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It's not just the US. They weren't even the first. If I read the news reports accurately, Canada made the move first. Look, I know we all Trump. I'm with ya. B
by nickelcitymario 8y ago
It's not just the US. They weren't even the first. If I read the news reports accurately, Canada made the move first.
Look, I know we all Trump. I'm with ya. But that doesn't mean that every single decision his government makes is the wrong call. "Even a broken clock is right twice a day", yada yada.
By all accounts, Madura is an unelected tyrant responsible for the deaths of several protesters. I'm not there, so I can't say if these accounts are accurate. But there certainly seems to be an international consensus.
I don't think this action has any similarity to, say, the US's support in the 80s of the Sandinistas, or their involvement in the brutal drug wars, etc.
- nqr 8y agoI don't think it's got anything to do with Trump. Obama would've done the same. This is part of the US culture, just like waterboarding :P
- omegaworks 8y ago> Canada made the move first. Canada has a sordid history when it comes to relations with its indigenous first nations peoples that continues to the present day[1]. One of the aims of the Bolivarian revolution was to center and uplift the indigenous population of Venezuela, so it makes sense that the Canadian government would be among the first to question its legitimacy. 1. https://medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/episode-36-maplewashing-whats-behind-canada-s-progressive-veneer-717d85a1f5ee https://medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/episode-36-maplewashing-...