Venezuela opposition leader urges fast action to oust president

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16. I don't deny that the US has been involved in shady stuff in the past

Just to name a few, they collaborated with the coup that removed Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and placed the Western-friendly Mohammad Reza in power. Then there was the whole collaborating with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan (back when the Soviets were invading.) And I don't doubt that Nixon had a hand in Allende's fall in 1973. There are many other examples I can give.

With that being said, however, the current state of affairs in Venezuela is entirely self-inflicted by the Chavista delinquents in power, and nothing at all to do with some dumb-ass conspiracy theory of the CIA financing the opposition or crippling the economy, especially when the Chavista regime controls most of the means of production and transportation in the country, and at the expense of many privately owned lands that they unjustly expropriated without compensation, by the way.