Sovereignty diminishes as mass human rights abuses increase
The sovereignty of a nation is at its weakest when the basic human rights of that nation's people are being violated on a mass scale. Some people have defended the Maduro regime on the basis that Venezuela is a sovereign nation, so no other nation should interfere in any way. Maduro himself has claimed that international humanitarian aid is somehow an affront to Venezuela's sovereignty. The reality in Venezuela, however, is that the currency is so hyperinflated that it has a