The End of US Failed Puppet: Juan Guaidó

By César Omar Sánchez

In the spring of 2019 at the Second Annual Lati Colloquium event at NJCU (New Jersy City University), I gave a presentation on US Imperialism and the role it played throughout Latin America. Giving the circumstance occurring in Latin America, I felt it was necessary to try bringing this out onto the discussion table for everyone to participate in. On one of the slides of my presentation, I gave a strong argument against US Interventions and possibly military attack strikes in Venezuela.

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So, who is Juan Guaido, the so-called "interim president" of Venezuela?

Juan has graduate degrees from prestigious DC university George Washington, where he studied under a former IMF (International Monetary Fund) director, as well as attended private business school in Caracas, Venezuela. Yes, no doubt an elitist who surrounds himself with rich powerful individuals in the United States. However, he was better known on US soil than he was in his home country of Venezuela.

Guaido’s roots are in the militant right-wing of the opposition as an organizer in the violent street protests known as Guarimbas. These fascist protestors were responsible for numerous deaths, especially burning alive a black Venezuelan which resulted in his death.

Deeply connected to US regime change front groups like USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, Juan Guaidó mission was to overthrow the socialist government by any means necessary. By 2010, international agencies were generously pouring up to 50 million dollars per year into funding the Venezuelan opposition movement. It sounds like a pretty open and shut case of a US/CIA regime change plot. All their rhetoric is about the “restoration of democracy”, the same narrative the mainstream media continues to repeat.

Sanctions on Venezuela, but why?

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One part of my PowerPoint presentation I talked about the illegal and unethical sanctions against the sovereign country of Venezuela. These sanctions imposed by the United States and its junior partners against countries that resist their agendas. They are a weapon of Economic War, resulting in chronic shortages of necessities, economic dislocation, chaotic hyperinflation, artificial famines, disease, and poverty. In every country, the poorest and the weakest – infants, children, the chronically ill and the elderly – suffer the worst impact of sanctions.

Jeffery Sachs who is a leading economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University said the following regarding the sanctions on Venezuela: 

“More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions”

Juan Guaidó approved these same US measures (sanctions) against his own people in Venezuela. 

Venezuela’s Oil

Since the illegal invasion of Iraq predicated on lies from our government and the cheerleaders at FOX, CNN, MSNBC and basically all mainstream media, we now know it was all about the oil. Like Iraq, Venezuela has a huge oil reserve which the United States will do anything to take control of it. After a failed coup (attempt overthrow of a government) in 2002 which the US was trying to oust out the democratically elected leader Hugo Chavez, US top officials are still trying to get their hands on Venezuela’s Black Gold...Oil

US Puppet “Juan Guaidó” Failed Miserably.

On January 5th, 2019, the Venezuelan National Assembly gave Juan Guaidó the final blow which ultimately was removed as president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Even among his opposition party threw him under the bus after Juan Guaidó is being charged with numerous corruption allegations. These series of scandals include his role in the alleged embezzlement of “humanitarian aid” and links to Colombian paramilitaries. On the day of the vote at the National Assembly, Guaido never entered the legislative palace, claiming he was barred from doing so by security forces. A video circulated on social media even showed the opposition politician making a dramatic scene by trying to climb over the secured gates.  

However, his version of events has been called into question by other opposition deputies, who did take part in the session and suggested Guaido could have simply walked through the front door. AD Deputy William Davila, a staunch Guaido loyalist, was seen freely entering the chamber, and later told reporters that all but a handful of lawmakers were allowed to do so with NO PROBLEM. This is just another pathetic last attempt to try to win over his supporters in Venezuela.

This can possibly be the beginning of the end for Juan Guaidó, but make no mistake, the US Empire has many tricks up their sleeves.