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by VictorPath 1605 days ago
The CIA was involved in the failed 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela when the army took over and dissolved the parliament, temporarily.

In 2018 the CIA was again planning a coup, or disruption at least, revolving around the planned December 2018 elections. The Venezuelans got wind of this and bumped the elections up a few months. The CIA was caught flat footed somewhat, and the December plans went into effect early. The idea floated that the 2018 elections were rigged doesn't really fly. Even Trump didn't like the puppet the US was trying to push as the real head of Venezuela, Guaido. He called him the Beto O'Rourke of Venezuela.

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Venezuelan here.

> The CIA was involved in the failed 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela when the army took over and dissolved the parliament, temporarily.

Yes, but half of the country was out in the streets asking for his resignation at the same time, cannot deny that.

> The idea floated that the 2018 elections were rigged doesn't really fly.

Americans like to talk about voter oppression, what about armed guns rolling up to your voting center, firing guns into the air to scare voters away because they were losing or something.

I personally lived through that, cannot tell me it's a CIA psyop.

The VAST majority of people here are against the government, even people who were previously very pro-government, since at least 5 years ago.

Yet they somehow won the last couple elections... no one really believes those results.