US Takes Illegal, Dangerous Actions Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

US Takes Illegal, Dangerous Actions Toward Regime Change in Venezuela



Pro-government supporters march during a rally on April 6, 2019, in Caracas, Venezuela.
EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI / GETTY IMAGES

BY
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
PUBLISHED
April 7, 2019

The United States is taking illegal and dangerous actions to execute regime change in Venezuela. In January, Juan Guaidó declared himself “interim president,” in a strategy orchestrated by the United States to seize power from President Nicolás Maduro.

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This strategy is detailed in a 75-page regime change manual prepared by the U.S. Global Development Lab, a branch of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The manual advocates the creation of rapid expeditionary development teams to partner with the CIA and U.S. Special Forces to conduct “a mix of offensive, defensive, and stability operations [in] in extremis conditions.”

Some of these actions will, in all likelihood, involve combat operations. A USAID official said, “Anybody who doesn’t think we need to be working in combat elements or working with SF [special forces] groups is just naïve.”

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Guaidó is funded by USAID’s sister organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, which is notorious for meddling in other countries and putting a good face on the CIA’s dirty business, as the late journalist William Blum explained.

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