u/bohillers2345 - originally from r/GenZhou
I was going to post this as a reply to a commenter, but I'll post here instead.

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From the Global North perspective, I feel like the main division between a "good and bad" nation is whether or not they support other socialist-leaning projects? For example, VZ and BO have united (with Cuba I might add) in explicitly anti-imperialist blocs, realigning away from the US and towards China. We know you can't build a truly socialist country while under the imperial boot, whether it's direct colonialism or a blockade. Even Cuba has had to curtail black markets by regulating small businesses which could be considered a "neoliberal drift" by a Trotskyist observer. So why do we make concessions for Diaz-Canal but not Maduro? We can have discussions about how oil has affected Venezuela or natural gas in Bolivia, but personally I believe that the United States must be dealt with for workers' governments to arise worldwide
Castillo and Boric (likely) are dogshit on this front and putting Morales and Maduro next to them is a disservice lol