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The US tried to engineer a coup to install this person into power and it completely failed, just like every other Bolton/Pompeo initiative. Seems like that should be a bigger story
As noted in the article, "When Trump launched his re-election campaign in Orlando on June 18, he made no mention of Venezuela." Why hasn't this been remarked upon? Part of the political calculation in engineering the coup was a (failed) appeal to certain FL voter demographics
This article gives a sense of how fragmented, unwieldy, and corrupt the military command structure in Venezuela has become. Even in that context, US failed to engineer a coup. Which reflects a general diminishment of US power, even in its own hemisphere reuters.com/investigates/s…
