President Biden has reaffirmed US support for Juan Guaido, the Venezuelan opposition figure that Washington recognizes as the interim president of Venezuela despite the reality that Nicolas Maduro holds the office.
Biden sent a letter addressed to Guaido on Monday to mark Venezuela’s independence day, which is celebrated on July 5th. “Under your leadership and in coalition with civil society leaders you are preserving those ideals of freedom democracy and sovereignty,” Biden wrote.
Biden said Guaido is leading his country “through a peaceful democratic transition of power.” But since the US first recognized Guaido in January 2019, he has made no progress towards unseating Maduro and has lost his seat on Venezuela’s National Assembly.
After a failed coup attempt and calls for foreign intervention, Guaido lost what little support he had in Venezuela and is becoming more and more irrelevant. Regardless, Guaido still has access to hundreds of millions of dollars that the US has stolen from the Venezuelan government.
As part of its failed regime change effort, the Trump administration imposed an enormous number of sanctions on Venezuela that have had a devastating impact on the country’s civilian population, and those sanctions are still in place.
The Biden administration says it is open to talks with Maduro over sanctions if he makes progress towards “credible elections.” But Maduro has no reason to trust the US. As long as the sanctions remain and the US recognizes Guaido, Biden is continuing Trump’s failed policy.
That is a truly crazy foreign policy.
Venezuela is open to talks and appears happy to have American Oil Companies return just on different terms than they are accustomed to.
Venezuela wants 40%royalties on Oil Production not the 4% that is evidently the offer.
Meanwhile however Iran and China are making out like bandits, Venezuela is a very profitable country if you are willing to break the illegitimate American sanctions.
Biden is a foreign policy disaster. I doubt if he either knows or cares about the suffering he is causing in Venezuela and elsewhere around the world.
Blocking COVID vaccines to Venezuela
The bipartisan goal of the U.S. is to stop evolution of democracy beyond the three branch representative system that represents capital. Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Chile, Cuba Puerto Rico and others have tried to evolve.
One may examine an example seven facet government form at http://constituentassembly.org/ It starts with a contest section, there’s more.
“Biden is continuing Trump’s failed policy.”
Yet again. It’s like there wasn’t much difference between the two doddering old fools.
Right. The Deep State rules. Biden/Trump/Obama/Bush/…they’re just the lipstick.
Juan Guaido must remind Biden of his son, so he supports him.