Stay out of Venezuela

Posted 2/14/19

The continued attacks by U.S. administrations against the Venezuelan people in the name of democracy would be laughable in an Orwellian sense. I am no fan of Maduro, but he was the elected leader of …

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Stay out of Venezuela

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The continued attacks by U.S. administrations against the Venezuelan people in the name of democracy would be laughable in an Orwellian sense. I am no fan of Maduro, but he was the elected leader of his sovereign country. Juan Guaido is an unknown person who did not even run against Maduro, and was approached by this administration to be a wedge against Maduro, but is being touted by 45 as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

If 45 wants to cry ‘foul!’, he should welcome examinations into his own tainted thievery of democracy with his campaign’s collusion with Russians and other operatives to throw the U.S. election in 2016. Not that he really had to—voters’ disgust with Clinton and the Democratic Party’s decision to knock Bernie Sanders out of the primaries virtually sealed his win anyway.

The U.S. has continually tried to overthrow the left-leaning government of Venezuela, not so much because of the Venezuelan desire to return power and land to poor and indigenous people, but because they are simply oil-rich. And they have refused to kow-tow to imperialist autocratic rulers like 45.

The U.S. Government should focus on its own problems of usurping democracy when it allows states to purge legible voters from the ballots, gerrymander districts and allow billionaires to write laws and decimate our environment and our rights to have representatives in government that reflect the views of its constituents.

Kevin McDaniel

Hurleyville, NY

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