auto4ppl

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   by auto4ppl 7y ago

   >> No, it isn't. The situation is that a despot is in control of Venezuela and it has failed in its contract with the people to provide the basic services required of government, so it is no longer a legitimate government regardl
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   by auto4ppl 7y ago

   Given the history of previous U.S.-sponsored coup attempts against the Venezuelan government, and given that the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela was responsible for running guns to right-wing death squads in Central America in the 80'
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   by auto4ppl 7y ago

   Yes, there's been an enormous propaganda push to legitimize a future U.S. intervention - either a direct invasion, or igniting a full-blown civil war by arming right-wing paramilitaries, as was the standard operating procedure througho
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   by auto4ppl 7y ago

   This would go exactly as well as it did in Vietnam and Iraq: The Venezuelan people would slaughter the invading imperialists until they gave up and went home.
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   by auto4ppl 7y ago

   The government still has the support of an enormous number of people, mostly from the largely non-white working classes, whose economic and political interests were trampled on by the pre-Bolivarian governments and who are naturally suspici