{"id":44438,"date":"2019-03-12T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44438"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:43:43","slug":"us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event-for-galvanizing-public-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44438","title":{"rendered":"US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as \u2018Watershed Event\u2019 for \u2018Galvanizing Public Unrest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as \u2018Watershed Event\u2019 for \u2018Galvanizing Public Unrest\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition \u201cto take advantage of the situation\u2026towards their needs\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A September 2010 memo<\/a> by a US-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country\u2019s electrical sector as \u201ca watershed event\u201d that \u201cwould likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memo has special relevance today as Guaido moves to exploit nationwide blackouts caused by a major failure at the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant at Guri dam \u2013 a crisis that Venezuela\u2019s government blames on US sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was authored by Srdja Popovic<\/a> of the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), a Belgrade-based \u201cdemocracy promotion\u201d organization funded by the US government that has trained thousands of US-aligned youth activists in countries where the West seeks regime change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This group reportedly hosted Guaido and the key leaders of his Popular Will party for a series of training sessions, fashioning them into a \u201cGeneration 2007\u201d determined to foment resistance to then-President Hugo Chavez and sabotage his plans to implement \u201c21st century socialism\u201d in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 2010 memo, CANVAS\u2019s Popovic declared, \u201cA key to Chavez\u2019s current weakness is the decline in the electricity sector.\u201d Popovic explicitly identified the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant as a friction point, emphasizing that \u201cwater levels at the Guri dam are dropping, and Chavez has been unable to reduce consumption sufficiently to compensate for the deteriorating industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as \u2018Watershed Event\u2019 for \u2018Galvanizing Public Unrest\u2019 The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition \u201cto take advantage of the situation\u2026towards their needs\u201d A September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization 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":[5],"tags":[24651,24288,24109,14431,1343],"class_list":["post-44438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-electricity-blackout","tag-grayzone-project","tag-juan-guaido","tag-max-blumenthal","tag-regime-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438","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=44438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44439,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438\/revisions\/44439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}