The reputation of Gringos in Latin America is not always the best. This is mainly due to the fact that the U.S. does not have behavior in that region of the world, which for her was always her “backyard”, often very neighborly. And the situation in Venezuela is now, is quite tricky: U.S. President Donald Trump recognized the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó as the new transitional President and the Regime of Nicolás Maduro declared illegal. Thus, Trump has set the United States on one side in a domestic struggle for power. Other countries from the Region followed by the United States. However, other big players, have strategic interests in South America, Russia and China, keep to Maduro. This constellation involves any amount of escalation potential.
the United States are there, where you stand, however, is not surprising. The allegedly socialist regime in Venezuela – first of all, the former Paratrooper Hugo Chávez, his successor Maduro – served the United States as a popular scapegoat for their own incompetence and corruption. The former President Barack Obama went relatively calmly. But the Trump-government has tightened up the rhetoric significantly, the deeper it is, Venezuela has slipped in the past few years in the crisis.
again and again and harder and harder for US to have scourged representatives in the past years, the corrupt, dictatorial Maduro government. Venezuela was a kind of substitute Cuba. The remembered, for all the justified criticism of Maduro, and sometimes some of the old dark times, when the political orientation of a government was more important than their human rights record. Similar criticism of the corrupt, dictatorial government of an ally, like Egypt, was not heard from Washington in any case.
Opposition will not be encouraged
Although the United States called openly for regime change in Venezuela. But the Opposition was there to feel encouraged. Anyway, it was clear that the United States would not defend Maduro in the event of any sort of detachment.
according to Reports, Trump at meetings in the White house even, according to a military Intervention in Venezuela thought. So far it is not at the Moment, apparently, in the opinions of Washington is currently explicitly only of the speech, that the United States will use its “economic and diplomatic Power,” “democracy in Venezuela to restore”. Especially since it is totally unclear what objectives should serve as an Invasion. The US army marched around the year in 1989/90, an turning short, in Panama, the local dictator – and, as we learned later, the CIA-complementary – Manuel Noriega arrest. However, this was involved in a large scale in the drug trafficking of the Colombian cartels. This does not apply to Maduro.
Also a humanitarian is a justified Invasion, the US troops no longer ensure the supply of Venezuelans with food and medicines, so that the people flee, is hardly conceivable. The American soldiers were de facto occupiers, clashes with the Venezuelan army, which has yet to Maduro, programmed. And that Trumps conservative voters want a war with Venezuela, is doubtful. Not U.S. military operations for the protection of American citizens in the country are excluded. That Washington, Maduro’s statement is ignored, all US diplomats from Venezuela to deduct, prepare at least soil for it.
to freeze accounts
The United States, however, have much more effective methods than military force to take Venezuela’s ruling class in the pliers. For one, Washington could trace the accounts and assets of the Maduro values of the Elite in the United States and freeze them. This is likely to reduce the support for Maduro.
in Addition, it is the alleged enemy in the North is still one of the most important customers of the single Exportguts: oil. In the last year, sold to Venezuela every day to 58’000 barrels of crude oil and Oil products to the United States. Venezuela’s state Oil company PDVSA is also the majority owner of the Texas refinery company Citgo, which operates in the United States, a network of filling stations. Washington should attack Venezuela’s Oil export, would be for the old Regime is probably more dangerous than a military intervention.
Against this Background, the Citgo Management two years ago, the policy proved to be far-sighted. The company donated 500’000 dollars for the festivities on the occasion of the inauguration of Donald Trump.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 24.01.2019, 20:16 Uhr
