{"id":614,"date":"2019-02-26T22:48:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:48:55","slug":"venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is wrong for the US government to be attempting once again to force a &#8220;regime change&#8221; in a foreign country.  Especially in Latin America, given our history.  Especially when the nominated replacement didn&#8217;t even run in the disputed election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, we&#8217;re imposing our will by the cynical provision of humanitarian aid.  IMHO, this is intended to force a confrontation between civilians in Venezuela who badly need the aid and the Venezuelan military, whereupon the US military will intervene to &#8220;save lives&#8221;.  For this reason, the aid donations have been denounced by other aid NGOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is legitimate for US politicians to comment on the mismanagement of other countries (although somewhat hypocritical, as <a href=\"https:\/\/brandnewcongress.org\/trump-and-members-of-both-parties-challenge-sovereignty-in-venezuela\">https:\/\/brandnewcongress.org\/trump-and-members-of-both-parties-challenge-sovereignty-in-venezuela<\/a> points out), to offer aid without forcing it, to offer help hosting a fair election.  That doesn&#8217;t appear to be what we&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is wrong for the US government to be attempting once again to force a &#8220;regime change&#8221; in a foreign country. Especially in Latin America, given our history. Especially when the nominated replacement didn&#8217;t even run in the disputed election. This time, we&#8217;re imposing our will by the cynical provision of humanitarian aid. IMHO, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}