Comment by lenkite

You have to fix your problems yourself. I say this as a citizen of a nation in South-East Asia. Do not depend or cheer external actors like the U.S. to solve internal issues - they will only use and throw you away. The U.S. is also a nation whose political culture respects only strength - they hold absolute contempt for soft, weak/poor and divided nations. A home-grown dictator is better than a foreign one promising "democracy". It is one of the reasons that the U.S. regularly takes leadership out - they would like nations in their sphere to remain weak, poor and/or fully economically dependent.

You can look forward to U.S. oil companies doing free looting now. Sure, the "trickle down" effect will make some Venezuelan's prosperous but you have effectively given up the resources of your nation and chosen to become subservient slaves. And U.S. billionaires will become even richer.