Jesus Belandria via Facebook
As a Venezuelan, I am extremely happy this happened.
I am tired of replying all day to people with comments on the matter so I am just gonna copy and paste one of the most recent replies I gave.
It is a very nuanced issue. The “legal ways” us mortals think of in the U.S do not apply at a global scale when talking about these regimes. The ICC, UN, etc have been disregarding our issue because for one the main prosecutor of the ICC was found to be linked with maduro. They have connections everywhere and have been avoiding justice. All legal mechanisms have been exhausted and taking this to congress would’ve ended up in the same given that venezuela has lobbyists buying influence in congress. The guaido situation was never explained and he was not just some random guy; he was the head of parliament and was constitutionally he would have had to become president temporarily if the constitutional order was lost, which happened after maduro installed a parallel parliament after the opposition had won a huge majority in said parliament in 2016. Then they started capturing parliament members forcing them all to go into exile and that’s just part of it. Now, in 2024 he was forced by international pressure to allow for real presidential elections and the “opposition” won by a huge margin even though 1/3 of the population has left the country and that group was not even able to vote. Maduro claimed victory, did not show evidence and again, forced the winner into exile.
Now that is just explaining why it is not a situation of the U.S attempting to install a random person.
The drug allegations are 100% true, but it is not a cartel like we know them, rather a web of different crime enterprises that help one another and they sit on top. Venezuela is being used as a hub for everything illegal in south america, with legal international airports where criminals are allowed to transport illegal stuff through ally-criminal countries, a central bank that can just money launder as they please. China has been installed in venezuela depleting our gold mines with illegal slave mining, then sending the gold to the middle east to be “cleaned” and introduced into the legal market without reporting said gold. There is so much stuff I would be here all night typing.
But let’s imagine you’re 100% right and the US just wants the oil.
Do you think china, russia, iran, etc are just in venezuela because they want our recipe for arepas? Come on…