Biden Should Open His Eyes to Reality when it comes to Policy toward Venezuela

 

The “new” Biden strategy toward Venezuela is to drop the Trump administration’s insistence on regime change as a precondition for talks with the Maduro government as a more realistic path to achieving regime change. If I were Maduro, I would say from the outset ‘I’m willing to talk about anything including cultural exchanges and even policy toward foreign investments, but issues dealing with politics IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

The Webinar on Venezuela’s recent parliamentary elections organized by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) in which I participated along with several electoral observers (Margaret Flowers and Danny Shaw) reported that there was absolutely no evidence of electoral fraud nor were there any significant incidents.

The true winner was the bloc consisting of the Chavistas and the moderate anti-abstentionist opposition since the elections put the lie to the claim of illegitimacy put forward by Washington and the European Union. Try comparing Venezuela’s December 6 elections with the presidential ones held one month earlier in the United States!

https://www.coha.org/steve-ellner-at-coha-webinar-parliamentary-elections-are-a-victory-for-chavismo-and-the-moderate-opposition/