Why is the Vatican standing up for the Venezuelan dictatorship?

January 17, 2019 By Monica Showalter

In the wake of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro swearing himself into office after a fraudulent election, the actual global consensus is that the regime ruling in Caracas is illegitimate. It's so bad the news accounts call the Maduro regime "isolated."

Brazil, led by President Jair Bolsonaro, not only refused to recognize the regime, he openly recognized the constitutionally mandated succession of the Venezuelan National Assembly's leader, Juan Guaido. That's who's president to his country. Other nations, such as Paraguay, cut ties to regime and pulled their envoys. The United States and Canada have come very close to recognizing Guaido as Venezuela's president, too, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton (and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) openly calling the regime "illegitimate," and all eyes now on whether President Trump will make recognition of Guaido official, which I think he will.

At his Jan. 10 inaugural, Maduro was indeed isolated, with just the pitiful support of socialist hellholes Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia. Nobody else could stomach it.

Well, with one sorry exception: The Vatican. ................ Read more