Al F from Brazil said (February 27, 2019):

Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, spent the Venezuelan wealth financing Cuba, Nicaragua, the FARC, Evo Morales and all the Left in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. But then came the crash of the oil price and the party was over.

As a Brazilian, it bewilders me that people like Tony B, who obviously hates Communism and Bolshevism, does not believe this is the case of Cuba (post-1959) and Venezuela (post-1999). I suggest Tony B spend a year in Venezuela and Cuba, but please don't forget to take toilet paper, alright!?

As for Brazil, yes!, I (and Marcos, too) have been as relieved with the victory of Bolsonaro in 2018 as Tony B has been relieved with the defeat of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016. What makes Tony B think that life in Cuba and Venezuela is better than life in the USA? or in Brazil?... When will the token ever drop for Tony B that we in Latin America don't want to live in an Orwellian Animal Farm?... And does he not know that Venezuela has turned into a narco state?

MARIO C said (February 26, 2019):

Socialism is not the matter in Venezuela. Chavez, unlike Trotzky, was a populist. The riches of Venezuela oil has to be for more poor people. Corruption yes as in all the world. All the Matter is about how USA reach the oil the gold and the coltan that has Venezuela. At least 50 per cent, maybe more support Maduro so if there is invasión there will be the blood of Venezuelan military and civilians. And this article support coup of state external and possible civil war.

I speak here in Buenos Aires with some Venezuelan immigrants. They love Chávez no so much Maduro. They tell me that Maduro really won the election. The opposition was not united and many do no go to vote. And Maduro has good support in most of the Venezuelan. Now 57 per cent think that Maduro is president and only 32 % support Guiado. 80% do not want any external intervention. So why intervention against Venezuela wish? Oil coltan gold. Is the Zionist or globalist wish to dominate the world. There is a war against Russia China and his allies. And Venezuela is one of the important allied of China Russia Irán. the same in middle East Irak.libya Yemen Syria Lebanon. And later Iran Russia and China.

1776 said (February 26, 2019):

Venezuela must be taken. To allow Maduro to stay in power means Islamic and communist forces now have a bastion on the mainland, along with Peru and Nicaragua, from which to destabilize the North. Russian and Chinese military bases are the next logical step there and cannot be allowed.

Maduro is a communist tyrant, which makes him a Satanist. Like the other isms, it is dangerous to free peoples. Satanism comes in many forms and has various names and guises. Islam is a false religion historically linked to pagan religions of the day. Paganism has many forms but only one root. The Soviet hammer and sickle, like the falsely named Star of David, are ancient occult symbols.

America as a nation has many faults, mostly which I lay at the feet of the Satanists who secretly control this country from behind the scenes. However, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, Venezuela was once a democracy with a stable economy. It is also close enough to the United States to do us real harm if Maduro receives the right weapons from Russia and China, which he will surely do next if not stopped. Had we acted quickly once we learned Castro was Communist perhaps the entire world would be better today?

Real communists are a very dedicated, capable, and dangerous group. They have no real conscience and the murder of innocents has no effect on them. Like a rabid dog, they simply can't be compromised with.

Will they fight if we go in, yes. Without the support of the people, they won't be able to sustain their fight. This would be doing the right thing for a population that is worth saving.

Tony B said (February 26, 2019):

"there is no need for American sanctions for them to destroy a country."

Tell me then, just why the hell are they doing it? Why are the bankers stealing Venezuela's gold to boot? All this amounts to crippling a national economy. Why do it if it has already been accomplished internally?

Can't buy this.

Methinks Marcos has an ax to grind here which is not exactly straight. Socialism, or its ruler, is not the basic issue here, the world's largest known pool of crude oil is ALL it is about, it wouldn't matter if God was the head of the country.

How does Marcos stand on Brazil right now? Is he happy that it has turned 100% prostitute to the Rothschild cabal running the U.S.? That is what he is advocating Venezuela return to, making certain that its citizenry will NEVER escape impoverishment while the same old criminal cabal and its hangers-on get even more super rich stealing the country's major natural resource.

Marcos' comments have a smell of some brand of sour grapes on this one.

Reader said (February 26, 2019):

The problem with Venezuela should not be viewed through ideological lenses but from a practical viewpoint. There is clearly an attempted coup underway, with Venezuela's oil as a prize. This is not going to be a painless corporate raid of the sort that Trump is used to. It has the potential of turning into a long and very bloody war along traditional Latin American lines, with reciprocal massacres.