Venezuela Regime Change: Better Late Than Never

[TomSea]

Venezuela Regime Change: Better Late Than Never
Jamie Dettmer

Washington and European nations are echoing demands of Venezuelan protesters for socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to step down and give way for 35-year-old national assembly head Juan Guaido to act as Venezuela’s interim president while new elections are organized.

But some say Western moves against Maduro have been late in coming. As Venezuela plunged deeper into chaos, the West held back from adopting forceful measures to put pressure on Maduro to end repression.

Washington instead urged the country’s opposition leaders to negotiate with Maduro to try to halt Venezuela’s slide into chaos. But Maduro toyed with outside offers of mediation and last year shunned Western pleas to negotiate, staging what was widely seen as a sham presidential election in which leading opposition candidates and parties were banned.

Read more at: https://www.voanews.com/a/venezuela-better-late-than-never/4773443.html

[Fishrrman]

Bring in this guy:

He'll "change" things.