Well, if you follow journalists at telesur, which is the state-run media for all the socialist-aligned South and Latin American countries (so grain of salt, but I've found their reporting to be more accurate on average than any Western sources), basically the opposition decided to sit the election out in protest (because they haven't been winning), which lead them to lose even more.
From what I can tell, reading between the lines, the leader of this opposition Guiado then started to try to coordinate with people in the military to organize a coup. However, both the military and government forsaw this, and so basically gave him a dummy legion. Either that or they reached out first to goad him into it, either way very funny.
From there that section of protesting conservatives declared him president, and he attempted to storm the capital, but didnt make it very far when the entire battalion that had 'defected' basically just stopped in the middle of the highway rather than continuing on. There were some shots fired by army that wasn't in the know, but overall the entire thing was pretty pathetic. Guiado then proceeded to just wander around Venezuela, as they didn't even bother to arrest him, eventually traveling to the U.S. where they gave him (illegally) control of Venezuela's gold and foreign currency reserves, which is where he is now, even though because of that even the opposition conservatives have distanced themselves from him.
Right, like it seemed planned out extremely terribly compared to past coups in LATAM, but I don’t want to outright come out and say that because I haven’t actually done any reading on it
While I think the U.S. government gave the go-ahead on it (as they immediately declared support for Guiado), I generally believe that their end of the bargain, which was shipping weapons in, was stymied by Venezuela refusing aid. There are a lot of guns already in Venezuela, it is a heavily armed country, but my guess is that they were trying to get the more explosive ordinance in.
It's one of those things that doesn't work because Venezuela has already seen most of the tricks in your book, so they aren't fooled anymore.
Well, if you follow journalists at telesur, which is the state-run media for all the socialist-aligned South and Latin American countries (so grain of salt, but I've found their reporting to be more accurate on average than any Western sources), basically the opposition decided to sit the election out in protest (because they haven't been winning), which lead them to lose even more.
From what I can tell, reading between the lines, the leader of this opposition Guiado then started to try to coordinate with people in the military to organize a coup. However, both the military and government forsaw this, and so basically gave him a dummy legion. Either that or they reached out first to goad him into it, either way very funny.
From there that section of protesting conservatives declared him president, and he attempted to storm the capital, but didnt make it very far when the entire battalion that had 'defected' basically just stopped in the middle of the highway rather than continuing on. There were some shots fired by army that wasn't in the know, but overall the entire thing was pretty pathetic. Guiado then proceeded to just wander around Venezuela, as they didn't even bother to arrest him, eventually traveling to the U.S. where they gave him (illegally) control of Venezuela's gold and foreign currency reserves, which is where he is now, even though because of that even the opposition conservatives have distanced themselves from him.
Right, like it seemed planned out extremely terribly compared to past coups in LATAM, but I don’t want to outright come out and say that because I haven’t actually done any reading on it
While I think the U.S. government gave the go-ahead on it (as they immediately declared support for Guiado), I generally believe that their end of the bargain, which was shipping weapons in, was stymied by Venezuela refusing aid. There are a lot of guns already in Venezuela, it is a heavily armed country, but my guess is that they were trying to get the more explosive ordinance in.
It's one of those things that doesn't work because Venezuela has already seen most of the tricks in your book, so they aren't fooled anymore.