{"id":43594,"date":"2019-02-07T07:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43594"},"modified":"2019-02-07T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:04:49","slug":"why-must-venezuela-be-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43594","title":{"rendered":"Why Must Venezuela Be Destroyed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why Must Venezuela Be Destroyed?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

February 01, 2019 “Information Clearing House<\/a>”\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last week Trump, his VP Mike Pence, US State Dept. director Mike Pompeo and Trump\u2019s national security advisor John Bolton, plus a bunch of Central American countries that are pretty much US colonies and don\u2019t have foreign policies of their own, synchronously announced that Venezuela has a new president: a virtual non-entity named Juan Guaid\u00f3, who was never even a candidate for that office, but who was sorta-kinda trained for this job in the US. Guaid\u00f3 appeared at a rally in Caracas, flanked by a tiny claque of highly compensated sycophants. He looked very frightened as he self-appointed himself president of Venezuela and set about discharging his presidential duties by immediately going into hiding.

His whereabouts remained unknown until much later, when he surfaced at a press conference, at which he gave a wishy-washy non-answer to the question of whether he had been pressured to declare himself president or had done so of his own volition. There is much to this story that is at once tragic and comic, so let\u2019s take it apart piece by piece. Then we\u2019ll move on to answering the question of Why Venezuela must be destroyed (from the US establishment\u2019s perspective).

What stands out immediately is the combination of incompetence and desperation exhibited by all of the above-mentioned public and not-so-public figures. Pompeo, in voicing his recognition of Guaid\u00f3, called him \u201cguido,\u201d which is an ethnic slur against Italians, while Bolton did one better and called him \u201cguiado\u201d which could be Spanish for \u201cremote-controlled.\u201d (Was that a Freudian slip or just another one of Bolton\u2019s senior moments?) Not to be outdone, Pence gave an entire little speech on Venezuela\u2014a sort of address to the Venezuelan people\u2014which was laced with some truly atrocious pseudo-Spanish gibberish and ended with an utterly incongruous \u201c\u00a1Vaya con Dios!\u201d straight out of a hammy 1950s Western.

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Why Must Venezuela Be Destroyed? February 01, 2019 “Information Clearing House”\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last week Trump, his VP Mike Pence, US State Dept. director Mike Pompeo and Trump\u2019s national security advisor John Bolton, plus a bunch of Central American countries that are pretty much US colonies and don\u2019t have foreign policies of their own, synchronously announced that […]<\/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":[2182,11358,24109,16089,15128,588,827,851],"class_list":["post-43594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-dmitry-orlov","tag-information-clearing-house","tag-juan-guaido","tag-mike-pence","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-oil","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43594","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=43594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43595,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43594\/revisions\/43595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}