QatzelOk wrote:So JohnRawls, you must want the US sanctions to stop as much as I do so that Venezuelans can get back to rebuilding their nation.
Or do you want the US to follow up on its genocidal sanctions with a bombing and war campaign?
You're videos don't say anything about what you are proposing as a solution to Venezuela's sanction-caused misery. Do you propose that Venezuelans go their own way, and try to make alliances with all the other nations in the world while strengthening their resolve and building up their social solidarity even more?
Yes, the sanctions can be ended as soon as a free election is held under the supervision of the European Union, US, Russia and China etc.
Part of the problem is that the Venezuelan economy collapsed long before ANY sanctions were in place. So Maduro did what any person who wants to cling to power while having not enough real support does: he rigged the election, harassed the opposition and basically became a pariah of the region.
The problem of the economic situation of Venezuela is the regime who collapsed it and doesn't want to change or go away. It seems that without Maduro stepping down and letting somebody else rule for 4-5 years there won't be any real economic change. And whatever you like it or not, liberalism is the only choice for Venezuela to get a semblance of an economy back.
Why do we care so much about collapse of Venezuela? Well, the rest of the world and especially Venezuelan neighbours have to shoulder a big burden of that economic fallout. Not to mention nobody likes seeing people dying of starvation or lack of medicine due to the incompetence of Maduro who blatantly thinks that he has done nothing wrong.