Tag: coup

Because the best way to stop a coup is to deter it.

"Do you think the Venezuelan people are going to be helped by having Donald Trump, John Bolton, Mike Pence and Elliott Abrams intervene in their country, engineer regime change and then prop up whatever leader they like best?"

Before Venezuela devolves into civil war, the U.S. should lift the sanctions, take the military option off the table, and get behind a negotiated, nonviolent solution.

And in the long term, there is no recognition of what does this mean for the country in terms of its social fabric, its political culture and going forward, if there’s no negotiated agreement on that process.

Now, the ongoing coup attempt is escalating through a strategy of humanitarian intervention.

John Bolton made the coup very personal this week, threatening Maduro to accept Guaido’s offer of amnesty or find himself in the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Do we think people who armed death squads and started wars really want to “bring democracy” to Venezuela?

The left has a proud tradition of both democracy and anti-imperialism. It’s critical to keep both traditions in mind when addressing the current crisis in Venezuela.

“The United States has a long history of inappropriately intervening in Latin American countries. We must not go down that road again.”

“This is unprecedented not only in Venezuelan history, but in Latin America.”