Juan Guido declared himself as president of Venezuela then went into hiding for 2 days. While hiding, "president" Guaido lobbied the US government for aid & the IMF for loans, although he has no government to accept them.
He's now calling for a 'great national protest' on Wednesday.
- A propaganda effort for the world to see the "people of Venezuela" support him & to lend credibility to the US-backed coup.
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Is this a US-backed coup attempt?
The night before Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president of Venezuela, the opposition leader received a phone call from Vice President Mike Pence.
Mr. Pence pledged that the U.S. would back Mr. Guaidó if he seized the reins of government from Nicolás Maduro by invoking a clause in the South American country’s constitution, a senior administration official said.
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(Old Spike)
Your video description's first sentence is a lie. He did not declare himself President, he declared himself interim Venezuelan President as when the tyrant is finally removed they will finally hold free and fair elections.
(Old Spike)
He did not declare himself President, he declared himself interim Venezuelan President
There's a difference?
(Old Spike)
Yes there is actually. An Interim President serves as a place holder until an elected President can be selected. Their Constution states that the President of the National Assembly becomes the interim President in cases of invalid elections. The last election was invalid as the tyrant jailed his opposition.
Remember, "... when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
The appointment of an interim President is part of the process of "throwing off such Government", that government being the tyranny of the current Marxist dictator.
(Old Spike)
This is from medium.com
He literary put the opposition leaders in jail. Indeed, anyone in politics that Maduro considers a threat goes to jail. So during the elections, the options where either Maduro or one of his friends, but there was no real opposition. Therefore, the people of Venezuela and the rest of the world didn’t consider the elections valid. According to the Venezuelan constitution, if there weren’t valid elections, the President of the National Assembly (Juan Guaido) automatically becomes the “INTERIM” president of Venezuela, until a new president is elected. This is not a coup!! The good people of Venezuela do not have weapons. Juan Guido has acknowledged that all he wants are clean an fair elections.
https://medium.com/@snydox/this-is-why-canada-must-support-juan-guido-as-the-interim-president-of-venezuela-891ebe2b1530
Again, why are you so pissed off that people are overthrowing a tyrant?
(Old Spike)
Juan Guido has acknowledged that all he wants are clean an fair elections.
They had elections last year & Juan Guaido didn't run. Most of the opposition boycotted it.
It's true that a prominent opposition candidate, Loepoldo Lopez, went to jail. He's under house arrest now & barred from speaking publicly. He was jailed for leading protests that ended up with people dying. Henrique Capriles is the other main opposition candidate who was silenced. He's barred from politics for 15 years on account of taking money from a Brazilian company. Capriles lost the last election to Maduro in a narrow defeat & then lost his political steam so it's doubtful whether he could have beaten Maduro in 2018.
The Venezuelan political scene isn't clean but I don't think it's impossible for the opposition to beat the Chavistas. They should organise better, not boycott the elections & call on foreigners to help them. Democracy has to be home-grown.
I'm not bothered whether Maduro stays but the US dictating who should run another country is a recipe for disaster. Look at Honduras. How has the US overthrowing that "tyrant" helped those people?