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In reply to the discussion: Venezuelans mass for year's largest anti-government protests [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)4. Still, what you've linked to is an anti-left article in a right-wing rag
(We can assume everbody in Fort Worth is reactionary-after all, the place is 95% white evangelical.)
The PSUV has made mistakes, but that protest wasn't for any positive or egalitarian agenda. To be anti-chavista(unless you;re to their left)is to want the restoration of the neoliberal old order. None of the wealthy "opposition" types would settle for Scandinavian social democracy, and none of them would allow the left to exist or the poor to retain any rights or any voice at all if they ever came to power. It'd be like what would have happened in Cuba if the Miami exiles had ever overthrown Fidel-or what did happen in Chile in '73 and Guatemala in '54.
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Venezuelans will decide that. Lets see if there are even elections this year for parliament.
Bacchus4.0
Jun 2015
#57
Which can only lead to a right-wing takeover that will bring nothing but misery
Ken Burch
May 2015
#11
Venezuelans will decide. Looks like they aren't happy with what they have now nt
Bacchus4.0
May 2015
#13
It's kind of a big mistake on the gov's part that they didn't diversify their economy
Marksman_91
Jun 2015
#58
Being Venezuelan myself and having lived there most of life I think qualifies as research n/t
Marksman_91
Jun 2015
#62
So you would have a problem if the PEOPLE voted in a govt that you would consider
GGJohn
May 2015
#14
Last rally that Maduro called for did not even reach half of the turnout for these opposition ones
Marksman_91
Jun 2015
#59