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 chief, Federica Mogherini, has 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)
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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>
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