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> Last I checked, the US was imposing sanctions on Venezuela[2], and supporting an alternate head of state[3]. That is what I was talking about. Supporting an
by nsajko 6y ago
> Last I checked, the US was imposing sanctions on Venezuela[2], and supporting an alternate head of state[3].
That is what I was talking about. Supporting an "alternate" unelected head of state to replace the directly elected Maduro. Whatever you may think of Maduro, what the US and many other countries are doing is monstrous. Especially in the context of the even worse US activities against the people of the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
EDIT: regarding China, just to clear things up, I am not denying that China is authoritarian or something like that; rather my point is that the devilization of China that is currently a trend in US can serve neither Americans nor the Chinese people well.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago>>> ... draws attention from the violent authoritarianism that US is still propping up (or trying) in South America (Bolivia, Venezuela)... > Supporting an "alternate" unelected head of state to replace the directly elected Maduro. Supporting an alternative to Maduro is "propping up violent authoritarianism"? You might look at the situation and see some violent authoritarianism on the part of Maduro, too. He's democratically elected? His predecessor was, once or twice. But as time went on, the opposition got fewer and fewer chances to run a free election, or to run the candidates of their choice. The opposition won control of Congress? No problem, the Supreme Court essentially suspended Congress. So which side is the authoritarian? "Democratically elected" does not mean "we stacked the deck so hard that the other side had no chance, and then held an election".
- nix23 6y agoTrue, but since when is USA entitled to interfere with other nations politics's? Having democracy lays in each nations own hand (the USA signed the Charter of the United Nations too, remeber?)