The absurdities used by the government to justify US imperialist
intervention in Venezuela are endless. Government officials, without
even blushing, claim that “anyone who disagrees with US actions is
siding with the dictator Maduro”.
Walking the same path as the
representatives of the right-wing ruling party, New Democracy (ND), are
figures from other bourgeois, social-democratic forces as well. For
example, the former prime minister and former leader of the “left-wing”
SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, in his statement on Venezuela, did not hesitate
to adopt one of the pretexts of US intervention, that of “democracy”,
remarking that it “is also being tested in Venezuela”.