The Venezuelan right wing opposition has got to be the world's most shameless.

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30. This is the issue, no matter how much fondness for Chavez or his alleged heir to power, Maduro.

I think the situation is much more complicated than will fit into Marxist theory. Is this is a war versus socialism or is it something else?

If half the nation supports the blood heir of Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of that area, who is Leopoldo Lopez, is it not possible that half the people in Venezuela do not want socialism?

Despite the knee jerk urge to see Chile all over again, I think most of the countries in South America are able to resist American pressure now. As Kerry said, the Monroe Doctrine is dead. There are alliances being made by those countries are not with us but with many other nations now.

And like it or not, facism by oligarch is not unpopular with some people. I know people from South and Central America who are definitely on par with Libertarians and the Tea Party in the kind of society they want to have. South America is not all leftist, it's not a plot. That's something we need to face.