Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks.

Establishing a clandestine channel with coup plotters in Venezuela was a big gamble for Washington, given its long history of covert intervention across Latin America. Many in the region still deeply resent the United States for backing previous rebellions, coups and plots in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile, and for turning a blind eye to the abuses military regimes committed during the Cold War.

The White House, which declined to answer detailed questions about the talks, said in a statement that it was important to engage in “dialogue with all Venezuelans who demonstrate a desire for democracy” in order to “bring positive change to a country that has suffered so much under Maduro.”

But one of the Venezuelan military commanders involved in the secret talks was hardly an ideal figure to help restore democracy: He is on the American government’s own sanctions list of corrupt officials in Venezuela.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/americas/donald-trump-venezuela-military-coup.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. ??? Rump trying to get us into another useless and unwarrented war...nt

[watoos]

3. Wasn't this one of his campaign promises?

That he wouldn't get us involved in wars all across the globe.

I am waiting for his Reichstag fire. If polling numbers remain as they are, that there will be a blue wave, I expect a Reichstag fire.

Another is a coordinated event devised by Putin, most likely in Syria, where Trump will be made to look good protecting innocent civilians there.

Trump will do something right before the election and the M$M will be complicit.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. This is very possible...I agree w/ you, in that some type of event(s) will be staged perhaps...

or finally triggered (I'm sure that there are all kinds of hotspots waiting to be kindled). Scary, and treasonous.

Take care

[trusty elf]

2. Regime change is desperately needed

in the US.

[Farmer-Rick]

5. Trump really wants his own Pinochet in South America

The different presidents have been using our tax dollars to fund opposition leaders in Venezuela for years. But it seems Trump wants to escalate the aggression.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Venezuela is socialist...for some folks that is like a red flag for a bull with Pavolian reactions.

For Shitler and his tiny brain that is all he needs to know...and he wants to slap that label, defined by him...on US!

[gordianot]

6. You do realize how easily Trump could misconstrue this message?

It might be fun to start a betting pool to see who goes first.

[Iliyah]

7. Shithole should be worried about

a coup within his fucked up political party.

[nycbos]

8. This is really stupid.

The current regime is do fine screwing things up without our help. All this would do is inflame anti American sentiment.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[elmac]

10. typical for the usa, only this time they cut out the middle man, aka, CIA nt

[dembotoz]

12. So when some foreign leader complains us trying to overthrow them

He might be telling the truth

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. The Banana Republican has a thing for banana republics

Who'd have thought otherwise

[roamer65]

14. The Venezuelan people need to work it out themselves.

If they really want Maduro out, they can do it.

Brazil and Colombia may do it anyway, given the amount of refugees pouring across the borders.

Venezuelans would be more receptive to Brazilian or Colombian troops.

[jpak]

15. Ah - the US-backed Latin American Coup/Death Squads returns

How Reaganesque!

How nostalgic!

[bluestarone]

16. Wouldn't surprise me if

PUTIN told him!!

[Power 2 the People]

17. If we nationalized our oil companies we would never have another war.