'Interim president' Juan Guaido gets appropriate welcome: Motorcade ATTACKED by angry mob

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:37 UTC

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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido

A car escorting Venezuela's self-proclaimed president was ambushed by a group of displeased citizens, a short clip appears to show. Washington has rushed to blame Nicolas Maduro for the attack.

The 10-second video, published by a local television channel, shows a car belonging to Juan Guaido's retinue sitting at a traffic light, when suddenly a man rushes the automobile and attempts to open the driver-side door. The door was locked, but there was more in store for Guaido's convoy: a group of bystanders began to pelt the car with projectiles.

A cloud of smoke - perhaps from some sort of incendiary device - can be seen at the end of the video, as the car speeds away to avoid the mob.

Although the attackers have yet to be identified, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quickly released a statement pinning the blame on President Nicolas Maduro.

With Washington's full backing, Guaido declared himself Venezuela's legitimate president in January. The opposition leader's momentum appears to have fizzled out, however. After weeks of insinuating that Nicolas Maduro's ouster was imminent, Washington now says that there's "no timeline" for regime change in Venezuela.

Comment: Yup. The ordinary Venezuelans really love him.

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Craig Murry sums up the citizenry who favor Guaido:

Vultures of Caracas

We are frequently told that people in Venezuela have no food, clothing or toilet paper, and that popular discontent with the left wing government is driven by real hunger. There are elements of truth in this story, though the causes of economic dislocation are far more complex than the media would have us believe.

But I ask you to look at this photo of supporters of CIA poster-boy, the West's puppet unelected "President" Juan Guaido, taken at a Guaido rally in Caracas two days ago and published yesterday in security services house journal The Guardian. Please take a really close look at the photo. Blow it up as big as you can. Scan individual people in the crowd, one-by-one.

These are not the poor and most certainly not the starving. As it chances I have a great deal of life experience working amongst seriously deprived, hungry and despairing people. I know the gaunt face of want and the desperate glance of need. Look at these Guaido supporters, one-by-one-by-one. This designer spectacled, well-coiffed, elegantly dressed, sleekly jowled group does not know hunger. This group does not know want. This is a proper right wing gathering, a gathering of the nicely off section of society. This is a group of those who have corruptly been siphoning Venezuela's great wealth for decades and who want to make sure the gravy train flows properly in their direction again. It is, in short, a group of exactly the kind of people you would expect to support a CIA coup.