Call U.S. Move on Venezuela What It Is: Regime Change
The legal justification used by the State Department to recognize the opposition leader doesn’t hold water.
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Today is the Live Aid for Venezuela
Luis Howard
Elijah Edwards
LIVE: Maduro to give press conference at presidential palace
Logan Price
here's Trump explaining how regime change should be used to steal natural resources (Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world) twitter.com
Jackson Richardson
LIVE: Juan Guaido to give press conference in Caracas
Sebastian Hughes
In a fascinating interview with the @Guardian five years ago, #Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro explained US plans to systematically impoverish and destabilize his country. theguardian.com
Ryder Hernandez
Large amounts of GNB riot police are present in San Antonio del Táchira this morning twitter.com
At about 1am local time last night, locals in Santa Elena de Uairén. Attached a GNB guard station trailer to a truck and dragged it away. The locals then moved the trailer to the middle of a bridge and set fire to it. They used this to block the GNB patrols overnight twitter.com
Dominic Jenkins
This video filmed overnight in Valencia, Venezuela. Shows Venezuelan Army military exercises from Fort Paramacay in Naguanagua. The Gunfire appears to be tracer rounds from a Zu-23 Anti Aircraft gun . The rounds are ricochetting of a nearby hill into the air twitter.com
Michael Carter
What I noticed from watching a bit of #VenezuelaAidLive was that the people were genuinely excited by the music & Nacho & Chyno reunion, but the crowd's response to Nacho's comments about "President" Guaido was tepid at best twitter.com
Logan Reed
How the US government pushed fake news on Venezuelan "humanitarian aid" and the media was only too happy to play along.
Both the Red Cross and UN warned the US not to engage in this aid PR stunt.
The bridge in question is a visual metaphor contrived by the Trump administration of little practical relevance.
The person in charge of US operations in Venezuela has a history of using aid as a cover to deliver weapons to right-wing mercenaries.
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Sebastian Miller
Civilians have removed the barriers on Simón Bolivar bridge and are advancing from the Colombian side of the bridge to try and enter Venezuela and clear the road twitter.com
First riots and clashes in #Ureñatwitter.com