How far will he take them?
He wants to rule by decree, anyway.
The communists in Cuba broke a lot of eggs, but reputedly
fewer than in Russia or anywhere in Asia, and (also reputedly) there actually
was an omelet served to some people.
Perhaps it’s only my ignorance speaking but I don’t see that
things are so bad in Cuba that the Cubans should welcome a counter-revolution,
though they are very apt to get one if and when anything remotely like normal
democracy is restored.
If President Maduro takes his country toward Cuban style
communism, rather as Salvador Allende tried to do, I truly don’t know how to
judge whether for Venezuela that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
There would be winners and there would be losers.
The American right, terrified still at the specter that used to haunt Europe, would call out for intervention.
The American left would oppose it and be divided on the
fundamental question whether a Bolivarian revolutionary dictatorship would even be a bad
thing, much as they are divided now about the dictatorship of the Cuban
communists.
Personally, I see no American dog in this fight.
Certainly no dog of mine.
Though it might be rather bracing to see the arrogant, out of control conservatives of the USA get their noses pushed a bit out of joint.
Lord knows they need to be chastened by a good scare.
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