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Invading Venezuela is a Terrible Idea

By Sean W. Burges, Fabrício Chagas Bastos

A rejoinder to Ricardo Hausmann’s call for military intervention.

Professor Ricardo Hausmann’s heart is in the right place, but his proposal of a military intervention to save Venezuela from Nicolás Maduro’s government is simply not going to happen. Nor would it work.

To start, the only way a regime-changing armed assault on Venezuela can succeed is if the U.S. military takes the lead in the fight. Setting aside the Donald Trump factor for the moment, the legacy of over a century of U.S. direct and indirect meddling in...

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