{"id":30585,"date":"2018-02-06T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30585"},"modified":"2018-02-06T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:42:13","slug":"trump-administration-planning-pinochet-type-coup-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30585","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Planning Pinochet-type Coup in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Trump Administration Planning Pinochet-type Coup in Venezuela\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/or-40285.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Administration Planning Pinochet-type Coup in Venezuela\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/trump-administration-planning-pinochet-type-coup-in-venezuela.html\">Trump Administration Planning Pinochet-type Coup in Venezuela<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The retrograde Donald Trump administration is planning a military coup in Venezuela to oust the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking at the University of Texas prior to embarking on a multi-nation tour throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, said the military in Latin America has often intervened in Latin American politics during times of serious crises.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson\u2019s remarks conjured up scenes from America\u2019s dark past in Latin America. To make matters worse, Tillerson invoked the imperialistic Monroe Doctrine of 1823, stressing that it is as \u201crelevant today as it was the day it was written.\u201d The Monroe Doctrine, throughout American history, has been used by the United States to justify military interventions in Latin America, often with the aim of establishing \u201cbanana republics\u201d subservient to Washington\u2019s whims.<\/p>\n<p>According to a BBC report, Tillerson prefaced his augmented his remarks by stating that he was \u201cnot advocating regime change and that he had no intelligence on any planned action.\u201d Richard Nixon\u2019s National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger made similar remarks before the bloody September 11, 1973 Central Intelligence Agency-backed coup against Chile\u2019s Socialist President Salvador Allende. While publicly rejecting any U.S. involvement in the destabilization of Chile\u2019s democratically-elected government, Kissinger was working behind the scenes with Chile\u2019s armed forces to overthrow and assassinate Allende. Eleven days after the Chilean coup, Kissinger was rewarded by Nixon by being named Secretary of State, along with keeping his National Security Adviser portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since Maduro\u2019s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, came to power in 1999, the CIA has attempted at least one military coup &#8212; a putsch that was quickly reversed \u2013 in 2002, several \u201ccolor revolution\u201d-style street protests and disruptions, economic warfare, and CIA-initiated general strikes to force both Chavez and Maduro from power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Administration Planning Pinochet-type Coup in Venezuela The retrograde Donald Trump administration is planning a military coup in Venezuela to oust the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking at the University of Texas prior to embarking on a multi-nation tour throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135,2321,1193,18382,1176,13455,2422,4219,8203,15319,827,851,14524],"class_list":["post-30585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-coup","tag-henry-kissinger","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-latin-america","tag-monroe-doctrine","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-richard-nixon","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-wayne-madsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30586,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30585\/revisions\/30586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}