One more operation that fails

One more operation that fails
By Emir Sader: Everything was programmed. It would be the consecration of the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela. He was awaited by the vice president of the United States, US parliamentarians, US warplanes. with a shipment of aid, three Latin American presidents.

He was taken by a Colombian helicopter, but he said it came out by the Venezuelan military. The media inflated the number of Venezuelan soldiers who had defected and who had reported to the Colombian authorities. From two to 60. Prelude to the breakdown of the Venezuelan Army.

A great mutlitude would come from the side of Venezuela. With the complicity of the Venezuelan military who would heed the call of the self-proclaimed, the borders would be opened and the trucks sent from the US would enter. A ship had left Puerto Rico in the direction of a Venezuelan port, with another aid package. The self-proclaimed, flanked by three Latin American presidents, in addition to the US delegation, would be taken directly into the presidential palace, with humanitarian aid, which would solve the problems of the Venezuelan people once and for all.

But nothing turned out as planned. There was no caravan and concentration of followers of the self-proclaimed Venezuelan side. The ship returned to Puerto Rico. The borders were closed. Although affirming that he did not recognize the rupture of relations on the part of the Venezuelan government, because he recognizes another president, the Colombian leader Ivan Duque called his staff back - according to Maduro's expulsion decision - as if he recognized the royal government in Venezuela.

The same self-proclaimed called for the reopening of borders. He did it by recognizing the real power of Maduro, to whom he was addressing. If he were a true president, he would decide to reopen the borders and not ask for it.

The self-proclaimed and their mentors have played everything for everything. They believed that the diplomatic siege was enough, that the appeal to a humanitarian aid and pressures towards the Venezuelan military would suffice to decide the fight. They were too thirsty to the well. And they went wrong.
 
The farce that there would be another president in Venezuela was clear. They have taken their fake news for reality and mounted the great circus of Cúcuta. The landscape after the battle could not be worse for them. There is no longer a self-proclaimed president in Venezuela. Now he is an asylee in Colombia or in the USA. The appeal to diplomatic isolation was exhausted. The European Union itself called for a negotiated, peaceful solution to the Venezuelan conflict. Even the Brazilian government has backed off from its aggressive position. His vice president has declared that the country will not participate in any aggressive action against Venezuela.

The American intervention is scandalous. They try, as always, to face some Latin Americans against others. They send their vice president to settle in the border of Venezuela, as if they did not have so many problems, even in their southern border. It is a government without international prestige to play an adventure of that kind. The Latin American presidents who accompany him, like those of Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, are marked as lackeys of a decadent empire, which does not manage to resolve the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but wants to enter another, in the heart of a region that had ended military conflicts in its midst.

There are not two presidents in Venezuela. Maduro is the only president. Which does not mean that the country's problems are in the process of being resolved. Neither the threats will end, nor the serious internal problems, exploited by the right inside and outside the country. They are in the process of resolution. The same international isolation, particularly in Latin America and in Europe, is a problem that the Maduro government has to face, with new proposals for pacifying the internal climate and resolving internal political impasses, even for the government to be able to concentrate in the economic problems of the country.

One more US operation, supported by subaltern governments of Latin America, fails. But it has contributed to further muddy the climate in the continent, whose rulers play Trump's game of seeking in Venezuela a scapegoat for the serious internal problems that none of them is in a position to solve.