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(full interview, his wife Cilia Flores can be seen in the backseat)

This comes despite N.Maduro agreeing to the u.s. pillaging their oil.

No point in arguing that it has nothing to do with drugs(, so many videos talking about it, Grayzone since 2020, even Rand Paul), not even western journalists seem to buy this lie.

They used their oil to improve the lives of their citizens instead of enriching only the wealthiest venezuelans complicit of this robbery by the u.s. for decades before Chávez. And then we(sterners) talk of sovereignty.

(source)
But i.m.o. oil is also an excuse, as it was for Iraq. The problem here is that socialism is contagious(, just like anti-zionism was contagious in the Middle-East).

Venezuela was set to lead latin american countries in economic growth, much more than the regional average of 2.9%, they survived the harshest phase, sanctions became inefficient, but the capitalists-owned empire doesn't allow socialist countries to be successful :
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The worker's exploitation has to continue at all costs and this is more important than anything, imagine if the wealthiest lost their passive income and had to work like everyone else, that's what has always been fought against i.m.o., whether in the Cold War or as far as the discussions of the bourgeois during, e.g., the french revolution, on the importance of keeping the right of property.
We can't build a world where everyone is 'a capitalist'/'exploiting other workers while lazing around', that's why they hate anarchy, or Venezuela.

Needless to point out that the US won't suffer from "international"(western) sanctions, the assets of D.Trump and american oligarchs won't be seized, there will be no sports/cultural/.. boycott, closure of US medias, freezing of the bank accounts of pro-americans, ...


(oops, sry)
An interesting account/website among others : https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/reimposing-democracy-in-venezuela-decoding-western-propaganda

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[-] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 week ago

My first emotional response is of course, wanting Venezuela to lash out against the US militarily, this is an act of war after all. But after thinking more rationally, maybe the US is doing this to demoralize Venezuelans, because they can't sustain a prolonged war against Venezuela. They would have to support Ukraine, Israel and now a new war. It's just not feasible, so I think they're relying on intimidation tactics to accomplish their goal of regime change.

Also, Maduro being kidnapped after trying to compromise with the US about Venezuelan oil, is a cautionary tale for world leaders who think they can negotiate with the empire. The empire does not negotiate, the empire does not compromise, the empire must take everything they possibly can.

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