Latest Episode in Juan Guaid's Venezuela Regime-Change Reality Show

[Judi Lynn]

January 11, 2020

Leonardo Flores reports on a farcical scene that was just the latest chapter in an absurdly bungled coup attempt.



By Leonardo Flores
The Grayzone

Fistfights and screaming matches broke out at Venezuela’s National Assembly on Jan. 5, when the legislative body was scheduled to elect its leader. But the melee was not what the corporate U.S. media has portrayed it as.

The fights weren’t between the Chavistas who support the Bolivarian Revolution and President Nicolás Maduro on one side and opposition members on the other, but rather between competing members of the opposition itself.

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The opposition imploded because Juan Guaidó, the former president of the National Assembly and self-declared “interim president” of the country, lost his campaign to be reelected as head of the legislature.

The Venezuelan opposition is in a state of disaster — as it has been since former President Hugo Chávez’s first election in 1998. It’s a loose and ever-changing coalition of around a dozen political parties, with differing ideologies, strategies, and constituencies.

The far right, which is comprised mainly of the Voluntad Popularand Primero Justicia parties, is filled with people who have been receiving financial and logistical support from the United States for the past 20 years.

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