China (and Russia) holds $50 Billion in Venezuel's debt. Hmmm. Who else I wonder.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-china/china-calls-for-peaceful-talks-to-resolve-venezuela-issue-idUSKCN1PY01B
the U.S. Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — are used as unconventional, financial “weapons in times of conflict up to and including large-scale general war,” as well as in leveraging “the policies and cooperation of state governments.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708/
[Anon's note: Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins is a good read and the topic reflects CIA interventions more so than military or even US Govt Policy, necessarily, IMO]
Given the close relationship between the U.S. government and these international financial institutions, it should come as little surprise that – in Venezuela – the U.S.-backed “interim president” Juan Guaidó – has already requested IMF funds, and thus IMF-controlled debt, to fund his parallel government.
This is highly significant because it shows that top among Guaidó’s objectives, in addition to privatizing Venezuela’s massive oil reserves, is to again shackle the country to the U.S.-controlled debt machine.
Venezuela’s previous elected socialist president, Hugo Chávez, broke ties with the IMF and World Bank, which he noted were “dominated by US imperialism.” Instead Venezuela and other left-wing governments in Latin America worked together to co-found the Bank of the South, as a counterbalance to the IMF and World Bank.”
Anon's Opinions follows:
The IMF, World Bank, BIS are more instrument of the Rothschilds/Globalist banking cartel than strictly the US government.
The current struggle in Venezuela appears to be, at least in part, an attempt by the Globalist banks to regain financial control of the country's debt, which Chavez fought to free the country from.
This is likely a struggle that involves competing interests of
China and Russia who both are debts and have separate strategic interests in the country, not to mention US interests.
Guaido's actions, with moderate approval from the Economist magazine, would seem to indicate that he is the Globalist's man.
Most others probably consider him a [placeholder]