Rising stars in the Democratic Party on the other hand are choosing to ignore the ongoing humanitarian crisis in order to critique American foreign policy.
While fading stars in the Republican party choose to ignore how much damage to the people of Venezuela is done by that foreign policy via sanctions and ostracising the country in the international community. It is a stretch to expect the American people to assume it a coincidence that almost all of the people they want to “save” from their evil leadership also reside in countries rich in resources, especially oil.
Socialism explains some of the factors in the horrific meltdown we see today — but it certainly does not explain all.
No, socialism doesn’t explain “any” of the country’s problems, except that the US has for some time vowed not to allow a successful socialist country to exist in its hemisphere. Maduro is an idiot and not fit to lead. His failure to invest previous oil profits into refinery capacity, making the nation’s economy reliant on US based refineries and oil prices cannot be explained any other way.
He, of all people, should have known that the US would step on his country like a cockroach should it ever show the slightest inclination of actually benefiting its people over profits of global capitalists. US leadership of both parties have little regard for the well being of their own people, so I don’t know what made him think they would tolerate losing profits to benefit brown people somewhere out of sight.
When the bonus of another example of a failed “socialist” state can be added to the propaganda of the right the result should have been a no brainer to predict. The US has weaponized its currency of trade status and the Federal Reserve since the ’50s against any hint of socialism. This, after leaving the Bretton-Woods treaty in ’71, was mostly accomplished via an unholy alliance with the terrorist supporting Saudis.
Cherish the fact that the United States is a place where debate can happen openly — something we lost in Venezuela years ago and leave Venezuela out of political games. Venezuela needs honest help.
Amen! And the best way to help the people is to manage the allocation of aid so it serves the people and leave sanctions up to the UN. Forcing a leader no Venezuelan voted for, who didn’t even run in the election that was certified by UN monitors and Jimmy Carter, on the people certainly qualifies as “political games”. Whatever we might think of Maduro, he did win a fair election overwhelmingly. We would be wise to follow their example before “spreading democracy” to them via denying them their choice.
