Maduro

I’m writing this as Juan Guaido attempts to provoke a coup against Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela. I don’t have a dog in this hunt, frankly, as Maduro is incompetent and Guaido is a US puppet.
The people I sympathize with are the Venezuelans who are the victims of the clash between the cynical power politics of the US’s geopolitical ambitions and Donald Trump’s ridiculous Energy Dominance policy and the inept governments of first Hugo Chavez and now Maduro which brought the country nothing but pain.

Juan Guaido who, with the backing of the US government, proclaimed himself president of his country, but without the support of Venezuelan citizens, called on the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro.

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts:

Via RT…

Authored by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation:

Venezuela is America’s current target for mass destabilization in the hope of installing a puppet government. America has for years been waging an economic war against Venezuela, including debilitating sanctions which have dramatically affected the state’s ability to purchase medicines, and even mundane replacement parts needed in buses, ambulances, etc. Alongside the economic war there has been a steady propaganda war, but […]

Via For Sanity in World Affairs….

teleSur journalists Tamara Pearson and Ryan Mallett-Outtrim debunk the myriad of lies and fabrications disseminated by the mainstream corporate media about the violent opposition protests in 2014, known as the “guarimbas.”  At one year since the violence opposition barricades in Venezuela that aimed to bring down the democratically elected government, teleSUR reviews 11 things the media kept secret. One year ago, […]

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation:

Last month, a convoy of humanitarian aid trucks from the US were set on fire and the mainstream media and neocons were quick to blame President Maduro. However, video shows an anti-Maduro protester threw a Molotov cocktail that ignited the truck carrying aid.