Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

By recognising Guaidó, who is a far right wing opponent of the government, the Venezuelan Government has essentially given the green light to civil war and to external intervention. It would not have been a problem if the Tánaiste had talked to the government there and various parties and considered assistance to Venezuela on the humanitarian front, but Europe has given legitimacy to people who are trying to organise a coup against the Venezuelan constitution and in a context where Trump - God save us, Donald Trump - is straining at the leash to send the US military in to get oil. The Tánaiste knows that. The Government has legitimised that and it will be responsible for the consequences.

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