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Oct 14, 2025 1 hr 58 min

150. But What About Vuvuzula?

from Pick Me Up, I'm Scared. Hosted by Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

This week, Madeline and David talk about Venezuela, Chavez, and mustaches! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared/ SOURCES: ttps://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-00927A004600120002-9.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/45329740.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/F419409CE36569D0BBC81389843FBDCB/S0023879100024845a.pdf/cattle-corruption-and-venezuelan-state-formation-during-the-regime-of-juan-vicente-gomez-1908-35.pdf https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-to-provide-venezuelas-guaido-with-52-million-in-funding-idUSKBN1W934P/ https://www.sociostudies.org/almanac/articles/the_us_methods_and_goals_to_destabilize_venezuela/ https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2008/11/chavez-venezuela-opposition https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/17/world/abrams-denies-wrongdoing-in-shipping-arms-to-contras.html https://www.reuters.com/article/world/how-venezuela-got-here-a-timeline-of-the-political-crisis-idUSKCN1PJ03O/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22314562799&gbraid=0AAAAA-mwunF8-09P-Awp_HNmn1VHy7Dft&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo63HBhCKARIsAHOHV_Ugl_qLm4x2Feoh9JAYu3pdpveYzKTTgRnXkyvnLky86HmpDFgT5UsaAl3tEALw_wcB https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=classracecorporatepower https://www.blackagendareport.com/venezuela-imperialism-and-global-struggle-sovereignty https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14263/ https://dc.ewu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=srcw_2019 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1921v02/d897 https://www.nytimes.com/1952/09/21/archives/opposition-party-in-venezuela-test-copei-one-of-2-groups-against.html https://peoplesworld.org/article/venezuela-2002-the-coup-heard-around-the-world/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/21/usa.venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/21/usa.venezuela https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/21/archives/venezuelans-are-denying-perez-was-paid-by-cia.html https://time.com/archive/6703965/interview-on-drugs-debt-and-poverty-venezuelas-carlos-andres-perez/ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R002400050019-5.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/22/archives/caracas-assails-us-for-payoffs-report-president-perez-calls.html https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-to-provide-venezuelas-guaido-with-52-million-in-funding-idUSKBN1W934P/ https://liberationnews.org/oppose-us-threats-against-venezuela/ https://misionverdad.com/memoria/aquel-narcoestado-llamado-puntofijismo-0 https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/12/business/world-class-fraud-bcci-pulled-it-off-special-report-end-twisted-trail-piggy-bank.html?pagewanted=all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF-IYdsFGrw https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07CARACAS1637_a.html https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04CARACAS2224_a.html https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6750/ https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/01/archives/cia-money-flowed-but-us-aides-insist-it-was-for-intelligence.html

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