Three reasons Chicagoans should resist Trib's call for regime change in Venezuela

Three reasons Chicagoans should resist Trib's call for regime change in Venezuela

The Trib's editorial '3 reasons Chicagoans have a stake in Venezuelans' plight' should send a chill down down the back of every Chicagoan who reads it. But it's not the chill from the Trib's fear its 'chicken little' sky is falling warning that US efforts to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro might fail. It's the chill of a major media outlet unconscionably supporting out of control US government exceptionalism on the world stage Here are three real reasons Chicagoans have a stake in Venezuela's worsening crisis:

1. Promoting regime change is immoral, indeed criminal, except against a nation directly attacking the US . The Trib has never resisted any US effort to destabilize nations it doesn't like, or simply won't do US bidding, which now numbers 68 since the end of WWII. Millions are dead, wounded or made homeless by this destructive policy which always ends if failure, regardless whether the strongman we've targeted is no longer around. Just ask the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. But when Uncle Sam declares a new regime change target, the Trib falls right in line.

2. Crippling economic sanctions to effect regime change represents a crime against humanity. The Trib should demand an end to US sanctions, including the theft of billions of Venezuelan oil revenues, which is the biggest single factor in Venezuela's humanitarian crisis. But not of word of this US manufactured human suffering ever reaches Trib readers who, unless otherwise educated, will believe the US is solely motivated in relieving rather than exacerbating human suffering.

3.US regime change in Venezuela is part of a new US Cold War, this time against not only Russia, but according to the Trib, "other countries hostile to the U.S. that also back Maduro and would love to further challenge the Americans’ dominion in this region: China, Iran, Cuba and North Korea." Let's try to understand this. The Trib is fine with the US dropping hundreds of thousands of bombs on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia and Niger; killing hundreds of thousands of innocents; but woe be to the nation that dares offer economic aid to Venezuela, systematically being destroyed economically by the US.

The more the US ratchets up Venezuelan suffering to rid our hemisphere of another socialist state, the more the 140 plus countries not controlled by Uncle Sam will step in to keep Venezuela safe from rapacious American capitalism promoted by a US installed sock puppet. This should give Chicagoans true reason to hope.