Would The Deployment Of U.S. Soldiers To Venezuela Make Things Worse?

Wednesday’s rallies, like the one here in Caracas, attracted thousands of people, the latest in of a string of demonstrations against the increasingly autocratic rule of President Nicolás Maduro. Credit Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

James Stavridis, Time: I Commanded the U.S. Military in South America. Deploying Soldiers to Venezuela Would Only Make Things Worse

When I was Commander of U.S. Southern Command, I was in charge of all military-to-military operations south of the United States — from the insurgency in Colombia to disaster relief in Central America to dealing with tons of drugs flowing across the Caribbean Sea. But nothing worried me more than the direction of Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. He was stocked with petrodollars, far from a fan of America and dedicated to a half-baked socialist strategy he egotistically called “Chavismo.”

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WNU Editor: I do not see U.S. soldiers being deployed to Venezuela to overthrow the Maduro regime. There is no political will in Washington for such an action, and even less so among the American public. The crisis in Venezuela will need to be resolved by the Venezuelans themselves, with help from its neighbours in the form of diplomacy and sanctions.