US Has ‘Overplayed Their Hand’ in Venezuela, Can’t Pull Off a Color Revolution

With international forces in support of self-proclaimed Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaido delivering ultimatums to the Venezuelan government and making plans to force the situation toward either coup d’etat or civil war, one question being debated is whether they really can force regime change.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has mulled the question of calling snap parliamentary elections, but rejected calls from the European Union and other countries to hold presidential elections. Meanwhile, the US-aligned Lima Group is planning its next steps in Venezuela at a conference in Ottawa, Canada, including positioning its members as suppliers of humanitarian aid to alleviate the damage done to the Venezuelan economy by their own economic sanctions.

adio Sputnik's Fault Lines spoke with Pearse Redmond, an activist, radio host and podcaster at Porkins Policy Review, about the situation on the streets in Venezuela and whether or not Guaido, endorsed by foreign governments, actually has the pull within the country itself to take and retain power from Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela.

"The media coverage is so skewed here — we don't see the large-scale protests in Caracas or Merida or any of the other large cities, and even small towns as well, in Venezuela," Redmond said. "We're not seeing that, of course. We're seeing a lot of recycled images as well, on Western media, of old protests that they're linking to the so-called Interim President Juan Guaido."

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