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    Do please continue to post, it gives a very clear view of how things work on Venezuela, at least for some of the people there

    But please spend some time looking into this, very deeply

    "Purpose and intention"

    You know the purpose, the goal you are trying to achieve, and you have repeated lines from the Venezuelan opposition, which are basically lies and push an agenda

    You know your purpose, but.. Do you know the intentions of those people above you, the ones telling all about how great the country would be without Maduro or any other who resists getting the country stolen from you all?

    "Proposito y la intencion detras del proposito" Tu proposito es liberar Venezuela de un gobierno corrupto y que 'ha destruido al pais'. Cual es la intencion de las personas que te inculcaron esas ideas? Las dos cosas no van de la mano.

    In a chess game, are you the sacrificial piece at this point?

    These kind of games are long running, you will most likely not be around to see the end game, and probably neither will I, however, fighting for the wrong side, just because they promised things they can't deliver (and never intended to in the first place), is the wrong chess move

    While you and your family and friends suffer lack of nice things, Juan Guaido and friends incorporated have luxury lives you have no idea about. And it's paid for by you all. Billions of dollars of your money are in their hands, and they get paid millions just to show up on tv and talk lies. They could not care less about you, that's the truth

    The problem is on your end
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    hahahahahahahah another "sham election" that the good old USA, Inc. has uncovered. Damn, the USA, Inc. is good at that! And, who should know more about sham elections than the USA, Inc.? Stunning accuracy in determining just which nation had a rigged election, which "dictator" rigged which election, and an amazing 100% track record of unmasking the evil dictator - the evil dictator who is forcing the USA, Inc. to starve the citizens of that country while the CIA does their 'fomenting a coup' thing that they are so very good at.

    Venezuela, the USA, Inc. has determined that your election results are not working for their interests. The USA, Inc. therefore throws out your election results, and will determine who will preside over Venezuela.

    Oh, why don't the people just lay down and allow the USA, Inc. to select the next American Empire-compliant puppet, er, president? Venezuela is like an inexperienced boxer that doesn't know when to stay down on the canvas. Stop it Venezuela! Stop it! Lay down! Don't try to get up! Submit! It will all be over in, well, ...some of the pain will stop when you stop resisting.

    Ya know what Venezuela needs? A big US military base, that's what. Then, the USA, Inc. can help Venezuela to manage all that oil and gold that Venezuelans have had, and the people can go back to being happy peasants.

    The USA, Inc., here to serve the world's citizens. The title of the USA, Inc. playbook is "To Serve Man." Trust the USA, Inc. Vaya con dios.


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    Hello, Dennis!
    Merry Christmas to you too!

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    Hello Malisa, (or Mashika, I dunno... Hello anyway)

    After careful consideration I think you're right:

    Quote While you and your family and friends suffer lack of nice things, Juan Guaido and friends incorporated have luxury lives you have no idea about. And it's paid for by you all. Billions of dollars of your money are in their hands, and they get paid millions just to show up on tv and talk lies. They could not care less about you, that's the truth
    Guaido and (his Venezuelan government friends) have luxury lives I have no idea about. Chavez died billionaire (in US dollars, BTW), and his followers and family own the country. Monkey see, monkey do.

    The problem is ON your end. I do not comment about things I don't know.
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    Sorry, amigo, I'll comment on anything I want to. Your comments about Venezuela sound like the US Deep State propaganda. You don't want the people of Venezuela to own their own oil (the world's largest reserves), you want the globalist oil corporations to own Venezuelas oil and to restore Venezuela's place as a globalist pirate controlled lapdog state. You may be Venezuelan, but you speak globalist.


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    Trudeau's Failed Coup

    January 23 marks the third anniversary since Juan Guaidó declared himself president. The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute hosted a discussion about the Liberal's failed bid to replace the elected government of Venezuela.

    On January 23, a little-known Venezuelan politician declared himself president during an outdoor rally in Caracas. The US and Canada immediately recognized Juan Guaidó.

    Three-years later will the Liberals stop recognizing Guaidó? Lay the Lima Group to rest? Remove their sanctions on Venezuela?

    What does Guaidó’s failure mean for US and Canadian influence in the region?


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    On April 24/2023
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    arrived in Miami airport leaving behind a political scenario in Venezuela that not even any opposition party nor people support him. No official or any level of US delegation received their designated « president. » Now, will the journalists who lied about his « support » in Venezuela and the « Internacional community « make a self-criticism?


    https://twitter.com/Arnold_August/st...65364194959360


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    UK Spent Public Funds Backing Guaido in Gold Dispute

    Britain’s Foreign Office spent £80,697 in public funds supporting Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaidó’s campaign to seize roughly $2bn of gold held in the Bank of England, documents obtained by Declassified show.

    The data highlights the extent to which the UK government has assisted Guaidó’s efforts to access Venezuelan state assets, with the Foreign Office investing both political and financial capital into this case.

    The UK Government Legal Department initially declined to provide this spending data, stating: “We will not comment further due to ongoing legal proceedings”. However, the Foreign Office later released the data following a Freedom of Information request from Declassified.

    Freezing Venezuela’s gold

    The Bank of England first refused to release Venezuela’s gold in 2018, citing doubts over the legitimacy of the Nicolás Maduro government, which has been in power since 2013.

    Guaidó declared himself Venezuelan president in January 2019, using Article 233 of Venezuela’s constitution to argue that Maduro had abandoned his post and consequently left an “absolute vacuum of power”. As head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Guaidó claimed he was next in line to fill this vacuum.

    The US government moved quickly to recognise Guaidó and shore up international support for regime change in Venezuela. As former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote, this was an opportunity to remove “a twenty-first-century violation of the Monroe Doctrine”, a policy which treats Latin America as Washington’s backyard.



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    With a coup in Venezuela now firmly on the cards, the UK government provided the Bank of England with “political air cover” to keep the gold frozen.

    This came in the form of a “robust letter” from the Foreign Office to the Bank “outlining the growing doubts over Maduro’s legitimacy”, according to the recently published diaries of former minister Alan Duncan.

    The Trump administration’s hostility to Maduro apparently weighed heavily on Britain’s decision-making process. According to former US National Security Adviser John Bolton, then UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt was “delighted” to help Washington’s destabilisation campaign, “for example freezing Venezuelan gold deposits in the Bank of England”.

    Legal battle

    On 4 February 2019, the UK government formally recognised Guaidó, triggering a protracted legal battle over who could lay claim to the gold. The legal process centred on whether the UK’s stated recognition of Guaidó allowed it to transfer Venezuelan state assets to his “interim” government.

    Throughout this case, the UK government insisted at every turn that it recognised Guaidó – and not Maduro – as Venezuelan president. In turn, Guaidó’s lawyers argued that he was authorised to represent and control the assets of the Venezuelan Central Bank in London.

    In 2021, for instance, the UK government acquired the services of Sir James Eadie QC and Jason Pobjoy (of Blackstone Chambers) and Sir Michael Wood and Belinda McRae (of Twenty Essex) – some of the UK’s top lawyers – to present its case in support of recognition of Guaidó.

    At the Supreme Court, these lawyers argued on behalf of the UK foreign secretary that Britain’s recognition of Guaidó was “clear and not ambiguous”.

    The implication of this argument was that the UK government could treat Guaidó for all intents and purposes as Venezuela’s president, and that Venezuela’s gold reserves could thus be transferred to Guaidó and his representatives.



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    Professor Francisco Rodríguez is a leading Venezuelan economist who has advised its national assembly on financial matters and currently teaches at the University of Denver.

    He told Declassified: “Despite a long-established legal and diplomatic tradition that recognition is only granted to governments with actual control over a country’s territory, the British government went out of its way to make a convoluted case before courts that it was recognizing the Guaidó interim government even though it was not engaging with it diplomatically.

    He added: “In contrast to the United States, the UK maintained an embassy in Caracas and interacted with the Maduro-appointed ambassador, refusing to accept credentials from Guaidó-appointed diplomats. In principle, these decisions would in and of themselves have implied unequivocal recognition of the Maduro government.

    “However, the UK insisted before the Supreme Court that it recognized Guaidó as Venezuela’s president, an argument that had as its only practical effect the blocking of the Venezuelan Central Bank’s access to part of its international reserves”.

    ‘Nothing to do with this government’

    The Foreign Office’s use of public funds to support Guaidó in court casts serious doubt on the government’s persistent claims that the gold case was not a political affair but a matter for the Bank of England and the courts.

    In February 2019, Duncan declared in parliament that the freezing of Venezuela’s gold reserves “is entirely down to the Bank, as an independent Bank of England”.

    He added: “It is nothing to do with this Government. We are not empowered to, nor should we in any way attempt to, influence the decision of the Bank of England.”

    Shortly after, Treasury minister Robert Jenrick affirmed in a similar vein that: “Holding gold reserves on behalf of any foreign central bank is a matter for the Bank of England.”

    However, the politicised nature of this case seems difficult to ignore. Indeed, the UK government’s recognition of Guaidó was a key prerequisite for the Bank of England’s refusal to release Venezuela’s gold.

    The UK also has long-standing oil interests in Venezuela. In February 2020, a secretive Foreign Office team named the “Venezuela Reconstruction Unit” met in Caracas to discuss “UK involvement in the energy sector of Venezuela”.

    Britain’s decision to freeze Venezuela’s gold thus formed part of a wider effort to remove the Maduro government and reassert Western domination over its key industries.

    The data obtained by Declassified will make it increasingly difficult for the UK government to counter claims that the gold case has been political at its core.

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    Maduro repudiates the US resolution that delivers Citgo to the opposition: It is a mockery and a slap in the face of the Bogotá Conference

    President Nicolás Maduro repudiated this Monday, May 1, the resolution that on this same day was approved "between roosters and midnight" by the government of his US counterpart, Joe Biden. The document delivers the Venezuelan state company Citgo to "some people from the opposition, from the Unitary Platform of Venezuela, so that they can sell it and do whatever they want . "

    He said that that decision is "unworthy" and is a "direct message of deliverance." "They have decided to hand over Citgo to a group of unknown people, supposedly the directive of the last National Assembly, which no longer exists in Venezuela. People that none of you or us know, who live abroad, who fled like rats at the time," he said.

    He added that it is "a blatant robbery of a company estimated at more than 8 billion dollars, with more than 10,000 gasoline pumps in the United States. A blatant robbery of a company that annually gives more than a billion dollars, which has accumulated for at least four years without reporting profits to the country, as a result of the kidnapping to which Donald Trump subjected her on the first of May precisely."

    Likewise, the national president added that "this is a despicable decision against the people and the sovereignty of Venezuela. We must all resolutely reject it in the streets."

    "The entire opposition is complicit in the looting and theft of Venezuela's properties," he denounced.

    Despite the Bogotá Conference

    He condemned that this is happening despite the International Conference in Bogotá, which was held last Tuesday, April 25. In that quote called by President Gustavo Petro, "the participating countries almost unanimously asked the United States government to lift the sanctions that exist on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."

    Thus, Maduro said, "it is a mockery and a slap in the face to the International Conference convened in Bogotá and the almost unanimous request to lift the sanctions on Venezuela."

    He also said that "on behalf of all the people of Venezuela that we reject and repudiate indignantly the theft of the Citgo company by the United States government and the United Platform of Venezuela."

    "We must strive for the recovery of our homeland through work, union, economic growth and wealth creation," Maduro concluded on May 1st.

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    U.S. Backs Sale of Citgo to Pay Venezuela’s Debts

    The federal government says it intends to strip Venezuela’s Citgo of protections against seizure to make way for a forced sale of the oil refiner


    The Biden administration indicated it would no longer protect Venezuela state-owned oil refiner Citgo Petroleum from seizure, backing a forced sale of the company to satisfy the South American government’s foreign creditors.

    The U.S. government intends to approve the sale of Venezuela’s ownership stake in Citgo once a winning bidder emerges in a court-supervised auction process, according to filings by a special master appointed in Delaware federal court to oversee the potential transaction.

    The U.S. position, disclosed in a Justice Department letter dated April 7 and filed by the special master in federal court Friday, marks a new stance toward Citgo, a prime target for Venezuela’s creditors and a major state asset that owns refineries, pipelines and terminals and supplies thousands of Citgo-branded gas stations in the U.S.

    The Houston-based company has been caught up for years in tensions between the regime in Caracas, its domestic opposition and their respective international allies. The U.S. gave control of Citgo to Venezuelan opposition leaders in 2019 as part of a pressure campaign against the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, while imposing sanctions that prohibited bondholders and other creditors from foreclosing on the company.

    Any change in Citgo’s control requires a license from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which said last year that ending the company’s Venezuelan ownership to repay creditors would undercut the U.S. interest in supporting Venezuela’s opposition movement. Since then, the Venezuelan opposition has lost sway, its parallel government has dissolved, and its onetime leader, Juan Guaidó, fled to the U.S.

    OFAC now “intends to implement a favorable licensing policy for license applications in connection with the execution of a sale,” according to the Justice Department letter filed in Delaware court.

    Mr. Maduro, who has outlasted U.S. sanctions to remain Venezuela’s de facto leader, condemned the potential loss of Citgo, calling it a slap in the face.

    “We indignantly reject and repudiate this robbery of Citgo by the U.S. government,” Mr. Maduro said during a May Day speech in Caracas on Monday.

    Citgo declined to comment. Businesses that once partnered with Venezuela, including the gold mining venture Crystallex International, have targeted Citgo as the only valuable state asset they can seize through the U.S. court system as compensation for billions of dollars in unpaid claims.

    A special master appointed in Delaware to design a sales process for Citgo said in court filings Friday that marketing the company to potential bidders should begin immediately because of the change in U.S. position. The sale procedures call for auctioning the shares of Citgo’s parent holding company to cover a roughly $1 billion judgment held by Crystallex, which filed for bankruptcy in 2011 when its gold mining rights in Venezuela were expropriated.

    Judge Leonard Stark of the U.S. District Court in Delaware has indicated that other creditors of Venezuela might also be able to collect proceeds from a potential sale. The judge has criticized Venezuela’s failure to pay Crystallex, now a defunct shell that exists mainly to pursue litigation for its investors.

    A sale of Citgo might generate proceeds sufficient to pay the debt to Crystallex, but Venezuela’s total liabilities are far larger, including arbitration claims by dozens of other companies and roughly $60 billion of defaulted bond debt.

    Lawyers for the Venezuelan opposition have disputed that Citgo can be ordered to the auction block by a U.S. court and are appealing some of Judge Stark’s recent rulings. The company has considered bankruptcy as an option to protect its operations and sort out creditors’ competing claims, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

    A U.S. official said that a license authorizing the sale of Citgo is months away and will be issued only after due diligence with respect to the potential purchaser and its proposed transaction.

    The Biden administration has taken steps toward relaxing sanctions on Venezuela’s authoritarian regime but continues to recognize the opposition-controlled National Assembly as the country’s “last remaining democratic institution,” which is trying to negotiate from a position of weakness for free elections in 2024.

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