very interesting to be doing this while we're actually dealing with Venezuela again. So it makes it apropos, I think, to see how this whole thing plays out. But anyway, yeah. Any closing thoughts, Bridget? I don't know if you get a chance to watch that or listen to the Sean Ryan show. I do tend to peruse through some of his.

1:08:27 videos and he just recently did one or I can't remember was released today or last night with the guy who killed bin Laden and it was kind of an apropos because this man was only recording what he saw and none of it had anything to do with any classified information and he went through the proper channels from what he

1:08:59 And they went after him and attempted to crush him for telling the truth. And telling the truth ahead of Obama's propaganda video, which ironically, they had it scheduled, and you'll appreciate this. He said they came back and within three weeks at Quantico, there was a producer, a script.

1:09:29 and everything ready for a movie to be produced and released before Obama's second run for president. The book that this man wrote, he also in detail goes through the disintegration of the things that kept them safe, like the use of dogs, like the use of equipment, which was the reason why he got out.

1:10:02 And he kept his name. It was a really honorable deal. He kept his name. He said, I'm going to write and all I'm going to report what happened, the factual of events. And he said, I'm going to do it under a pseudonym because I don't want the credit. I didn't do. I was part of a team, you know, and they had planned a propaganda video to be a movie to be produced.

1:10:34 His book came out ahead of the movie, and they attempted to crush him in every way, financially, physically, and in every possible way. And he survived, and he survived partly, I believe, in faith and the strength of it. And it was really neat to see it from an operator's point of view because he said, you know, when I was an operator, I was prepared for war.

1:11:04 I thought civilian life was going to be easy. And instead, his biggest battle was as a civilian. And you're talking about Matt Bissonette, not the guy who claims he shot Bin Laden. Right, right. Yes. Yeah. And it really is, it's a long interview, but if anybody, it's, I appreciate all of, you know, your service, everyone. I mean,

1:11:34 And it really, I don't know, just because it's Veterans Day or because it is an incredible story, it really is a good video if anybody hasn't watched it. Yeah, I haven't watched it. By the time you sent it to me today, I already had my grandson, which he'll be spending the night as well. So I probably won't get to watch it until tomorrow, but I definitely want to watch it. And like I said, it also does have, I'm sure you'll pick up on a lot more of the military nuances that he describes.

1:12:06 about people's self-promotion and not taking care of the people in the military that are actually sacrificing their lives. And other things that happen during that time frame. But it is a very interesting and good video if anybody wants to or has a few minutes, I would highly recommend going and listening to it. Because you guys, you as...

1:12:35 You may not have been in battle, but you sacrificed, you drug your kids all over the world. And one of the things I thought was really brilliant and one of the neatest things he said, he was talking about on their way out. And he said they had planned for a 40-minute thing and it took them 38 minutes. And he said, when I got in there, the helicopter, the red lights flashing. We were flying on fumes.

1:13:04 And he said, and there was one guy who, he said, an Army guy who probably was there on an ROTC who fueled up the plane. He said, that's the reason why the mission won. That's the reason why it was a success. He said, he's not a special operator, but it's part of a team. It's part of, each of you have to go and sacrifice part of your life in order to make that team work.

1:13:35 And just like in our research, it is a team thing. And unfortunately, social media and texting and cell phones and a lot of that disconnects us from that. And whether it's the guy filling up the airplane or the person orchestrating the administrative side of it or the person turning wrenches, it's all part of the team.

1:14:03 It doesn't matter what role you played. You are a veteran and you deserve the highest honor that our country can give you for your service. And I'm just always humbled and amazed. And I cannot thank you enough for sacrificing what you did in your life. And it's such a pleasure to be on this journey and know you and love you the way you have opened up to all of us.

1:14:33 Thank you. Thank you, Bridget. Yeah, obviously it's a journey for everyone. And there is no better way to learn how critical a team is to success than being in the military, because you don't do anything by yourself, as Bridget so perfectly articulated.

1:15:00 The pilots don't have aircraft to fly if you don't have people to refuel them, if you don't have people to fix them, if you don't have people at home to make sure that your family is taken care of. I mean, we have entire family support elements at home that take care of the family and their needs while people are deployed. And every one of them.

1:15:29 plays a critical role if you do not have the logistical chain to get the spare parts into the theater if you don't have the people at home um doing the um depot maintenance on the aircraft to get them out on time in order to get them in the fight

1:15:50 All of those things have to happen and they have to happen seamlessly in order for you to be able to execute the mission. Everywhere one sniper goes, there's an entire logistical train of people that enable them to do what they do without having to worry about all of the other aspects of their daily life.

1:16:12 When you deploy, you have people that make sure that you get fed on time, that there's things there to meet your personal needs. I don't even know if people know that the primary purpose that we have base exchange, like the shopping center on base, is because they are required to set up facilities deployed.

1:16:36 so that you have shaving items, that you have all your personal items available to you when you go forward. And every large installation forward, anytime we're in military operations, has an element of the base exchange there to support the people. There is so much involved in...

1:17:00 sustaining operations at a forward operating location. And of course, my first time doing that as a lieutenant in Northern Iraq was very eye-opening for me because you don't even contemplate until you're actually in the middle of it, all of the different pieces operating around you to be able to do anything. And it's simply amazing to be a part of it, to watch it happen.

1:17:30 Come home and be one of the lucky ones that comes home and appreciate everything that you have because it definitely changes your perspective. Kind of like going home and kissing the ground that you're thankful that you did return home. You just hold everything in your life to a different level of appreciation.

1:17:58 when you're in circumstances like that. So it definitely changes you. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective on life. It changes your perspective on your country, everything about it. And obviously, the journey that we're on has changed us all as well. And I had people ask me over the weekend, I don't know how you...

1:18:28 read all of that stuff that's so horrible and keep such a great perspective. But to me, it's just easy to do that because I know that truth is the source of light. And as soon as we all understand what the truth is, it will enable us to make

1:18:54 the choices that we need to make as a country on where we want to go from here. But you cannot do that if you don't have all of the facts. So I'm very optimistic about where we're headed, but we need to be headed there in truth. And just like Bridget said, from her description of the video, all of the truth has to come out, not just the good parts.

1:19:21 All of the truth has to come out so that we have the ability to address our shortfalls, make the necessary hard decisions that we don't repeat the past. And it requires accountability in order for us to be able to address what has happened, hold people accountable for their bad decisions.

1:19:45 Start off in a different direction because basically we're just repeating the same old stuff because we are not giving the tools, nor is anyone held accountable for the bad things in order for us to change it. So I'm convinced that that's all changing. And I posted that down below. Awesome. All right. So homework, everybody. Watch the video. We'll talk more about it.

1:20:15 And let me look at tomorrow's schedule. Hold on real quick. I'm doing a taped video recording at noon for the Underground podcast. It will be available on the 17th when he releases it. I will repost it so everybody knows that it's out there. That's the guy that's over in the UAE. I'm really looking forward to that.

1:20:41 And yeah, we should be fine for the four o'clock. And then finally, we'll do the show that I wanted to do with Alpha in person tomorrow night at 930, provided he doesn't wimp out on me again. And then on Thursday, we'll do the War Hamster at noon. As far as I know, I'll confirm that with him sometime between now and tomorrow's show. And then the rest of the week looks normal. So that's it.

1:21:13 Amanda, did you want to say something? Yeah, I don't even know if I'm doing this right, but I just want to say thank you for your service and appreciate everybody that helps you. Thanks. Well, that would be Bridget and my husband and my daughters. And SR71 for helping us co-host every day. I just, I really, really appreciate all of you being here.

1:21:43 as well. Obviously, we would not be where we are today without all of you reposting our information. So thank you for saying that, Amanda. And thank you all for being here. Okay. I will see you guys tomorrow. Take care.

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Costa Rica funded United States book_quoted ▶ 4:27

“Control that is exercised over Costa Rica and who claims to be a neutral country and everything we in Dark Alliance, Gary Webb's book found out that Costa Rica is where all of the DEA CIA assets were …”

Maria Farmer appointed Juan Guaidó documented ▶ 5:26

“Faria, whom Guaido named as his quote unquote ambassador to Costa Rica, had broken into the Venezuelans diplomatic compound in San Jose early that morning. A senior Venezuelan official later said that…”

Maria Farmer carried_out_attack Venezuela documented ▶ 5:26

Jesus Faria Rodriguez attempted_assassination_of Hugo Chavez documented ▶ 9:01

“Jesus Faria Rodriguez had fled Venezuela in 2006 after breaking out of prison where he was serving a nine-year sentence for overseeing the Dakari farm plot, a foiled plan to assassinate Hugo Chavez by…”

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“Jose Pepe, I'm not even going to try to say his name, Muhaka, the OAS Secretary General, received support from progressive regional governments during his initial bid to lead the OAS in 2015. After em…”

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“another son of an anti-Castro Cuban exile, they just pop up everywhere. Trujillo quickly established himself as an ally of the hardline Florida Republicans and was summoned to Washington in 2017 when …”

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“to install representatives of Guaido's shadow regime at the OAS, completely flouting the organization's rules and furthering his own career. Following the self-declared presidency, Guaido appointed a …”

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“Lacking the votes needed to rubber stamp his authority in accordance with OAS rules, Trujillo instead launched a personal campaign to force Tari's recognition through the organization on its own terms…”

Carlos Trujillo installed Gustavo Tarre documented ▶ 21:04

“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 d…”

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“Delcy Rodriguez announced Venezuela's exit from the group in April of 2017, citing OAS vocal support for the riots that was another coup attempt by USAID. While making the announcement, Rodriguez note…”

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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 i…”

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“Venezuela's UN ambassador, Samuel Moncada, swiftly condemned the event, meaning the roundtable, as a sinister meeting that will remain marked by the disgraceful history of coup regimes by the U.S. CSI…”

Henry Kissinger founded Center for Strategic and International Studies documented ▶ 31:57

“It was founded as part of a Georgetown University International Relations Department. And again, Georgetown is a favorite recruiting place of the CIA. CSIS evolved into a private project of U.S. Secre…”

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“coup attempt. Having fled Venezuela in 2014, after he was implicated in an alleged plot to assassinate President Maduro, by the time of his appointment to Guaido's shadow regime, Tari had established …”

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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, T…”

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David Samolansky member_of Generation 2007 documented ▶ 34:28

“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…”

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“Within 24 hours of Trujillo's victory at the OAS, the U.S. sent its forces to a new theater of diplomatic war, the United Nations. Leading the effort was Vice President Mike Pence, who appeared before…”

U.S. Treasury Department funded Sanctions against Delcy Rodríguez documented ▶ 38:05

“Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made it clear the measures were designed to punish Ariza for simply doing his job. Treasury will continue to target corrupt Maduro insiders, including those tasked to…”

Elliot Abrams paid Samuel Moncada guest_asserted ▶ 40:29

“to live in the U.S., green cards, and places at universities for their children if they would just leave Venezuela and Maduro. Following the interview, Ariza grabbed his suitcase and hurried off to ca…”

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“of whatever member states happen to be present. They are trying, Mankato said. They even sent their own vice president to announce the action, and nobody does that kind of thing just to be doing it. A…”

Gustavo Tarre carried_out_attack Venezuela host_asserted ▶ 46:50

“of a no-fly zone in Venezuela, a policy that would require member states to use military force against any aircraft flying in the country's airspace. That's crazy. In Syria, there had been the use of …”

Boeing funded Center for Strategic and International Studies host_asserted ▶ 47:51

“in Venezuela as well as Venezuelan family blood. Indeed, Tari and CSIS financial backers, including Chevron, Northrop Drummond, ExxonMobil, and Boeing, would get rich from a war in Venezuela that resu…”

Chevron Corporation funded Center for Strategic and International Studies host_asserted ▶ 47:51

Northrop Grumman funded Center for Strategic and International Studies host_asserted ▶ 47:51

ExxonMobil funded Center for Strategic and International Studies host_asserted ▶ 47:51

Sukarno founded Non-Aligned Movement host_asserted ▶ 59:24

“Sukarno was one of the original founders of the non-aligned, which is now basically BRICS, organization that had everybody that didn't want to participate in the organizations like OAS and the EU and …”

United States attempted_coup_against Sukarno host_asserted ▶ 1:00:18

“independent of their control. And of course, we know what happened to almost every one of those countries. They were eventually overthrown, as was the case in Indonesia. And Sukarno was severely punis…”

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“Yeah, they're going to try to control anything like that. And I mean, you know, going back to Gaddafi, that's the whole reason they assassinated him is because he was going to have a gold standard in …”

John Bolton carried_out_attack 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted ▶ 1:06:33

“some might say criminals, that kind of assembled around him. And it's very telling of, and this is obviously an effort that John Bolton led almost exclusively inside the Trump administration. And that…”