i've been saying for years that this is the underlying reality in venezuela: if they wanted maduro gone, they'd put up a blockade and he'd be gone in days. but, then what?

you have to wonder what it was like to live in carthage around the beginning of the common era. for, you surely knew the history. and, yet you realized your place in the empire.

however mithradatic chavez may have been, maduro does not have the same military background and will not survive such a coup - but i can't fathom how creating instability in the country is in any way in america's interests.

i don't know what the white house was planning, exactly, but i doubt it would have amounted to much, in the first place.

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