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Maduros Paranoia About U.S. Regime-Change in Venezuela
by Jacob G. Hornberger
March 12, 2015
Good for the Venezuelan domestic opponents of President Nicolas Maduro. Although fiercely opposed to Maduro, they have come out publicly against President Obamas meddling in Venezuelas internal affairs. According to the Washington Post,
Opposition leaders, who generally are close with the United States, said they rejected the use of unilateral sanctions. We appreciate and are grateful for the support of the international community, but we neither want nor accept that any of its members take on roles that are ours to assume, read their statement.
Just as we reject Cubas offensive meddling, we cannot support nor accept any other nations, the statement continued. This is a struggle among Venezuelans for Venezuela.
Thats what I call a principled position, unlike the pure, good, old-fashioned hypocrisy that characterizes both U.S. officials and the U.S. mainstream press.
Consider, for example, the mainstream presss mocking of Maduro for being paranoid about the possibility of a U.S. regime-change operation, one in which Maduro would be violently ousted from power and replaced with a pro-U.S. dictator.
Now, Im certainly no expert on what constitutes paranoia in a clinical sense but even if Maduro is a paranoiac, that doesnt necessarily mean that his concerns about U.S. interventionism are irrational. After all, U.S. officials dont limit their extensive surveillance schemes and their regime-change operations to non-paranoid people. Recall their secret surveillance of Ernest Hemingway.
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Maduro’s “Paranoia” About U.S. Regime-Change in Venezuela (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)1. Recall their 48 hour overthrow of Chavez, and what they did to Aristide
and that Hondouran president, Zelaya? Thrown out of his own country in his pajamas....
forest444
(5,902 posts)2. Here are a few more.
Last edited Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:34 PM - Edit history (1)
And a reminder of how these misguided interventions can, ultimately, backfire:
Another clear example of this dynamic at work is the $350 billion Latin debt crisis of the 1980s, which nearly ruined several U.S. banks (the most prominent was BofA, which had become technically insolvent until it was bailed out by the Japanese in 1986). The costly result of installing right-wing generals that ingratiate themselves with touchy Pentagon types, only to stab the U.S. in the back as soon as it's convenient.