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There‘s a coordinated campaign to flood Nostr with regime change freedom astroturf propaganda, and I am tired of it.

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Leopoldo Lopez calls for real elections. He says Venezuela needs real democracy. Not a new connected elite.

These are admirable things. Lets see what he means by this.

In 2014, Leopoldo Lopez was arrested for leading violent protests in Venezuela. This fact is disputed, especially by those who advocated for his innocence.

What is undisputable is that a 2013 memo crafted under USAID supervision called exactly for what Lopez had been charged with: telling opposition members to „create crisis situations in the streets that facilitate U.S. and NATO intervention.“

„Whenever possible, the violence should result in deaths or injuries,“ the memo says.

And dozens of people did die in the protests Lopez led, with hundreds more being injured. This, too, is undisputed.

A few years later, in 2019, Juan Guaido led an uprising and declared himself President of Venezuela with support of the first Trump administration. No election, no democracy.

Guaido freed Lopez from house arrest, who is widely cited as his mentor.

During the time of Guaido‘s acknowledgment as the legitimate - though unelected - President of Venezuela by the international community, he robbed the country of an estimated 30B Dollars.

This included reserves at the New York Fed, which had been frozen due to sanctions - under guaido, the 400M Dollars belonging to the country dwindled to 30M. Over 350M dollars, gone.

It also included handing US vulture funds control of Venezuelan infrastructure - including funds led by American investor Paul Singer - and ballooned Venezuelas debt with international creditors from ~1B Dollars to more than 20B Dollars.

Due to his actions, Guaido quickly lost support even from his own party, and was eventually ousted.

As one opposition member stated: „Maduro, Guaido, Chavista […] They‘re all just thieves.“

So when Leopoldo Lopez speaks of „real elections,“ „democracy,“ and „a free venezuela for everyone,“ ask him if he means like the last times he attempted to take over the country with the help of the US.

Very long but worthwhile investigation into the financial coup Lopez‘ mentee staged here: https://prospect.org/2025/11/26/30-billion-dollar-identity-theft-of-venezuela/

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