Maduro is the democratically elected president of Venezuela. With 51% of the vote, compared to his opposition gaining 43%, the US Empire has tried to rely on manufacturing false evidence against Maduro so their compradors can gain power. This is despite the fact that the Venezuelan electoral process is among the most transparent in the world, with election observers including the opposition. Venezuelans didn’t believe the empire’s lies, though, so the empire was forced to engage by force, bombing hospitals and murdering dozens of civilians in the process.
These lies undermining Maduro are the same claiming there is no genocide in Palestine, that socialism is scary and evil, that Trump won 2020, that Saddam had WMD. These lies are undermining a country that nationalized their oil industry, requiring foreign capital to only have a minority stake. For this sin of keeping Venezuelan wealth for Venezuelans, the empire kidnapped him.
He did, but that doesn’t excuse what the US did.
Maduro is the democratically elected president of Venezuela. With 51% of the vote, compared to his opposition gaining 43%, the US Empire has tried to rely on manufacturing false evidence against Maduro so their compradors can gain power. This is despite the fact that the Venezuelan electoral process is among the most transparent in the world, with election observers including the opposition. Venezuelans didn’t believe the empire’s lies, though, so the empire was forced to engage by force, bombing hospitals and murdering dozens of civilians in the process.
These lies undermining Maduro are the same claiming there is no genocide in Palestine, that socialism is scary and evil, that Trump won 2020, that Saddam had WMD. These lies are undermining a country that nationalized their oil industry, requiring foreign capital to only have a minority stake. For this sin of keeping Venezuelan wealth for Venezuelans, the empire kidnapped him.
“I’m not excusing what the US did but the excuse they used was valid”
Go fucking vote for John Kerry in 2004.