Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Sat 06/07/2025 View Fri 06/06/2025 View Thu 06/05/2025 View Wed 06/04/2025 View Tue 06/03/2025 View Mon 06/02/2025 View Sun 06/01/2025
2019-06-27 Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela government says it has thwarted attempted ‘coup’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Venezuela’s socialist government said on Wednesday it has derailed an attempted coup, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a plot by officers to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground...
and install a general in his place, a minister said.

Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said the plan involved both active and retired army officers and was to have been executed between Sunday and Monday this past weekend.

He accused Colombia’s right-wing President Ivan Duque of "planning coups, liquidations of the president" as well as implicating Chile’s conservative President Sebastian Pinera and US National Security Advisor John Bolton in the plot.

Rodriguez accused Maduro’s former intelligence chief Cristopher Figuera ‐ who has defected to the United States ‐ of seeking "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for supporting a failed military uprising against the president in April.

Figuera "turned out to be a mercenary" the minister said in Caracas.

Venezuelan authorities said earlier this month that 17 people had been charged with attempting a coup on April 30, during opposition leader Juan Guaidó
...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis....
’s failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
to inspire an uprising, when he called on the armed forces to rise up against Maduro.

The effort failed to shift the military’s allegiance and Guaido was backed by only around 30 military personnel. The revolt petered out after two days of deadly festivities between protesters and security forces.

Guaido is recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries, including the United States, which has imposed a series of crippling sanctions on Maduro’s government.

Russia, Maduro’s staunchest foreign backer along with Cuba and China, announced earlier Wednesday it was withdrawing military "technicians" which it deployed in Venezuela in a show of support three months ago.

Posted by Fred 2019-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 A yes, the Turkish model.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-27 08:04||   2019-06-27 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously Rodriguez is lying. It could've been plausible if maybe he'd used a higher figure. Asking three countries for a few hundred thousand dollars in exchange for a military uprising ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-27 13:38||   2019-06-27 13:38|| Front Page Top

19:53 badanov
19:44 trailing wife
19:37 trailing wife
19:27 Rex Mundi
19:10 Rambler
18:30 DooDahMan
18:28 DooDahMan
18:12 Matt
17:45 trailing wife
16:37 Gleng Whaick2262
16:35 Regular joe
15:22 Super Hose
15:13 Silentbrick
14:47 SteveS
14:37 Vortigern Speaking for Boskone4685
14:23 swksvolFF
14:22 SteveS
13:55 Thing From Snowy Mountain
13:50 swksvolFF
13:48 swksvolFF
13:42 badanov
13:35 ed in texas
13:35 Elmomoter Mussolini9149
13:32 Elmomoter Mussolini9149









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com