This Foreign Policy piece, “Venezuela is Armed to the Hilt,” written by two analysts from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, is based on the dubious premise that the Venezuelan armed forces are falling apart. The Trump administration and opposition leader Juan Guaido believed that key senior officers would abandon the government. They didn’t. Without significant...
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Standoff Continues at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC
The ordeal of Venezuela erupted on the streets of Washington Wednesday as supporters of embattled President Nicholas Maduro and struggling would-be president Juan Guaido faced off noisily but peacefully at the country’s embassy in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood. With two dozen American supporters of Maduro holed up in the Embassy, a a slightly larger crowd...
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U.S. ‘Regime Change’ Policy Falters in Caracas and Washington
It’s May Day in Venezuala in every sense of the word. May Day, May 1, is the holiday created to celebrate the international working class, and “Mayday” is the international radio distress signal. Venezuela is in distress. Yesterday opposition leader Juan Guaidó called on the Venezuelan armed forces to abandon the government of Nicholas Maduro–which...
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Elliot Abrams vs. Code Pink: Showdown at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington
In response to a round-the-clock sit-in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, President Trump’s special envoy Elliot Abrams said on Thursday the activists are “clearly breaking the law.” The protesters say they were invited to stay by the government of President Nicholas Maduro, which the Trump administration is seeking to oust. The U.S. and about 50...
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‘Regime Change’ Video: Call of Duty Invades Venezuela
The U.S. intervention in Venezuela is floundering. In February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was saying the Venezuelan armed forces should see that President Nicholas Maduro’s “time is up” and “change should be at hand.” The hoped-for defections from the Venezuelan military did not happen. Now the administration is still demanding that Maduro leave office,...