Chronicle poll results: Removing Nicolás Maduro from power

Last week, the Chronicle asked its readers in an online poll the following question: “Do you support the decision to remove Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela?” Of the 253 people who responded, 50% said no 39% said yes and 11% said they weren’t sure. Comments were submitted by 77 people. A few follow.

We have no right interfering with another country’s sovereignty. Trump is breaking the law — and doesn’t care.

Leaders of both parties and past presidents all called for his removal. Expat Venezuelans are happy he is gone.

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Without sounding too cynical or paranoid, I support whatever is better for the Jews and Israel.

Drugs are only a pretext to invade a country and take hold of its resources.

This is like Iran/Contra in reverse. Perhaps we got it right this time: Stop Venezuelan oil from supporting Iranian murderers.

Maduro was an awful dictator — but if the U.S. wanted to invade another country, we needed to do it in a way that supports the rule-based international order that has maintained relative peace since WWII. Also, who benefits? Oil corporations, their owners and the politicians to whom they donate — not the U.S. people. We are just the fodder to create the corporate owners’ profits.

Yes. One less antisemitic, anti-Israel, Hezbollah-supporting dictator. The world is a better place.

Maduro is an unelected authoritarian thug, but the U.S. has no legitimate interest in starting a Constitution-violating war. For those who think it’s OK because Maduro is a bad guy, how will you react if Iran removes Trump from power for the same reasons? You’d feel violated even if you hate Trump, wouldn’t you?

In theory I support his removal. The way it was executed, and the unstated but obvious agenda, represent breaking of international laws.

I have many differences with Trump, but he is the best foreign policy president we have ever had and the best friend Israel has ever had.

Wonderful for the people of Venezuela and all of the region. Congratulations to President Trump for having the courage to take this action, when previous presidents continually created substantial rewards for his arrest but never did anything about it.

It’s an invasion of another country and that is not acceptable.

Trump has been positioning every move he makes on “America First,” seeming to mean that we tend to our country first. This move turns “America First” into “America Rules,” ugly and selfish either way. We do not need to own the world, nor are we absolved of trying to improve the world. This move just keeps the “what’s-in-it-for-me” crowd in control of the earth, and they generally do not care about improvement in any regard.

The question we should be asking is: How do the Venezuelans feel about it? PJC