Posted on 05/01/2019 9:30:59 AM PDT by NorseViking
On Tuesday, the lid blew off the long-simmering political crisis in Venezuela. In the morning, opposition leader Juan Guaidó issued a video that depicted him at a military base in the capital, Caracas, announcing the beginning of the “final phase” to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office. He suggested that significant factions within the country’s security forces were on his side and urged his supporters to take to the streets in “nonviolent” protests to speed the collapse of the Maduro regime.
“People of Venezuela, the end of usurpation has arrived,” Guaidó declared.
He stood alongside his mentor and charismatic opposition leader Leopoldo López, whose presence itself, my colleagues reported, “signified a defiant break from government authority.” López had apparently escaped house arrest with the help of the guards assigned to watch him; on Twitter, he urged his compatriots to “conquer” their freedom.
In the United States, Trump administration officials cheered the developments. “We are with you!,” proclaimed Vice President Pence in a tweet in which he deployed the Spanish hashtag #operacionlibertad, or “Operation Liberty,” used to signal the uprising. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was “hopeful” that the rebellion would allow Guaidó, whom the United States and some 60 other nations recognize as Venezuela’s lawful interim president, to effectively restore constitutional order in the country.
While the Maduro regime and its foreign allies, including Russia, warned of a U.S.-inspired “coup” taking place, White House national security adviser John Bolton begged to differ: “Just as it’s not a coup when the president of the United States gives an order to the department of defense,” Bolton told reporters, referring to Washington’s view of Guaidó's legitimacy, “it’s not a coup for Juan Guaidó to try to take command of the Venezuelan military.”
But as night fell in Caracas, it seemed Guaidó's
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What does the President have to do with this?
The article claims that the military leaders who backed Guiado ‘has changed their minds’.
WP is tweaking for intervention.
Legit question. The media is tweaking him this way.
He approves covert actions. The DoD and CIA are quite clearly working with the Venezuelan opposition.
Oh ... are the Globalists hoping that we will invade a Latin American country?
And are they planning to be outraged if Trump invades a Latin American country?
Why do we care about Venezuela? It’s a shiny object being used as a distraction.
If he had done anything overtly, the same people would be blasting him for intervening.
The Washington Post would like nothing more than to print photos of the dead bodies of American Soldiers and then blame Trump for it. They hate America, and everything they do is meant to harm us in one way or another.
Graduate of Yale. Works for WaPo
Why do I care what this jack hole has to say???
Its President Trump, the commie left hates him with a passion..dont ya know EVERYTHING is his fault, if you have nose boogers, its Trump’s fault
WaPo?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
Those clowns would Obama up a flat earth society article.
He approves covert actions. The DoD and CIA are quite clearly working
If the ComPost (a wholly owned subsidiary of Bezos, Inc.) says it, it must be true.
Oikophobia = the hatred of one’s own country.
If he had done anything, the WP would have trashed him for it.
Now he’s trashed for no doing anything.
Pravda Station: Washington Post
Other than crushing goat effer state which he promised to do on the campaign trail, President Trump has kept us out of any foreign military adventures. Note: this is in direct contrast to all the MSM/Democrats who said he’d get us into a war.
Now they want to criticize him for not getting involved militarily????
Ah, the interventionists missed a chance for a war.
Trump did this just right. The Venezuelan people will deal with this dictator.
The DoD and CIA are quite clearly working with the Venezuelan opposition.
So we’re working with the party that lost the Venezuelan election? While at the same time complaint about (alleged) Russian interference in US politics?
Legit question. The media is tweaking him this way.
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No, the Washington Compost is tweaking this. They’ll do anything to inflate a non story.
Ignore them.
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