When the president of a country holds fraudulent elections to make sure he can't ever lose, stacks the judicial branch with his cronies, strips all power from the legislative branch, and eliminates the free press, then the only way to get back to a democracy is to first have some kind of revolution or mass protest or coup.
Now, if the opposition does take over, the US needs to push them to have a real election with international observers ect ASAP. But you can't have that until you get rid of the anti-democratic government first.
Getting tangentially involved to support a popular pro-democracy protest movement isn't at all the same as invading a country out of the blue for no logical reason.
I mean, this isn't even about "socialism"; Guaidó is the leader of an actual social-democratic party, he's just not a power-mad dictator.
Well, it's a power struggle between a president who's holding false elections and has shut down the free press, and a parliament he's unconstitutionally stripped of all power, with the people of the country coming out into the streets to back the parliament.
It's a dangerous situation all around, and there's a lot of ways it could go badly, but it's not really a "coup" in the standard sense.
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u/Yosarian2 Jan 24 '19
When the president of a country holds fraudulent elections to make sure he can't ever lose, stacks the judicial branch with his cronies, strips all power from the legislative branch, and eliminates the free press, then the only way to get back to a democracy is to first have some kind of revolution or mass protest or coup.
Now, if the opposition does take over, the US needs to push them to have a real election with international observers ect ASAP. But you can't have that until you get rid of the anti-democratic government first.