Venezuelan Crisis: The Long History Of U.S. Intervention | AJ+

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Published on Feb 12, 2019
Trump held secret meetings in 2017 with Venezuelan military officers to discuss plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to a 2018 NYT report. But it’s not the first time the U.S. government has meddled in Venezuelan politics.

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Francisco Lopez
Francisco Lopez
6 days ago
Never support the candidate that is backed by America. It only benefits America.

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ska punk OI! alternative living
ska punk OI! alternative living
6 days ago
When it comes to meddling in world affairs America is the biggest nosey Parker in the world even though they hate when Russia was interfering with America's elections America's went crazy but it's okay for America to do the same for other countries isn't it you see the hypocrisy of America....

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gladson George
gladson George
5 days ago
Do not forget about chile, Argentina and Iran. Where USA overthrew democratic governments.

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The Irritated Akata
The Irritated Akata
5 days ago
Ever wonder why South American countries are “shitholes”? It’s because of American intervention. Knowing how greedy the imperialists who are corrupting our government are, Venezuela will be “liberated” by the US & then stripped of its resources.

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ben h
ben h
5 days ago
Here is a list, that apparently now should have Venezuela added to it, American intervention since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
China 1949 to present Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 * Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Soviet Union 1991 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 * Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 * Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 *

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Thrustin Von Helmut
Thrustin Von Helmut
5 days ago
Venezuela has oil = USA gonna F them up HARD

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ART DECO
ART DECO
5 days ago
NOTHING NEW HERE ,SINCE THE /50's /ALL WILL BE VICTIMS OF US.CRIMINALITY ,COUPS/REGIME CHANGE /SANCTIONS/FOR US.EXPLOSION OF LATIN AMERICA !

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TomuBaka
TomuBaka
5 days ago
Welcome to America, the land of the white, capitalism, racism and violence towards everybody else...

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Lena Maniork
Lena Maniork
5 days ago
US Marine Corps major general, Smedley Butler: Ispent 33 years in active military service and most of my time, I was a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to
collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903.

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Jose A. Mielgo S.
Jose A. Mielgo S.
5 days ago
"I agree that there needs to be change in Venezuela. But Venezuelans have to decide that...". We decided for change years ago, but it is naive to think that we could kindly ask an armed dictatorship to leave power.

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TBone
TBone
5 days ago (edited)
Leave Venezuela alone for the Venezuelans to decide.  They had elections.  Let them be and remove boycotts, sanctions and give them back their money and gold. Who has a right to dicate whom they want to run a country?  America is sick and any other country in South America that agrees with America on this issue is also sick and a stooge and puppet regime.

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zasddsaf
zasddsaf
6 days ago
YANKEE GO HOME

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Kirk Bullard
Kirk Bullard
5 days ago
Honest question. If a country is democratic or communist or anything else and you put sanctions on them that cause the people to starve and suffer isn’t that just using the suffering of the people so that they can turn against the government and force a change?  Isn’t it just forcing the people to be pawns and this make it look like the system of government is not working?

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je suis Informaticien
je suis Informaticien
4 days ago
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel.

Question: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
Answer: Israel.

Question: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
Answer: Israel.

Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
Answer: Israel.

Question: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
Answer: Israel.

Question: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
Answer: Israel.

Question: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
Answer: Israel.

Question: What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody?
Answer: Israel

Question: What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.
Answer: Israel

Question: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
Answer: Israel.

Question: Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
Answer: Israel.

Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S.?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely insults the American people by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign aid?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We control America?"
Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing.
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes?
Answer: Israel

James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington, DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.?

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Muztapha Abdi
Muztapha Abdi
5 days ago
Support venezualan from somaliland 😍

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Pauly
Pauly
6 days ago
I, as an working-class American don't think the United States should be playing empire in Latin America (like most Americans), but this channel ignored the bad things Hugo Chavez did. Chavez had no problem locking up journalists that did not report actions by printing anything short of flattery. His support of Cuba also ignored the fact that the country is a police state where human rights are virtually non-existent.

I don't like the idea of neoconservatives running foreign policy (because mainly they did SO WELL in Iraq), but the Venezuelan people should be allowed to choose their future, not the Trump administration. But, this channel should report the truth about Chavez, like how they avoid reporting the truth about modern-day slavery in the Arab world.

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Guillermo Brand
Guillermo Brand
4 days ago
Solo un imbecil puede creerse el cuento de que lo que hoy vive VEnezuela es producto  del "imperialismo".
El modelo político social implementado en Venezuela es un fraude. El Marxismo murio de muerte natural. Manda hará que vuelva a vivir.

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xLethalRaptoRx
xLethalRaptoRx
6 days ago
Closest neighbor to Columbia. Columbia being North Americas largest drug trafficking front. Of course America and its allies want to get involved.

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Tywin Alexander Cesare Danaë de Borgía
Tywin Alexander Cesare Danaë de Borgía
6 days ago
Well....Venezuela didn't really have a "democratic process", Maduro deposed members in the national assembly who oppose him, he amended the constitution and it was pretty obvious that he triggered the election, also his government mismanaged the economy, now they have a crisis with inflation rising to I think, a 1000000000%.

I do despise US intervention (don't think I am not) into other countries when they have no reason to unless they're dictators but regime change could cause problems as well (because they also supplant dictators with dictators).

21st century socialism😒...I kinda just kinda support Morales because of what he's done for the indigenous in Bolivia and I look forward to AMLO's term as Presidente de Mexico.
¡Venezuela for Venezuelans!

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Proud Son Of Algeria
Proud Son Of Algeria
6 days ago
I'm not supporting the evil socialists, but whatever the American touches, it turns into ashes...