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Caribbean-Latin America
Trump may confront hostile Venezuela
2017-02-05
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Just as the United States is undergoing a political transition of its own, Venezuela's dubious regime has taken the provocative step of empowering an anti-U.S. hardliner with ties to narcotraffickers and Middle Eastern terrorism.

Many Americans may consider Venezuela's collapsing economy, food shortages, and political upheaval as none of our business. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
 the recent power grab of reputed drug kingpin and Hezbollah ally, Tareck el-Aissami, as Venezuela's vice president poses a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and its neighbors.

President Trump's foreign policy team can convert a potential crisis into an early victory by working with key neighbors to fashion a multilateral rescue of Venezuela, backed up by targeted sanctions against El-Aissami and other corrupt leaders who traffic in drugs and abet international terrorism.
It would be a better, longer-term victory (a fair bit callous, I admit) to let Venezuela collapse thoroughly and completely on its own. Go in now to rescue it and the socialists will claim for the next hundred years that the mess there was all the fault of American imperialists...
Courageous Venezuelans are struggling to save their country through democratic means; but they are confronting a ruthless regime that is micromanaged by Cuba and propped up by sweetheart deals with Russia and China. Senior Venezuelan officials have conspired with Colombian narco-guerrillas and Hezbollah snuffies to amass illicit fortunes and advance anti-U.S. operations. All of these forces benefit from keeping a lawless government in power in Caracas, even as the Venezuelan economy crumbles and a humanitarian crisis grows.

Posted by:Fred

#8  Let them decline without interference as a warning to all future socialists.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-02-05 16:07  

#7  What the good Dr. Said.

And no, good Venezuelans are doing pretty much jackshit to change the situation. The MUD (opposition unity party) is naught but Well meaning talking, farcical negotiations and an inability to rally the pueblo, who are too busy standing in line to be rallied.

A screwed up mess that will solve itself, tho not likely for the better.
Posted by: Shipman    2017-02-05 08:58  

#6  Let it crater, but, make sure there's no damage to innocent neighbors from the shapnel.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-05 08:12  

#5  Let it crater. Block transfers of funds or travel by the regime. Make them live it as well
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-05 07:46  

#4  Venezuela's dubious regime has taken the provocative step of empowering an anti-U.S. hardliner with ties to narcotraffickers and Middle Eastern terrorism.

The 'Mexico model.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-05 04:35  

#3  Leave Venezuela alone to rot in its own filth. Doing anything to them just helps their paranoid narrative of "USA OUT TO GET US ZOMG".
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2017-02-05 04:32  

#2  Offer the Rothschilds to bail Venezuela out, forever. Ergo, the black hole will be ONE.

They will finally feel good about themselves.

Marxist Whores meet their utopia!
Posted by: newc   2017-02-05 03:47  

#1  Make Soros Pay for it. Then run through the list starting with the Tide Foundation...
Posted by: magpie   2017-02-05 00:11  

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