Speaking to reporters during a visit to Colombia, Vice President Mike Pence warned that Venezuela is “collapsing into dictatorship,” and that the country becoming a “failed state” would make it a threat to the security and prosperity of the United States.
Pence was a bit vague on what the US is actually going to do about it, as opposed to President Trump’s threats to attack the country militarily, rather saying the US will use all of its economic and diplomatic power to ensure democracy is restored in Venezuela.
Pence dodged questions about whether this necessarily meant regime change, but other administration officials have made clear they oppose the Maduro government in general, and its recent moves to increase the power of the ruling Socialist Party in particular.
Threats of US involvement, however, are seen generally benefiting Maduro, as it allows him to paint the substantial domestic opposition to his rule as secretly in league with the US. Maduro is already using Trump’s threats as a rallying point for strengthening his position.
No, President Maduro is not increasing power,
he is increasing democracy.
How is he doing that? Just curious.
Maduro is supported by the 51% most impoverished, while the Opposition Party is supported by the 49% that owns all the land, owns all the wealth and owns body and soul most of the politicians in parliament.
The only failed state I know of is the USA. Evil beyond belief. Puts the NAZIS to shame. Moar War!
Chapter VI, Article 28 of the OAS Charter demands that all other members must come to the defense of Venezuela if the Trump government begins a military attack.
Even for a ‘not armed attack’: Article 29: ‘If the inviolability or the integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence of any American State should be affected by an armed attack or by an act of aggression that is not an armed attack…’
President Trump is getting close to violating the OAS charter.
The U.S. loves Democracy when our leaders get to pick the leaders in other countries. When that doesn’t happen then the leaders voted in by the people get trashed and attacked.
What the world needs now
More refugees from another American intervention
That will make us safer
By some logic that escapes me.
Except that it is the USA, this should be incredible. All through the reign of Hugo Chavez, where he transformed his country into a democracy and helped the mass of the population into better lives and the rest of Latin America into changing their systems by voluntary “régime-change”, the USA fought everything he did and the media never reported the great, beneficial changes.
Now they must go on pretending there is no democracy in Venezuela.
Colombia is one of the few S. American countries the USA still runs. There is Honduras, of course, which was helped to overthrow democracy in 2009 by POTUS Obama and H. Clinton.
Remember the REAL “9/11”, in 1973, when the USA helped overthrow the elected Allende government in Chile and ushered in a vicious dictatorship which lasted 17 years and altered the Constitution so that the future electors could not remove most of the anti-democratic changes.
Hugo led Vz to the brink of collapse. There were no great, beneficial changes, only a steady descent into economic ruin. Maduro is simply finishing the job by continuing his policies.
If the US wanted a democratic Venezuela they wouldn’t have slipped Hugo Chavez an Arafat Cocktail.
Maduro has no right to be president of Venezuela, he was born in Cúcuta in Colombia. Firing the Parliament and inventing a new Parliament, his son and wife were elected too ? President for life? What has that to do with Democracy ? What is good is Polo Democratico, the Social Democracies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and so on. But Maduro is too far to the left. Polo Democratico/Social Democracies are only a bit to the left and that´s what´s good for everybody except for the rich who don´t want to pay taxes, of course.
What a bunch of foul smelling crap spewing from his mouth. Venezuela would be fine if the usa stopped trying to take it over. The jerk is either flat out intentionally trying to lie us into yet another war on behalf of global capitalist scum who want to rip off another country and its resources or too dumb to know how easily the pezzonovante are playing him for the fool.
that filthy orange clown disgrace promised that he would not intervene in other countrys affairs or cause regime change, that fat repulsive pig is a serial liar, and that traitor pence is just the same kind of scum, we have no leaders anymore……………oil thiefs are what they are ………