{"id":396043,"date":"2019-02-17T06:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/enough-western-meddling-and-interventions-let-the-venezuelan-people-decide\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T05:08:18","slug":"enough-western-meddling-and-interventions-let-the-venezuelan-people-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/enough-western-meddling-and-interventions-let-the-venezuelan-people-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Western Meddling and Interventions: Let the Venezuelan People Decide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>American politicians from the two main parties have finally found something to agree upon: more intervention in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, despite (President Nicolas) Maduro, there is hope (in Venezuela)\u201d,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2019\/02\/01\/dick-durbin-maduro-putin-trump-guaido-venezuela-column\/2735516002\/\">wrote<\/a> Democratic Senator, Dick Durbin, in USA Today. \u201cThese events (meaning the current political instability in the country) are a welcome development of Latin American nations defending democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s picked a battle he can\u2019t win,\u201d Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/26\/world\/americas\/marco-rubio-venezuela.html\">said<\/a>, referring to Maduro in an interview, quoted in the <em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of time. The only thing we don\u2019t know is how long it will take \u2013 and whether it will be peaceful or bloody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This unprecedented unity between Democrats and Republicans reflects an American legacy that precedes the current Donald Trump Administration by nearly two centuries. In fact, it goes much further and deeper than the US hegemonic approach to South America, to encompass the entire Western political hemisphere, with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/20190205\/italy-blocks-eu-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-juan-guaido\">exception<\/a> of Italy, Norway and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The West\u2019s love-affair with intervention has little to do with restoring democracy, either in Venezuela, or anywhere else. \u2018Democracy\u2019 has been used throughout the 20th century as a tool that provided legal and moral rationalization for US and Western meddling. It matters little to Western leaders that Maduro was elected in presidential elections deemed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/pretoria-news\/maduro-in-olive-branch-call-to-parties-15101597\">\u2018transparent<\/a>\u2018 by international observers in May&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/enough-western-meddling-and-interventions-let-the-venezuelan-people-decide\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American politicians from the two main parties have finally found something to agree upon: more intervention in Venezuela. \u201cNow, despite (President Nicolas) Maduro, there is hope (in Venezuela)\u201d,\u00a0wrote Democratic Senator, Dick Durbin, in USA Today. \u201cThese events (meaning the current political instability in the country) are a welcome development of Latin American nations defending democracy.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}