https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/venezuela-crisis-guaido-envoy-urges-international-community-to-help
There are people who portray all corporations as being evil, but that isn't how I think about corporations. I have spent most of my working life as a corporate employee. I'm saying nothing against small business when I say that corporations can do things financially for their employees that most small businesses can't, and they do.
I don't think that there isn't a reason that corporations can't donate money to support the elected government of Venezuela. It's better to donate money to an organized structure which needs the money to solidify and progress, rather than to delay donations until they are turned into humanitarian band-aids to a dispirited population with no momentum toward independence or ability to think farther than a next meal.
Considering that corporations are and always were involved in geopolitics for their own interests, whether through lobbying or direct intervention, it's...I hesitate to say that it's disingenuous to prevent them from giving financial help to a nascent, internationally recognized government which has democratic goals. Maybe it's better to say that it's unnecessarily trepidatious, rather than disingenuous. I realize that there are laws about how much money can be given to candidates running for office in the U.S., but the U.S. doesn't have an incumbent leader who is starving the population or encouraging his military to run over his opponents with vehicles. In other words, you can worry about the long-term implications of allowing direct financial help from corporations later, particularly since the Russian government isn't worrying about the implications of its actions now.
Whoever caused this situation needs to leave office, and it almost doesn't matter who replaces him or how the transition is finalized:
That's a picture from an article which the New York Times published in 2016, about people starving to death in Venezuelan mental hospitals. When the article was published, I criticized the New York Times for setting the importance of psychiatric medication on par with or above food for these patients. I still think it's a valid criticism, of a mindset which automatically designates mental patients as being subhuman. Starving is starving.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/world/americas/inside-a-dysfunctional-psychiatric-hospital.html
