{"id":44532,"date":"2019-03-17T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44532"},"modified":"2019-03-17T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T11:05:12","slug":"from-humanitarian-aid-to-a-nationwide-blackout-what-next-for-trumps-coup-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44532","title":{"rendered":"From ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to a Nationwide Blackout: What Next for Trump’s Coup in Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to a Nationwide Blackout: What Next for Trump’s Coup in Venezuela?<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Washington is growing increasingly desperate as its coup efforts go further south in Venezuela, argues Jorge Martin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams has threatened even harsher sanctions against the South American country as Washington’s efforts to oust the Maduro government continue to falter. (AP)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>By Jorge Martin \u2013 In Defense of Marxism <\/strong>Mar 13th 2019 at 12.29pmTOPICSInternational<\/a>TAGS23 January 2019 Coup<\/a>Humanitarian Aid<\/a>March 2019 Blackout<\/a>SHORT URL: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The failure of the February 23 \u201chumanitarian aid\u201d provocation on the Venezuelan border<\/a> was a serious blow for Trump\u2019s ongoing coup attempt. There were mutual recriminations between self-appointed Guaid\u00f3, Colombian President Duque and US Vice-President Pence. The US could not get a consensus from its own Lima Cartel allies in favour of military intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coup was losing momentum. Then, on March 7, just days after Guaid\u00f3\u2019s anti-climactic return to Caracas, the country was plunged into a nationwide blackout from which it has not yet fully recovered. What caused it? How is it related to the \u201cregime change\u201d attempt? And, most importantly, what are imperialism\u2019s plans and how can they be fought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 23 was supposed to be the coup\u2019s D-Day. The idea was never to actually deliver \u201chumanitarian aid\u201d into the country, but rather to create a \u201cpeople\u2019s power\u201d moment, where large crowds of opposition supporters on both sides of the border defied the Venezuelan armed forces, which, when faced with a large crowd of peaceful demonstrators, would then switch sides and join Trump\u2019s puppet, Juan Guaid\u00f3. On the day, however, things did not go according to Washington\u2019s plan. The crowds of opposition supporters did not materialise in the expected numbers. \u201cAid\u201d trucks did not cross the border and by the end of the day, Rubio, Abrams and Guaid\u00f3 were left with egg all over their faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to a Nationwide Blackout: What Next for Trump’s Coup in Venezuela?\u00a0 Washington is growing increasingly desperate as its coup efforts go further south in Venezuela, argues Jorge Martin. US Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams has threatened even harsher sanctions against the South American country as Washington’s efforts to oust the Maduro […]<\/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":[7844,24689,24688,2422,4720,1343,851,21670,865],"class_list":["post-44532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-elliott-abrahms","tag-jorge-martin","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-power-blackout","tag-regime-change","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuela-analysis","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532","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=44532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44533,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532\/revisions\/44533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}