https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-state#Venezuela
First article I found on it on Google: https://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/did-you-know-that-venez...
BBC Link about the ban: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18288430
...And then he can sit back and enjoy the fireworks from the safety of Washington DC, while his followers are doing the dirty work.
Those 2A arguments never really made sense to me: what makes you think your gun-toting neighbor (or even yourself) will be on the right side of freedom?
The US Army, or any other branch of service for that matter, isn't going to turn on its citizens: it would more likely turn on any leaders that order them to do so.
And don't discount the fact that among the civilians are a good number of individuals who were former military.
Waco was the cops wasn’t it? Who are always happy to shoot random civilians.
The Kent State shootings were in 1970. The Branch Davidian compound siege was in 1993.
In the former case, the Guardsmen involved claimed to have fired in self-defense and were cleared of both criminal and civil charges. In the latter, the military assets were limited to a few Bradley fighting vehicles on the perimeter and combat engineering vehicles -- which were actually used for breaching and wall-breaking -- under the direction (if not operation) by ATF and FBI, and no military units engaged in fire.
In neither case were military units ordered to suppress or attack civilians. And compared to the number of training related deaths that occur in the military during peacetime, the number of fatalities from the incidents you list (although tragic) pale in comparison over the same time period.
And if the latter, does that Constitution or do those regulations outline and reinforce the importance of individual rights, or simply the importance of compliance to the State?
Do members of the Venezuelan army receive extensive and annual training/re-training regarding the laws of land warfare, treatment of captives, and expected conduct under the Geneva Convention and any other applicable rules of engagement?
Are members of the Venezuelan army professional soldiers or conscripts?
Are units of the Venezuelan army composed of individuals from the same geographical area, and stationed in a different geographical area?
Answers to these questions should give one insight as to the difference between any Third World army (Venezuelan or otherwise) and those of the United States military.
Venezuala military budget: $2.6b; 1% GDP
Your analogy needs work.
EDIT: Corrected US military budget %GDP value.
US military budget: ~$700 billion, 3.4% of GDP.
US GDP will be close to $20.50 trillion for 2018. Your 15% figure implies a GDP of about $4 trillion (close to the size of Germany's economy).
The US will add roughly $1 trillion to its GDP figure in 2018. That's nearly the size of Mexico's entire economy (15th largest economy), added in just one year.
In any case, the US military is much better equipped than the Venezuelan military.