A twitter thread of stuff Traore has done (x.com)

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The 'international community' is going to murder this man aren't they

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[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

Just ignore that he’s trying to criminalize gay people.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I can't fathom why they would do that. Aside from being just plainly wrong and cruel, can't they see that they have better uses of their time?

[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Either personal bigotry or appeasing religious groups would be my guess. Sadly, it seems like Sankara will remain an anomaly.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Really puts the "critical" into critical support yikes-2

I hope they don't go with it, somehow, or are just too distracted to do it.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

Really such a dumb thing for them to do because it just opens up more pinkwashing from the west. Cuba and Venezuela figured out why doing that helps nobody.

Though I’m not sure how much of it is Traore himself pushing it. His Minister of Justice has been more publicly in support of it while Traore has yet to really say anything about it compared to someone like Putin who made his intentions very clear.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

Chavez mostly ignored homophobia in Venezuela, and even within the PSUV. I don't think he was a homophobe, but he didn't do much to prevent homophobia from happening. At least Maduro seems better in that regard, even if Maduro has ties to Christian groups, he also seems to have improved the lives of LGBTQ+ people, and even openly supported same-sex marriage.

Nicolás Maduro assures in Salvados that the issue of equal marriage “has not been debated yet” although he assures that he believes “that everybody can get married whether homosexual or heterosexual” and has committed with Jordi Évole to take the issue of same-sex marriage to the Constituent Assembly. On the decriminalization of abortion he did not want to pronounce himself as it is “a delicate issue”.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday asked the country's National Assembly to discuss same-sex marriage during its next term beginning in January, citing Pope Francis' comments this week supporting civil unions for same-sex couples.

The Pope's comments were the clearest language yet he has used on the rights of gay people. Gay marriage is not currently legal in heavily Roman Catholic Venezuela, despite laws or court decisions in other South American countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Colombia legalizing same-sex marriage. "I have friends and acquaintances who are very happy with what the Pope said yesterday," Maduro said at an event with leaders of his ruling Socialist Party

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wonder if this is the Junta trying to appeal to the more socially conservative areas of society. Juntas and military leaders, whether left-wing or right-wing, tend to have reactionary brainworms because of how reactionary the military schools and organizations are.