Could Venezuela be on the brink of a civil war as bloody as Syria?

If we don’t want a Syrian disaster on our front door, if we don’t want millions of displaced individuals flowing across the America’s, we need to take notice and action now. We need to make the Venezuelan food crisis a top priority of our foreign policy. Solving this crisis must include international organizations like the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC

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In other words black mail.  We need to stay out of it and close our borders.

Sometimes it's best to be on the right side of history. Perhaps it would be best if we airdropped food, firearms and Spanish translations of the works of John Locke or other natural rights proponents. Then again, mebbe all 535 members of Congress should be rereading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States instead of Das Kapital or we could become the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Norte.

The US has attempted  to form a program to relieve the food shortages. Maduro has rejected the attempt.  Sometimes, its best to let the children relearn lessons the hard way.  Just keep the Chinese and Russians out. 

The author of the opinion piece believes Maduro will fix the problems in if the West enables him.  But, Maduro is the continuation of the problem - corrupt socialist leadership. 

OldSalt posted:

The author of the opinion piece believes Maduro will fix the problems in if the West enables him.  But, Maduro is the continuation of the problem - corrupt socialist leadership. 

Progressives regressives believe the same old fix will always cure the ills of a socialist Kleptocracy: find new rich people to rob! The problem is that they will always run out of other people's money and have to chose between overrunning their neighbors for other people's money or collapse. 

Someone might want to warn US voters about reality or in a decade or three we might be in the same boat.