Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced that the real objective of the United States behind imposing a parallel government in the South American nation is to appropriate the energy and mineral resources of this country.
A deeper look into the reasons behind such right-wing flood to support the parliamentary coup reveals that the objective behind such endorsement of an internationally illegal act is behind the publicly stated humanitarian reasons and in fact about robbing the country of its riches after two decades of progressive and sovereign policies by the Bolivarian government that limited Washington's access to such resources. In 1998, Commander Hugo Chavez Frias had a pivotal electoral triumph that changed the fate of Latin America
for around 20 years, from that time to this date, there have been up to 15 progressive democratically elected governments in the region.