Sources in the Biden Administration tell the Wall Street Journal that US, Brazilian, Mexican, and Colombian officials are working on a long-shot proposal to Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his minions: Cede power prior to the end of Maduro’s current term in January, allow the legitimate winner of last month’s sham election, Edmundo González, to take power and the Justice Department will drop the case against Maduro and his allies for conspiring to flood the US with cocaine.
Since it would be a hell of a win for the outgoing president, we’re interested to see what the GOP reaction is going to look like. The most obvious is that Biden is “soft on Venezuela” by offering effectively a pardon and probably a guarantee of exile in Cuba or wherever else, but what’s their plan going to be? “Operation Iraqi Venezuelan Freedom”? We were to understand that Joe Biden was a reckless bloodthirsty warlord, basically Dick Cheney multiplied by Napoleon, while Republicans were now the peace-loving flower children party of Fahrenheit 9/11 and “Not in Our Name.”
Ah we’re probably overthinking it and the MAGA GOP are just going to bitch and complain about such a proposal without coming anywhere to close to saying what their alternative plan would be.