Venezuela: US Regime Change Operation Falters

... operation in Venezuela formally began with a bang, on 23 January 2019 in Caracas, when self-declared Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó, who had come out of obscurity a few months earlier, declared himself interim President of Venezuela and the incumbent, Nicolas Maduro, as illegitimate. Guaidó was immediately supported by the US, its close NATO allies, and many but not all Latin American nations. But really it began in 1998, with US anger at the democratic election of President Hugo Chavez, with his ...