Venezuela Crisis: Failed coup attempt by Juan Guaido; Military remains supporting Nicholas Maduro
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If he doesnt actually have the instruments of power then who cares that we "recognize" him as president?
Am i missing something here?
Am i missing something here?
Usa propping up another puppet
Listening to some of the Venezuela story, I think people just want things to end the way they currently are, puppet or not.
They just want sanctions to be lifted.
Sanction a country till their people no longer have any dignity...
They just want sanctions to be lifted.
Sanction a country till their people no longer have any dignity...
Venezuela's Guaido declares himself president, Maduro under pressure
Corina Pons, Angus Berwick, Mayela Armas
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president on Wednesday, while hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans poured onto the streets to demand an end to the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro.
Opposition supporters take part in a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government and to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez in Caracas, Venezuela January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
In a statement minutes later, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate interim president.
Demonstrators clogged avenues in eastern Caracas, chanting “Get out, Maduro” and “Guaido, Presidente,” while waving national flags. Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in several areas. A rally the night before left four people reported dead, an echo of tumultuous riots two years ago.
The opposition has been energized by young congress chief Guaido, who has led a campaign to declare Maduro a usurper and has promised a transition to a new government in a nation suffering a hyperinflationary economic collapse.
Guaido, in a speech before a cheering crowd, took an oath swearing himself in as interim president.
“I swear to assume all the powers of the presidency to secure an end of the usurpation,” he said.
He has said he would be willing to replace Maduro with the support of the military and to call free elections.
The Trump administration told U.S. energy companies it could impose sanctions on Venezuelan oil as soon as this week if the political situation worsens, according to sources.
Maduro was inaugurated on Jan. 10 to another term in office following a widely boycotted election last year that many foreign governments described as a fraudulent. His government accuses Guaido of staging a coup and has threatened him with jail.
ARMED FORCES
Any change in government in Venezuela will rest on a shift in allegiance within the armed forces. They have stood by Maduro through two waves of street protests and a steady dismantling of democratic institutions.
“We need freedom, we need this corrupt government to get out, we need to all unite, so that there is peace in Venezuela,” said Claudia Olaizola, a 54-year-old saleswoman near the march’s center in the eastern Chacao district, a traditional opposition bastion.
In a potent symbol of anger, demonstrators in the southern city of Puerto Ordaz on Tuesday toppled a statue of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, broke it in half and dangled part of it from a bridge.
A 16-year-old was shot to death at a protest on Tuesday in western Caracas, according to rights group Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict. Three people were shot dead on Tuesday night in southern Bolivar City during a looting of a grocery store that followed a nearby protest, Bolivar state governor Justo Noguera said in a telephone interview.
Maduro has presided over Venezuela’s spiral into its worst-ever economic crisis. His re-election in 2018 was widely viewed as a sham due to widespread election irregularities.
“We’ve come out to support the opposition and preserve the future of my son and my family, because we’re going hungry,” said Jose Barrientos, 31, an auto parts salesman in the poor west end of Caracas.
At least not invading?
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
At least not invading?
"All options are on the table"
How is this going to help their spiraling economy in any way?
Like, this does nothing but make things worse, which I suppose is the point so we can go in with the drones and boots on the ground, kill a bunch of latinos and take all their oil.
Like, this does nothing but make things worse, which I suppose is the point so we can go in with the drones and boots on the ground, kill a bunch of latinos and take all their oil.
"MASS IMMIGRATION IS SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL 
WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT AND NOT PAY 800K PEOPLE FOR A MONTH BECAUSE OF IT "
"ALSO WE NEED TO INVADE THIS COUNTRY AND CAUSE A MASSIVE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN LATIN AMERICA AT THE SAME TIME"
fukking insanity that nobody can see the cause and effect here that's been going on for the better part of 2 centuries now.
WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT AND NOT PAY 800K PEOPLE FOR A MONTH BECAUSE OF IT ""ALSO WE NEED TO INVADE THIS COUNTRY AND CAUSE A MASSIVE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN LATIN AMERICA AT THE SAME TIME
"fukking insanity that nobody can see the cause and effect here that's been going on for the better part of 2 centuries now.
OfTheCross
Veteran
smh. why we can't other countries just be, man...
Tres Leches
Empire Business
The Venezuelan people have made their choice
Why Is Venezuela in Crisis?SOCIALISM
Second, while Venezuela has moved away from free-market capitalism, its economy is hardly socialist. The private sector, not the state (and still less the social economy), controls the overwhelming majority of economic activity. Between 1999 and 2011, the private sector’s share of economic activity increased, from 65 percent to 71 percent.
