{"id":41515,"date":"2023-01-03T13:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=41515"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:07:44","slug":"facing-the-failure-of-our-cruel-venezuela-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/03\/facing-the-failure-of-our-cruel-venezuela-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing the Failure of Our Cruel Venezuela Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuelan opposition legislators voted<\/a> last week to dissolve their interim government, and with that they have ended the project of trying to replace Maduro with Juan Guaid\u00f3:<\/p>\n

But nearly four years later and with little to show for the effort, the experiment has come to an end. On Friday, the opposition lawmakers who once rallied behind Guaid\u00f3 voted 72-29 to dissolve their so-called interim government, effectively ending his mandate. <\/i><\/p>\n

This was a long overdue move. Guaid\u00f3 never had control of anything outside the National Assembly in Venezuela, and eventually he didn\u2019t really have control over that. The U.S. made a major mistake in trying to foment regime change in Venezuela, and the backing of Guaid\u00f3 was a perfect example of why the policy never made any sense. The entire policy has been an exercise in wishful thinking and reckless meddling from the start. After four years of failure and worsening hardship for the Venezuelan people, there may now be a chance for a serious rethinking of this policy. <\/p>\n

Dumping Guaid\u00f3 was a necessary move, but it was one that should have been done years ago. Following almost four years of ineffective efforts to dislodge Maduro, Guaid\u00f3\u2019s standing with the Venezuelan people was terrible. According to one recent survey, his approval rating was 5%<\/a> and only 6% of Venezuelans would vote<\/a> for him as a candidate for president. All the time that was spent offering him up as the alternative and \u201clegitimate\u201d president of Venezuela was a waste, and now the opposition will be back more or less to square one with even less political capital and goodwill than they had before. It will take years to repair the damage done by being so openly aligned with the US economic war that has been waged against Venezuela, and that can\u2019t really begin until the economic war is brought to an end. <\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at SubStack<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Larison is a weekly columnist for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia<\/a>. He is former senior editor at<\/i> The American Conservative. He has been published in the<\/i> New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and<\/i> Culture11, and was a columnist for<\/i> The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venezuelan opposition legislators voted last week to dissolve their interim government, and with that they have ended the project of trying to replace Maduro with Juan Guaid\u00f3: But nearly four years later and with little to show for the effort, the experiment has come to an end. On Friday, the opposition lawmakers who once rallied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-41515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"After four years of failure and worsening hardship for the Venezuelan people, there may now be a chance for a serious rethinking of this policy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41517,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41515\/revisions\/41517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}