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There are mounting signs of military planning for Venezuela

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By: Kyle Rempfer and Todd South

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US soldiers load a C-17 cargo plane with food, water and medicine for a humanitarian mission to Venezuela, at Homestead Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida, on February 22, 2019. (RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has been talking about ordering a military operation targeting Venezuela since 2017.

At first, that was widely dismissed as a rash threat, but the idea of a U.S. effort to force “regime change” in the oil-rich South American country may be gaining momentum in Washington.

“It’s a regime that, frankly, could be toppled very quickly by the military if the military decides to do that,” Trump said in September.

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VENEZUELA: ROUNDUP -4- GUAIDO SEEKS TO SELL OUT VENEZUELA’S OIL INDUSTRY, AND U.S. IS WILLING TO BUY

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

13 March 2019 — 

Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed “interim president” of Venezuela, has offered to sell out Venezuela’s oil industry to foreign private companies, and the U.S. has expressed its willingness to buy.

Guaido has proposed a “draft legislation” that will sell Venezuela’s oil reserves to private companies, a Reuters report said. The move would shrink the participation of state-run oil company PdVSA.

Ricardo Hausmann, Guaido’s delegate to the Inter-American Development Bank, said, “We need to change the current framework. We need to open up the oil industry to private investment.”

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US Attack on Venezuelan Power Grid ‘First Act in the Next Play’ of Regime Change

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A massive power outage at the Guri Dam in Venezuela caused 18 of the country’s 23 states to go dark on Thursday, bringing life to a halt. Caracas has alleged it’s the work of Washington, where key politicos seemed to know about the attack almost as it happened. An activist told Sputnik it’s the “first act in a new play” of regime change.
— Read on sputniknews.com/analysis/201903091073076691-US-Attack-Venezuelan-Power-Grid-First-Act-New-Play/