from MintPress News
Despite progressive critics and anti-war voices speaking
forcefully against the Trump administration’s overt backing of the
attempted coup d’état by rightwing opposition forces in Venezuela on
Tuesday, 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden aligned himself with the
White House by throwing his support behind the overthrow effort.
“The violence in Venezuela today against peaceful protesters is criminal,” Biden tweeted on
Tuesday. “Maduro’s regime is responsible for incredible suffering. The
U.S. must stand with the National Assembly & Guaidó in their efforts
to restore democracy through legitimate, internationally monitored
elections.”
But what Biden embraced as an effort to “restore democracy,” many
foreign policy experts—ones not willing to give the benefit of the doubt
to people like national security advisor John Bolton, Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo, and President Donald Trump—called something else
entirely: a violent effort by Venezuela’s rightwing elites, led by Juan
Guaidó, to overthrow the elected government of President Nicolas Maduro...
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