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Hey just another quick point about lenses:
http://www.justvenezuela.org/venezuela-language.asp
It is the most spoken language, it has a great demand and it is used mostly in business and education scenarioes. It is used by professionals, academicians and part of high and middle society classes that utilize it as second language. It is taught in elementary and secondary schools in a very basic manner and in the superior education, it is taught in several university faculties.
If the reports you are hearing are in English, then they are either:
A) coming from the upper middle to upper class in Venezuela
B) coming from outside Venezuela
C) being translated by an English speaker (see above)
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That’s incidental, Guaido is actually a pretty honorable guy and only considers himself interim president until a proper election is held. For now he’s making a stand against a dictator/looter, Trump backing him is unfortunate but what’s the alternative? Leave the people to die because you don’t like him? Im 100% against that orange idiot but I don’t care what his opinion on Guaido is
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I am genuinely curious, what, in your opinion, should be the best course of action moving forward? Who should be the leader, etc. What policies should they implement to restore some stability?
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How about the fervently pro-Trump Al Jazeera?
No winners, just suffering for the people.
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Yup. Russia is already getting involved here.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-04-30/the-latest-venezuelan-govt-says-it-is-putting-down-coup-bid
Considering our current president’s entanglement with Putin and the lack of direct military resources in the region, its not likely.
I can see however neighboring Brazil and Colombia getting involved. Venezuela and Colombia came dangerously close to a shooting war in the past. There is a lot of cross border animosity.
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This is from the point of view from a Venezuelan. Was filmed 3 months ago so its missing more recent events but should be useful enough for catching up to speed
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Holy fuck my dude.
Read between the lines here:
According to this logic, empowering Venezuelans to overcome structural poverty is directly tied to a reestablishment of free-market principles, which will supposedly enable society to “organize itself in an autonomous manner to solve its problems.” Guaidó, therefore, believes that economic prosperity in Venezuela can only come about by removing state controls on private property.
To achieve these aims, Guaidó stated that Venezuela will obtain “massive” financing from four fundamental sources: “multilateral finance organizations and countries interested in the restoration of democracy and development in Venezuela”; a “profound” debt restructuring; macro-economic and regulatory restructuring to attract international investment; and, recuperation of illegally sourced wealth.
The document, however, is not clear what mechanisms it will use to achieve these goals. The plan closes with two other key promises. First, comprehensive citizen security via the implementation of a new Citizen Security Strategy, which, while vague on details, promises a thorough structural reform of the Public Ministry and the National Forensic and Technical Police (CICPC), including recruiting 120,000 well-trained and equipped police. Additionally, the plan promises international cooperation alliances, increased preventative policing, some form of citizen participation in policing, better illuminated streets, and renovated and new-built prisons.
Notably, there is no timeline or financing details provided for these measures— which seems to contradict Guaidó’s promise to reduce the role of the state.
In other interviews conducted at that time with a variety of political and social actors linked to the Venezuelan opposition, there was a lack of concern for inequality—be this socio-economic, racial or gender inequalities. Indeed, many opposition-linked actors I interviewed viewed this concern as more of a discursive strategy employed by chavismo to maintain its power, rather than actual, empirical social phenomena. The current opposition proposals in Plan País and Venezuela Energética continue to reflect these biases.
Doesn’t any of this sound, you know, fascist-y?
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At work right now, but will check it out when I get home. As I said, my position is that the only thing that will come out of this is more suffering for folks already well acquainted with that. I don’t see any angels here.
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“We’re gonna neoliberal the fuck outta this place, know what I’m saying?”
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Essentially it boils down to kleptocracy with foreign involvement turning an economy to shit.
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Or Iraq/Afghanistan/etc/etc
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Okay, I haven’t watched all of that video, but that first point…
[CW: Graphic Violence]
The opposition seems to be both pretty propped up by the US and all about anti-Chavistas.
Also see:
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At work but I’ll have up read up on it later, thanks for the info tho <3
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The people stuck in the middle of the fighting, who didn’t ask for any of this?
The Venezuelan anarcho-communists who are anti-Chavismo, but are also anti-US intervention? I don’t think there are enough of them to be significant though.
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For anybody in DC who want to make their voices heard at the Venezuelan Embassy now’s your chance.
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Not to that part of the population (largely light skinned, which is no doubt just a coincidence) that will be protected and enriched by the fascists.
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Slimeball.
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Yep, people seem to think fascism has to be married to specifically US / Nazi Germany style white supremacy, when really it is about creating an in group that is superior to an out group that is subhuman / “the problem”.
ETA: Not to mention that white supremacy itself changes its definition of who is white to fit the times / create a large enough in group.
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I’m not ignoring this, I am going to get to it, it’s just that as you can see this is a very busy topic.
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