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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t about drug trafficking or drug smuggling or corruption.  It’s about oil.  Power vacuums rarely lead to peaceful transitions of power.  I hope your wife gets to visit her family sometime soon, but Trump doesn’t actually care about the people of Venezuela.  See the hypocrisy of pardoning the Honduran president.[/quote]

+1 . 
1. Saying this is about drug trafficking, while pardoning the drug kingpin Honduran President is a huge lie.
2. Before Trump stepped in, Maduro and his fellow Chavistas — the movement founded by Hugo Chavez — faced strong opposition from domestic pro-democracy forces led by María Corina Machado. Edmundo González, a Machado ally, clearly won Venezuela’s 2024 election, only to have Maduro steal it. So, if Trump wanted regime change he would be supporting Machado and her movement, but he's not, and has disparaged her (despite her Nobel Peace Prize this win), because his advisers probably told him that she won't let him take Venezuela's oil for US companies.[/quote]

I feel for the Venezuelan people and OP's wife, but having the US swoop in and do a regime "change" that allows them to take Venezuelan oil resources for decades to come will not benefit the average Venezuelan.   I will never forget this story about a 16 yo boy who died on his birthday after he dug roots to eat to prevent starvation, and accidentally ingested ones that were poisonous.

No Food, No Medicine, No Respite: A Starving Boy’s Death in Venezuela
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/world/americas/venezuela-hunger.html

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