A few months ago I wrote this piece for TruthDig about what was happening in Nicaragua and while that failed the same people are up to their old tricks in Venezuela this time so I thought I'd put this back out there. 

Read the full article here: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-to-create-a-u-s-backed-government-coup-for-fun-and-profit/

Or check out this teaser below:
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"Nicaragua just defeated a U.S.-backed violent coup attempt, and no one cares.

Well, let me revise that: Very few care. English teachers may care because they may find it fascinating the phrase “violent coup” is one of the only English phrases often introduced with the prefix “U.S.-backed.”

But I can tell you for certain the mainstream media don’t want you to care. They don’t even want you to know it happened. And they certainly don’t want you to know that it followed a simple formula for U.S.-backed coups in leftist and anti-imperialist nations throughout Latin America, a formula our military intelligence apparatus has implemented in numerous countries tirelessly, like an overused football play."

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Read the full article here: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-to-create-a-u-s-backed-government-coup-for-fun-and-profit/