Venezuela is under heavy sanctions. The country is in bankruptcy.
However, the biggest concern of the Venezuelan government is that members of the armed forces and others conducting the repression of thousands of Venezuelans may no longer be loyal to the Maduro regime.
Read MoreSeven months after proposing the economic plan for the solution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the Trump administration presented a political plan — one which is substantially different than the previous ones and to a certain extent revolutionary.
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The killing of Quds Force leader Qassim Soleimani and its aftermath turned into a huge, misleading farce. In this farce an important sector of American public officials, media, and others fell into the trap of a public relations campaign orchestrated by the Islamic Republic.
The United States must reevaluate its policy towards Venezuela.
A unified international coalition of the Organization for American States (OAS) and a group of Latin American countries backing sanctions and the isolation of Venezuela, combined with social protests and a finally unified opposition under the leadership of Juan Guaido, has generated anxiety and defection within the Venezuelan state apparatus.
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The violent protests in Chile surprised even the wisest observers of South American events. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa notes Chile’s hugely successful economy, and three decades of harmonious co-existence between right and left, with a strong political center, has supported private enterprise and international trade.
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