{"id":395634,"date":"2019-02-09T05:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T04:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-mobilizes-support-for-us-coup-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T04:26:18","slug":"canada-mobilizes-support-for-us-coup-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-mobilizes-support-for-us-coup-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Keith Jones<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 February 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Liberal government is front and center in Washington\u2019s drive to overthrow Venezuela\u2019s elected president, Nicolas Maduro, and install a virulent right-wing regime that will throw open the country\u2014site of the world\u2019s largest oil reserves\u2014to unbridled imperialist exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland hosted a meeting in Ottawa of members of the so-called \u201cLima Group\u201d of states. It called on Venezuela\u2019s military to complete the US-orchestrated coup that was initiated Jan. 23, when the speaker of the Venezuelan legislature, Juan Guaid\u00f3, proclaimed himself the country\u2019s \u201cinterim president\u201d and US President Donald Trump tweeted that Washington recognized him as Venezuela\u2019s \u201clegitimate\u201d ruler.<\/p>\n<p>The statement issued by the Ottawa meeting, from which only Mexico dissented, makes clear that the Lima Group and its member states are now acting as full-fledged coup partners, closely coordinating theirs actions and funneling resources behind the regime-change operation fronted by Guaid\u00f3. The statement announced that Guaid\u00f3\u2019s request that his \u201cgovernment\u201d be incorporated in the Lima Group had been accepted \u201cwith great pleasure.\u201d The Group\u2019s members, it added, will \u201crecognize and work with the representatives designated by the interim government of Juan Guaid\u00f3 in their respective countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lima Group was established in 2017 with the ostensible purpose of brokering a peaceful resolution to the growing social-political crisis in Venezuela. Comprised of Washington\u2019s principal allies in the Americas, it has functioned as a chorus for the Trump administration in its increasingly bellicose campaign for regime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/02\/08\/cave-f08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela By Keith Jones 8 February 2019 Canada\u2019s Liberal government is front and center in Washington\u2019s drive to overthrow Venezuela\u2019s elected president, Nicolas Maduro, and install a virulent right-wing regime that will throw open the country\u2014site of the world\u2019s largest oil reserves\u2014to unbridled imperialist exploitation. Earlier this [&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-395634","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\/395634","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=395634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}