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10. Well, for a start...
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 04:27 AM
Mar 2013

...because he was member of Tradition, Family and, Property, which is an ultra-conservative religious and political organization acting across the Hemisphere and in Europe, that has made everything they could to keep progressive governments away, including by inciting and supporting several coups d'état in Latin America. Because, on top of that, he himself supported a coup against a progressive president and invaded an embassy. Because he has the support of the most obscure right-wing organizations.

He is as right-winger as they get. He probably couldn't do much to implement neoliberalism being mayor or governor, I don't know, will have to research, but he certainly would need to be president to make structural neoliberal changes. And it seems quite clear that those who want a neoliberal Venezuela are on his side.

And the fact is, both neoliberal and right-wingers, and even some people at DU, have the audacity of presenting Colombia as a model... if that's their model, go on Maduro!

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