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Monday, January 05, 2026

Dumb Move? 

Trump's capture of Maduro and elevation of Maduro's vice president leaves the US with a headache in Venezuela.  Trump says the US will run the country, but can it?  There is corruption at ever level and sanitizing Venezuela would require wholesale dismissals of thousands of bureaucrats and replacing them with hand-picked individuals, a lengthy and tedious job that could take years.  Venezuela's economy has been broken for a long time, how will the US get it started again?  Has removing Maduro stopped the drug boats?  And what of the US' reputation in South America?  Will governments there see the US as a Monroe Doctrine bully?  It's early yet but the intervention might yet look like a dumb move.


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