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The fact that some of us support Guaidó does not mean that we love Trump and support Imperialism Really is a shame that this crisis is happening at the same time that the Trump administration… for me in particular is a cluster fuck of mixed feelings. Also, there are a quite vocal groups of Venezuelans that are more papist than the pope… they are just desperate and are willing to cling to anyone able to help even when that help comes from the least trustworthy individual in the history of US political history.
The opposition is made of liberals and social democrats this is not an opinion this is a fact, you can look it up and read about it our history in the past 40 prior Chavez was dominated of Two Social Democratic Parties, one came from a division of the Communist party and the other is from a Social Christian more center due to the religion influences. Those parties are today blamed for setting the table for Chavez rise and subsequently this crisis, the more powerful of those parties is the more social democrat one of the two; AD they still mange to bring people to the opposition rallies their batch of honor is the fact that they bring down the previous Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez a true Far Right South American Despot. Well… That “table” was made of corruption and lack of support for the infrastructure set years before to sustain the social security network that was build with the Oil we happen to have, is notable that almost all our current infrastructure dates from the 70s and 80s build by those governments, the regime as been so reluctant to maintain that infrastructure Of build new one that the past month 30 million people was let without electrical power and water for more than a week, I check this forum has the lights turn on to see what my fellow liberals from the north have to say about that but to my surprise not a word was said… if I miss someone please send me the link.
The sanctions are not the main cause of our economic crisis Will edit this later to add my insight on the subject later.
Maduro was not democratically elected in May 2018 and his previous election was won by less of 1% for exercising illegal control of the electoral branch of our government Will edit this later to add my insight on the subject later.
Not Chavez or Maduro were inclined to give up power even if an election is lost Will edit this later to add my insight on the subject later.
I’m not hoping for a military intervention in my country But if it’s comes I must find the way to survive it as I manage to survive this regime.
Our Oil is not to be given away if the opposition takes on This is complicated and have some buts in it if there is more interest I will add more about it.
Hands off Venezuela and CodePINK are serving as tools for a despot, if they were here protesting against this regime most of them, their family, and financial associates were forcibly disappeared or tortured in El Helicoide or in La Tumba in the hands of El SeBin with no due process and no warrant. Their standing will not endure the scrutiny of time, their reputation is tainted for life, I used to be supportive of some of their causes now I see most of them with suspicion. Also, I’m the quite frankly disappointed with the flimsy stand and opinions from several Congress men and women in the liberal side, the amount of misinformation and old concepts traded like new ones are shameful and makes me question their judgment and qualification of the people that give them information to reach those judgments.
Well that are some of my opinions I will add more if the conversation takes us there if there is any… I find these discussions interesting and hope to expand on all this if there is any interest. Also expand the depiction of my experiences to get some context in what means to live here, from getting food, to buy or sell stuff, to get medical attention or walk around and work, I’m quite sure most or you have no idea how all that is and how complex thing can get from the most mundane to the life changing and why.
Now, sadly the educated opinions I have seen so far takes the North American point of view and almost totally ignores the Venezuelan one (NOT ALL BUT MOST OF THEM And I get that there is no way to get good information without been spoon-fed by the regime or other extremist… even so) I dare to say that it is almost the same approach that the imperialist-world-police-war-mongers take when they decide to spread freedom, I mean there is a bunch of people that comes together and arrives to conclusions on a foreign culture, politics and culture from their point of view and bias without ever bothering to ask the actual people of that country what they want or need.
We as liberals must be a bit less eager to fall for our confirmation bias and be ready to listen and change our standing, if not we are inches away to become extremist and the extremes comes closer to each other and become the same.
