When You Are in a Hole, Stop Digging

After over two decades of US regime change operations against Venezuela, it looks like Brazil is distancing itself from the United States on this issue, and reestablishing full diplomatic relations with Caracas.

You have to feel sorry for the Venezuelan people, they know that  Maduro government talks about the virtues of their regime, they are lying, but when they talk about the vices of the opposition, they are telling the truth.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has held talks with his Venezuelan counterpart, as Nicolas Maduro made his first visit to Brazil in years in a sign of warming ties between the two South American nations.

Maduro was welcomed by an honour guard at the Brazilian presidential palace in the capital Brasilia on Monday, when Lula greeted him with a hug and a backslap.

The two left-wing leaders were expected to sign various agreements in a push to strengthen ties after a period of hostility during the tenure of Lula’s right-wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who banned Maduro from entering Brazil in 2019.

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After his talks with Lula, the Venezuelan leader said he would propose that South America as a region asks the United States to lift its sanctions against the country.

Maduro also said his nation wants to be part of the BRICS group of leading emerging nations, with Lula saying he would personally favour a bid from Venezuela to join it.

Lula is the latest left-wing leader in the region to restore relations with the Maduro government, which faced a period of international isolation amid accusations it had cracked down on political opposition and civil liberties in Venezuela.

Relations between Colombia and Venezuela recently improved as left-wing Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who took office in August 2022, departed from the more confrontational path of his conservative predecessor Ivan Duque.

The two countries have re-established diplomatic ties and taken a series of steps to expand relations, such as easing travel restrictions on their shared border. Petro and Maduro held a bilateral meeting in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas in November.

I'm inclined to believe that US support for the Bolivian coup, as well as the involvement by the US State Security Apparatus in the "Lawfare" against Lula, Latin American nations that are run by anyone who wants to chart an independent course from the United States have realized that it is not in their best interest to blindly support US policy.

To put it more simply, these nations, at least the part that the CIA and FBI are enlisted to overthrow, realize that the relationship with the USA is very much like that of an abusive partner, and they are trying to get out.