BLACK EYEBROWS. This week, a group of 18 “progressive” Democrats in Congress sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling for the lifting of sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian socialist regime in Venezuela.
Launched by Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Jesus “Chui” Garcia (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Oman (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) and Pramilia Jayapal (Washington) et al. The letter urges the Biden administration to continue dialogue with the Maduro regime and to lift sanctions imposed on him.
The Trump administration’s sanctions on the Maduro regime came long after the country’s inevitable socialist collapse. They could not foresee the ongoing economic and political crisis in Venezuela and cause the suffering of the Venezuelan people, especially in 2014-2018, when the shortage of food and supplies was so severe that they were locked out based on identity and fingerprint scanner. . place for food rations.
The ongoing serious health crisis in Venezuela has deprived citizens of access to appropriate healthcare, whether public or private.
The Democrats’ letter was based on excerpts from a March radio interview with long-time failed presidential candidate and “opposition” leader Enrique Capriles Radonski, which was widely ridiculed. Capriles, who was banned from nomination for any post for 15 years by the Maduro regime in 2017, was one of the leading figures in the “opposition” that called for the lifting of sanctions against Maduro.
In April, a group of Venezuelan “opposition” leaders sent a similar letter to the Biden administration asking for sanctions against the Maduro regime to be lifted.
A recently published poll showed that nearly 80 percent of the Venezuelan population viewed the opposition as corrupt and did nothing to stop Maduro’s socialist regime.
Unlike Capriles and the Democrats, Héctor Rodriguez, president of the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VenAmCham), said recently that US sanctions did not affect Venezuela’s private sector. According to VenAmCham, Venezuela’s private exports to the US will increase by 80 percent by 2021.
It seems that the Democrats are listening not only to Capriles but also to Maduro’s arguments. The dictator attributed all Venezuela’s unrest to the so-called “economic war” waged by the US against his regime. One of the main pillars of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (USPV) narrative is to hold everyone accountable for US sanctions, including those imposed by the Obama administration on key members of the regime.
In March 2022, the Biden administration sent a delegation to Venezuela to discuss a possible oil deal with Maduro. This move was so disliked by everyone that the Biden administration abandoned the idea. The unpopular left-wing antics of the Democrats shifted Hispanic support to the Republican Party. Recently Wall Street Magazine The poll showed that Republicans now lead the country by nine points over Hispanic voters.
At the citizen level, life goes on in Venezuela, apart from some noticeable improvements in food availability. Anyone who dares to support sanctions against the Maduro regime in Venezuela can be charged with treason. If you make jokes on social media that will cause insults to regime officials, you will be accused of “hate speech” and forced to make a public apology.
There is no free media in Venezuela and most private media use self-censorship to survive. The disobedient are forgotten in crooked trials and their infrastructure is taken over by members of the socialist party. The Venezuelan regime, which has a near-monopoly over internet access in Venezuela, continues to block access to foreign and independent media and controls private ISPs to avoid losing their business licenses.
In the absence of any political solution offered by the opposition, Venezuelans really have two choices: stay and live as long as they can, or flee and face the growing xenophobia and uncertainty against Venezuelans in the region. The Venezuelan migrant crisis, in which more than 6 million people have fled socialism so far, has been temporarily slowed by the ongoing coronavirus travel restrictions in China and the continued increase in the visa regime for Venezuelan citizens. they cannot prevent you from receiving valid transfer documents on time.
As the “Opposition” and a group of Democrats essentially lobbied to sanction him, Nicolás Maduro also took the opportunity to try to delay the International Criminal Court’s investigation into crimes against humanity by his regime. Venezuelan. Its economy was destroyed by his regime, and he sought to rehabilitate his image both locally and internationally – choosing the language he “awakened” Western news on his social media posts to lure left-wing millennials to the US and portraying “relative” as “relative” through his personal account on China. platform Tik Tok.
Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernandez, was among the region’s left-wing leaders who began helping in the campaign to clean up Maduro’s image. Fernandez said he plans to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Maduro regime after his predecessor Mauricio Macri cut ties with Venezuela in 2019. Gustavo Petro, a left-wing candidate in Colombia’s upcoming presidential election, said his country would establish diplomatic relations with Venezuela if he wins. Maduro
The Biden administration still sees the Maduro regime as illegitimate, “marked by authoritarianism, intolerance of opposition, torture, arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killings and the violent and systematic suppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the detention of more than 300 military prisoners.” conscience.”
Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken continues to urge both the opposition and the socialist regime to continue negotiations.
Christian C. Caruso is a Venezuelan writer who documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
Source: Breitbart
