Bernie Sanders does not want to see another disastrous US military intervention in Latin America.
FILE - In this April 8, 2019, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a convention of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Las Vegas. Sanders is set to unveil a new version of his “Medicare for All” plan, shaking up the 2020 presidential campaign by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private health insurance.
Sanders told The New Yorker that Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is leading a"failed regime" and was likely elected under fraudulent circumstances, but that military intervention would be a step too far. "At the end of the day, I think what you want in one of the largest countries in Latin America is free and fair elections, and we want to do everything we can to establish democracy there," Sanders said.wants to see democracy flourish in Venezuela, but says a US military intervention is not the way to achieve this., Sanders said Nicolas Maduro, the country's authoritarian, socialist leader, is heading a"failed regime.
"The world community has got to be mindful of the humanitarian suffering and the hunger that's going on in Venezuela right now," the senator added."But, at the end of the day, I think what you want in one of the largest countries in Latin America is free and fair elections, and we want to do everything we can to establish democracy there.", did not dispute that Maduro is part of an"axis of corrupt authoritarianism.
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