Venezuela Crisis: Failed coup attempt by Juan Guaido; Military remains supporting Nicholas Maduro

[Lord-Yosh]

These cacs don't get enough

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

The media coverage has been stunning to say the least. Democracy Now is the only source where you can get a slightly more balanced picture of the situation. Even go to’s like Al Jazeera and NPR are running with the same line.

Sunday is gonna be very interesting on whether or not US officials will leave Caracas.

 

[thatrapsfan]

@FAH1223 why you setting up our sister to fail with this



disinformation. Far-right did Maduro write her tweet?

 

[FAH1223]

@FAH1223 why you setting up our sister to fail with this



disinformation. Far-right did Maduro write her tweet?

Warya I tweeted the Buxton interview to her, its not me

 

[Duppy]

Guys I promise you the CIA are the good guys this time This is nothing like all those other regime change operations

Good on Omar for saying what a lot of these left-leaning representatives should be saying

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

forget the CIA, this is the white house directly interfering

 

[ZoeGod]

I’m against any armed intervention in Venezuela. However Maduro must step down because he fukked up the nation big time. However like people here have said if you remove a government that’s the easy part. It’s what comes next that’s hard. And I have studied Venezuela and have to say there is so many armed groups on the ground. You have the Chávezista paramilitary zealots called collectivos who are heavily armed. What happens to them post Maduro? What happened to the mega gangs who outgun Venezuelan police and the pranes that lead them? What of the ELN who occupy the border regions of Venezuela? And what of the national militia which was created to oppose any coup or invasion. Say what you will of Chavez he did all of this that in case of a coup or invasion the vacuum that comes creates chaos. Removing Maduro is easy but you better have a damn good plan on what happens next or you will have a multifactional civil war that would last decades. That’s the problem with US foreign policy they call for regime change but never come up with a plan. Best believe post Maduro Venezuela there will still be bloodshed and war.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

CAIRCOM and various South American nations are already dealing with it, though. Millions of Venezuelans are flooding Brazil and Colombia, so all these nations have a vested interest in getting rid of Maduro. It’s not just some US conspiracy as you seem to think. You do realise the issue in Venezuela is an humanitarian crisis right now? People can’t afford the bare essentials, food is scarce. Price of oil dropped and Venezuela’s economy is too dependent on oil, so how will better maintenance of the oil industry help? They seriously need to diversify their economy. The sanctions cannot be blamed for all the financial woes in that country. Maduro has mismanaged his position and their economy was limited. I agree that aid in the form of food or whatever should be sent but that will do very little in the grand scheme of things. The nation needs new leadership and a different economic structure to survive. With or without US meddling strong opposition and a power struggle would have happened.

• Maduro screwed up. We agree.
  
• Other SA countries are having to deal with refugees. We agree.
  
• It's a humanitarian crisis. We agree.
  
• Venezuela needs to diversify its economy and not be so dependent on oil. We agree.

As far as the other points.

• Oil prices dropped and left an enormous deficit and debt to VN. But it was also exacerbated by not getting oil production up where it should be. IOW, they were also losing money because of oil shortages. Production wasn't at capacity like it should have been. That's why oil infrastructure maintenance is important.
  
• The opposition, if you read or watch any of the videos in my post, have also been purposefully holding back basic items, such as cooking oil, toiletries. This was proven by actual video and on the ground reporting. We know the US has been supporting the opposition even before the election and helping them upend the economy.
  
• The economy was already on a downturn because of the drop of oil prices. But the sanctions accelerated that misery and in fact made it worse. The sanctions themselves are part of the reason why Venezuelans are fleeing.

I have no problem with Maduro leaving office. I have a problem with the US pushing for it, funding it through opposition parties, and playing a direct and significant role in it.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

the PEOPLE are taking back THEIR wealth from the capitalist parasites

 

[HiphopRelated]

Once Venezuela doesn't keep trying to fukk with Guyana's oil

He lost CARICOM support at that point

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Lets just be 100% honest here... No duh rich Ring wingers in America DESPISE socialism especially what happened after Cuba. They lost all their private business in Cuba nor can they own as much private businesses in Cuba like they can say... The Bahamas.

But lets be even more honest... These Right wingers just wanna turn Latin America/Caribbean into their own deviant backyard Vegas. Yea its also about American imperialism/hegemony but Latin America has always been their deviant playground. Again this is one reason they despise socialism.

Whats wrong with noting that too much central planning in the economy is just bad?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

the PEOPLE are taking back THEIR wealth from the capitalist parasites

You are trash. CITGO isn't helping the people.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

forget the CIA, this is the white house directly interfering

Good. This is the type of peaceful, diplomatic organized and careful intervention the USA should be doing.

I wholly support this.

Anything is better than Maduro at this point. He must go.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Once Venezuela doesn't keep trying to fukk with Guyana's oil

He lost CARICOM support at that point

Ah. Interesting.

 

[FAH1223]

I’m against any armed intervention in Venezuela. However Maduro must step down because he fukked up the nation big time. However like people here have said if you remove a government that’s the easy part. It’s what comes next that’s hard. And I have studied Venezuela and have to say there is so many armed groups on the ground. You have the Chávezista paramilitary zealots called collectivos who are heavily armed. What happens to them post Maduro? What happened to the mega gangs who outgun Venezuelan police and the pranes that lead them? What of the ELN who occupy the border regions of Venezuela? And what of the national militia which was created to oppose any coup or invasion. Say what you will of Chavez he did all of this that in case of a coup or invasion the vacuum that comes creates chaos. Removing Maduro is easy but you better have a damn good plan on what happens next or you will have a multifactional civil war that would last decades. That’s the problem with US foreign policy they call for regime change but never come up with a plan. Best believe post Maduro Venezuela there will still be bloodshed and war.

Once Venezuela doesn't keep trying to fukk with Guyana's oil

He lost CARICOM support at that point

Guyana is being flooded with oil executives right now. My job has a program there and we have trainings... booking hotels in Georgetown has been