Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants opposition leaders installed to replace Nicols Maduro in Venezuela

[Polybius]

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she’s happy to see Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in custody for his crimes. But she expressed anger and alarm that President Donald Trump offered no plan to install democratically elected leaders there.

“I am really glad that Maduro has been arrested, that he’s going to be held accountable for his crimes, which include crimes against humanity as well as narco-trafficking crimes, so I’m not shedding any tears that his reign of terror is over,” Wasserman Schultz said. “But to replace one unelected regime with another, which apparently Donald Trump has decided is him, is wildly inappropriate.”

Most political observers agree Gonzalez received more votes in that contest. Yet Maduro remained in power, sworn into another term last year. The election followed Maduro threatening the arrest of other political opposition, including María Corina Machado, a political party leader removed from the ballot.

“The Venezuelan people voted to elect Edmundo Gonzalez as president and supported their political party overwhelmingly, with nearly 70% of the vote,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Donald Trump today said in his press conference that, I mean, he had the audacity to say that Maria Corina Machado is a nice woman, but has no support in the country. That is an inexplicable thing to say that is not reflective of the truth.”

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[newdeal2]

1. Why was it our job to arrest him unilaterally?

Also I thought this was about drugs?

[Omnipresent]

3. Well, we are dictatorship now.

We used to handle this stuff through the UN, but this somehow returns us to a time when American was great again?

[Greg_In_SF]

5. He was

indicted and charged here.

[FascismIsDeath]

7. It wasn't and... it wasn't. N/T

[sop]

2. Wasserman Schultz' 25th Congressional District (FL-25) has a significant Venezuelan immigrant population.

[UTUSN]

4. And KRASNOV is floating reimbursements to V. Exiles, sewing up their votes like with

the Cuban Exile vote. The Venezuelans were bummed over ICE but all's well now.

[LisaL]

6. And here I thought that democratic leaders

are elected, not installed.
WTF is an installed democratic leader?

[Polybius]

8. Dammed if I know

I was pretty stunned myself.

[MerryBlooms]

9. So, I ask again,

How many troops are going to protect our imposed government? How many US airborne warships will be firing on the rioters? Because, these people will want to be free from tyranny. The optics coming will be trump's undoing.