Here’s What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Venezuelan Election

6 comments

1. The US actively inciting regime change through spurious claims and underhanded tricks? That sounds so uncharacteristic!

2. wait – your source is an instagram post? and that proves the WSJ, Washington Post, New York Times, PBS etc are wrong?

   hilarious.

3. Cross post from a tankie sub. I’m not saying that it’s all bs but I would definitely considered the source and intent.

4. This is correct, but you should also say that US companies refined the oil. Chavez nationalized the oil industry and kicked out Venezuelan elites and the US oil companies. Therefore no one could operate the oil companies. The US tried to block oil sales.

   That led to problems with the economy. Venezuela had to find buyers for the oil.

   I don’t know why this is tied to Palestine.

5. Since when did this sub become tankie central?

   As regards the election: maybe we should ask Venezuelans how fair they think the elections went. Or the dozens of electoral supervisor from third countries denied entry on the eve of the election rather than a sub and news source whose lowest common denominator = opposite of anything USA says.

6. This is hilarious tankie propaganda. Imagine your country being so poorly run that 25% of all residents leave but still believing the government that caused its economic collapse would win an election.

   Also, I hate how they make this out to be some kind of right vs left issue. The very left-leaning president of Chile came out against Maduro claiming victory so to pretend it’s a partisan game is so childish.