Venezuela crisis: Maduro to close border with Brazil

[ripcord]

Source: BBC

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced he is closing the border with Brazil on Thursday night as a row over foreign humanitarian aid continues.

The embattled leftist leader went on TV to say that he was also considering shutting the border with Colombia to stop the opposition bringing in relief.

He denies any crisis and calls the aid delivery plans a US-orchestrated show.

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó is leading a convoy to the Colombian border from the capital Caracas.

Mr Guaidó declared himself interim leader during anti-government protests last month and is recognised by dozens of foreign states.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-latin-america-47325201

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Typical dictator, people are starving and he is turning down help because of his ego, has anyone else noticed from recent pics he isn't missing any meals?

[mr_lebowski]

1. Seriously doubt the dude has the troops at his disposal to shut down 1 of these borders, let alone

both of them. That is a LOT of area. Could maybe shut down major roads, but the whole border? Doubt that's happening.

[dogman]

2. Maybe he's finishing his wall.

T-Rump shows anyone can do it.

[ripcord]

3. I'm afraid this is coming to a head

I'm really hoping the Venezuelan military will refuse orders to fire on Guaidó and his supporters.

[Hulk]

4. I wanted to believe him, but he is no Hugo Chavez..

I'm sad to see what's happened to Venezuela. I HATE to see the United States get involved at all with this. It seems more an issue for the Latin American countries to deal with....South America, the UN perhaps, Central American countries and maybe even the Vatican. But I think we all know what to expect with this desperate piece of shit sleeping in the White House. He is looking for a distraction from his own corruption and crime, and getting involved in a Latin American country on the brink of ruin is just what the doctor ordered.

Please, get it straightened out before our idiot sends in our young soldiers to die for his fucked up ego.

[Recursion]

6. We're their biggest trading partner and the hemispheric hegemon

"Not getting involved" isn't really a meaningful phrase here.

[Hulk]

8. Militarily....

I realize we are pulling the same sort of punitive game to Venezuela that we employ with other adversaries, real and imagined. We have been starving Cuba since the 60’s, Iran since dRumpf and before the nuclear agreement, North Korea since the 50’s, and the list goes on.

Our government pretends we are concerned for “the poor people”, yet we employ embargoes to make life unbearable for them. Reminds me of the “pro-birthers” logic.

[Recursion]

12. We first sanctioned Venezuela three weeks ago

You can't blame the collapse of the country on that

[Igel]

14. Rather like what Chavez did.

Made a big deal out of sending heating oil to where was that, Maine?

Presumably he had in mind the goal he suspects food aid to Venezuela would have--a hostile act intended to undermine the other country's government.

[Maxheader]

5. Why Venezuela?

Wish them well in their current turmoils...They seem to always be, either in the process of being overthrown or overthrowing...

But why is the yellow haired coward involving americu in their problems?

Why not help the Ukrainians? How about the dictatorships in africa?

[yaesu]

7. We were involved in the failed coup attempt to remove president Hugo Chavez in 2002

But the US has a long history of intervention in Latin America
https://www.yachana.org/teaching/resources/interventions.html

[EX500rider]

13. Scant proof the US had much hand in it.

"Chávez would also state after the coup that there was "little evidence" that the United States orchestrated the plan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt#Allegations_of_US_involvement

[Hulk]

9. You mean those "shit hole countries."??

Africa?? You mean nations of colored people???? Seriously? Even before this idiot’s reign, we couldn’t care less about dark skinned populations.

[hack89]

15. Their problems are completely self inflicted.

It would be difficult to deliberately wreck an economy like they have done through hubris and incompetence.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Where are our resident Maduro defenders?

Including that one DUer who literally said that the poor ought to go cross the Colombian border themselves to pick up their own aid(!)

[NurseJackie]

11. Missing no meals indeed!