First of all, it definitely is an attempted coup, and Juan Guaido has no basis in the Venezuelan Constitution to be that country’s ‘interim President,’ because Venezuela’s elected President has not been removed from office in accord with anything in that Constitution, and so Guaido’s assertions to be ’the acting President’ of the country are bold lies (https://theduran.com/what-the-venezuelan-constitution-says-about-changing-the-president/), which are traitorous to that Constitution, and to Venezuela, and to democracy of any sort. On 9 March 2015 (https://www.globalresearch.ca/president-obama-declares-venezuela-a-threat-to-national-security-seeks-regime-change/5435615), U.S. President Barack Obama declared Venezuela a ‘national security threat’ to the United States, and he went openly for a coup there. That’s international aggression by the United States Government – Venezuela’s Government was not (and is not), at all, aggressing against the U.S. – this was one of Obama’s more blatant lies. But no successful coup happened. Trump is now making a much more serious attempt at it, also on the basis of lies. As on every other aspect of Obama’s neoconservatism, Trump continues and escalates Obama’s neoconservative policies. Under Trump, the Cold War is now official policy (https://publicintelligence.net/usarmy-multidomain-ops-2028/) without there being any USSR and its communism and its Warsaw Pact military alliance countering America’s NATO alliance; and, in his and … Meer lezen over Eric Zuesse – Why are the libertarian Ron Paul and the socialist Nicolás Maduro both opposed to the U.S. coup-attempt? Who was Cecil Rhodes?