Venezuela’s Juan Guaido said on Tuesday that he hopes to keep support from both Republicans and Democrats as Joe Biden prepares to take office. Since January 2019, the US has recognized Guaido as the president of Venezuela, despite Nicolas Maduro still holding the position in Caracas.
“Any president in the world today would want to get closer to a solution to the crisis in Venezuela,” Guaido said in an interview. “We want to have bipartisan support. It’s a challenge for us, not for the new administration … to show a path toward a viable solution.”
The Trump administration’s recognition of Guaido came with a few failed coup attempts and crippling economic sanctions. While Biden hasn’t been specific on what his Venezuela policy would look like, it’s not expected to be much different from Trump’s, and Biden’s aides have said he will keep up the pressure on Maduro.
Democrats have spoken out against Trump’s Venezuela policy but not for the damage the sanctions are doing to the country’s population, but because it failed to depose Maduro. After a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Venezuela back in August, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) laid out his issues with Trump’s policy on Twitter.
“In April 2019, we tried to organize a kind of coup, but it became a debacle,” Murphy wrote. “Everyone who told us they’d rally to Guaido got cold feet and the plan failed publicly and spectacularly, making America look foolish and weak.” Murphy blamed the failure to rally people around Guaido on Trump’s diplomatic errors.
Look for a “Humanitarian Intervention” much like what they did in Libya.
Problem is Venezuelan’s support their leadership and have been preparing for Washington’s attack since last time in 1982.
The US has cried wolf to many times with the Humanitarian BS no one believes them any more.
Isn’t it funny that the Bolivarian government was allegedly elected using the same type of machines and software used in the US elections.
Oh puleeese!
Chavez never needed any help getting elected by huge majorities. If he wanted control of the voting machines, it was only to prevent the opposition & CIA from stealing elections. With all their money, the old oligarchical class of colonial petro-thieves and their comprador support-class were simply too small in number to win more votes than “regular” Venezuelans.
Sidney Powell, whom I had come to respect for her defense of Gen. Flynn, has trashed her credibility and the credibility of Trump’s claim of electoral fraud, with this Venezuela/Cuba nonsense.
Insignificant piece of shit.. The Venezuelans hate the bastard.. they’re not real keen on American puppets.
Hitler was an insignificant piece of shit look how he rose to power , and keep a close eye on Bolivia the realection of a socialist government won`t sit well with washington.
Nobody cares about you. You’re nothing.
Theres a word for folks who encourage a foreign power to overthrow their government.
David and Charles Koch needed the XL Keystone Pipeline. The XL Keystone pipeline takes Canadian tar-sands oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The refineries of the Texas Gulf Coast are optimized for heavy crude. It would cost billions of dollars to rebuild the giant Flint Hills Corpus Christi Refinery, owned by Koch Industries, to use the less-polluting Texas oil drilled nearby.
The Koch’s built the giant Flint Hills Corpus Christi Refinery to process heavy crude from Venezuela. At the time the plant was built Koch Industries were pillaging Venezuelan heavy crude for a fraction of its true value. When Hugo Chavez became President of Venezuela he insisted Koch Industries pay full price for the heavy crude.
Yuan Guido promised to return control of the oil to US companies (ie Koch Industries, Flint Hills Corpus Christi Refineries, there are no other refineries that can process this heavy crude). Hence Trump tells us that Yuan Guido is the democratic leader of Venezuela. Trump himself obtained 3 million less votes, Pompeo (no votes) and Bolton (no votes). Guido has never stood for election anywhere. Maduro however was re-elected with a huge majority.
Massive corruption due to big corporate control of government, continual abuse of power and mass murder can only be described as fascism. White Supremacy and Fascism is the Key to understanding America’s Venezuela aggression (supreme international crime). Venezuela is a story of four centuries of white rule and It all came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo (indigenous) majority.
This rejection of white supremacy continues under Maduro, Chavez’ chosen successor. Social investment in Venezuela during the Chavez administration reduced poverty from nearly 50% in 1999 to about 27% in 2011, increased school enrollment and brought real democracy to Venezuela. Venezuela was the wealthiest nation, by far, in South America. Hugo Chavez became President on 2 February 1999. Venezuela reached its all-time-high economic-growth rate in 2004 after 5 years of Socialism.
The economy rapidly declined as soon as the U.S. started its coup-attempts and imposed sanctions. It was the US that murdered Chavez. It is estimated that the sanctions have been the catalyst for up to 40,000 deaths in Venezuela.
Lets be quite clear about this: this is theft by White Supremacist Oligarchs. The election was suppose to decide which group of White Supremacist Oligarchs get to mass murder and loot the world. Constant war is the business model. But Hugo Chavez cheated his way to power right?
The reason the coup failed is it is blindingly obvious the people of Venezuala want Madro for President and he has the backing of the military , so it begs the question just how many dead Venezualians Guaido is going to accept as colattorol damage to achieve his ambition as Americas puppet president , and it is obvious he will sell all Venezualas oil to American interests , the vultures of the IMF / WB have been circling from day one.