'i Won't Fight': Venezuela's Call to Arms Falls Flat
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The Venezuelan government's call to arms against opposition forces has been met with apathy, highlighting the regime's waning influence and control, with commenters discussing the implications of such actions on the country's stability.
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> Maduro, who started a third term in January after an election widely denounced as a sham, signed a decree on Monday granting him additional, unspecified security powers.
From before
- https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155)
And he's been jailing protestors without due process and censoring media for a while.
- 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/americas/venezuela-... (https://archive.ph/Ljgvs, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14325532)
- 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140706094137/http://www.busine... (original link dead, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7241722)
I'm conflicted on US involvement in foreign nations given our past, but I have neither sympathy for nor support Maduro's government.