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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am cautiously optimistic for your wife and her fellow Venezuelans. I personally have roots in a country that overthrew a military dictatorship (although in their case they did so without external assistance), so I have a sense of how good many Venezuelans are feeling right now. I hope your wife can reunite with her friends and family soon in a safe environment.

That being said, I don't have a lot of faith in the current administration to do the right thing for Venezuela which, in my mind, includes helping them hold free and elections as soon as possible so they can transition to a democracy. I also haven't hear anything about them bringing food and medications and other critically needed supplies into the country to provide immediate relief to the suffering population.

I also don't think that the current administration gives a rat's a** about humanitarian issues in general. If they did, they would not have attempted to rescind TPS status for the following countries in addition to Venezuela (on this list, Haiti is in even worst shape than Venezuela):

Afghanistan
Cameroon
Ethiopia
Haiti
Honduras
Myanmar (Burma)
Nepal
Nicaragua
South Sudan
Syria

Nor would the current administration have destroyed USAID, our national foreign aid agency. Or closed our refugee program to everyone except white Afrikaners. If they cared about actual human beings. [/quote]

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