Obama should be arrested, tried for treason and brought to justice for the harm he has done to America. I pray for his downfall every day.
Unfortunately, our children and grandchildren will pay the price in blood for his poor leadership. There is a good chance that this generation also will pay in blood.
It’s a pity this analysis of what harm Obama is wreaking among our next-door neighbors has to come from another continent thousands of miles away - while it is ignored by our own press.
The fact that Hugo Chavez got away with it, and managed to get into power and stay there even though he had been removed once after his illegal activities and earlier had even spent time in jail for trying to take over the country, made it clear that the US was either powerless or didn’t care. Bush tried initially to support the removal of Chavez, but of course as soon as the press began to howl because Chavez was a leftist and therefore one of their heroes, he backed down. And of course he received no support from the State Dept., which had a particularly left-leaning group still in place in Latin America that was left over from Clinton’s regime.
Bush basically backed down and avoided any further involvement in VZ or Latin America in general, although he did reshuffle the State Dept people and there actually was somebody good there for awhile (although, IIRC, he could never get the appointment approved by the Senate).
This was the go-ahead, and the empowered left basically just snatched Bolivia and Ecuador, and moved into other countries too.
However, while Bush may have been simply weak, Obama has actively done everything possible to encourage Hugo, give him more power internationally and make him the defacto leader of Latin America. He has also not opposed in any way the VZ-Iranian alliance and the increasing influence of Iran and Islamism in Latin America.
But then again, why should we expect him to be opposed to any of these things?
Latin Americans have a simple view of things. They view the Anglo Saxon north as their enemy. This goes back to colonial times. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Naturally they will make friends with the enemies. South America was lost to the left over thirty years ago with the US paying inordinate attention to Europe and other areas, It practically ignored South America completely. Notice that the same oligarchy is still in charge. It’s the entrepreneurial and middle classes that have been decimated. The same pattern is being repeated here.