“What the US government, through Vice President Mike Pence, has done is to give the order to carry out a fascist coup d’état… Never before has a high-level official said that the opposition should overthrow the government… this has no historic comparison in the 200 years of US-Venezuela relations…”

— Nicolás Maduro

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

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