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The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
Blumenthal, Max; Cohen, Dan
http://grayzoneproject.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-chanDate Written: 2019-01-29 Publisher: Grayzone Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23371 A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela. Abstract: -- Excerpt: While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US government's elite regime change factories. Alongside a cadre of right-wing student activists, Guaidó was cultivated to undermine Venezuela's socialist-oriented government, destabilize the country, and one day seize power. Though he has been a minor figure in Venezuelan politics, he had spent years quietly demonstrated his worthiness in Washington’s halls of power.... According to the Venezuelan government, the US was also involved in a plot, codenamed Operation Constitution, to capture Maduro at the Miraflores presidential palace; and another, called Operation Armageddon, to assassinate him at a military parade in July 2017. Just over a year later, exiled opposition leaders tried and failed to kill Maduro with drone bombs during a military parade in Caracas. More than a decade before these intrigues, a group of right-wing opposition students were hand-selected and groomed by an elite US-funded regime change training academy to topple Venezuela's government and restore the neoliberal order. Subject Headings |