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Martin Bassani's avatar

Who would replace Maduro? Answer: another imperial puppet! In any case, it is for Venezuelans to sort this out for themselves. CIA meddling will not bring any good outcome.

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Another WorldView Is Possible's avatar

"Halvorssen is founder of the annual Oslo Freedom Forum and president of the Human Rights Foundation"

This is a CIA cut-out.

The Majority of Venezuelans voted for Maduro - STILL - after 15+ years of economic warfare and CIA Rat-fucking.

Which is why you have people in the streets, doing exactly what CIA Regime Change/Sanctions Operations are designed to do - make life so rough on the population, that they cave-in to the pressure, and do what the Empire wants.

The difference between what Chavez and Maduro offer, and what Joe Biden and Kop-MALA or Trump offers is the difference between "Corporate Socialism" and a human-centered Socialism.

Venezuela sits upon a sea of oil albeit a sea of low grade oil, best for making Diesel, and which requires special refineries, like those of Koch Industries in Texas. The US could give-an-F- about "Democracy". Is Ukraine a Democracy, with Nazi Terrorism, no elections, and a CIA/MI-6 dictator? How about our colony in Southwest Asia - with Riots and military bases being over run, by fans of Gang Rape?

You're being driven to distraction by CIA media manipulation. Forget the Zionist war on Lebanon, Syria, Iran that appears to be coming...pay attention to the cries of "Freedom!" From less than 44% of the Population in Caracas. They supported by the CIA's top man in Oslo, don't ya' know.

This strategy of manufactured Riots and Media Manipulation is exactly what the CIA used in OPERATION AJAX - against Mossadeh... And that turned out swell, didn't it?

Machado has sold her country's oil off to Chevron, once the Coup goes through. And she's reached out to Bibi, and pledged her undying loyalty.

If Central Banks were actually in support of the kind of real Socialism, that they have in Venezuela - the US wouldn't have spent more than 25 years trying to overthrow it. Central Banks want the kind of "Corporate Socialism" that the Pentagon represents. They don't want literacy. They were happy to squeeze the people of Venezuela so hard, that a one quarter increase in the price of gasoline, led to the riots in the former slums and shantytowns of Caracas, called "The Caracazo". Chavez changed all that. Machado and Oslo Venezuelan oligarchs like Halvorssen want to set the clock back about 30 years.

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Louka's avatar

Thank you for spelling this out. Completely agree with you.

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Bob Budge's avatar

A Globalist-Marxist incursion coming to a country near you. Globalists have no intension of letting the "Deplorables" stand in the way of Globalist domination. Globalist will go to any length to crush the American Constitution & Spirit. The Democrat (tools of Globalists) wide open border has set the stage for a battle on American soil that will rival anything seen in Venezuela. Prep & buckle up !

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James Lord's avatar

I have read a few times Mirta Ojito's book, "El Mañana: Memorias de un Exodo Cubano." She and her family spent years in Cuba quietly resisting the Castro regime, keeping their heads down far enough to avoid the punishments dispensed therefrom. They escaped to the US with the Mariel boat lift.

Reading the above, I was reminded of an account she gave in the book. She encountered one of her schoolteachers, who greeted her with a friendly posture mid- or post-exodus. But Ojito had not forgotten that this same teacher had behaved as a pro-Castro zealot who humiliated those students and their families who refused to embrace atheism and la revolucion.

I expect there's some minority percentage that are moved by principle. But I expect that majorities are moved by the instinct for self-preservation.

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ME's avatar

How crazy, for me personally, that, when reading Maduro was supported by Xi/Putin, I suspected the election results were more accurate than not. But I also thought Venezuela was one of the first countries that used the basically current voting machines to successfully steal elections back more than a decade ago - it was Smartmatic back then, finally morphing into Dominion. ???. Yes CIA/Mossad would want Venezuelan resources and color revolutions are clearly still in operation (Georgia, Moldova). 😞

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Patrick Glennon's avatar

No oil no meddling, same deep state playbook. Give me strenght

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

Cui bono? Who wins if Maduro is deposed? It's all about the money (and the resources). It's always all about the money.

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John Day MD's avatar

I am interested in learning more about that selfie with the vote count screens...

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manorborn's avatar

Reprinting this editged encapsualtion of the context :

When a nation is unwillingly to fall in line, we seize its financial assets, covertly sabotage its infrastructure and stage an economic siege. Then when the poisoning begins to take effect, we stage a textbook Maidan coupe, install a puppet regime and claim to be liberators.

We shouldn't let the poliical framing fool us. This should not be about “left,” “right,” “socialism,” “communism” or “democracy.. How a nation rules itself is not the issue… that’s only an enticement to entrap the public into choosing sides as if it were a fucking soccer match. The issue here is proactive Interference with a nation’s sovereignty – the first commandment of Globalism.

Think about why in less than six months Globalists shot Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico, tried to kill Donald Trump and attempted coups in La Paz and Tbilisi. Now this. Basic pattern recognition should prompt anyone with a viable consciousness level to draw the right conclusion.

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Marina Dashkova's avatar

According to some sources the "riots" are not that overwhelming https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1818212483401650671

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George Jacobs's avatar

"Everyone is super opinionated". You can say that again! Everyone is super opinionated! How about curiosity. You are coming from curiosity, and not from from anger, hatred, fear or belief. I love that you are sharing your human bodily sensations. There is a compassionate tenderness in your writing.

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James Greene's avatar

An article I scanned at the website http://madinamerica.com on the subject of "Ethics in the age of digital mental health," uses a quote from a 1959 novel "Homo Faber," by Max Frisch-- "The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope, which only disturb, it has no wishes with regard to the result, it operates according to pure logic and probability...." I suppose what led the scientific enterprise to dismiss such things as fear and hope was that such feelings led nowhere far beyond the laboratory setting, where a sense of dread couldn't follow. Maybe it's natural that people should run and riot, and then celebrate should change be precipitated. Or maybe the logical observers have all the bases covered enough to prove the stronger party. Maybe it's more hopeful for the Venezuelans than than for inhabitants of the Northern metropoles?

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rickrolled's avatar

Thought provoking. Thank you Celia.

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Gecko1's avatar

Mad Uro is not a name that inspires confidence in the future:).

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BKBlair's avatar

Thank you. I had been reading a few posts on X and more on Telegram. I do not share those posts at all due to all the operations going on. I appreciate you sharing Thor Halvorssen's X posts. I appreciate your authentic candor.

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Sunface Jack's avatar

"Many Things Can Be True At Once"- spot on Celia. NB!. There is always a scapegoat in political issues.

The action taken by citizens when they are suppressed is their right.

"The people should own the resources and not multinational oil companies" or THE PEOPLE SHALL SHARE IN THE COUNTRY'S WEALTH! then there is the other one THE LAND SHALL BE SHARED AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IT! - the latter two come from the ANC Marxist communist 1955 Freedom Charter in South Africa.

Should the countries wealth belong to the citizens? see above

Careful as that may lead to socialism >communism and the state will leap onto that opportunity.

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