With upcoming elections scheduled for July 28, the United States is working overtime to dislodge the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro. Ten individuals are vying for the position, including nine in opposition to Maduro, who heads a coalition of 13 leftist groups.
*Washington, though, has made clear that its preferred candidate is 74-year-old retired diplomat Edmundo González, and s spending big, bankrolling a myriad of opposition organizations, from political parties to NGOs and media outlets, all with the same goal in mind: ousting Maduro and returning Venezuela into the U.S. sphere of influence.
Funny didn’t have a conniption fit when Russia tried to influence an election here in the states. But it’s A-OK when we do it?
Maduro is a bum and a thief. But let the Venezuelans sort out their politics I say.
Of course the fact that Venezuela is sitting on a BIG pool of heavy crude has no effect upon US actions.