Cracks appear in U.S. bipartisan unity on Venezuela

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MAY 2, 2019 / 5:45 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Cracks appear in U.S. bipartisan unity on Venezuela

Patricia Zengerle, Matt Spetalnick
5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s tough approach to Venezuela has won broad support from both Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress, but this rare display of bipartisan consensus is starting to show signs of strain as the crisis in the OPEC nation drags on.

Members of both parties remain in agreement that Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolas Maduro must go. They credit the Trump administration for helping to forge an international coalition that recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president.

But after Guaido’s latest calls for a military uprising and street protests failed to oust Maduro this week, some Democrats urged the administration to work more closely with foreign allies to choke off Maduro’s cash flow and to tone down its rhetoric, particularly threats of military action.

Cracks in bipartisan cooperation on Venezuela - a rare bright spot for the Republican president, who has seldom drawn support for his policies from across the aisle - came amid signs of disappointment within the administration over what many had hoped would be a turning point in the crisis.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-usa/cracks-appear-in-u-s-bipartisan-unity-on-venezuela-idUSKCN1S828V

[denverbill]

1. It's a shame there isn't a party which opposes the US staging coups of democratic regimes.

Reminds me of the Iraq war resolution which every major Democrat supported and only a handful, such as Paul Wellstone, Russ Feingold, Bernie Sanders, Howard Dean, and Ted Kennedy opposed.

Here's another chance for 2020 Presidential candidates to show who they side with.

[malaise]

2. Ditto

It's almost comical watching the beneficiary of the 2016 coup who is currently violating the US Constitution telling other countries about democracy. That there is bipartisan support explains the US mess.
Jimmy Carter is right.

[tritsofme]

3. Is Maduro's Venezuela an example of a "democratic regime"? lol

[denverbill]

4. Yes. Here are examples of some which are not:

1) North Korea
2) Saudi Arabia
3) Russia
4) Egypt
5) Dozens of others

The Venezuelan opposition boycotted the election then cried foul because they lost and your buddy Bolton decided it was time for a coup, which he tried in 2002 and failed miserably.

If you want to stage a coup, why not against Saudi Arabia since they are responsible for 9-11 and their leader had an American journalist murdered in cold blood for having the temerity to criticize the Saudi government. THAT'S a dictatorship.

[Blue_Tires]

5. We're about to hang Guaido out to fuckin' dry, aren't we?