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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife is Venezuelan. She desperately wants to be able to go back someday—to visit safely, to see family, to recognize her own country again. Right now, that’s not possible. Much of her family is current or former military, and they want exactly what civilians want: freedom from an oppressive regime that destroyed their country from the inside.

She does not like Trump. Let’s get that out of the way. But let’s also stop pretending Venezuela is a Democrat vs. Republican issue. It’s not.

Under Maduro, people were run over by armored vehicles. Protesters were shot. Elections were a farce. The country became a narco-state while ordinary people starved or fled. That reality didn’t change depending on who was in the White House.

And for those suddenly clutching pearls about U.S. involvement—Biden continued dealings with Venezuelan oil despite repeated warnings from human-rights organizations. So please spare us the selective outrage.

China and Iran didn’t embed themselves in Venezuela out of goodwill. They wanted oil, minerals, leverage. Everyone knows this. Acting shocked now is disingenuous.

Here’s what’s missing from most of these takes: the majority of Venezuelans want the regime gone, even if that comes with hard compromises. They understand the cost because they’ve already paid it.

This isn’t about loving Trump.
It’s about wanting Venezuela back.[/quote]
But what does this have to do with what’s best for Americans??????

There are literally Americans starving here. [/quote]

It really is despicable to compare Venezuelans going hungry with hunger in America. No, it is absolutely not true there are literally starving Americans. You really should be ashamed of yourself.  Does the Associated Press write article about school children in America who no longer get free lunch at school so they can't go to school because they are too hungry?  Are there studies that show in one year in 2019 that the average citizen lost 20 pounds due to a lack of food. Parents are having to abandon their children and put them in orphanages because they can't feed them even one meal a day.

You watch videos of what is going on there and it reminds me of the Band-Aid Feed the World song and campaign.

Please watch this 2 minute video from the Wall Street Journal from 8 years ago "A Mother's Struggle to Feed Her Son in Venezuela". Her son is just turned a year and weighed eleven pounds. His heart stopped and he had to be revived.  But be warned it is disturbing to watch how skinny he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO1hHwoNPns

From French news:
Malnutrition, one of the saddest faces of the Venezuelan crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkcfVyyTDH0

How about from the BBC 
Begging for food in Venezuela - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1SVMLUSWso

Venezuela: Mothers giving away babies - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAttn-5lM3Y

Venezuela once pioneered a series of successful reforms including a mass literacy campaign and guaranteed breakfast, snack and lunch for all students. Less than 20% of students now get any food at school. School officials are telling parents not to send hungry kids to school because they can't learn and it is torture to come to school and see other kids eating. [/quote]

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