Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new US regime change scheme
Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new US regime change scheme
As Venezuela prepares to head to the polls in July, the US has already started drumming up suspicion and doubt around the electoral process.
Here we go again. Let's tamper with other countries just enough to create instability, then scratch your heads a decade later when their population is escaping to your border. Rinse, repeat, Insanity.
The USA under Trump tried to depose the Venezuelan leader only 5 years ago or so. Speaking of Trump, a large portion of the USA is currently striving to elect someone who tried to overthrow democracy in their own nation. Electoral scrutiny is all well and good, but is the USA really the right arbitrator given their domestic election problems and history of interfering in Central/South America? What do Venezuelans think about US involvement?
Then Russia interferes with US election. It’s election interference all the way down.
Except it stops at countries like Russia where the complete election is fake.
Unlike our glorious US empire where the elections are definitely totally legit (don't ask why Trump won despite getting less votes)
No liberal "democracies" are democratic in the first place on account of being capitalist dictatorships
Remember when gore won the election and then Bush became president? Or when Hilary got more votes and then trump became president?
Guaido's term expired already?
Electoralism and its consequences 😔
Common electoralism L.
He will always be the president of my heart.
Evergreen headline.
internationalism, anti-imperialism, and the empowerment of all people as political subjects with rights and responsibilities
That's really rich when your soldiers are massed near Essequibo along a border with a country less than half your size.
Like the Malvinas were colonized from Argentina by the UK for its resources and to put mililtary there, this region was annexed from Venezuela by the british-ruled Guyana for similar reasons.
Guyana's current government is a US puppet regime that's given megacorps like Exxon Mobil full access to its oil (which is also claiming oil reserves in Venezuela's maritime borders through Essequibo), and is planning to place US military in Essequibo to aid in their trying to overthrow Venezuela. It makes sense to take measures to prevent this.
I honestly doubt they'll go and actually annex Essequibo back, but it's completely reasonable to at least place troops on the border to discourage US military from coming into the region.
Yeah, US troops were not there first. And I know it goes against the grain a little bit, but not everyone that works with the US is some puppet of our evil empire or something.
Some people just choose to do business with our companies of their own free will, as outlandish as that may sound.
edit: Oh, and I had to look it up, but they've been their current size and shape for 200 years now. I don't see how the Spanish colony of Venezuela has any more right than the British colony of Guiana.
the Malvinas were colonized for resources
What resources do the Falklands have exactly? Fucking fish?
It was a convenient and well situated naval base historically, and now is perfectly able to declare independence if the population so wishes -the falklands just, shockingly, overall benefit from being a part of a larger and richer national entity.
Essequibo was disputed in colonial times, with the dispute being settled by an international tribunal. First it was about gold, now it’s about oil.
Wow. What an exceptional piece of journalism from Alexandra Zoe and the People's Dispatch! Not a single source: just an opinion piece. But thank you Alexandra for your unbiased insight. What an incredible claim that there might be corruption in Venezuelas electoral process! Clearly an indication of the American Colonial western imperialism expansionist policy. Did I get all the buzzwords right? This is what stands for journalism nowadays?
par for the course to be expected standard of news on "world news" @ lemmy.ml
Everyone reading this piece full of buzzwords and without any source and thinking 'yeah, this seems trustworthy', is completly delusional.