In Venezuela, White Supremacy is a Key to Trump's Coup

[Judi Lynn]

In Venezuela, White Supremacy is a Key to Trump’s Coup
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Greg Palast

On January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaidó, former speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself president. No voting. When you have official recognition from The Donald, who needs elections?

Say what?

I can explain what’s going on in Venezuela in three photos:

First, we have Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed (and Trump-proclaimed) president of the nation, with his wife and child, a photo prominently placed in The New York Times.



Next, the class photo of Guaidó’s party members in the National Assembly, white as snow…



…especially when compared to their political opposites in the third photo, the congress members who support the elected President Nicolás Maduro. The Maduro supporters are nearly all of a darker hue.



This is the story of Venezuela in black and white, the story not told in The New York Times nor the rest of our establishment media. This year’s so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor.

Four centuries of white supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority. This turn away from white supremacy continues under Maduro, Chavez’ chosen successor.

In my interviews with Chavez for BBC beginning in 2002, he talked with humor about the fury of a white ruling class finding itself displaced by dark-skinned man who was so visibly “Negro e Indio,” a label he wore loudly and proudly.

More:
https://www.gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-white-supremacy-is-a-key-to-trump-coup/

[Loki Liesmith]

1. All hail the people's savior Maduro

[johannsyah]

2. if that's true

the war won't ever put to an end

[DetlefK]

3. You are doing your damn best to ignore inconvenient facts.

Why won't you explain to all of us how Maduro was legally elected in an election where opposition-candidates weren't even allowed to run?

[Judi Lynn]

4. " You are doing your damn best to ignore inconvenient facts." Really?

"Why won't you explain to all of us how Maduro was legally elected in an election where opposition-candidates weren't even allowed to run?"

"All of us?" Who authorized you to speak for "all of us?"

I'm pretty sure some of us take the time to know what we're talking about, or we don't talk.

If you want to know what happened, and you definitely should know first, why don't you do your homework on the subject, find out the truth for yourself, THEN post?

[DetlefK]

5. You didn't answer the question. Could it be that you don't like the answer?

How was Maduro legally elected in an election where opposition-candidates were not allowed to run?

How come that Maduro gets a pass when abusing his power and dismantling democracy in Venezuela, but when someone tries to stop him, the concern-trolls come out and insist that his opponents must do it by the book?