Regime change in Venezuela

 Well this weekend has been exciting. I wonder if this blog post title will age well.

As of now the President of Venezuela, a man named Nicolas Maduro and his wife are in US custody. US Special Forces - actually the US Army Delta Force - went onto a military base in the national capital of Caracas and captured the first couple of Venezuela.

Also let's also state the official line from the Trump administration that President Maduro isn't considered the legitimate leader of this South American republican. The reasoning for his capture and the fact that he did stand in Federal court in New York is based on charges of "narcoterrorism"

We have 60 Minutes thanks to their new and recent editorial direction under Bari Weiss take on this issue. I will admit I've yet to see this segment so if you watch we'll be watching together. [VIDEO]

I had watched some of the President and the comments of this in his administration - including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense War. The President even evoked the Monroe Doctrine the whole idea of America hegemony over this hemisphere and the area of North & South America and keeping out the influence of other powers.

What has been discussed are the influences of Russia, China or even Iran. And Iran is especially is on notice and there has been protests there in recent weeks.

It's easy for me to compare this to invading Iraq, however, this was a short operation which took a matter of hours. Removed the head of state & gov't from power, physically from his nation. And now I see the President is saying the United States of America will run Venezuela until a transitional gov't is put into place.

I mentioned Iran having protests. There are Venezuelans who are celebrating Maduro's removal. They're celebrating here in America and there in Venezuela.

As evidenced by the previous administration opening up the border and seeing those migrants taking up shop here in Chicago during that time, it seems times weren't great in Venezuela. Many of these migrants were Venezuelan and sadly some of them were criminal. Something the current administration is attempting to clean up now.

We shall see how this develops. I would generally shy away from meddling in the affairs of other nations. Time will tell if this was the right move or even the right justification which may well including questions of Maduro's legitimacy as the Venezuela President.