{"id":27426,"date":"2019-05-01T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T01:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27426"},"modified":"2019-05-01T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T01:38:46","slug":"as-venezuela-coup-attempt-fails-to-overthrow-maduro-guaido-calls-for-more-street-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/05\/01\/as-venezuela-coup-attempt-fails-to-overthrow-maduro-guaido-calls-for-more-street-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"As Venezuela Coup Attempt Fails to Overthrow Maduro, Guaid\u00f3 Calls for More Street Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Democracy Now <\/em>has the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2019\/5\/1\/as_venezuela_coup_attempt_fails_to\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">As Venezuela Coup Attempt Fails to Overthrow Maduro, Guaid\u00f3 Calls for More Street Protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nVenezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is claiming to have defeated a coup attempt launched by opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. On Tuesday morning, Guaid\u00f3 appeared in an online video standing among heavily armed soldiers, calling for the military to back what he called the \u201cfinal phase\u201d of an effort to topple Maduro\u2019s government. Guiad\u00f3 appeared alongside Leopoldo L\u00f3pez, a longtime opposition leader, who was reportedly released from house arrest by renegade officers. Guaid\u00f3 has been attempting to topple the Venezuelan government since January, when he declared himself to be Venezuela\u2019s interim president. The Trump administration, as well as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and others, openly supported the coup attempt. Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox Business that military action in Venezuela is possible, \u201cif that\u2019s what is required.\u201d We speak to Miguel Tinker Salas, Venezuelan historian and professor at Pomona College.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some important details here that you will never know about if you only listen to the USA oligarchs&#8217; news media, and our own politicians.  So far Tilsi Gabbard and Ilhan Omar are the only ones with the courage to speak out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2019\/5\/1\/as_venezuela_coup_attempt_fails_to\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now has the episode As Venezuela Coup Attempt Fails to Overthrow Maduro, Guaid\u00f3 Calls for More Street Protests. Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is claiming to have defeated a coup attempt launched by opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. On Tuesday morning, Guaid\u00f3 appeared in an online video standing among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27427,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27426\/revisions\/27427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}