Maduro’s “Paranoia” About U.S. Regime-Change in Venezuela

Maduro’s “Paranoia” About U.S. Regime-Change in Venezuela
by Jacob G. Hornberger
March 12, 2015

Good for the Venezuelan domestic opponents of President Nicolas Maduro. Although fiercely opposed to Maduro, they have come out publicly against President Obama’s meddling in Venezuela’s internal affairs. According to the Washington Post,

Opposition leaders, who generally are close with the United States, said they rejected the use of unilateral sanctions. “We appreciate and are grateful for the support of the international community, but we neither want nor accept that any of its members take on roles that are ours to assume,” read their statement.

“Just as we reject Cuba’s offensive meddling, we cannot support nor accept any other nation’s,” the statement continued. “This is a struggle among Venezuelans for Venezuela.”

That’s what I call a principled position, unlike the pure, good, old-fashioned hypocrisy that characterizes both U.S. officials and the U.S. mainstream press.

Consider, for example, the mainstream press’s mocking of Maduro for being paranoid about the possibility of a U.S. regime-change operation, one in which Maduro would be violently ousted from power and replaced with a pro-U.S. dictator.

Now, I’m certainly no expert on what constitutes paranoia in a clinical sense but even if Maduro is a paranoiac, that doesn’t necessarily mean that his concerns about U.S. interventionism are irrational. After all, U.S. officials don’t limit their extensive surveillance schemes and their regime-change operations to non-paranoid people. Recall their secret surveillance of Ernest Hemingway.

More:
http://fff.org/2015/03/12/maduros-paranoia-u-s-regime-change-venezuela/