This time last week, Latin America was united against Venezuela’s President Maduro and his efforts to centralize power under the Socialist Party. That unity appears to be falling by the wayside in favor of a more pressing unity against US intervention in Venezuela.
On Friday, President Trump threatened to attack Venezuela as a way to oust Maduro, and Vice President Mike Pence today insisted the US has “many options” for what he described as “restoring democracy” in the country.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, hosting Pence today, warned “the possibility of a military intervention shouldn’t even being considered,” while Peru, Mexico, and Brazil all also issued statements condemning the idea of attacking them.
Venezuelan opposition figures were warning well ahead of Trump’s threat that this was liable to happen, trying to keep the US from publicly commenting at all for fear it would allow Maduro to paint them as part of a US invasion plot, and cost them international support from the region.
So far, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. Maduro’s opponents are splintering, and his offer to talk with Trump is allowing him to appear like the reasonable one by comparison, while also distracting from internal political strife.
Venezuela’s internal problems should be left to Venezuelans. No outside power should interfere with the political process now going on there. Nobody sincerely believes the US is concerned about the Venezuelan people .
Basu Deb, you’re absolutely correct .. Venezuela’s internal problems should be left to the Venezuelan people and no outside power should interfere with the ongoing political process in that country. You’re spot on in saying nobody sincerely believes the US is concerned about the Venezuelan population.
What’s so sad about it all, Trump pledged not to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations, including Venezuela. Had he kept Trotskyists aka neocons out of his newly formed administration, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re currently in. Adding Trotskyists such as Jared Kushner and warmonger retired generals into his administration was Trump’s worst mistake .. And, of course, they pressured him to break nearly all of his promises to the people, they don’t give a hoot about them.
When it comes to interfering in the internal affairs of other nations and waging aggressive wars, unfortunately, Trump’s following in both G. W. Bush’s and Obama’s footsteps, alienating the populations of the nations in which he’s meddling and waging aggressive wars. His threats against Venezuela has united all of Latin America against the US.
Their political crisis is — theirs. The recent voting for Constitutional Assembly shows exactly the fake nature of the crisis. The instigating of crisis from the outside by funding destructive groups, rentable politicians, and divisive politics trying to blame all social problems on one set of politics, while pretending not to see the economic and trade measures taken against the country by the very neighbors that are now shocked to hear the real consequences of their dabblingers in regime change. The vote for the Aasembly gave power to voters and took it away from stage managers — to the consternation of puppet masters. Here we are. Chaos and revolution are GOOD — voting BAD.
Congrats to Trump. Those in this country that are the stage managers and pushers of wars, just got what they thought they wanted — another war. And a backlash as even puppets in the area know how it looks.