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I applaud Colombia for this. I really hope international pressure does its job and gets Venezuela back on track. I understand Russian and China wanting to sec

I applaud Colombia for this. I really hope international pressure does its job and gets Venezuela back on track. I understand Russian and China wanting to secure their investments in the country, but the cost is taking its toll. I dont know how someone like Maduro can really live with himself and his lifestyle when so many are suffering.I also have read that U.S. sanctions are to blame, i dont know if this is true or just government corruption. I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants, or at least i hope we provide aide to Colombia to help with expenses. And if Argentina is helping too they get massive kudos as well.

guessmyname 8y ago
> I applaud Columbia for this […] > […] i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses Just so you know, the English spelling is “Colombia” (O instead of U) [1]. If you say “Columbia” (U instead of O) you are talking about the historical female personification of the United States of America, and a poetic name for the Americas [2]. I don’t know why people make this mistake so many times, even looking at this list [3] I cannot find any reference to “Columbia” as the name for the country. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia
- siffland 8y ago
  Point taken, I have updated my post with the correct spelling. I am use to typing it that way for the District of Columbia. That is not an excuse, but that is why it is probably misspelled a lot.
  - AlimJaffer 8y ago
    Same here. As someone who lives in British Columbia, I always conflate the two.
- the_watcher 8y ago
  Americans make the mistake because there are major things named Columbia here, including a major river, the C in Washinton, DC, an Ivy League university, a state capitol, the C in CBS, a record label, a movie studio, a space shuttle that tragically exploded, and many more that I'm sure the Wikipedia page lists (I only typed out those I knew of off the top of my head). The misspelling of the country is a pet peeve of mine as well, but I don't think it's confusing why people make it - they simply think it's spelled the same way as all of the other Columbia's they read about.
x3tm 8y ago
>I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants, or at least i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses. It would be great if the US simply left latin America alone and stopped meddling in those countries. Something it's been doing since decades. Never heard of China/Russia having anything to do with the situation in Venezuela. They may have some role there, but it's not even close to the responsibility US has. This is well documented and researched, and is well known since decades that US destabilizes Venezuela. That is not to remove blame from Chavez, Maduro, and co., who are despicable but it's surreal to hear that the only hypothetical impact the US could have there is via the sanctions. US has a huge part of responsibility in the chaos there (as in many other parts of the world). And this is true also now, with this attempted coup. >I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants Are we talking about the same country that was shutdown for weeks to finance a shameful wall to keep foreigners away?
- mythrwy 8y ago
  I don't know. I mean, the US should not be exploiting Latin America and some of this has occurred and there events like Pinoche that are pretty shameful. At the same time, allowing an inept criminal syndicate friendly with the Russians to starve millions of people some hundreds of miles off the shores of the US is hardly a good idea either. I'm generally against intervention but hopefully the Maduro regime is taken down somehow. This is hardly a fringe position either, most of South America and Europe has adopted the same position. If anything I feel the US should be more involved there and less involved in the Ukraine and Syria.
  - x3tm 8y ago
    Russia is just re-emerging on the international scene. However, the crisis in Venezuela (VZ) didn't start last week or with Maduro. And Russia/China were still sleeping then. So, fine ... Russia may be doing something there now. I don't know. But let's not be amnesic and remember that this situation persists since decades.
    - mythrwy 8y ago

guessmyname 8y ago

> I applaud Columbia for this […] > […] i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses Just so you know, the English spelling is “Colombia” (O instead of U) [1]. If you say “Columbia” (U instead of O) you are talking about the historical female personification of the United States of America, and a poetic name for the Americas [2]. I don’t know why people make this mistake so many times, even looking at this list [3] I cannot find any reference to “Columbia” as the name for the country. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia

siffland 8y ago
Point taken, I have updated my post with the correct spelling. I am use to typing it that way for the District of Columbia. That is not an excuse, but that is why it is probably misspelled a lot.
- AlimJaffer 8y ago
  Same here. As someone who lives in British Columbia, I always conflate the two.
the_watcher 8y ago
Americans make the mistake because there are major things named Columbia here, including a major river, the C in Washinton, DC, an Ivy League university, a state capitol, the C in CBS, a record label, a movie studio, a space shuttle that tragically exploded, and many more that I'm sure the Wikipedia page lists (I only typed out those I knew of off the top of my head). The misspelling of the country is a pet peeve of mine as well, but I don't think it's confusing why people make it - they simply think it's spelled the same way as all of the other Columbia's they read about.

x3tm 8y ago

>I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants, or at least i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses. It would be great if the US simply left latin America alone and stopped meddling in those countries. Something it's been doing since decades. Never heard of China/Russia having anything to do with the situation in Venezuela. They may have some role there, but it's not even close to the responsibility US has. This is well documented and researched, and is well known since decades that US destabilizes Venezuela. That is not to remove blame from Chavez, Maduro, and co., who are despicable but it's surreal to hear that the only hypothetical impact the US could have there is via the sanctions. US has a huge part of responsibility in the chaos there (as in many other parts of the world). And this is true also now, with this attempted coup. >I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants Are we talking about the same country that was shutdown for weeks to finance a shameful wall to keep foreigners away?

mythrwy 8y ago
I don't know. I mean, the US should not be exploiting Latin America and some of this has occurred and there events like Pinoche that are pretty shameful. At the same time, allowing an inept criminal syndicate friendly with the Russians to starve millions of people some hundreds of miles off the shores of the US is hardly a good idea either. I'm generally against intervention but hopefully the Maduro regime is taken down somehow. This is hardly a fringe position either, most of South America and Europe has adopted the same position. If anything I feel the US should be more involved there and less involved in the Ukraine and Syria.
- x3tm 8y ago
  Russia is just re-emerging on the international scene. However, the crisis in Venezuela (VZ) didn't start last week or with Maduro. And Russia/China were still sleeping then. So, fine ... Russia may be doing something there now. I don't know. But let's not be amnesic and remember that this situation persists since decades.
  - mythrwy 8y ago