Up until now, I've been pretty happy with the U.S. approach to Venezuela.  The Venezuelans call the shots, setting up the legal infrastructure for transition rule (based on Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez's own constitution, no less), the international community supports them, the Citgo oil earnings are transferred to the legitimate leaders, the sanctions flow on the remaining dictatorship, the pressure is quite open for the Venezuelan military to defect, and the humanitarian aid for the starving flows.  Venezuelans themselves (in their millions, as the street protests show) are in the driver's seat.  The picture is one of them taking back their country, their once great democracy, and it's a great example for all nations under detestable socialist dictatorships to follow. But the dictatorship's vicious burning of humanitarian aid trucks full of food and medicine, as hungry Venezuelans ran into the...(Read Full Post)