Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said Saturday, January 3, the “hour of freedom” had arrived for her country after the United States seized strongman Nicolas Maduro, but was criticized by the US president, who said she “doesn’t have the respect.”
At a press conference, Trump scotched any expectation that Machado should emerge as Venezuela’s new leader. “I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country,” Trump told a news conference. He indicated he could instead work with Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, saying “she’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.”
So reading between the lines she thought Trump was on her side but she forgot Trump actually works for Putin. Is that it? Is what is happening here?
Why would Putin want one of his biggest sources of oil gone? Please, the “he works for Putin” rhetoric might have been true or at least made sense during his first administration, but now? No, this is a full GOP imperialist move, with a touch of Trumpist megalomania. It’s what the right-wing-led US has historically done for the better part of the last century. Tons of very powerful people in very powerful places will be getting a ton more money out of this, and Putin isn’t one of them.