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by tim333
223 days ago
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I don't know what the Venezuelan people want but the US removal of General Manuel Noriega from Panama seemed popular. >Polls show that the Panamanian people overwhelmingly supported the invasion. According to a CBS News poll, 92% of Panamanian adults supported the invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana... guess it depends a bit if you can shift the dictator without killing too many people. I guess the peaceful political option would be kick out Maduro, put Edmundo González Urrutia in power (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/venezuelan-pre...) Apparently Urrutia got about 2/3 of the votes in the 2024 election but Maduro claimed victory and wouldn't go. The US has offered $50m for information leading to Maduros arrest and the Miami Herald said a 'source' said "there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over" so maybe the US is hoping that kind of thing will happen? |
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In the cited Wikipedia article, most of the descriptions of Panamanian reactions are negative. It also says CBS polled 158 people ... and that 20,000 people were displaced, etc. I don't put much stock in Wikipedia; my point is that citing only that poll seems like cherry-picking.
People don't like armed soldiers threatening them, especially from other countries, especially killing their own people.
> without killing too many people
Killing a few people is fine, then - how many? Might makes right.