The recognition of Guaidó as the interim president was farcical but revealing, as one could see which nations are clearly in the US Government's pocket by which ones went along with the charade. As most Venezuelans commented on their new supposed leader at the time, "Who?"
Paradoxically, if the US needs to prove Bolivarian Socialism does not work or that Maduro is inept, they need to remove their punitive sanctions so that every problem in Venezuela cannot be credibly blamed on the US. Ditto Cuba, Nicaragua, and everywhere else the US has imposed illegal sanctions.
It is a true pity that the oligarchs from Caribbean, Central and South American countries and wealthier expats who reside in the USA so successfully control our foreign policies in these countries. Universally, we hear, just as in Cuba, people visiting encounter poor but kind and generous people. I'd have to think if these countries washed their hands of us once and for all that their own destinies could be far more peaceful and able to embrace a simpler lifestyle that we in the most consumerist country in the world would be powerless to undermine.
The Biden/Blinken team appear to be quite happy in continuing the disastrous Trump/Pompeo team’s sanctions policies on Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Cuba, Yemen, North Korea, and now even Afghanistan. Inflicting massive human suffering seems to be the whole point of these policies. Keeping Cuba listed as a state sponsor of terrorism which prevents sending of remittances to Cuba from relatives in the US, is just one small example of how purposeful cruelty has become a primary tool of our international relations.
Even if Joe "nothing, fundamentally, will change!" Biden wanted to change course, lol, he can't, at least not without half of his own party and all of Team R pillorying him for his supposed "capitulation".
The recognition of Guaidó as the interim president was farcical but revealing, as one could see which nations are clearly in the US Government's pocket by which ones went along with the charade. As most Venezuelans commented on their new supposed leader at the time, "Who?"
Paradoxically, if the US needs to prove Bolivarian Socialism does not work or that Maduro is inept, they need to remove their punitive sanctions so that every problem in Venezuela cannot be credibly blamed on the US. Ditto Cuba, Nicaragua, and everywhere else the US has imposed illegal sanctions.
It is a true pity that the oligarchs from Caribbean, Central and South American countries and wealthier expats who reside in the USA so successfully control our foreign policies in these countries. Universally, we hear, just as in Cuba, people visiting encounter poor but kind and generous people. I'd have to think if these countries washed their hands of us once and for all that their own destinies could be far more peaceful and able to embrace a simpler lifestyle that we in the most consumerist country in the world would be powerless to undermine.
The Biden/Blinken team appear to be quite happy in continuing the disastrous Trump/Pompeo team’s sanctions policies on Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Cuba, Yemen, North Korea, and now even Afghanistan. Inflicting massive human suffering seems to be the whole point of these policies. Keeping Cuba listed as a state sponsor of terrorism which prevents sending of remittances to Cuba from relatives in the US, is just one small example of how purposeful cruelty has become a primary tool of our international relations.
Even if Joe "nothing, fundamentally, will change!" Biden wanted to change course, lol, he can't, at least not without half of his own party and all of Team R pillorying him for his supposed "capitulation".