{"id":46877,"date":"2019-06-24T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46877"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:18:53","slug":"inside-canadas-outsized-and-under-scrutinized-bid-to-overthrow-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46877","title":{"rendered":"Inside Canada\u2019s Outsized and Under-Scrutinized Bid to Overthrow Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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VENEZUELAN COUP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside Canada\u2019s Outsized and Under-Scrutinized Bid to Overthrow Maduro\t<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Canada has been a major player in orchestrating repeated coup attempts in Venezuela since Juan Guaido declared himself president in January.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTTAWA \u2014 <\/strong>Canada\u2019s foreign policy, under the auspices of Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, is bucking the country\u2019s long standing tradition of generally staying out of the affairs of governments to its south in Latin America. Indeed, Canada has been one of the major players orchestrating repeated coup attempts in Venezuela since Juan Guaido declared himself president in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One opinion piece in a major Canadian publication, the Toronto Star<\/em>, notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost immediately after Guaido anointed himself president, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that he was Canada\u2019s guy and that Maduro should cede power to him.<\/p>

Maduro won\u2019t do that without a fight. So what Freeland was really saying was that Canada would support anything, including an armed coup, to remove Maduro.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, another major Canadian publication, the\u00a0Globe and Mail<\/em>, reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland spoke with Juan Guaido to congratulate him on unifying opposition forces in Venezuela, two weeks before he declared himself interim president.<\/p>

Separately, Ottawa was told by opposition groups, former diplomats and a Venezuelan \u00e9migr\u00e9 to expect a major announcement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That was reported based on sourcing from a \u201csenior Canadian government source who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it should be no surprise that Freeland \u2014 who said<\/a> she was \u201cproud\u201d of her grandfather, a Nazi collaborator \u2014 sympathizes with Popular Will, the political party of Leopoldo Lopez, who appears to have kept a copy<\/a> of Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf<\/em> in his library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VENEZUELAN COUP Inside Canada\u2019s Outsized and Under-Scrutinized Bid to Overthrow Maduro Canada has been a major player in orchestrating repeated coup attempts in Venezuela since Juan Guaido declared himself president in January. OTTAWA \u2014 Canada\u2019s foreign policy, under the auspices of Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, is bucking the country\u2019s long standing tradition of generally staying out […]<\/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":[24610,103,20561,2321,24109,23910,2422,26143],"class_list":["post-46877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alexander-rubinstein","tag-canada","tag-chrystia-freeland","tag-coup","tag-juan-guaido","tag-mint-press-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-toronto-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46877","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=46877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46878,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46877\/revisions\/46878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}