{"id":394359,"date":"2019-01-28T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ap-report-exposes-us-role-in-right-wing-coup-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:29:43","slug":"ap-report-exposes-us-role-in-right-wing-coup-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ap-report-exposes-us-role-in-right-wing-coup-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"AP report exposes US role in right-wing coup in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>AP report exposes US role in right-wing coup in Venezuela<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The United States intensified its coup operation against the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro over the weekend as the European Union swung behind the US effort.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday before the United Nations Security Council, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared, \u201cThe regime of ex-president Nicolas Maduro is illegitimate. We therefore consider all of its declarations and actions illegitimate and invalid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling Venezuela an \u201cillegitimate mafia state,\u201d Pompeo addressed the governments of the world: \u201cEither you stand with the forces of freedom, or you\u2019re in league with Maduro and his mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, several European governments\u2014including France, Germany, Spain and the UK\u2014delivered an ultimatum, declaring that they would recognize US-backed, self-declared president Juan Guaid\u00f3 unless Maduro called new elections within eight days. As expected, Maduro rejected the ultimatum.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Sunday, Maduro visited military bases and tweeted videos of himself in military garb addressing troops and conducting exercises with the Army and Navy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo guarantee peace, we must prepare ourselves,\u201d Maduro said. \u201cIn this world we respect the brave, the courageous, and we have to respect the Venezuelan nation with military power.\u201d He reiterated that the military would hold the country\u2019s largest nationwide military exercises beginning February 10.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Maduro rescinded his previous threat to expel US diplomats in Venezuela, allowing Saturday\u2019s initial expulsion deadline to pass without incident. Maduro announced that he would let US diplomats stay for another 30 days. He indicated in an interview on Turkish CNN that he had sent Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/28\/vene-j28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 AP report exposes US role in right-wing coup in Venezuela By Eric London 28 January 2019 The United States intensified its coup operation against the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro over the weekend as the European Union swung behind the US effort. Speaking on Saturday before the United Nations Security Council, US Secretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}