Maduro calls Venezuela opposition "heirs of Hitler"

[joshcryer]

159. That Noticiero Digital article plays into chavista narrative.

It is a fact that the homophobic bigot Maduro sang the Cuban national anthem, but only because he knew it would get a rise out of opposition people (Capriles said nothing about it, wisely not playing into it). Capriles has not directly touched on the issue of Cuban doctors, he merely said that he would stop giving the Cubans oil money. The running thought in opposition circles (not the fascists that they are so often maligned) is that Cuban doctors in Venezuela would be given amnesty and actual paychecks for what they do. It would be a difficult offer to refuse for many of them.

Maduro falsely said that Capriles / the opposition would "send them home" which is simply not what they want to do. I think Capriles should definitely come out and say what is thought within the opposition but I suspect he wants to appeal to the hard right by not saying anything and letting them think he'd send them back to Cuba. He's said he wants to keep the Missiones and clinics, though, and make them stronger, so there's your indication there that he wouldn't send the doctors back to Cuba (they would be free to return of course if they so chose, he'd just pay them a decent salary for them to stay, certainly more than the few hundred bucks they get now).

The reality is that Maduro is comparing the Venezuelan people keeping hundreds of millions of dollars and potentially giving Cubans amnesty in Venezuela to ... the holocaust. It's pretty fucked up.