Juan
Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by
Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a
champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a
violent campaign of destabilization.
by
Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal
Part
2 - Targeting the “troika of tyranny”
Since
the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez, the United States has fought to
restore control over Venezuela and is vast oil reserves. Chávez’s
socialist programs may have redistributed the country’s wealth and
helped lift millions out of poverty, but they also earned him a
target on his back.
In 2002,
Venezuela’s right-wing opposition briefly ousted Chávez with US
support and recognition, before the military restored his presidency
following a mass popular mobilization. Throughout the administrations
of US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Chávez survived
numerous assassination plots, before succumbing to cancer in 2013.
His successor, Nicolas Maduro, has survived three attempts on his
life.
The
Trump administration immediately elevated Venezuela to the top of
Washington’s regime change target list, branding it the leader of a
“troika of tyranny.” Last year, Trump’s national security team
attempted to recruit members of the military brass to mount a
military junta, but that effort failed.
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.
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