{"id":45870,"date":"2019-05-02T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45870"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:01:07","slug":"the-tragedy-of-venezuela-is-the-tragedy-of-the-united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45870","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy of Venezuela Is the Tragedy of the United States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/Lawrence_Wilkerson\/2019\/05\/01\/the-tragedy-of-venezuela-is-the-tragedy-of-the-united-states-of-america\/\">The Tragedy of Venezuela Is the Tragedy of the United States of America<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing what I know about my own Administration\u2019s attempt to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, I was not surprised when the effort was recently renewed by the Trump Administration, particularly when such arch-defenders of Latin American rights as Elliott Abrams, Marco Rubio, and Rick Scott \u2013 not to mention John Bolton \u2013 began to appear on the White House payroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing as well that Trump did not give a farthing for what happened in Venezuela but was concentrated on what he is always focused on, domestic politics, I knew these underlings would be allowed to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war in Venezuela so long as doing it secured Florida\u2019s electoral votes for Trump in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I did not know \u2013 but looking back to 2002, should have \u2013 is how utterly incompetent the CIA would be in pulling off the &#8220;soft coup d\u2019etat&#8221; that its leaders promised Trump. The events of the past 48 hours have demonstrated that incompetence markedly, as well as the real motivations of Trump\u2019s lackeys on Venezuela, from the shrimp-lusting-after-Cuba Marco Rubio to the bombastic former governor of Florida Rick Scott, to the pardoned criminal Abrams, to the supine and totally incompetent Juan Guaido and his backer, Leopoldo Lopez in Caracas. What a crew the GOP can muster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And they just might have let slip the dogs of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And they let them slip into a potentially first-class disaster \u2013 just like Somalia in 1992, Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011, Syria in 2012, Afghanistan today and yesterday, and on and on.&nbsp;<\/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>The Tragedy of Venezuela Is the Tragedy of the United States of America Knowing what I know about my own Administration\u2019s attempt to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, I was not surprised when the effort was recently renewed by the Trump Administration, particularly when such arch-defenders of Latin American rights as Elliott Abrams, [&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":[11541,25777,4487,9588,827,14907],"class_list":["post-45870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-war-com","tag-hugh-chavez","tag-john-bolton","tag-lawrence-wilkerson","tag-united-states","tag-us-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870","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=45870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45871,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870\/revisions\/45871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}