For a while there, it seemed believable: one of them inside Venezuela's military finally got fed up enough to attempt a coup by raiding a well fortified military base for weapons in the socialist dictatorship.  The raid on the Valencia military base then failed; the military's loyalty to the Chavista regime held; the Cubans used their secret police powers, perhaps; and the bad guys got captured.  Since then, all is back to normal, the government claims.  Nothing to see here; move along. But not so fast.  There are experts from Venezuela who think none of this is quite what the government is claiming.  Javier Nieto, a former military office now in exile, who is often a "go-to" guy on Venezuelan military affairs, is skeptical in this NTN24 Colombian television interview in Spanish, stating: A group made up of a combination of active duty military, reserves and retired military captured the garrison of the...(Read Full Post)