Gustavo Coronel
The
Senate of the United States demands the application of the Inter
American Democratic Charter to the Maduro regime. President Macri of
Argentina says that a solution to the
Venezuelan tragedy cannot wait any longer. Peru’s
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski speaks strongly against the Venezuelan
regime. OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro has intensified
his criticism of the Venezuelan dictatorship. The new U.S. President
has received the wife of Leopoldo Lopez, the top leader of the
Venezuelan opposition, who is in prison.
Tom Shannon keeps silent.
Venezuelan
political leaders sanctioned by the U.S. now include the vice president
Tareck El Aissami, who claims to lack financial means but can pay for
a $150,000 full page ad in the New York Times to try to refute the U.S.
allegations. Some of the main political leaders of the Venezuelan
regime have already been fingered as criminals by the U.S. authorities:
Maduro as a dictator, his family as drug traffickers,
Diosdado Cabello has been identified as a drug lord by the U.S. press,
El Aissami has been sanctioned by the department of Justice as a money
launderer and drug kingpin, and Reverol, the Minister of the Interior,
as a drug trafficker.
It
seems clear that an intervention of the Venezuelan dictatorship is in
the works. European parliaments are showing clear support of the move.
Few, if
any, world leaders still talk of a “dialogue” as a solution to the
Venezuelan political and social tragedy.
Action
by the OAS can be expected any moment now. It would seem that enough
support for this move has finally been obtained due to the change in
posture
by the United States. The death of Fidel Castro seems to have broken
the spell that Cuba exerted over the region and, even, over the United
States Department of State. ALBA is getting noticeably weaker due to
lack of Venezuelan money.
The
time for a regional intervention of the Venezuelan regime has come.
This intervention will not be military but political and economic. The
Venezuelan
regime will be isolated in the region and sanctions will be applied.
Russia
and China will remain, for a short while, as allies of Maduro but they
also realize that the writing for chavismo is on the wall. China will
choose
not to risk her links to the U.S. to protect a dead regime. In the
context of U.S.-Russia relationships the Venezuelan regime is very
expendable.
Intervention in Venezuela: coming soon to a theater near you.
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