5 Things under-reported at the Summit of the Americas

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3. Not only a "threat" but a "national emergency" (!)

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Anti-war Republican writer Justin Raimondo -hardly a leftist- explains how these absurdities give Maduro more political ammunition at home than Venezuela's small military has in its entire arsenal. Beyond the declaration's usefulness as legal cover for large-scale covert operations against Venezuela (which are otherwise illegal, even if smaller scale ops are frequently conducted anyway), a lot of it is sheer politics. As Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, notes:

"Obama needs to flex his own beach brawn – and he’s betting that playing hardball with Venezuela will blunt the Beltway condemnation on Cuba. It certainly helps placate the people who will say he’s soft on the Latin American left."

*http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2015/03/12/is-venezuela-really-a-threat-to-us-national-security/