{"id":394978,"date":"2019-02-02T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/everybody-elses-business-coup-fever-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-02-02T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:56:19","slug":"everybody-elses-business-coup-fever-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/everybody-elses-business-coup-fever-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Else\u2019s Business: Coup Fever in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This could have been seen as audacious.\u00a0 Instead, it had the smell of a not so well concealed sponsorship, the backing of a meaty foreign hand.\u00a0 Venezuelan opposition leader and President of the National Assembly Juan Guaid\u00f3 decided to take a quick step in the direction of the presidency.\u00a0 His own counterfeit theory is simple: he is not being a usurper, so much as a panacea for the usurpation by the current president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\u00a0 \u201cI swear to assume all the powers of the presidency to secure and (sic) end to the usurpation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such language is not that of a principled revolutionary figure so much as a hired hand intent on returning the country to conservative tedium.\u00a0 The power doing that hiring has had friendly press outlets for Guaid\u00f3 to express his opinions. On January 15, the president of the National Assembly was permitted space<\/a> in The Washington Post<\/em> to claim that his country was witnessing something without precedent. (Be wary of the message claiming the exceptional.)\u00a0 \u201cWe have a government that has dismantled the state and kidnapped all institutions and manipulate them at will.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even Guaid\u00f3 had to explain, despite deeming Maduro an unrecognised figure, that Venezuela was not your vanilla, crackpot dictatorship wedded to the use of police powers. \u201cThe regime may have ties to drug trafficking and guerrilla groups, but we also have a functioning, democratically elected parliament, the National Assembly.\u201d\u00a0 Pity, then, that Guaid\u00f3…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This could have been seen as audacious.\u00a0 Instead, it had the smell of a not so well concealed sponsorship, the backing of a meaty foreign hand.\u00a0 Venezuelan opposition leader and President of the National Assembly Juan Guaid\u00f3 decided to take a quick step in the direction of the presidency.\u00a0 His own counterfeit theory is simple: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394978","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\/394978","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}