Shame on you, Bernie Sanders! And on you, too, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez!
Their statements about Venezuela reflect an incredible ignorance and may help President Trump win Florida — and perhaps even the presidential election — in 2020.
While the Democratic Party leadership is rightly supporting U.S. diplomatic and economic measures against Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro, Sanders and other members of his party’s Jurassic left wing are on the wrong side of the defence of democracy and human rights.
In a Jan. 24 response to Trump’s recognition of Venezuela’s National Assembly President Juan Guaidó as the country’s legitimate leader, Sanders echoed the Maduro propaganda line by warning that, “The United States has a long history of inappropriately intervening in Latin American countries. We must not go down that road again.”
