By limonta on Skatehive
It's been a while since we last updated Venezuela. For me, it's a painful exercise because it is conclusive proof of how crude the world has become under the malevolent influence of the Trump administration, which humiliates the South American country whenever it can, boasting of its undoubted control over it. In Iran, it is clear that the 47th President of the United States met his match, but he can always return to Caracas for comfort, because that operation worked out well for him. He flagrantly violated a country's sovereignty, kidnapped none other than its (de facto) president—selling the move as "a law-enforcement operation"—, threw him in a Brooklyn jail, and the world acted as if nothing had happened, except for a few inane, non-consequential calls to comply with international law. But what has been the role of the new ("Chavista") leadership, what alternatives did it have—or does it have—, and where is the country headed? Interim president Delcy Rodríguez has become something