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<h1 class="reader-title">Venezuela Rejects US Attempted Coup and
'Puppet Government'</h1>
January 13, 2019</div>
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<p>The Venezuelan state is accusing Washington of
promoting a coup d’etat by imposing a “puppet
government” in the nation, the Venezuelan Foreign
Ministry said Sunday.</p>
<p>"The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
denounces once again the attempts by the supremacist
elite that controls the White House to promote a <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Rejects-Dangerous-Resolution-by-the-OAS--20190111-0010.html"
target="_blank">coup in Venezuela</a>, attacking the
Constitution, Democracy and Peace in the country," the
ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>The Bolivarian state denounced the conspiracy lead by
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and his
attempts to forcefully impose a puppet government- like
in 2002- which caters to US transnational corporations
and rejects both the Constitution and the popular will.</p>
<p>"While the Constitutional President of the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, urges dialogue
with respect between countries, Bolton, in turn,
embraces the script of the coup-driven adventures,
historically inserted in the imperialist agenda," the
statement said.</p>
<p>The greatest threat to the security of Venezuelans is
the criminal blockade imposed by the United States, the
letter said, calling for an end of all “economic and
diplomatic aggression.”</p>
<p>Maduro who was officially inaugurated on Thursday for
the second time, denounced the U.S. interventionist
attitudes, saying "the imperial attack against Venezuela
is part of a regional dispute that promotes imperialism
for the reconquest of what they see as their backyard.”</p>
<p>In its statement, the Foreign Ministry assured that,
“No matter how powerful the pressures, threats, and
attacks, the Bolivarian Government will never give in to
the integral defense of the sovereignty of the
Venezuelan people.</p>
<p>“Venezuela will use all its political, moral and
constitutional power to defeat imperialist aggression in
all its forms,” the letter said.</p>
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