The Making of Juan Guaido: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader

[Miguel M]

The Making of Juan Guaido: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader

Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization.

Before the fateful day of January 22, fewer than one in five Venezuelans had heard of Juan Guaidó. Only a few months ago, the 35-year-old was an obscure character in a politically marginal far-right group closely associated with gruesome acts of street violence. Even in his own party, Guaidó had been a mid-level figure in the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which is now held under contempt according to Venezuela’s constitution.

But after a single phone call from US Vice President Mike Pence, Guaidó proclaimed himself as president of Venezuela. Anointed as the leader of his country by Washington, a previously unknown political bottom dweller was vaulted onto the international stage as the US-selected leader of the nation with the world’s largest oil reserves.

Echoing the Washington consensus, the New York Times editorial board hailed Guaidó as a “credible rival” to Maduro with a “refreshing style and vision of taking the country forward.” The Bloomberg News editorial board applauded him for seeking “restoration of democracy” and the Wall Street Journal declared him “a new democratic leader.” Meanwhile, Canada, numerous European nations, Israel, and the bloc of right-wing Latin American governments known as the Lima Group recognized Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US government’s elite regime change factories. Alongside a cadre of right-wing student activists, Guaidó was cultivated to undermine Venezuela’s socialist-oriented government, destabilize the country, and one day seize power. Though he has been a minor figure in Venezuelan politics, he had spent years quietly demonstrated his worthiness in Washington’s halls of power.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. This article is absolutely wonderful. I got to it too late overnight, have saved it for tomorrow.

It has explained things I hadn't learned yet, and, also so interesting, reactivated my memory of so many events I learned long ago which had gotten pushed to the back of the line since I hadn't had to call on them for quite a while. It's almost like learning them again the first time!

I was reminded of the one vicious attack on campus at one of the Caracas universities, when opposition students found a building where there were some pro-Chavez students. They surrounded the building, blocked all the exits, then were joined by some opposition students who took the opportunity to run off and pick up some guns, they cute access to water, to electricity, and at some point, they started fires around the building. I can't remember too much, yet, but the students were trapped then and rampaging, spoiled brat ugly dirtbags were trying their best to harm them, probably high on excitement knowing their well-connected parents could spring them out of any possible unpleasant legal mess they could create for themselves.

(That also sounds like what happened during the coup, when the opposition surrounded the Cuban embassy, destroyed the cars belonging to the employees parked around the building, cut the electricity, water, phone lines, and Enrique Capriles demanded to speak with the Cubans. He's the ugly rat-faced dirtbag who ran for the Presidency once, a wealthy brat whose mother was an heiress of a large publishing company or something, and he claimed they wanted to enter the embassy and conduct a room to room search, claiming they believed some of Hugo Chavez' officials were hiding in the Cuban embassy so the coup leaders couldn't arrest them. He was denied entry. They continued to stake them out for some time. How dirty is that?)

I feel good that having read some of it, completely appreciating it, I still have quite a bit left to explore later in the day!

This is a tremendous bit of writing, and it is very well-written, by all means.

Thank you, so much for sharing this one here, Miguel M.

[Miguel M]

2. It's like they're breeding new rats in their laboratories.

Same plan. Different faces to front the same horrid old policies.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Isn't that the truth? He, in essence, seems just like the tool they ran for the Presidency

against Chavez the last time.

They all add up to the same thing.

Good point.