Local Democrats react to Maduro

TYLER – The interim Smith County Democratic Party chair spoke to KETK News on Saturday about the United States military’s capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Cam Ray said the move to capture Maduro is a violation of the pro-peace platform that Trump ran on in his last presidential campaign.

“I don’t feel like he’s promoting that peace at all. That’s what he said he was going to come in and do,” Ray said. “He was going to end the war with Ukraine on day one, that hasn’t happened. Things are continuing there and in several different countries. Rumors of the attacks in Nigeria, these are not the actions of a peaceful president.”

Ray continued by comparing the United States capture of Maduro and strikes against Venezuela to the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“I really have to equate it back to Afghanistan and Iraq. We were in those countries for ten years,” Ray said. “Nobody wants to get into a ten year war again. Nobody wants to lose all those troops on the ground and having whole new sections of Arlington National Cemetery opened because we’re having deaths in another war, especially one that’s unconstitutional.”

Looking forward, Ray expressed concern about what the future of Venezuela will look after Maduro’s capture.
“That is really concerning that we have stepped into another country and taken over another country with no clear strategy on how to get out of it. I think that’s the future in Venezuela post-Maduro is potential chaos,” Ray said. “Power vacuums are not handled well in any country. There has to be somebody in charge. There needs to be somebody in charge and so who likes having the U.S. pick who that is. It’s not what we’re here for. That’s not what this country is about.”