{"id":44013,"date":"2019-02-24T20:13:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T01:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44013"},"modified":"2019-02-24T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T01:13:07","slug":"canada-and-the-venezuela-coup-attempt%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44013","title":{"rendered":"Canada and the Venezuela Coup Attempt\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/22\/canada-and-the-venezuela-coup-attempt\/\">Canada and the Venezuela Coup Attempt<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US presidents have bombed or invaded places like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Sudan to distract from domestic scandals or to gain a quick boost in popularity. But, do Canadian politicians also pursue regime change abroad to be cheered on by the dominant media as decisive leaders?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a discussion on regime change in Venezuela after last Monday\u2019s \u201cLima Group\u201d meeting in Ottawa, Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O\u2019Toole praised Canadian policy but added that the Liberals used the meeting of countries opposed to Nicolas Maduro\u2019s government to drown out criticism of their foreign policy. O\u2019Toole claimed the \u201cLima Group\u201d meeting was \u201cput together quite quickly and I think there are some politics behind that with some of the foreign affairs challenges the Trudeau government has been having in recent months.\u201d In other words, O\u2019Toole believes the Liberals organized a gathering that concluded with a call for the military to oust Venezuela\u2019s elected president to appear like effective international players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Understood within the broader corporate and geopolitical context, O\u2019Toole\u2019s assessment appears reasonable. After being criticized for its China policy, the Liberals have been widely praised for their regime change efforts in Venezuela. In a sign of media cheerleading, CTV News host Don Martin began his post \u201cLima Group\u201d interview with foreign minister Chrystia Freeland by stating \u201cthe Lima summit has wrapped and the object of regime change is staying put for the time being\u201d and then he asked her \u201cis [Venezuelan President Nicolas] Maduro any step closer to being kicked out of office as a result of this meeting today?\u201d Later in the interview Martin applauded the \u201cLima Group\u2019s\u201d bid \u201cto put the economic pincers around it [Venezuela\u2019s economy] and choking it off from international transactions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada and the Venezuela Coup Attempt US presidents have bombed or invaded places like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Sudan to distract from domestic scandals or to gain a quick boost in popularity. But, do Canadian politicians also pursue regime change abroad to be cheered on by the dominant media as decisive leaders? In a discussion [&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":[103,1343,827,851,7937],"class_list":["post-44013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-canada","tag-regime-change","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-yves-engler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44013","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=44013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44014,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44013\/revisions\/44014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}