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I tried to have one about Nicolas Maduro the other day but no one was brave enough to weigh in:
https://hexbear.net/post/353817
please guys 0 comments hurts
the problem with this one is that all the libs/chuds have the biggest opinions. it's hard to struggle over "he's fine, the US should leave Venezuela alone"
Yeah, I guess so. Selfishly I guess I just wanted to hear people's takes on it who were better read than me on the situation so I could have some data/resources to look at. I figured that the best way to get that was to do some infighting, lol.
Takes on most countries are "they're fine, the US should leave them alone", I was hoping for further insight.
yeah, that's why I upbeared the thread, was hoping to learn more also
Yeah, like, I think it's pretty difficult to judge how well eg he's managing the economy when they're under crippling sanctions. Like okay that means he's worse than Fidel but christ that's a high bar.
Yeah, it is very difficult. He's got a very difficult job to do. Still, his successes and failures can be assessed.
the one "failure" that comes to mind was that time a Venezuelan navy guy thought stopping dead in front of an ice breaker was a good idea
in a vessel that was essentially made of fibreglass
versus something designed to plow though sea ice
i get why Maduro went all "this is a grave attack on us" and all that shit, but come on, your navy guy is not the smartest lmao
The one comment
Literally 1984 that our mods just deleted whatever this dumbass said
Hahaha, yeah, it was some gibberish about Guiado, I honestly couldn't tell if they were saying he was good or bad it was so incoherent.
Anyway, before I could figure it out my post actually showed as -1 comments due to the deletion.
Maduro does shady stuff like he's involved in drug trafficking, but also his country regularly has its boats robbed and its money stolen by imperialist governments. I doubt he feels good about making money from mafias and drug cartels, but Venezuela has to bring in the money somehow. And imperialist nations have made it their mission to cripple Venezuela as much as possible through economic sanctions.
If he has most legal avenues of money cut off, it's only reasonable to expect he'd get involved with shady things. A country has to make money somehow, and at a certain point you have to decide what's more moral: letting people starve or selling drugs.
You should post/cross post stuff like that to the news mega.
Mmm, I did wonder if I was posting in the wrong comm.
Search PSUV in news and you will find some comments on this week's and last week's news mega about Maduro and the PSUV attacking the Venezuela communists lately.