Venezuela Coup

Whats the quick rundown of the Venezuelan coup?

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Never challenge the petro dollar

Failed

couple asshole got ran over by armored truck. Forget calling it a coup. this was a circus parade

Neocon kike puppets BTFO

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Thank Henry Kissinger. A Jew.

Niggers doing nigger things

Who backed who? Who were the socialist?

Retarded commies seized refineries owned by shell or something and foriegn investment / foriegn trade was cut off.

They can rot for all I care. This is what happens when your a commie, you starve.

Guiado and trump admin got HONKED hard

The Venezuela people are defeated, the military took the streets back easily.

nah this is exactly like the natives and keystone XL except shell and exxon are the natives this time.

Maduro tried to pay them billions in compensation for the infrastructure in Venezuela over the years and corporate lawyers were bitches about it and dragging it on so the Venezuelan congress called eminent domain.

Jews

never happened. you must be in the wrong timeline. check cnn

Jesus tried telling us bout them but got himself killed actually...

Same as the events forom 2016 Turkey: Couple hundred civillians and military officers get baited out onto the street thinking that it's revolushuhn time only to get stomped by the ruler's supporters and thugs.

Koch bros are mad because they have massive refineries in Texas that are set up for and can only process the shitty crude that Venezuela exports that everyone pretends they don't want.

gregpalast.com/avoiding-regime-change-in-venezuela/

Also the reports that the US is a net exporter and doesn't need oil at all are false. They are "projections" to reach by 2020 based on bullshit to sell Exxon stock.

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PDVSA/Citgo(Venezuela) is worth hundreds of billions and is a major player in international oil trade, Russia has a 49% stake in Citgo, Canada is sueing for ownership of Citgo, Maduro just certified the largest gold mine in the world in Venezuela, a UK bank has 40 Billion in Venezuelan gold just like they did to Libya, Iran is fucking with Saudi/Isreali pipeline plans, Syria is lost Russia is getting their pipeline, China and Russia both have nukes in Venezuela. Guaido is working with Leopoldo Lopez and Machado who ran the coup in 2002 and whos family owned the refineries pre 1990. Its being funded by the same orgs that did Haiti, Syria, Sudan, Ukraine.

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We want everybody to know, we’re looking at all this seriously. We don’t want any American businesses or investors caught by surprise. They can see what President Trump did yesterday. We’re following through on it.”

>TRISH REGAN: “So if you think of a company like Citgo, which is owned by PDVSA, which is the state-run oil company there in Venezuela, we have a lot of those Citgo assets right here in the US. Is that something, for example sir, that you are looking at?”

>JOHN BOLTON: “Yeah look, we’re in conversation with major American companies now that are either in Venezuela, or in the case of Citgo here in the United States. I think we’re trying to get to the same end result here.

>Venezuela is one of the three countries I called the ‘Troika of Tyranny.’

It would be good for Venezuela; it would be good for the people of the United States. We both have a lot at stake here making this come out the right way.”

reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-opposition-plans-to-get-oil-money-from-u-s-fund-idUSKCN1PV2K4

>CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s opposition on Wednesday said it would use a U.S.-based fund to receive some of the country’s oil income in a key step to bankroll its efforts to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro.

>The fund would receive income accrued by state-run oil firm PDVSA’s U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum Corp since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate head of state, opposition legislator Carlos Paparoni told Reuters.

Surprised fox's audience didn't eat this shit up.

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Promises that never came true, typical amerimutt shit

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry#1908–1940
>Juan Vicente Gómez replaced his ailing predecessor, Cipriano Castro, as the president of Venezuela. Over the next few years, Gómez granted several concessions to explore, produce, and refine oil. Most of these oil concessions were granted to his closest friends, and they in turn passed them on to foreign oil companies that could actually develop them.[8] One such concession was granted to Rafael Max Valladares who hired Caribbean Petroleum Company (later acquired by Royal Dutch Shell)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDVSA#1970s:_nationalization

>This was the birth of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). All foreign oil companies that once did business in Venezuela were replaced by Venezuelan companies, such as Lagoven (Standard Oil), Maraven (Shell), and Llavonen (Mobil)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry#1999–present

>Since then, PDVSA has not demonstrated any capability to bring new oil fields onstream since nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Total.

oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Oil-Tycoon-Pushes-For-Venezuela-Sanctions.html

>The possibility of Venezuelan oil import restrictions has divided White House advisors, and now is pitting Harold Hamm, chairman and CEO of Continental Resources and energy advisor during President Trump’s campaign, against U.S. refiners that import Venezuelan crude to process at their refineries

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo#Venezuelan_ownership

>In October 2010, then President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, announced the intention to have PDVSA sell its Citgo subsidiary calling it a "bad business" and citing low profits since 2006.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo#Controversies

>Texaco sold some Citgo gas stations in the southeast when Chevron gained exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U.S. in June 2006. On September 27, 2006, the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores announced its 20-year contract with Citgo was coming to an end and would not be renewed.


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>Trenaco, headquartered in Switzerland but largely run out of Colombia, had edged out the world’s top service companies — Halliburton, Schlumberger and Weatherford — after a series of meetings with top-level PDVSA executives in the six months before the contract was tendered.

>In an unprecedented rebellion, however, foreign oil firms - which would have had to work with Trenaco as PDVSA’s joint venture partners - protested that the company was vastly underqualified and undercapitalized, according to complaint letters sent to PDVSA last year, copies of which were seen by Reuters. Executives at companies that sent the letters showed them to Reuters on the condition that they not be identified as sources.

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>Citgo Petroleum, a US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, is named in papers filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Exclusive: U.S. investors seek to acquire Russia's Rosneft lien in Citgo

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Exclusive: U.S. investors seek to acquire Russia's Rosneft lien in Citgo

reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-citgo-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-investors-seek-to-acquire-russias-rosneft-lien-in-citgo-idUSKCN1GA2J4

>FEBRUARY 26, 2018 A group of U.S. investors is seeking Washington’s approval to acquire the nearly 50 percent collateral in U.S. refiner Citgo held by Russia’s largest state-owned energy firm Rosneft, one of the investors said. The move would prevent Moscow from seizing a large part of the U.S. refiner in the event of a full-blown default by its current owner, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Texas-based Citgo operates a 749,000 barrel per day refining network in the United States.

>Venezuela handed Rosneft ROSN.MM the 49.9 percent collateral in Citgo PDVSAC.UL in return for a $1.5 billion loan two years ago. The remaining 50.1 percent of shares in Citgo is collateral to holders of PDVSA’s 2020 bond.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo#Possible_sale_to_Russia

>In a 2016 deal, Venezuela offered Russia 49.9% of Citgo as collateral for a $1.5 billion loan. Due to the poor state of Venezuela's economy, which includes a high risk of default, it is possible the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela may give Citgo to Rosneft, Russia's government-run oil company. Both Republicans and Democrats in the United States urged oversight on this deal, describing Citgo's sale to Russia as a risk to the national security of the United States.[27]

>Guaidó and some of his closest associates were part of a rightwing youth group, “Generation 2007,” that sought to overthrow the Chavez government. The group included Leopoldo López, a Princeton-education man who came from one of Venezuela’s richest families and was descended from his country’s first president,

>who long worked with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and was elected mayor of a district in Caracas.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Corina_Machado

>María Corina Machado Parisca (born 7 October 1967,[1] sometimes referred to as MCM) is a Venezuelan politician who served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011–2014. She was a candidate for President of Venezuela in the 2012 elections, and has indicated she would run again in 2019 if interim President Juan Guaidó were to call for elections.[2]

>During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Machado was one of the lead figures in organizing protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro.[3] Machado was the founder and former leader[4] of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate, alongside Alejandro Plaz.[5][6]

>She was charged (together with other Súmate representatives) with conspiracy for funds Súmate received from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), triggering condemnation of the administration of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from human rights groups supported by NED.

>Machado was born 7 October 1967[1] as the oldest of her three other sisters, the daughter of Enrique Machado, a steel businessman and Corina Parisca, a psychologist.[7][5] She acknowledges a "childhood protected from contact with reality" in a "conservative, staunchly Catholic family", that included education in a private school in Venezuela named Merici Academy and boarding schools in the USA and several trips in Europe.[8] Her ancestors included the author of the 1881 classic Venezuela Heroica and a relative who was killed in an uprising against Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez.[8]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayana_Esequiba#Recent_disputes

>Despite diplomatic protests from Venezuela, the government of Guyana awarded the American oil corporation Exxon a license to drill for oil in the disputed maritime area in early 2015.[27] In May the government of Guyana announced that Exxon had indeed found promising results in their first round of drilling on the so-called Stabroek Block, an area offshore the Guayana Esequiba territory with a size of 26,800 km2 (10,300 sq mi). The company announced that further drillings would take place in the coming months to better evaluate the potential of the oil field.[28] Venezuela responded to the declaration with a decree issued on 27 May 2015, including the maritime area in dispute in its national marine protection sphere, thus extending the area that the Venezuelan Navy controls into the disputed area.on.

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Venezuela calls U.S. comments on Guyana dispute 'interventionist'

reuters.com/article/us-guyana-venezuela-oil/venezuela-calls-u-s-comments-on-guyana-dispute-interventionist-idUSKCN1OO0NM

Exxon Mobil announces more offshore Guyana discoveries

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Exxon announces largest oil find to date in Stabroek block

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s claimed as Exclusive Economic Zones by both Venezuela and Guyana.[3]

>Guyana awarded the American oil corporation Exxon a license to drill for oil in the disputed maritime area

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait#Alleged_economic_warfare_and_slant_drilling

>According to former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, "every US$1 drop in the price of a barrel of oil caused a US$1 billion drop in Iraq's annual revenues triggering an acute financial crisis in Baghdad".[20] It was estimated that between 1985 and 1989, Iraq lost US$14 billion a year due to Kuwait's oil price strategy.[24] Kuwait's refusal to decrease its oil production was viewed by Iraq as an act of aggression against it.

>The increasingly tense relations between Iraq and Kuwait were further aggravated when Iraq alleged that Kuwait was slant-drilling across the international border into Iraq's Rumaila field.

We don’t have any business there. These people wanted socialism. Let them have it.

Watching Venezuelans eat zoo animals while CNN screams “not real socialism” has been hilarious.

And for you conspiracy morons, this isn’t a US coup. They were already selling us all the oil we wanted. This is an honest to goodness revolt. Hungry bellies get people out into the streets. Unfortunately, Maduro was smart enough to tap the Russians and the Chinese (who do need the oil). In doing so tho, he may turn a simple revolt into another Syria style proxy war.

truth, actually.

2009-02-08
Venezuela arrests 11, including 7 cops, over synagogue attack
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2009-02-08
In strange twist, Venezuela arrests '7 police agents' and rabbi's bodyguard in connection with Caracas synagogue attack
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2009-01-15
Venezuela severs ties with Israel over Gaza
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2012-05-18
The Mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma,secretly visits Tel Aviv, May 18, 2012 to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman. He represented the head of the Venezuelan opposition, Henrique Capriles Radonski.

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2013-01-31
Venezuela spying on its Jews, documents reveal
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2013-03-05
Hugo Chavez Dies

2013-05-13
Venezuela’s ‘anti-Semitic’ leader admits Jewish ancestry
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2013-09-11
The Syria-Venezuela Connection
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2014-07-21
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro condemns Israel's attacks in Gaza
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2014-08-15
Venezuela’s Government-Sponsored Anti-Semitism
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2015-02-11
Venezuelan Military Intelligence discovered "Operation Jericho". On the night of February 11, the main leaders of the plot and a Mossad agent were arrested and aviation security was enhanced. Others were rounded up on the 12th. On the 20th, confessions obtained permitted the arrest of an accomplice, the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma.

2015-02-24
Obama failed his coup in Venezuela
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2014-12-18
Obama signs U.S. sanctions law on Venezuela officials
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2015-03-09
Obama declares Venezuela ‘extraordinary threat’ to U.S. national security
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2016-01-12
Why Saudi Arabia Won't Cut Its Oil Production
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2016-01-15
Obama Extends Executive Order Targeting Venezuela for Second Time
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2017-11-17
On November 17, 2017, Antonio Ledezma slipped past guards and fled into Colombia.


2018-06-26
Saudi Arabia Is Planning Record Crude Oil Production in July
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The Coup in Venezuela, Explained
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Venezuela Crisis: U.S. Has Painted Itself Into Corner
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An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela: Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup
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Massive Protest in Support of the Bolivarian Revolution Largely Ignored
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In Caracas, Ordinary Venezuelans Speak to The Real News About Venezuela's Crisis
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Investigating Venezuela's 'humanitarian crisis': Max Blumenthal tours a supermarket in Caracas
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Max Blumenthal: How US trained Juan Guaido for Regime Change
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2019-02-17
Venezuela’s President Maduro: Rival ‘serves the interests of US and Zionists’
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2019-02-15
Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido is working to renew Israel ties
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TLDR; Oil grab/population replacement.

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There going for the whole yellow vest tactic endless protest until maduro runs out of crowd gas and enough cops are sick of being pelted with rocks
This just started and the media can say "failed coup" or "failed uprising" for a few days but after a few weeks the tune will be different and once enough footage of maduro frenly troops kicking the shit out of protestors is spread out the crowds will only grow larger and more violent

Did Guaido hang publicly?

They elected Trump to stop and prevent wars. Hillary was the warhawk neocon candidate. Democrats want a war with Russia.

this coup is gay and sucks. nothing is happening on the live stream. just some fags standing around being gay.

Venz just larping around, sadly II want to see some action

Venezuela has a 2 million trained forces and 2 million active militia literally 10 times Syria and 4 times Vietnam and they have Russia and China with nukes.

shit board wont let me link correctly or post format fuck this shit earth

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company#Consortium

>The founding members of IOP included British Petroleum (40%), Gulf Oil (8%), Royal Dutch Shell (14%), and Compagnie Française des Pétroles (later Total S.A., 6%). The four Aramco partners—Standard Oil of California (SoCal, later Chevron), Standard Oil of New Jersey (later Exxon), Standard Oil Co. of New York (later Mobil, then ExxonMobil), and Texaco—each held an 8% stake in the holding company.[37][39]

>This group of companies at various stages came to be known as the Supermajors or the "Seven Sisters" or the "Consortium for Iran" cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.[40][41]

>Until the oil crisis of 1973 the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85% of the world's known oil reserves.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_Petroleum_Corporation

>The Creole Petroleum Corporation was an American oil company, formed in 1920 to produce fields on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.[1] The company was acquired by Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1928.

>Until 1951 Creole Petroleum was the world's number one oil producer.[2]

>In 1950, Creole opened its refinery at Amuay.[3] This is now a part of the Paraguaná Refinery Complex

>considered the world's third largest refinery complex, just after Jamnagar Refinery (India) and Ulsan Refinery (South Korea).

>The Venezuelan assets of Creole Petroleum Corporation were nationalized along with those of other foreign oil firms on January 1, 1976, becoming as Lagoven filial

>part of PDVSA, a Venezuelan government-owned operating company.[4]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil#1911_to_1950

>Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company

>The world's second largest company by revenue, ExxonMobil from 1996 to 2017 varied from the first to sixth largest publicly traded company by market capitalization.

>Both Exxon and Mobil were descendants of Standard Oil, established by John D. Rockefeller and partners in 1870 as the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. In 1882, it together with its affiliated companies was incorporated as the Standard Oil Trust with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Standard Oil Company of New York as its largest companies.[17] The Anglo-American Oil Company was established in the United Kingdom in 1888.

> In 1920, it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.[24] In the following years it acquired or established Tropical Oil Company of Colombia (1920),

>Standard Oil Company of Venezuela (1921), and Creole Petroleum Company of Venezuela (1928).[19]

>In 1947, Jersey Standard and Royal Dutch Shell formed the joint venture Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV for oil and gas exploration and production in the Netherlands.[38] In 1948, Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum acquired interests in the Arab-American Oil Company (Aramco).

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CIA Niggers glow in the dark

whats more important is whats ACTUALLY happening in venezuala.

something seems to be slightly off. The media keeps repeating the phrase "our hemisphere" as if we are in a proxy war with russia (again).

Whos in the right when it comes to overthrowing the government? Why Now of all times?!

controlled media always acts like the sky is falling when the neocon kikes are gambling on disaster
saying maduro is committing genocide against poor little babies and such. it's there thing but, i kinda doubt we can get lima group elements to invade which would be necessary. any bombing of vz will see china and russians finally solidly acting against us.
maybe the world power brokers want some havoc in the western hemisphere in order to destabalise us like they did with arabia. it makes the factions weaker and more malleable.