On 2026-01-10 2:10 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
A member of Congress, Delia Ramirez, who represents Chicago and the
northwest suburbs says she's a proud Guatemalan before she's an American.
She was born in Chicago, of course, and never lived in Guatemala. In
fact, Guatemala has been largely unlivable for nearly her entire
lifetime, crime ridden, murderous, corrupt. Her parents left for good
reason.
She was criticized in a Trib editorial.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/delia-ramirez-guatemala-american-congress/
I heard her say this to a reporter after Maduro's capture and thought it
was a mistake, but it was actually repeated from her own press release.
Delia Ramirez
Today's military operation in Venezuela and the kidnapping of
Nicolas Maduro are illegal, dangerous violations of
international and US law that put us all at risk. The Trump
Administration is continuing an agenda of US interventionism in
Latin America that has only led to human rights violations,
democratic backsliding, economic destabilization, deep poverty,
genocide, and mass migration. History has shown us that peace
and democracy in Latin America have never been realized through
unauthorized United States military intervention.
US intervention did not lead to the government of Hugo Chavez.
Even Venezuelans at the forefront of the resistance against the Maduro
regime admit that Chavez was initially elected to wide acclaim across
nearly all elements of the population. He was seen as someone who would
clean up the deep corruption of previous governments. But it didn't go
nearly as well as they had hoped and when Chavez died, appointing Maduro
as his successor, then things really went sideways. Maduro was
apparently chosen entirely for his loyalty to Chavez, not his intellect. (Maduro is widely known to be a deeply stupid man, unable to do even
basic arithmetic.) Maduro's wife is apparently far smarter and is widely
seen as the "power behind the throne" so it actually makes great sense
for Delta Force to have taken her when they grabbed her husband. She's
also reputed to be truly vicious and cruel.
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