📺 Regime change and political soap opera

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LatAm wants US-backed regime change in Venezuela

Not long ago, opposition to US interventionism was a rare point of consensus across Latin America’s political spectrum. Even the Lima Group — a multilateral organization created by the right-wing governments of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and others in 2017 — openly rejected the use of force against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, despite not recognizing him as president.

Ch-ch-changes. The view stemmed from a history of disastrous US intervention inside and outside the region, from the Cold War-era military coups of the 1970s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But Venezuela’s authoritarian turn, coupled with its economic collapse and migration crisis, has caused many locals to reconsider their position.

By the numbers. The latest Atlas Intel survey found that a majority of respondents from Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico support the use of US military force to oust Maduro. The sentiment had long been prevalent among the Venezuelan diaspora; it now appears to be gaining traction across the region. 

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