Cato Experts Warn Against Venezuela Regime Change in New American Conservative Op-Ed

With the Trump administration deploying military assets to the Caribbean, Cato Institute scholars Justin Logan and Brandan Buck warn in a new American Conservative op-ed that U.S.-led regime change in Venezuela would contradict the president’s goal of being a peacemaker and risk Middle East-style quagmires.

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Logan and Buck argue that the administration’s public rationale is flawed — fentanyl doesn’t come from Venezuela, and the targeted boats can’t reach the U.S.

Historical precedent counsels restraint: American interventions from Woodrow Wilson’s incursion into Mexico to two-decade occupations of Nicaragua and Haiti produced costly failures that led Herbert Hoover and FDR to retrench.

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