Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin. Welcome. This is Robbie Martin.

It's a rare delight that we're both in the same room, Robbie, doing this radio show.

I've been up in the Bay Area for a couple days doing an event at Sonoma State with Project Censored.

It was really fun thanks to everyone who came out.

And we just wanted to give a quick update, Robbie,

on the Venezuela coup, just because things are happening at such a rapid pace. Yeah. I mean,

it seems like over the weekend, there was an attempt by the U.S. government and the Trump

administration to essentially do what happened during the Euro

May Don protests in Ukraine.

I mean, it was the circumstances were a lot different and involved a phony staged

humanitarian aid convoy stunt.

But, you know, very similar things we saw happen where, you know, we'll get into it, but

Molotov cocktails being used, things being set on fire and immediately being blamed on

Maduro and the Venezuelan government when actually the evidence suggests that it wasn't

Maduro's government. You know, a lot of similar flavors to the Euromaidan, snipers, things that really made that

situation kind of explode.

And as we know from The Revolution will not be televised about the 2002 coup against Hugo

Chavez, there were snipers, in fact, used by the opposition to frame as pro-government

forces.

And that came out later. Yeah.

That caused several deaths. I mean, what's really infuriating to me, and I know this is maybe

redundant, is that there is a CIA-flavored, injected narrative that has actually been put

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