[boomboomsubban]

Though the US is not the sole cause of many problems, they certainly go out of their way to make many of them worse. In Venezuela, they've placed crippling sanctions on the country for years, and promoted political instability by openly backing numerous coups.

[votepaunchy]

Sanctions are a neutral policy, like Google pulling out of China. The US is holding back from interfering in Venezuela (only supporting the constitutionally elected leader) and also refusing to participate in the suffering of the people.

[tkel]

Nonsense. Sanctions kill. It's like withholding food from a person who is already hungry.

[votepaunchy]

The US has offered food to those who are hungry. Lack of food is not the problem (Maduro has only very recently allowed aid to enter the country).

[boomboomsubban]

Maduro has always allowed aid into the country. He refused aid from the US as they have a history of using such aid to import weapons and such. Most humanitarian groups immediately chastised the US for even trying to send aid in that manner, both because of their history and that it's hard to take their offers in good faith while they simultaneously withold $11 billion of Venezuela's oil proceeds.