Comment: USA and Venezuelan Right aiming for ‘regime change’
Comment: USA and Venezuelan Right aiming for ‘regime change’
Tony Burke
The right has launched a new campaign to oust Maduro, while Obama has renewed an executive order condemning Venezuela as an 'extraordinary threat'
Last week, Venezuela’s right wing opposition launched a new campaign to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power, including by calling for his immediate resignation. The last campaign to oust the elected, constitutional President led to a wave of violence in 2014.
‘We call on the entire Venezuelan people in order to force Maduro to resign as the President of the country,’ the Executive Secretary of the Democratic Unity coalition Jesus Torrealba told reporters as the right-wing opposition confirmed their perspective.
Torrealba also called on Venezuelans to take to the streets to demand Maduro’s resignation.
Responding to the right wing, the Socialist Party’s Diosdado Cabello (former National Assembly head) said: ‘They want to organise street rallies to generate violence and bring about a coup, supported by the U.S.’
His latter point was given more credence – when just days before the Venezuelan right wing confirmed their ousting campaign – President Barack Obama renewed an executive order issued last March that declared Venezuela ‘an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.’
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