Venezuela Crisis: Failed coup attempt by Juan Guaido; Military remains supporting Nicholas Maduro
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Basically lol America fukks over Latin America with sanctions, coups, covert drug smuggling, planting officials, leaders in power but now we want USA to be Latin America/Venezuela savior?
With Trump as the residing president.
Russia already got Venezuela down pat.
Cole Cash
They took a hammer and sickle to my back
You can want Maduro out while not wanting foreign intervention in the name of resources and oil . I’m disappointed in some of the opinions here. Nap is a fukking idiot so I’m not including him. But @Hood Critic i know you mean well, the people want Maduro out, but this is not the way to do it. Chavez did so much good for the country and Maduro doesn’t embody any of that shyt. I agree. But not like this.
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
So how do we remove a dictator who has subverted the governmental process to lawfully remove him? I am honestly asking, I think we are all in agreement that he ain't it. I fully support Venezuela's sovereignty but what are the alternatives when his regime is now backed by two precarious nation states?
Cole Cash
They took a hammer and sickle to my back
The people voted for him. The UN supervised the elections , they don’t fukking supervise ours with all the fukkery we have going on. You have to let the people do what they do. What about , I think it was the UK not honoring Maduro desperately trading his good for food? The west has an interest in fukking with these guys , they did it when Chavez the GOAT was in power , they are doing it now with a far worse leader. You gotta let the people decide this shyt friend but this nonsense is doing no one any favors
Just like you can want world peace without...doing anything about it.
Whats your Mega Brain solution, here?
Maduro is locking up journalists for shyts and giggles but you're OK with this?
Basically lol America fukks over Latin America with sanctions, coups, covert drug smuggling, planting officials, leaders in power but now we want USA to be Latin America/Venezuela savior?
With Trump as the residing president.
The Vice President of Venezuela is a LITERAL narco trafficker...but that's the USA's fault
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@88m3 @dtownreppin214
DirtyD
Last Time That I Checc'd......
I love how people pretend to care about poor Venezuelans starving and then say in the same breathe that U.S. intervention is the solution to the problem. I'm sure the fact that Venezuela is currently being strangled by U.S. sanctions has nothing to do with its precarious situation.
I'm sure the fact that Venezuela is currently being strangled by U.S. sanctions has nothing to do with its precarious situation.US sanctions are killing Venezuelans, says former UN rapporteur
Exonerating the Empire in VenezuelaWhen Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in November 2017 proposed a meeting with creditors to discuss a restructuring of the country’s public debt, the Trump administration warned US bondholders that attending this meeting could put them in violation of US economic sanctions against Venezuela, which can be punished with 30 years in jail and as much as $10 million dollars in fines for businesses.
That same month, the US government added further sanctions that prevent Venezuela from doing what governments routinely do with much of their debt, which is “roll it over” by borrowing again when a bond matures. The sanctions also made it difficult if not impossible for Venezuela to undertake debt restructuring, a process wherein interest and principal payments are postponed and creditors receive new bonds, which the sanctions explicitly prohibit.
According to economist Mark Weisbrot (AlterNet, 11/3/17), the sanctions implemented that month appear designed “to prevent an economic recovery and worsen the shortages (which include essential medicines and food).”
The word “sanctions” does not occur in this New York Times feature (12/17/17) on how Venezuela’s economic crisis is leading to child malnutrition.
All of this is rarely mentioned when US media report the hardships facing Venezuelans or describe the causes of Venezuela’s economic and political crisis. A New York Times (12/17/17) story told readers that Venezuelan children are facing hunger, with hundreds dying from malnutrition, because “years of economic mismanagement set the stage for the current disaster”—according to “many economists.”
However, less than two weeks earlier, following a trip to Venezuela, UN Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas (ThinkProgress, 12/8/17) offered his analysis of what “set the stage for the current disaster.” He reportedly said that the conditions in the country did not constitute a full-blown humanitarian crisis, but that there are “shortages, scarcity and distribution delays, etc.,” and listed sanctions among the causes of these problems:
What is important is to get to know the causes and take measures against contraband, monopolies, hoarding, corruption, manipulation of the currency and the distortions in the economy caused by an economic and financial war which includes [the effects of international] sanctions.
I'm not Indian
So will you stay on topic and answer the question? Do you think Trump cares about the average Venezuelan person?
