Latin American Response to Potential U.S. Invasion of Venezuela

It's notable that the presidential responses in Latin America to the potential of U.S. invasion are often either supportive or muted. Part of that is the shift rightward the region has been experiencing, but part of it is that the Venezuelan regime has few allies.

So we see open support (Chile) or discussion of "after Maduro" (Bolivia) from new conservative presidents (or president-elect as the case may be). I haven't seen Javier Milei saying anything about it but we can be quite sure of his position.

Lula says he is willing to mediate and questions the use of force but has chosen not to antagonize Donald Trump, with whom he seems to have a fragile truce. Claudia Sheinbaum wants the United Nations involved and as per traditional Mexican foreign policy, opposes foreign intervention. But she is also avoiding inflammatory language. CELAC issued a statement last month, which Venezuela and Nicaragua actually withdrew from. We could speculate that it wasn't strong enough for their taste.

The Nicaraguan government did issue a condemnation and you can always count on Cuba of course, which even before AI probably had an automated anti-imperialist condemnation generator for the U.S. Gustavo Petro in Colombia has been very vocal over time and Trump has targeted him specifically.

Maduro doesn't have any friends and even the Latin American left gradually pushed back on his authoritarian excesses. The outcry now is over non-intervention generally, not any support for Maduro. If he is ousted, few will care much about him.

This makes me wonder about the response if the U.S. turned its attention to Cuba. Its history runs deep so people are more willing to overlook how repressive it is. But Miguel Díaz-Canel was actually born after Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista. He's a technocrat with no personal following. I don't know how much support the Cuban revolution as an idea still has.