{"id":183776,"date":"2019-02-14T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183776"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:44:06","slug":"president-juan-guaido-a-neocon-tool-for-unlocking-venezuelas-vast-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183776","title":{"rendered":"\u2018President\u2019 Juan Guaido, a Neocon Tool for Unlocking Venezuela\u2019s Vast Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Bridge \u2013 Strategic Review Feb 13, 2019<\/h1>\n
\"Youthful<\/a>

Youthful and photogenic, like a younger Obama, Juan Guaido, is an obvious pick for the Western powers to do their bidding. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A virtual unknown before declaring himself president of Venezuela, it seems that Guaido\u2019s only qualification for the job is a willingness to open up his country\u2019s vast oil reserves \u2013 and much more – to US companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it seems like we\u2019ve been here before, that\u2019s not just d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu talking to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reminiscent of Ukraine\u2019s 2014 Maidan uprising, which saw US officials dictating the political makeup of the unelected opposition government, something equally sinister is taking place in Venezuela where Washington is working to topple the \u201cMaduro regime\u201d and replace it with a puppet ruler.<\/span><\/p>\n

The name of that puppet-in-waiting is English-speaking, US-educated, Obama doppelganger Juan Guaido, 35, who in a very short period of time went from relative obscurity \u2013 80 percent of Venezuelans\u00a0reportedly<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0never heard of him just one month ago \u2013 to declaring himself the interim president of the Latin American country.<\/span><\/p>\n

How on earth does something like that happen?<\/span><\/p>\n

In reality it doesn\u2019t, unless there are some very powerful forces aligned behind the individual. Guaido was not even a high-ranking member inside of his own party, Popular Will, yet in early January was handpicked to be President of the National Assembly, Venezuela\u2019s unicameral parliament. This set the stage for Guaido to be positioned as some sort of legitimate usurper to residing President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, whose victory at the polls was declared \u201cfraudulent\u201d by the opposition, despite the fact that Venezuela has one of the most\u00a0transparent<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>election processes in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, what we have here is a classic domestic political dispute, much like what is happening in France for the thirteenth weekend in a row. Yet that has not prevented the United States from exerting extreme pressure on the situation \u2013 not on Paris, of course, but on Caracas. Which begs the question: are the French people any less worthy of intrusive American meddling in their domestic affairs than Venezuelans? Why the double standard when it comes to not\u00a0sending<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>humanitarian aid packages to the taxed \u2018Yellow Vest\u2019 protesters? And how is it that the government of French leader Immanuel Macron can\u00a0arrest<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the leader of the \u201chateful mob,\u201d as he described them, without any recriminations from the Western mainstream media? I shudder to think what sort of hell will rain down on Venezuela should Guaido suffer a similar fate. But I digress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Members of the most-righteous Republican Party, as well as high-ranking officials inside of the Trump administration, have taken an active role in energizing the Venezuela flare-up, goading the opposition while prodding the military into rallying behind Juan Guaido.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite terrible things some military leaders in #Venezuela<\/a> have done,I have long advised that U.S. should honor the amnesty National Assembly offered those who cut ties with #Maduro<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But any military officer that helps starve their own people by blocking aid is disqualified. pic.twitter.com\/Te2rJGWQtt<\/a><\/p>\n

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n