A lot of ordinary people in Venezuela didn’t like Maduro, and neither did a lot of the high and mighty outside Venezuela. From Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:
Nicolás Maduro’s downfall and the future of the West…
“Maduro, whom I met, is a dictator, plain and simple.”
~ Joe Biden
Whoa! What a difference a year makes!
On January 10, waaay back in the Olden Days of 2025, Joe Biden’s totally qualified press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, threw some baitfish to the seal-clapping propagandists performing in the White House press cesspool.
There she explained, in no uncertain terms and using her very best “serious Obama” voice, the Biden administration’s tough, no-nonsense stance on Nicolás Maduro, a man the administration openly and repeatedly labeled an “illegitimate” president:
“Let us quickly turn to Venezuela, where Maduro once again demonstrated his complete disregard for democratic norms and proceeded with his illegitimate inauguration.
“As President Biden emphasized earlier, during his meeting with President Elect, Edmundo González, on Monday January 6, we believe that it is essential that the will of the Venezuelan people is respected.”
Jean-Pierre then went on to announce that the reward money for information that led to Maduro’s arrest, as part of the United States’ “narcotics rewards program,” would be increased to $25 million.
Gee… for a moment there, it almost seemed like they wanted the man arrested or something? That they did not recognize his legitimacy as Venezuelan president. That rather than a pillar of democracy, Biden & Co. considered him a threat to it.
The vast intellect of the CPUSA (D) Jo Jo Brandon tunes in.
Why is a narco state our problem?
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