Sadly, intervention has been ongoing in Venezuela's affairs for those two decades already: economic warfare and covert operations to assassinate Venezuela's leadership and sabotage it's industry.

This has not been undertaken to benefit Venezuelans, and is intended to profit international gangsters. Do not be fooled. America does not have a just government. We are not peaceful and prosperous, although we may be relatively so compared to Venezuela today, after decades of covert warfare for the benefit of profiteers.

You should consider that the desperation of a nation's people is the purpose of sanctions, and that purposed to benefit the most powerful industrialists. Consider how international intervention has 'liberated' Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and so on. Be careful what you wish for, when your enemies seek your wealth. Surrender is probably not your best option. Inviting foreign military forces into your country is surrender. Latin America has suffered myriad invasions of US forces in the 20th Century. Can you name one that improved the lot of the people of the invaded country? I cannot.

May Venezuela survive this crisis, and it's people thrive in the coming decades.