The Council on Foreign Relations, the embodiment of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, asked the Democratic presidential candidates what they would do about Venezuela. The question was leading: What, if any, additional steps should the United States take to remove Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela? The formulation is leading because it implies that the...
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Guaido Reverses Course; Opposition Will Join Venezuelan Negotiations
After the failure of the April 29 uprising to oust President Nicholas Maduro and second guessing in the Trump White House, the Venezuela opposition is embracing negotiations to end the country’s political ordeal. “The parties will meet this week in Barbados to move forward in the search for an agreed-upon and constitutional solution for the...
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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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The False Story of Venezuela’s ‘Burning Aid Convoy’
Not for the first time, a U.S. “regime change” policy is generating false claims to support the campaign to remove a government out of favor in Washington. The “burning aid convoy” story in Venezuela is an echo of the “babies torn from incubators” story in Kuwait of a generation ago. It’s the same familiar narrative:...