How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela

How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela

Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Michelle Ellner Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “…

How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela

Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that shaped his work in the 1980s, when U.S. foreign policy turned Central America into a graveyard. By Michelle Ellner My childhood in Venezuela was shap…