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25 thoughts on Venezuelan regime change - by Ben

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On January 2nd, I was walking around London with a friend and explaining the new Trump Monroe Doctrine. “We’re probably going to do regime change in Venezuela, and who knows what else,” I said. “It’ll likely go better than Iraq and Afghanistan, but who knows.” At 11am the next morning, I saw the news about the US military operation and capture of Maduro. As the resident Latin America expert among my friends, a few people reached out for my takes. For context, I studied Latin American Studies in college and make an effort to keep up with Latin American politics via El Pais and the newspapers of other countries when I travel there. Venezuela was still somewhat admired as an anti-imperialist stronghold by lefty academics during the early Maduro years when I did my degree. As I wrote about here, my fallout with leftism was largely catalyzed by my horrors when I learned more about socialism in Venezuela. I won’t touch on why Venezuela is bad in this post, but one fun fact: Maduro supported

On January 2nd, I was walking around London with a friend and explaining the new Trump Monroe Doctrine. “We’re probably going to do regime c hange in Venezuela, and who knows what else,” I said. “It’ll likely go better than Iraq and Afghanistan, but who knows.” At 11am the next morning, I saw the news about the US military operation and capture of Maduro. As the resident Latin America expert among my friends, a few people reached out for my takes. For context, I studied Latin American Studies in college and make an effort to keep up with Latin American politics via El Pais and the…

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