The United States has rarely been up to anything good in Latin America. What's going on now is a quiet echo of the games it used to play in a much more brash and bold style in years gone by. If it's a military coup Venezuela will be sending officers for U.S. training. These officers will be taught signal intelligence, torture, psy ops and insurgency suppression. Their economic system will be hammered into a convenient form for foreign direct investment and extraction of resources. Naomi Cline's "Shock Doctrine" gives a great overview of U.S. policy toward Latin America during the last century. If you don't feel like digging in so deep Costa-Gavras's film State Of Siege is entertaining and lays out some of the power dynamics in a way that gives at least an emotive understanding of what's going on.