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You are one of these people who idolize democracy, chant "threat to democracy" like it is a holy hymn, who buy into Open Society ideals. And yet, when an actual dictator is removed, your response is anger.
Why?
Because at some point, Venezuelan people became expendable in service of a larger abstraction you call "stability" of the liberal democratic order.
Maduro's Venezuela was useful. It was predictable. It gave BRICS a foothold in the hemisphere, kept drug flows legible and quantifiable, and weakened an increasingly inconvenient United States. It made the region easier to model, easier to manage, easier to explain in policy memos. In short, Maduro made the whole world more legible to you.
A free Venezuela introduces uncertainty. It restores agency to people who were supposed to remain variables.
So now we get lectures about "international law," tantrums from NGOs, and sudden concern for norms that were never extended to the people living under a narco-dictatorship.
We understand the objection. It just isn't the one you say out loud.
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