Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela.

Emersberger and Podur are critical of the "mano dura" (216) of Maduro's police (which they contrast unfavorably with Chávez's more lenient approach to crime). One example is the media's repeated references to Washington's assertion that Guaidó was Venezuela's legitimate president while omitting that "there was never any reasonable grounds for taking seriously" such a claim (35). The authors argue that "a direct economic incentive is insufficient" to explain Washington's actions, since the I Chavista i governments "never denied the United States access to its country's oil" (21). [Extracted from the article]