"Running, With Confidence, to Topple a Dictator"

"Election in Venezuela Looms as Crossroad for Democracy." -- N.Y. Times headline and subhead, front page, 2018/05/18

Put it this way: a foreign leader is a dictator if the Times isn't pleased with him or her. An election is "democratic" only when it achieves the outcome the Times desires.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Venezuela, an act of economic warfare, to influence the outcome.

We've been down this road dozens of times in Central and South America. It never works out well for the country targeted by our bullying.