A VENEZUELAN Prediction

For Wednesday-January 30th TODAY!!
{Updated: A Sad Prediction}

     The photo above shows Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez at the podium on Friday-January 25th, surrounded by top Generals and Admirals, vowing loyalty to President Nicolas Maduro. But I believe Lopez is about to cave in and support the U.S.-backed and self-avowed President Juan Guaido, eliminating Maduro. Lopez will, I believe, accept amnesty. He fears facing international charges and the fact that Canada is among the nations siding with the U. S. position has tilted Lopez's flip-flop. The military was Maduro's last hope...and Lopez has concluded that neither Russia nor China will sufficiently support his Venezuelan military against U.S. forces.

     I am abundantly aware that change in Venezuela is both inevitable and badly needed. However, the quartet above -- Trump-Rubio-Pompeo-and-Bolton -- SHOULD NEVER be perceived as the prime perpetrators of the Venezuelan changes. Their extreme anti-Cuban biases and greed should rule them out and allow more decent humans to predicate Venezuela's immediate fate. But if this quartet is perceived as the key instigators, which appears possible, the ashes of the everlasting aftermaths will be especially bloody and far bloodier than necessary. It appears that Rubio-led war-mongers are awaiting some pretext, or excuse, to launch the military equation that will oust Maduro, with U. S. forces in both Colombia and Brazil primed. The New York Times has a major article  written by Peter Baker and Edward Wong entitled: "On Venezuela, Rubio Assumes U. S. Role of Ouster-in-Chief." And that's a tragedy. A smarter, more decent, and less biased person than Rubio is sorely needed in Washington to delicately direct America's inclusion in the Venezuelan process. But that's why, taking advantage of Trump's myriad of unquenchable problems, that Rubio has incredibly maneuvered extreme anti-Cuban war-mongering zealots like Bolton and Pompeo into his mouthpieces regarding Western Hemisphere operations. In other words, God Help the Western Hemisphere and what remains of the American democracy.

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