Against the background of today’s events in Venezuela, one once again has to marvel at the political naïveté of some people and the hypocrisy of others. People whine about the attack on a democratic state without considering that the leader of that state stole the results of democratic elections and effectively established a junta, no different from what Cuba has long represented, and which once led to intervention in Panama’s internal affairs and to the capture of the despot Noriega.
It is ironic that the term “democracy” has become synonymous with an etymological violation.
Let us look at the names of states: Congo, North Korea, Laos, Ethiopia, Cuba, and the former East Germany —
all of them have hidden behind the term democracy without providing any justification for its meaning, which originates in Ancient Rome. In none of these countries has the bearer of democracy — the people — had any rights at all. Hunger, power outages, suppression of opinion, and lack of clean water characterize them all.
Therefore, I consider one of Trump’s only truly correct decisions to be that he has today taken the former bus driver and oppressor of the people, Maduro, into custody and is dragging him before a court. That’s how it is. That’s all.
— Andres Peets, Facebook
