What's up with Biden and Venezuela?

[Cinnabar]

After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, the incoming Biden administration invited Carlos Vecchio – a coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General’s office – to its inaugural ceremony.

The Biden team’s decision to invite Vecchio was a disappointing sign to those hoping the new administration would break from Trump’s failed and destructive policy of recognizing Guaidó as Venezuela’s leader. In the two years since Washington appointed the previously unknown opposition figure to lead its attempt at regime change, Guaidó has failed to rally public support in Venezuela or gain control of any government ministry. The country’s military remains loyal to President Nicolás Maduro and the United Nations still recognizes the Maduro government’s authority.

Beyond giving the appearance that Biden will continue the Trump Administration’s doomed Venezuela policy, Vecchio’s presence at the presidential swearing-in ceremony was filled with irony. In the days following the Capitol riot, Biden and his allies have denounced the violent takeover of Congress as an assault on democracy, with the incoming president himself declaring the rioters to be “domestic terrorists.”

Yet Carlos Vecchio, the Guaidó ally with a fresh ticket to Biden’s inauguration, is responsible for leading his own assault on his home country’s democracy – and is currently wanted in Venezuela for inciting a violent attack on the Attorney General’s office in Caracas.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/17/b...olent-assault/

So disappointing Joe but so not surprising. The half bowl of sh*t won out over Trumps entire bowl.

'Pure Sadism': Biden Blasted for Continuing Trump's Recognition of Guaidó Coup Regime and Deadly Sanctions in Venezuela
"How about a new Good Neighbor Policy on non-interference?" asked CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin.

In a perpetuation of Trump administration policy and nearly two centuries of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, told senators Tuesday that the United States will continue to recognize the coup leader Juan Guaidó as legitimate president of Venezuela.

Common Dreams reported Wednesday that the global left-wing activist group Progressive International called on the Biden administration to end sanctions on countries including Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela, which the group said are targeted because "they don't fall in line" with Washington's "global political and economic agenda."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...oup-regime-and

[NiftyNiblick]

Vecchio means "old" in Italian. It's not a Spanish word. That would be antiguo, I think. [I don't speak Spanish.]

Maybe Biden, who's older than every president elected after 1988, just finds comfort in the name.
Just as I, an Italian-American, know a few Yiddish words, Biden, as an Irish-American, probably knows a few Italian words. [Although pasta would be more likely than vecchio.]

Or maybe there's another reason.
At least he isn't the pigfucker Trump.
Let's settle for that for a while.

[anatta]

Blinken is a globalist interventionist -but he's not stupid.
He recognizes the policy of recognizing Guaidó as Venezuela’s leader isnt happening.

Maduro is in with the army

[T. A. Gardner]

Does it involve a bribe? I bet it involves a big bribe. Will Hunter be the bagman for that too?