The Venezuela Uprising Has Gone from Bang to Whimper

[TomSea]

The Venezuela Uprising Has Gone from Bang to Whimper

Self-declared President Guaidó's effort to drive Nicolás Maduro from the presidential palace has faltered badly. It may yet regain momentum, but it's not clear how.
Annika Hernroth
05.03.19 10:23 PM ET

CARACAS, Venezuela—I hurried here to witness a coup, threw myself at what I assumed would be the end and beginning of everything, only to find it’s the same old chaos that welcomes me.

Some four days ago, Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López stood outside a Caracas military base, flanked by soldiers who had apparently switched sides, and declared that the last phase of “Operation Freedom” was under way. Guaidó was, as always, eloquent and impeccably dressed, and López was the image of redemption, smiling and fearless despite his years of hardship. The moment had everything one could have wanted—from the smiling faces of the previously so-feared military to the literal rise of a new dawn.

But then there was nothing, yet again.

Read more at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-venezuela-uprising-against-nicolas-maduro-has-gone-from-bang-to-whimper

She writes another article a few days later, perhaps not as negative in tone as this:  https://www.thedailybeast.com/venezuela-coup-was-a-russian-plot-behind-the-failed-uprising

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,361405.new.html#new

[Fishrrman]

As I wrote several days' back:
If you're going to strike at the king, you had better kill him.

They didn't.

[Cyber Liberty]

As I wrote several days' back:
If you're going to strike at the king, you had better kill him.

They didn't.

Besides, the wannabe King is as bad as the old one.