Maduro Confirms Arrest of Caracas Mayor for Coup Plotting

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hopefully the White House is involved in the plotting of coup attempts.

Even if you support the coup attempts, why would you actively hope a foreign power is involved?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

For the record, I think the best outcome for Venezuela would have been if Capriles had simply won (or been allowed to win) the 2013 election. He could have moderated the extremes that the 'Bolivarian' policies and general style of politics had reached, yet preserved what legitimate gains Venezuela and its people had made under Chávez. Maduro, who from the beginning was an unthinking hack at the absolute best, never showed any sign whatsoever of being either capable of or interested in doing that.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A American supported coup in Latin America have as much support from the general public as Russian ones in the Eastern Europe. So congratulation if Obama followed your suggestion, we could look forward to a decade with Maduro.

If the coup plotters restore democracy after the coup (probably the best possible result), I highly doubt the Venezuelan people will cut off their nose to spite their face by voting for Maduro.

There is nobody within the Venezuelan system who would be capable of pulling off a coup, as such, against Maduro; thus, any attempt at doing so would be crushed, and probably provide Maduro a decade's worth of propaganda fodder.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A American supported coup in Latin America have as much support from the general public as Russian ones in the Eastern Europe. So congratulation if Obama followed your suggestion, we could look forward to a decade with Maduro.

If the coup plotters restore democracy after the coup (probably the best possible result), I highly doubt the Venezuelan people will cut off their nose to spite their face by voting for Maduro.

There is nobody within the Venezuelan system who would be capable of pulling off a coup, as such, against Maduro; thus, any attempt at doing so would be crushed, and probably provide Maduro a decade's worth of propaganda fodder.

There are many in Venezuelan system who could do a coup against Maduro. My prime suspect would be Diosdado Cabello. The only problem is, both he and anybody else who could do this, would not at all help either the opposition or democracy.

Should've said 'against Bolivarianism'.