There is a country with a dictator. You know the rest.
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Vijay Prashad is brilliant, and he’s brilliant in this video. He discusses how he knows Maduro personally, that the guy was a bus driver and union leader before he was asked to step in for him by Chavez, who was dying of cancer. Maduro’s wife is in the general assembly, as well.
Venezuela: What Just Happened? With Vijay Prashad, Andreína Chávez and José Luis Granados Ceja 📱 by Katie Halper (YouTube)
Maduor was elected president. The Wikipedia on the 2024 Venezuelan national election is one of the longest ones I’ve ever seen, and is filled with wishy-washy language that lets the reader believe that there is cold, hard proof of election fraud without actually providing it.
This suggests to me that some people in powerful organizations were busy laying the groundwork for being able to say that Maduro wasn’t the legitimate president of the country, so that the immunity enjoyed by the president of a country under international law doesn’t apply. Think about it: why is there a 35-page article about an election in Venezuela in English? I would understand if it were in Spanish, but someone took the trouble to make sure it was available in English. The CIA lässt grüssen.
José also points out that the Venezuelan opposition has always bitched about every election result that they didn’t win. There’s nothing new there.
The main discussion starts at about 20:00. Some notes:
- This is an invasion and a coup. The timing is so that Trump could present the fait accompli to the Congress and the nation on the 4th of January. Venezuela had an important meeting on the 5th of January, as well.
- Prashad talks about the crews of the boats that were seized. “We live in a civilization of detritus. Nobody cares about any of these people.”
- José gives a PSA that there is no such thing as sanctioned oil. You can’t sanction a commodity.
- Prashad recommends to read the indictment against Maduro because it’s ludicrous, a joke of an evidence-free document written by teenagers.
All of the so-called evidence presented against Venezuela and its democratically elected government is equally shaky. They have been trying to do this for over 20 years. Bush tried to coup Chavez in 20o3, They’ve been gunning at Venezuela and its oil for that long. The sanctions have also been hitting Venezuela that long. What are we even talking about? Almost certainly, nothing you “know” about Venezuela is true. It’s all propaganda and disinformation planted to lead up to this coup.
But they don’t even need to work that hard. People are going to be on board with this war because they have been ordered to be on board for this war, just like they’re always on board for every damned war of plunder. The cartoon They’re Not Even Trying to Lie Well Anymore by Ted Rall sums it up.
“He: There is a country.
She: This country has a president.
He: You don’t know anything about this country.
She: You don’t even know where it is.
He: They’re a threat.
She: He’s evil.
He: We need war! Else we’ll die!
She: These scripts aren’t even trying any more.
Producer: Americans are war sluts! No need for lube!”