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Monday, January 28, 2019

Letter to The Guardian: Trump, Venezuela, and the EU



Letter to the Editor:
guardian.letters@theguardian.com

Jan. 28, 2019



Re: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, What has happened in Venezuela is a coup. Trump’s denial is dangerous, The Guardian (Jan. 28, 2019, 08.00 GMT), <https://tinyurl.com/yarrad82>.              

The EU’s foreign policy chiefFederica Mogherinihas announced: “In the absence of an announcement on the organisation of fresh elections with the necessary guarantees over the next days, the EU will take further actions, including on the issue of recognition of the country’s leadership in line with article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution.” [https://tinyurl.com/ydhjna78] So contrary to Dr Guardiola-Rivera, it is not just President Trump and his right-wing Latin-American allies that have a problem with the legitimacy of the Maduro regime and with Maduro’s personal democratic bona fides from his “election” in 2018. But if Dr Guardiola-Rivera believes the EU errs here, and that it is facilitating a coup against a legitimate democracy, then just maybe he ought to support Brexit and work towards peacefully disempowering right wing imperial institutions (like the EU) that would undercut legitimate foreign elected governments?

Will Dr Guardiola-Rivera take such a position—and do so publicly? That would require brave consistency. Something which is in very short supply. It is just so much easier to make fun of President Trump—a target upon which we can all agree deserves our ire. The funny thing is: people from all over the world are trying to get into Trump’s America, and Venezuelans by the millions are trying to escape from Maduro’s nightmare.

Seth Barrett Tillman

/s/

Seth Barrett Tillman, Lecturer
Maynooth University Department of Law
New House (#53)
Maynooth University
Maynooth
County Kildare
Ireland W23 F2H6
(listing academic affiliation for identification purposes only)

Seth Barrett Tillman, Letter to The Guardian: Trump, Venezuela, and the EU, New Reform Club (Jan. 28, 2019, 10:27 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2019/01/letter-to-guardian-trump-venezuela-and.html>

2 comments:

Tom Grey said...

The silly Dems think the normal folk are just deplorables, anyway.

But they like ex-Chavez socialists coming illegally to the US, to maybe vote illegally, and most probably for Dems.

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