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Judi Lynn

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Thu Jul 25, 2019, 11:52 PM Jul 2019

U.S. Government Plan, Dated 23 February 2018, for Coup in Venezuela, Now Leaks Out

U.S. Government Plan, Dated 23 February 2018, for Coup in Venezuela, Now Leaks Out
By Eric Zuesse
Global Research, May 03, 2019

A detailed plan from “UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND” dated “23 FEBRUARY 2018” was issued with the title “PLAN TO OVERTHROW THE VENEZUELAN DICTATORSHIP ‘MASTERSTROKE’” and is here presented complete.

This document was personally signed by Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, who was the Commander (the chief), at SOUTHCOM, and he was thus the top U.S. military official handling Venezuela. But this was far more than just a military plan. It was comprehensive — directing military, diplomatic, and propaganda, policies — regarding the Trump Administration’s planned “Overthrow” of Venezuela’s Government. His plan has since guided the Administration’s entire operation, including “the capacities of the psychological war,” regarding Venezuela.

It instructed SOUTHCOM:

“Encouraging popular dissatisfaction by increasing scarcity and rise in price of the foodstuffs, medicines and other essential goods for the inhabitants. Making more harrowing and painful the scarcities of the main basic merchandises.” …

“intensifying the undercapitalization of the country, the leaking out of foreign currency and the deterioration of its monetary base, bringing about the application of new inflationary measures.” …

More:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-government-plan-dated-23-february-2018-coup-venezuela/5676380
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U.S. Government Plan, Dated 23 February 2018, for Coup in Venezuela, Now Leaks Out (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2019 OP
Global Research is a conspiracy theory web site. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2019 #1
Read their homepage. Full of anti-american conspiracy-theories. DetlefK Jul 2019 #2

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
2. Read their homepage. Full of anti-american conspiracy-theories.
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 04:36 AM
Jul 2019

These guys are not credible, no matter what they publish.

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