Escobar adds his own knowledgeable insights to the meaning of the latest Empire's effort to appoint a new regime in Venezuela. Having obviously failed in Syria, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is licking its wounds and determined that this won't happen in their own backyard.
... now it’s firmly established what happened [recently] in Caracas was not a color revolution but an old-school US-promoted regime change coup using local comprador elites, installing as “interim president” an unknown quantity, Juan Guaido, with his Obama choirboy looks masking extreme right-wing credentials. [my insertion]
Everyone remembers “Assad must go”. The first stage in the Syrian color revolution was the instigation of civil war, followed by a war by proxy via multinational jihadi mercenaries. As Thierry Meyssan has noted, the role of the Arab League then is performed by the OAS now. And the role of Friends of Syria – now lying in the dustbin of history – is now performed by the Lima group, the club of Washington’s vassals. Instead of al-Nusra “moderate rebels”, we may have Colombian – or assorted Emirati-trained – “moderate rebel” mercenaries.