{"id":3135,"date":"2026-01-05T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:06:32","slug":"venezuelan-solution-partly-at-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3135","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Solution? Partly, at best."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/flag.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/flag.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/flag.webp 480w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/flag-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuelan flag<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a vital, and glaring, missing link in the whole &#8216;blow up supposed Venezuelan drug boats\/capture narco-trafficker Maduro thing.&#8217; And it is this: THE U.S. IS CREATING THE <em>DEMAND<\/em> FOR THE DRUGS HERE! The real answer is stepped up drug prevention programs like DARE; way more quality, long-term drug rehab programs to cut down, significantly, on relapse recidivism rates; and the systemic healing (through exponentially stepped up counseling social services, and counseling modalities in general) of dysfunctional family dynamics, which is the genesis for a lot of the alcohol and drug addiction in the next generation. Venezuelan drug export interdiction is like putting a small band-aid on a wound (our wound) that requires major surgery. Not to mention, but I will, how much is the Venezuelan drug thing\/regime change, merely subterfuge for fueling another even more persuasive addiction of ours? Addiction to oil. Note: For a look at my take on addiction in America, in all its dimensions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/joe-the-counselor\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan flag There&#8217;s a vital, and glaring, missing link in the whole &#8216;blow up supposed Venezuelan drug boats\/capture narco-trafficker Maduro thing.&#8217; And it is this: THE U.S. IS CREATING THE DEMAND FOR THE DRUGS HERE! The real answer is stepped <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3135\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}