Best Read on the Net today -None so blind

[malaise]

https://www.trinidadexpress.com/opinion/columnists/none-so-blind/article_a097b0aa-4f5a-11e9-92a3-0733e7e95f9d.html
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I find it incomprehensible that supposedly-intelligent persons, many of whom have been around for as long as I have, and who ought to know the bloody history of American interventions in the politics of Latin American countries, routinely regurgitate the propaganda emanating from Washington by referring to Venezuela’s besieged president Nicolas Maduro as an “evil dictator”.

When such description comes from the mouths of the lying US President Donald Trump and his close associates, or from Venezuelans who oppose Maduro (and his predecessor Hugo Chavez), I understand that. They have to paint the man as a monster to rally support and political and economic ostracism that they hope will hasten his demise.

But you’d think intelligent persons they are seeking to convince will ask a simple question: where is the evidence of Maduro’s evil, dictatorial designs? How many Venezuelans who have reportedly fled their country were gunned down in cold blood at the borders, either while exiting or re-entering the country? How many of the alleged majority (total population is 30 million) who politically oppose the “evil dictator” are rotting in dungeons or in sub-human conditions in concentration camps? How many children have died from starvation or even malnutrition, or diseases like cholera that are linked with destitution? How many have disappeared, presumed dead, murdered by Maduro’s maniacal soldiers?

The answers to these pertinent questions, my friends, are blowing in the wind…outright lies or grossly exaggerated propaganda.

[Beakybird]

1. He denies food aid to towns that oppose him.

This is monstrous.
He hails and tortures political opponents. This is monstrous.
Just because he's not the most evil man to ever walk the earth doesn't make him evil.