Recently I spoke to a friend from Venezuela to ask her about the situation on the ground and if she’s safe and whatnot. Of course the topic of conversation veered into politics and so I asked about what she thought of Maduro and such, suffice it to say she did not think positively of him.
So I’m just curious, what are other Venezuelan comrades’ opinions on Maduro and his administration, and the general population’s opinions. I knew many had a gripe with him because they perceived him to be the problem for the economics crisis Venezuela went through (not US intervention).
Please educate and correct me and give your own opinions, thanks.
What is your friend’s socio-economic background? Do they live in Venezuela and if so, where? Do they speak fluent english? Can they afford to travel internationally? In global south countries these things are usually a sign of at least a well off middle class family background. Obviously if your friend is from the petty bourgeois or well paid urban intelligentsia that is not the support base of the PSUV, let alone if they are from a landlord family.
I learn this more and more as I look back at some experiences I had. Always wondered why one of my Venezuelan friends was so vehemently anti-communist at an age I didn’t even understand what economics was until I realized later on his father managed a minor-league baseball team in America, was a MLB player for a short period of time and would refuse to elaborate more on his dad’s “political career” in Venezuela before that.
Shit was kind of scary when you think about it. Like, the guy was targeted for that kind of thought at a way earlier age.
My corrupted ablelist abusive family had been to Venezuela for several missionary work from the Toronto Christian Community Church from 2006 to 2008. The church organization was called Toronto Chinese Community Church. It was run by pastors to depends on coercion, deceit, and dangerous violent abusive psychopaths for their growth over rule of law, democracy, ethics, or religious faith.
At the visit of my corrupted family, Hugo Chavez was in president and the 2008 global recession had not affect the Venezuelan high economic dependency on oil export. I attended an international Christian school organization called ACIC where the people can freely slander Chavez and invented conspiracy theories about Chavez without fear of repercussion. Hugo Chavez always disprove all those accusations with his effective governance of the country. There are crowds who cheer for Chavez in the street. Chavaz did cut off water supplies to regions that does not vote for him for a few weeks. However, Venezuelan market has plenty of water supplies to make the water shortage problem trivial.
From my observation, the people who are most vocal against Chavez belong to the younger generation of rich white immigrants and rich East Asian immigrants who had never experienced life before Socialist governance. The older generation of rich white immigrants had not criticize Chavez despite the threats to their plutocratic values.
I had not know about Maduro. However, the characteristic of the criticism towards him in social media seem to fit the daily slanders by rich white immigrants. A plot inconsistency of the criticism is that the self-proclaimed Venezuelan presidency, Guaido, had been able to repeatedly visit and leave Venezuela without fear of repercussion by Maduro. The greatest violence that Guaido faced in Venezuela was when an armed attacker showed up in front of Guaido’s crowd on camera, take the time to ready his aim, and then carefully avoid killing Guaido during the panicking which implied a false flag attack.
Guaido did boost that he gained military rebels in his favor. This shortly before the first reported of military weapons against civilians where a tank roll over a crowd of people. Since Maduro had not used violence against civilians and the operator of that tank seemingly do not know how to operate the turret, it is possible that Guaido’s gang of thugs had stolen the military tank for false flag terrorism.
