Interfering in Venezuela's internal affairs is unacceptable, as it violates the United Nations Charter and Venezuela's sovereignty. When a country intervenes in another country's affairs uninvited, it contributes to instability around the world and threatens to bring conflict and possibly war. The United States and anti-popular right-wing regimes in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile have all violated Venezuela's sovereignty and are a significant cause of instability in South America.
Only the Venezuelan people can choose their own government, not Trump, not Bolsonaro, and not Duque. Venezuelan people made their decision abundantly clear in 1998, 2000, 2006, 2012, 2013, and 2018 elections when Chavez and Chavez' friend Maduro won overwhelmingly. Guaido, despite never having won an election, has unilaterally declared himself the leader of Venezuela, which can only be characterized as dubious. Guaido doesn't stand for anything other than hating on Maduro, offers no new ideas, and would take Venezuela to the "lost decades" of the 1980s and 1990s. Venezuela has endured shortcomings and difficulties in recent years, but it's questionable whether Guaido and other elements supported by Donald Trump can turn things around. After all, what legislation has Guaido passed after having served in Venezuela's legislature? Has regime change made the quality of life better in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine? What makes anyone think that things would improve following a coup against Maduro? Make no mistake: the IMF and World Bank would absolutely ravage Venezuela similar to what they've unleashed in other countries around the world.
It's curious that the proponents of regime change decry elections that Maduro has won while sanctifying the legislative election in 2015 won by the opposition. It is an inconsistent and self-serving stance to take. One cannot help but roll one's eyes at the idea that elections won by opponents are illegitimate while elections won by your party are pure and sacred. The National Assembly following the 2015 election was given the chance to constructively help govern the country, but they failed in that regard. They instead concentrated on partisan bickering and obstruction instead of passing meaningful laws to serve the Venezuelan people. In particular, the Assembly tried to enact an amnesty law that would exonerate people convicted of crimes including those responsible for 2014's violent riots and organizers of the 2002 coup, which was struck down by the courts for violating human rights and democracy. Guaido and his friends had a legislative role, and they blew it. They refused to obey the Supreme Court, spent more time on trying to overthrow the President than on passing constructive legislation, and did nothing to address the country's economic and security problems. If Maduro bears some blame for Venezuela's woes, then the exact same can be said about the opposition and their destructive role in the legislature. Guaido and his National Assembly, by the way, no longer legally exist as legislators. The Supreme Court stripped the National Assembly of its powers in March 2017 and a newly elected Constituent Assembly in August 2017 and assumed all legislative powers.
Hugo Chavez and his administration during 1998-2013 achieved remarkable socioeconomic growth. The poverty rate was drastically slashed. Access to clean water and sanitation markedly improved. There was sky-high growth in the Gross Domestic Product. And the government built critical infrastructure projects and invested heavily in social services for the population. The right-wing deniers of these facts, however, do not want to give proper credit to Chavez and Maduro for these achievements, but instead attribute everything to high oil prices. But when conditions in Venezuela have gotten difficult with the price of oil plunging from $104 per barrel on New Year's Day 2014 to $35 on New Year's Day 2016, the same people who downplayed the Venezuelan government's positive achievements by attributing everything to high oil prices now blame anything and everything not on the decline in oil prices, but on Maduro, who possesses the power to unleash hurricanes and kill fetuses in the womb.
In the lead-up to Mexico's previous election, more than 100 politicians, including more than 40 candidates running for office, were assassinated. Mexico's military routinely is responsible for enforced disappearance, unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention. Mexican soldiers murdered 22 people in Tlatlaya in 2014; Apatzingan in Michoacan state, where Mexican federal police and other security forces murdered at least 16 people; and Tanhuato, Michocan state where Mexican security forces murdered at least 43 people during a security operation. You can bet your bottom dollar that if Mexican-style human rights occurred in Venzuela, Washington would ordered a U.S. military invasion against Venezuela. Colombia's government has been engaged in a 50+ year civil war in the country that has killed and displaced millions of people. Bolsonoaro is an illegitimate president of a country that in an undemocratic manner has terrorized two former presidents in Lula and Rousseff. Nothing comparable has developed in Venezuela and it's quite ironic to see serial human rights violators and undemocratic leaders as well as their supporters like Bolsonaro, Duque, and Macri champion human rights and democracy in Venezuela.