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UPDATED - News from Caracas early this morning woke up a lot of people. The exiled Venezuelans among those people are finding difficult to believe that Maduro and partner in crime Cilia have been captured and flown out of the country. Delcy Rodriguez has said that the U.S. has violated international law with the action, adding that Venezuela will never be under anyone's tutelage… This is where everyone can see just how completely deranged chavistas truly are, considering what they’ve been doing since 1999. International law, sovereignty, rule of law, democracy, these are all terms that are useful in a situation like this, but that have never been observed and followed by chavismo, or can anyone put an edible spin on Cuba’s tutelage over Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro? Can any of those now concerned with what will happen to Venezuela’s oil explain the tangible benefit that we got from the millions of barrels of oil gifted over the last 25 years to Cuba? We can only hope that Delcy, and her wretched brother, are also in the capture list.
This situation reminds us of Chavez’s death in 2013 and how, once it happened, a lot of people that had no skin in the game were perversely expecting our grieve. We were meant to grieve for the man who destroyed our country, and subjected all of us to years of unnecessary pain and hardship. Now we are meant to be concerned about the oil that Maduro and co have been using to prop up their most odious criminal regime.
For the record, the Trump administration is acting against a criminal enterprise called chavismo, not against Venezuela. Venezuela is a different thing. Venezuela is the more than 8 million people that have had to migrate to other countries because of chavismo’s reign of terror. Venezuela is the large majority of our countrymen that decided to stay, and that live an almost destitute, hand to mouth existence, deprived of inalienable human, civil and political rights. Venezuela is filled with victims of police brutality and widespread abuse by Maduro’s “law enforcement”, courts and military.
Venezuela’s regime change -if it comes to that- will be as unique as the last 26 years have been: a kakistocracy must be replaced by democracy. Where are examples of that? Where has a criminal organisation running a country been replaced by democratically elected officials? Please, do not insult our intelligence with claims about Trump’s invasion -to get Venezuela’s oil- when chavismo invited and allowed Cubans, Chinese, Russian, Iranians, Syrians, and some of the worse scum of the earth to plunder our resources. Do not insult us with scaremongering about the impending civil war that will destroy a country that has already been destroyed. Do not insult us with arguments of international law, sovereignty and right to self determination, when all we have heard about that when we decried what was actually happening in the last 26 years has been whataboutism and silence.
Expectedly, chavismo's tough talk about conflict preparedness turned out to be but a continuation of its endless proclamations, devoid of meaning and disconnected to reality. U.S. Army helicopters flew around Caracas completely unimpeded and did whatever they had to in order to capture Maduro. Hours later Diosdado Cabello was on TV saying the army and police forces had been working "all night long", repelling the invasion.
It is still early to determine how long the road to recovery is for nobody truly knows the magnitude of the clusterfuck chavismo will leave behind. Whatever comes, it will be a respite.
UPDATED: President Trump's press conference has confirmed that oil was the ultimate goal of his operation. He falsely claimed (unless he is specifically talking about Conoco) that Venezuela stole oil from America some 25 years ago (nationalisation of oil happened in 1976), that billions of dollars are due in compensation to American companies (again Conoco), that the U.S. is going to run Venezuela (even though as of this writing there are no U.S. military forces in the country), that Marco Rubio spoke to Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and that she has no other option but to comply to every last demand impossed by an about-to-be-designated team of American people (who will run Venezuela "judiciously" and along Delcy Rodriguez "make Venezuela great again"), Trump stated that Maria Corina Machado had no support in Venezuela, but that Delcy Rodriguez said to Rubio she is willing "to do whatever it takes" to bring Venezuela back to the fold, that this was the greatest military operation probably since WW2 (against a totally hapless, underfunded, unprofessional Venezuelan army with derelict equipment), that American companies are going to rebuild Venezuela's oil industry and basically bring prosperity, wealth, peace and happiness...
This is beyond shocking.
