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Trump leaves Venezuela's opposition sidelined and Maduro's party in power (apnews.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Venezuela’s opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power — a dream that was fulfilled when the U.S. military whisked the authoritarian leader away. But while Maduro is in jail in New York on drug trafficking charges, the leaders of his repressive administration remain in charge.

The nation’s opposition — backed by consecutive Republican and Democratic administrations in the U.S. — for years vowed to immediately replace Maduro with one of their own and restore democracy to the oil-rich country. But Donald Trump delivered them a heavy blow by allowing Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, to assume control.

Meanwhile, most opposition leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, are in exile or prison.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I love how, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people are still entertaining the idea that Trump gives a shit about helping the people of Venezuela.

He doesn't even want to help the people in his own country!

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

The only person he has ever helped is himself. Lack of empathy is the root of all evil.

[–] thelivefive@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think they believe it. It's just an alternative fact to argue. They don't give a shit about the people of Venezuela.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Thank god something like that never went wrong like ever...

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is darkly hilarious - we didn’t even really do an actual regime change. It was literally just getting an adversarial despot out of the picture so the regime can grift the whole fucking country. They do not care, and they’re not even trying to hide it.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wasnt even that adversarial, rumor is that Maduro was willing to take a deal to leave with some guarantees but Rubio shot it down because he wanted Maduros head to show all his rabid anti-communist constituents in south florida.