[mbix77]

There is not an extreme amount of crime and violence. Years ago yes. But now it's a lot better. Source: living here.

[jacquesm]

Best of luck to you and yours in the coming days, here's to hoping that it all lands on its feet.

[pknerd]

> Best of luck to you and yours in the coming days, here's to hoping that it all lands on its feet.

Imagine some other country kidnaps your country's President and he sends this message to you

[y-curious]

What’s the general mood in your social circles? Are people mad at America or happy to be free of Maduro?

[maxlybbert]

Personally, I think most Americans don't give Venezuela much thought.

I think Trump is hoping to get a short popularity boost the way George Bush did with the capture of Manuel Noriega, but people cared more about who controlled the Panama Canal in the 1990s than they care about who controls Venezuela today. And I don't know anybody who expects this to impact drugs coming from Venezuela or Latin America in general.

[_moof]

Sorry we (the U.S.) are like this. Many of us have been furious for decades but don't know what to do.

[crystal_revenge]

But, we also still enjoy all of the benefits of being like this. Cheap oil(that impacts you even if you don't drive), globally very high income, resources of all varieties from all over the world, relative security etc. All these things don't happen to use because we're a nation of swell people. They happen because we do awful things to people around the world in a variety of ways in order to maintain our way of life.

The truth is Americans do want this, they just don't like that they want this.

Another comment was discussing how shocked they were with how brazen a move this was for oil, and that in the past the government wouldn't have been so honest. As though the issue were being honest with what we are doing.

[vmax]

As someone originally from a country that would have benefitted from a similar intervention, I wish the U.S. were more like this.

[neoromantique]

Getting rid if dictators is good, actually.