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Latin America

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:13 PM Aug 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/05/venezuela-western-socialists-nicolas-maduro-abuse

With our democracy in tatters, people live in fear with no hope of change. Western socialists should be making a stand against Maduro’s government.

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In Venezuela 82% of people live in poverty where are our friends now? (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Aug 2017 OP

There are plenty of Chavista apologists in this forum GatoGordo Aug 2017 #1

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1. There are plenty of Chavista apologists in this forum

Mon Aug 28, 2017, 04:02 PM

Aug 2017

But, as long as any old dictator identifies himself as a Marxist, they can look past that.