The Biden administration will continue recognizing Juan Guaido as the president of Venezuela despite the fact that Nicolas Maduro holds the office. State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed the policy on Wednesday and ruled out the possibility of talks with Maduro.
Price’s comments suggest that President Biden will keep in place the crippling economic sanctions that the Trump administration left on Venezuela, which have had a devastating impact on the civilian population.
Price said the new administration’s goal is to “support a peaceful democratic transition in Venezuela,” but the policy is really a continuation of Trump’s failed regime change effort.
The US and many of its allies first recognized Guaido as the president of Venezuela in January 2019. After a failed coup attempt, increased sanctions, millions of US taxpayer dollars, and a $15 million bounty on Maduro, nothing has changed in Caracas.
Even supporters of regime change no longer see Guaido as a viable candidate to take over Venezuela. After he lost his seat in Venezuela’s National Assembly in recent elections, the EU stopped recognizing Guaido as president.
After President Biden’s inauguration, Maduro said he was hoping relations with the US would improve and called on Venezuela’s National Assembly to “take initiatives” for a “new beginning” with Washington.
Venezuela has the most advanced form of government on Earth and the world’s oligarchs do not want to see it become understood or improved upon. I have studied just a little of this and posted an english language schematic diagram of a seven facet example at https://www.constituentassembly.org/Contents/website-contents.html
Venezuela needs autarky.
If you compete ideologically over which form of government is superior, you’re just helping the Neocons. They want such a battle to lead to Fukuyama’s “End of History.”
If you’re not too superior, I recommend considering Aristotle. He taught that there is no best form of government. Any form can be good or bad. And that can change with time. It’s a much better view than this never ending Cold War.
My point here is that government and society evolve with time. You are correct; there is no final and superior form of government or economic organization. The above mentioned site has recently posted six contests. The idea is people will enter and then select their favorite. This idea is not much different than an applause meter from a 1950’s game show. https://www.autonomousdemocracy.org
True, the form of government is not as important as whether or not corruption is addressed. So, justice is the key.
I’m wary of the word “justice,” but I seem to mean something similar to you.
A large wealth gap seems to encourage corruption.
A person in a society with no property and no reasonable means of attaining it has diminished rights. Plus what I said in previous post.
Such ideas shouldnt be seen as “left wing” though. Belloc and Aristotle are seen as conservative. And others express similar thoughts. I’m drawing on the right.
I can’t make sense of your website, but regular people have to work. Everyone cannot be an expert on every topic. As a result, elites run things to a degree in every society.
The US, Venezuela, and China all have roughly the same form of society: A managerial state. To prevent abuse by those managers, a balance of power is wanted. Small businesses and a large middle class can help prevent abuse, among other reforms.
Whether that’s done with fake elections like in the US or with an open aristocracy like in China really isnt what’s important. It’s the results and application, who’s in charge, that matter.
If Venezuela opens up too much, it’s vulnerable to the US and others. So, you’re limited in what’s possible, respectfully.
“Price’s comments suggest that President Biden will keep in place the crippling economic sanctions that the Trump administration left on Venezuela, which have had a devastating impact on the civilian population.”
Not to worry. Our new secretary of state has stated that we need to target “regime enablers” so the civilian population won’t be affected. Never mind it’s the wet dream of a simpleton.
Next, I guess the US will make Europe recognise him, “multilateralism.”
Outdated Map of who supports whom: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/which-countries-support-maduro-guaido
The world needs to “progress” beyond with-us-or-against-us. Neutrality! And I want to see a “right wing” country, maybe Hungary, resist the US, to dispel the ideological bs of the Cold War.