“he’s going to try to rescue the communist regime he helped put in place”
Carter is a piece of work and no denying and undoubtedly likes “progressive/socialist” regimes, but how did he help to put the Chavez/Maduro regime in place?
Chavez was a young colonel or general when he attempted a coup in 1992 and was imprisoned by the Venezuelans for two years, he was elected president in 1998 and again repeatedly thereafter until his death.
Carter and his Carter Center personally "oversaw" the election that originally put Chavez in office.
The election was clearly rigged, yet Carter praised it and pronounced it a "model"...and approved the results.
“Carter is a piece of work and no denying and undoubtedly likes “progressive/socialist” regimes, but how did he help to put the Chavez/Maduro regime in place?”
He helped give legitimacy to “elections” that were fraudulent. Then, no matter what Chavez did, Carter kept silent or said little. He’s really a socialist at heart. As one very good family-friend of mine said one time when I was detailing all the ways that Chavez was making a dictator of himself, he said, with no emotion or change of facial expression, in a very simple matter of fact way: “Well, at least he’s a socialist.” They can excuse anything if its done in the name of socialism. That’s Carter.
He did the same for the dictator in Zimbabwe, and I know people who were in the know, from Zimbabwe, who told Carter how wrong he was about Mugabe. He didn’t want to hear it.