{"id":379387,"date":"2018-10-02T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/regime-change-2-0-is-venezuela-next\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:21:12","slug":"regime-change-2-0-is-venezuela-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/regime-change-2-0-is-venezuela-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Regime Change 2.0: Is Venezuela Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_105823\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105823\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/8643440630_5b549a38d7_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/8643440630_5b549a38d7_b.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/8643440630_5b549a38d7_b-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Joka Madruga | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ng_TypographyTag\">On September 8, <\/span><em><span class=\"ng_TypographyTag\">T<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"ng_TypographyTag\">he New York Times<\/span><\/em> carried a story with a provocative headline: \u201cTrump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers\u201d. The journalists Ernesto Londo\u00f1o and Nicholas Casey spoke to 11 current and former United States officials and Venezuelan commanders. These people told the journalists that they had been involved in conversations with the Donald Trump administration about regime change in Venezuela. In August 2017, Trump had bragged that the U.S. had a \u201cmilitary option\u201d for Venezuela. This statement, these men told the reporters, \u201cencouraged rebellious Venezuelan military officers to reach out to Washington\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, then U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, \u201cIn the history of Venezuela and South American countries, it is often times that the military is the agent of change when things are so bad and the leadership can no longer serve the people.\u201d This was an invitation for a military coup in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The language Tillerson used has a long history inside the U.S. State Department. It is the logic used since 1954, when the U.S. government overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz. The theory was known as \u201cmilitary modernisation\u201d, the idea being that in a former colonial country the only modern and efficient institution is the military. The U.S. government used this theory of military modernisation to defend its support of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/02\/regime-change-2-0-is-venezuela-next\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Joka Madruga | CC BY 2.0 On September 8, The New York Times carried a story with a provocative headline: \u201cTrump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers\u201d. The journalists Ernesto Londo\u00f1o and Nicholas Casey spoke to 11 current and former United States officials and Venezuelan commanders. These people told the journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}