Recently, Venezuela has been at the center of headlines due to allegations of stolen elections, brutal repressions of democratic opposition, extreme economic failure, and millions of Venezuelans fleeing abroad.
Embattled President Nicolás Maduro is under increasingly high pressure, and the United States may soon try to depose him to establish a democratic, pro-Western government in Venezuela.
US intervention in the Venezuelan regime-change would only undermine the efforts of the Venezuelan people and engage the US in unnecessary conflict.
Although President Maduro is widely opposed, direct American military intervention would be a grave mistake, as it would undermine the efforts of the Venezuelan people fighting for their own democratic uprising.
Author's summary: The US should not intervene in Venezuela's democratic uprising.