Leaked tape of Mike Pompeo reveals the US has been deeply involved in organizing the opposition to oust both Chavez and Maduro and that they have failed to keep them united in that effort. Not a grassroots movement. Pompeo also says they know how they're going to topple the government. One of the methods already in the public record is to make the people suffer until they cry "uncle." New US sanctions blocks the governments food program, CLAP. The only thing besides foreign aid preventing mass starvation among the working class. Report: U.S. Sanctions Have Killed 40,000 in Venezuela Since 2017
So Pompeo admits meddling in the political process of another nation - but is sad that it failed. How does this not make the US look like a joke in the eyes of the rest of the world ?
Recall: FAIR.org The 'Venezuelan People' Are Whoever Agrees With Donald Trump Headline over a letter published in the New York Times (1/24/19) That's called imperialist propaganda.
In 2013 it became legal for our intelligence agencies to create and disseminate propaganda on US citizens. Not that this was not happening before but, now it is "State Sanctioned". Just another one of the Canaries in the coal mine of Totalitarianism/Tyranny - of which a large number are now screeching at the top of their lungs.