Before Juan Guaidó, there was Leopoldo López!

by Ms. Cat

The CIA may have trained several Venezuelans, from the Opposition party, to overthrow the Venezuelan Government, from Hugo Chávez to Nicolas Maduro. Many people seem to think Juan Guaidó came out of nowhere and many Chavismos didn’t even know who Guaidó was. It seems that after his extensive training in the CIA School of Regime Change, he has been under the wing of Leopoldo López, who is currently under house arrest.

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Venezuela: Maduro creates ‘socialist enterprise system’, collectives protest food giant’s hoarding [2016]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the creation of a National Productive Corporation on February 22, as part of a new socialist enterprise system aimed at coordinating efforts among existing state, communal and mixed firms. Speaking from the Ana Maria Campo Petrochemical Complex in Zulia state, the socialist leader said the new entity would be tasked with unifying
— Read on www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-maduro-creates-socialist-enterprise-system-collectives-protest-food-giants

Juan Guaido: the ‘kid’ taking on Venezuela’s Maduro

My notes: They boycotted the election, then decided to announce that the election was illegal!

Guaido did not set out to supplant Maduro, the socialist president who has presided over a spiraling political and economic crisis in Venezuela. US President Donald Trump immediately recognized him as Venezuela’s interim president, followed by a string of countries across the region.
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