How can intervention help in Venezuela's case, if what led them to this situation was enough of the population supported the policies that got them into this trouble in the first place? An intervention won't necessarily change the population's expressed preference for these policies, and in fact the argument can be made that an intervention teaches the population that they can vote for the same set of policies again, as they will learn from an intervention that they eventually be bailed out.
There is a lot of human misery that an intervention will mitigate to be sure, but unless the population votes against these policies, all I see is the misery metastasizes into an even greater tragedy down the line. How can we structure an intervention to prevent that, then?
Totally agree here. There is a lesson to be learned from all this stuff going on here.
Think about France during the French revolution. If it weren't for the revolution being an organic movement, but more like another power that took control of France and removed the king, monarchy would have probably end up being reinstaurated shortly after that, just like it happened in Spain with Napoleon.
Chavez kept winning because he commanded a lot of popular support. Maduro on the other hand ended up affecting the very people that could keep him in power and he lost the last election badly. He's so afraid of the fact he has lost popular support that he has been trying crazy delay tricks on everything from referendum to state elections.
There is a lot of human misery that an intervention will mitigate to be sure, but unless the population votes against these policies, all I see is the misery metastasizes into an even greater tragedy down the line. How can we structure an intervention to prevent that, then?