Though the US has endorsed the government of Juan Guiado as the rightful
rulers of Venezuela, there is little in the way of practical
government. Rather, the US policy is mostly to no longer recognize
President Maduro’s government.
With Venezuela’s embassy in the US more or less closed, the Guaido
government is trying to step in and establish its own diplomatic
relations. They already have a diplomat working on things, with Carlos Vecchio acting as a charge d’affaires for them.
Vecchio has lived in the US in exile since 2014, and in the past two
weeks has been a regular around the D.C. area pushing Guiado’s agenda.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says it has been valuable for Guaido to have a
direct liaison within the US.
Vecchio is said to be popular across the Venezuelan opposition, and in
that regard officials say he is well-suited for this position. That
said, so long as this is a diplomat representing an opposition group,
his ability to be a major diplomatic player will be limited to the
administration’s decision to favor the opposition.
This guy sounds VERY useful. Too bad the military still supports the actual leader, whether Trump et al enjoy it or not.
That’s foreign influence with our elected officials.
Guido is a meaningless side show in Venezuela, he has no authority other than to make noise in western MSM.
“Vecchio has lived in the US in exile since 2014, and in the past two
weeks has been a regular around the D.C. area pushing Guiado’s agenda.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says it has been valuable for Guaido to have a
direct liaison within the US.”
That’s code for brown nosing. If you’re hanging around slime bags like Rubio and Rick Scott, you’re soul was sold long ago to the highest bidder.
Once again the narrative that everything wrong with Venezuela started just after the last oil dummy regime was toppled is being propped up as the truth.
Puppets like Rubio and his ilk on either side of the fake left/right paradigm should be facing a war crimes tribunal.
Guiado hasn’t been picked off only because they want him to hang himself with his own rope. But even that is a limited time offer.
Would the substance of Hillary Clinton’s policy towards Venezuela been any different?
Look at how she handled Zelaya in Honduras
Not one stinking bit different
except this time Lanny Davis isn’t the spokesman
The problem with Yankee Imperialism is far more systematic
You are right, and perhaps it was Obama’s policy to use the 2014 drop in oil prices (coordinated with the Saudis)to ensure that Russia, Iran and Venezuela suffered. Certainly Pres. Putin said as much at the time.
I agree. There is no reason for the Saudis turning on the spigot other than to destabilize the other oil producing countries.
It would seem that the policy originates from somewhere other than the White House. Obama, like Trump or Hillary are merely the message carriers.
Correct, and the commander of USSC during the Honduran coup was John Kelly, who also was a board member of the formerly named School of the Americas. It was troops under Kelly that were in Honduras, and flew the deposed president to the US base in Costa Rica, in US helicopters. Wonder what swamp Kelly is up to today…
More meddling? Why not? We invented the sport a long time ago.
http://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-council-before-maduro.html
I’ve been looking for evidence of something and not finding it, so I thought I’d “crowd-source” my inquiry.
The American mainstream media tells us that life has become so bad in Venezuela that a month’s wages will buy a couple of eggs, if there are a couple of eggs to be found, but there aren’t. Life’s going to hell in a handbasket, etc.
So I went looking for pictures of the starving Venezuelans.
At the rallies on both Maduro’s side and Guaido’s side, everyone in the crowds looks well-fed and well-dressed.
In the street protests, when a kid has his shirt off and is waving a sign or about to heave a rock, I don’t see his rib cage. In fact, he looks like he works out, and the shirt he just pulled off looks clean and just possibly by Tommy Hilfiger.
I watched a video interview with a woman who claimed she couldn’t afford to eat in her former job as a nurse and could barely afford to eat by moving to another city selling sex on the street.
She wasn’t skinny by any stretch of the imagination. One of the establishing shots was her and a fellow hooker talking and joking … while they ate ice cream cones, in a plaza full of food stands that seemed to be doing pretty good business.
Usually when I hear about a humanitarian crisis with starvation or near-starvation, cue footage of four-year-olds with swollen bellies and protruding eyes wearing shredded t-shirts while their mothers wail.
Has anyone seen anything like that in media coverage of Venezuela?