The Coup Americans Don’t Know About, and Washington’s Plan to Destroy Venezuela’s Democracy

By Dave Lindorff

In an interview Wednesday on the Progressive Radio Network's weekly live radio program "This Can't Be Happening!”, TCBH! colleagues Dave Lindorff and Alfredo Lopez discuss the recent coup broken up by Venezuelan police, talk about President Obama's outlandish and absurd claim that Venezuela, one of the leading suppliers or oil to the US, poses a "unique and extraordinary threat" to US national security, and also consider Alfredo's contention that the telecom industry has begun a counterattack on the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision in favor of net neutrality.

Lopez notes that the Bolivarian socialist experiment launched by the late President Chavez has been essentially working in a constant state of "impending coup," a US funds and advice have poured into the country from outfits like USAID and the Congressionally funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- subversive organizations that have funded violent protests and riots aimed at destabilizing the existing government, as was successfully done in Ukraine last year...

For the rest of this article by DAVE LINDORFF in ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent, uncompromised, five-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative newspaper, and to hear a podcast of the interview on Progressive Radio Network’s “This Can’t Be Happening” news show, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/2688