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04130aam a2200481 i 4500 001 C45222D4A5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220317010139 008 210817s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021039961 020 $a 1583679170 020 $a 9781583679173 020 $a 1583679162 020 $a 9781583679166 035 $a (OCoLC)1258248369 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d TOH $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-ve--- $a s-ve--- 050 00 $a E183.8.V3 $b E44 2021 100 1 $a Emersberger, Joseph Rosendo, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Extraordinary threat : $b the U.S. empire, the media, and twenty years of coup attempts in Venezuela / $c Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur. 246 30 $a U.S. empire, the media, and twenty years of coup attempts in Venezuela 264 1 $a New York : $b Monthly Review Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 327 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Extraordinary Threat to Venezuela -- Yes, Maduro Is a Duly Elected Leader -- The Guaido Era as a Sixth, Very Long Coup Attempt -- How Could Chavismo Flourish in "Once Prosperous" and Democratic Venezuela? -- First Coup Attempt: April 2002 -- Second Coup Attempt: Oil Strike, December 2002-February 2003 -- Third Coup Attempt: Fatalities over Frivolous Claims, April 2013 -- Fourth Coup Attempt: February-April 2014 -- Buildup to the Fifth Coup Attempt -- Fifth Coup Attempt: April 4-July 31, 2017 -- Read Carroll and You've Read Them All (2006-2012) -- The Human Rights Fraud -- Colombia's U.S.-Approved Horror Show Could Come to Venezuela. 520 $a "In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a "national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela." Each year, the U.S. administration has repeated this claim. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur ague in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat, the opposite is true: It is the U.S. policy of regime change in Venezuela that constitutes an "extraordinary threat" to Venezuelans. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans continue to die because of these ever-tightening U.S. sanctions, denying people daily food, medicine, and fuel. On top of this, Venezuela has, since 2002, been subjected to repeated coup attempts by U.S.-backed forces. In Extraordinary Threat, Emersberger and Podur tell the story of six coup attempts against Venezuela. This book deflates the myths propagated about the Venezuelan government's purported lack of electoral legitimacy, scant human rights, and disastrous economic development record. Contrary to accounts lobbed by the corporate media, the real target of sustained U.S. assault on Venezuela is not the country's claimed authoritarianism nor its supposed corruption. It is Chavismo, the prospect that twenty-first century socialism could be brought about through electoral and constitutional means. This is what the U.S. empire must not allow to succeed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Venezuela. 651 0 $a Venezuela $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 2001- 651 0 $a Venezuela $x Politics and government $y 1999- 651 0 $a Venezuela $x History $y Attempted coup, 2002. 650 0 $a Coups d'etat $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a Venezuela. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204166 648 7 $a Since 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Podur, Justin, $d 1977- $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Emersberger, Joseph Rosendo, 1966- $t Extraordinary threat $d New York : Monthly Review Press, [2021] $z 9781583679180 $w (DLC) 2021039962 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230919013241.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C45222D4A5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search