{"id":43487,"date":"2019-02-03T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43487"},"modified":"2019-02-03T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:25:57","slug":"is-oil-behind-washingtons-venezuela-coup-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43487","title":{"rendered":"Is Oil Behind Washington\u2019s Venezuela Coup Madness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is Oil Behind Washington\u2019s Venezuela Coup Madness?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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On January 23 US Vice President Pence sent a message via Twitter that Washington recognized the 35-year-old Speaker of the Venezuela National Assembly, Juan Guaido<\/strong>, as the \u201clegitimate\u201d President of the troubled country, and not elected President Maduro. The fact that it was first Pence and not the US President, who seemed forced to play catch-up, says much about the intervention. The question is whether oil was the reason as neo-con Security Council adviser John Bolton claimed or something else. The evidence suggests something else, but what something?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington \u201crecognition\u201d of Guaido as \u201clegitimate\u201d president of Venezuela is not only a blatant breach of international law. It goes back on Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s repeated campaign promises to stop US meddling in internal affairs of other countries. The attempted coup is being run on the ground by the same criminal operators, call them the deep state, who were behind the regime change operations of repeated US Color Revolutions from Ukraine to Libya, including CANVAS and the CIA\u2019s surrogate, National Endowment for Democracy<\/a>. Many are asking why, after twenty years of Chavez and Maduro versions of central socialist economics, just now Washington makes such a brazen and dangerous step. One explanation is oil, but if so, not in a simple sense some may think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview on Fox News following US claims that Guaido was the legitimate interim president, John Bolton declared that, aside from declaring Maduro was \u201cauthoritarian\u201d as reason for the Washington move, oil was a major factor. Bolton told Fox News, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at the oil assets\u2026We\u2019re in conversation with major American companies now,\u201d<\/strong> he continued.<\/p>
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Is Oil Behind Washington\u2019s Venezuela Coup Madness? On January 23 US Vice President Pence sent a message via Twitter that Washington recognized the 35-year-old Speaker of the Venezuela National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the \u201clegitimate\u201d President of the troubled country, and not elected President Maduro. The fact that it was first Pence and not the US […]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[2321,7844,24109,2422,588],"class_list":["post-43487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-coup","tag-donald-trump","tag-juan-guaido","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487","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=43487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43488,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487\/revisions\/43488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}