Venezuela and Trump

I recall that Trojan horse.

The ‘spectacle’ of the U.S. providing supplies to Venezuela to legitimize the U.S. as a benevolent actor...USAID and humanitarian missions have often contained hidden political objectives.

I remember when ‘democracy’ in Grenada was overthrown because the people elected and chose the ‘wrong’ government.

It all comes down to who you ask, who the journalists ask.

Of course, North American capitalists and right-wingers everywhere feared working-class politician’ Chavez’s beliefs.

I recall when Chavez gave those poor and freezing people in New York free oil to heat their homes, when the US government did nothing to alleviate their problems. Perhaps it was a publicity stunt to shame the government of the world’s wealthiest country. It worked.

Let’s not talk about the sanctions imposed by the Western world on countries like Venezuela to prevent them from prospering.

Perhaps you don’t like socialism. But forgot to mention.

“Keep ‘em down, don't let socialism get free rein.” Say the Capitalists.

Why does the Venezuelan government remain skeptical about USAID activities within the country?

For decades, USAID, and its Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI), supplied the opposition with funding and training to defeat the Venezuelan socialists.

This included funding and training for opposition students and their organizations; sending NGO representatives critical of the Venezuelan government abroad to drum up international resistance to its policies; and reaching out to supporters of the Venezuelan government through neutral-looking but opposition-led community groups to direct them toward opposition political parties.

How is Trump's action helping the USA?

Whom does it help?

Not the American working poor, and hungry, not those who can’t afford private medical bills and insurance.

Ask people who live in

countries that are and have been victims of US ‘imperialism’ for obvious reasons... Venezuela, Bolivia, Grenada, Chile, are places where there have also been military coup attempts and installed puppet dictatorships.

Ask those what they think of Maduro.

Those who are against Putin invading Ukraine, are they against Trump invading Venezuela?

Instead, who does the Western press ask?

Those overprivileged emigres who would/do benefit from living under an oppressive system like Trump’s, like Batista, Marcos, or General Suharto’s in Indonesia, who killed at least half a million people.

U.S. diplomats later admitted providing lists to Suharto of 5,000 radicals and trade union members to be killed.

Instead, who do they ask?

They ask those who would stand shoulder to shoulder with the world’s powerful, shielding them from criticism.

Those rich privately educated toffs, like Farage, and those who have paid no tax despite making a profit.

Let’s not ask another class of people what they think of Maduro.

Let’s ask:

Those who look comfortable,

Let’s ask those who could be white South Africans,

We can’t ask Ché, who was murdered by the right, because he helped overthrow the Batista government and introduced a free public health system… and…because he didn’t stop fighting.

Instead, let’s ask those who own and live in the mansions and penthouses of East Caracas, in suburbs called Country Club, in homes appointed with low chandeliers and terrible portraits,

ask those who commute to Miami, where their banks are, and who regard themselves as "white".

Ask those who are the powerful core of what the media calls “the opposition".

Ask them what they think of the poor,

Ask them what they think of free health care

Ask them what they think of Maduro.

Let’s ask another class of people what they think of Maduro.

Let’s ask:

Those who look comfortable,

Let’s ask those who could be white South Africans,

Let’s ask

the aristocracy, nobility, and landed gentry,

The elite, Trump, toffs and nobs, Farage, high society, top drawers, upper classes. Sloane Rangers, ruling classes, jet set, the glitterati, the petite bourgeoisie of Constantia and Sandton, pillars of the cruelties of apartheid,

Let’s ask the immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt, base, villainous, unprincipled, nefarious, iniquitous, dishonest, informal, crooked, bent.

It all comes down to whom you ask, and whom the journalists ask.

Let’s NOT ask those who have benefited from Maduro and Chavez’s food programs, healthcare initiatives, and poverty-reduction efforts.

Let’s not ask them what they think of Maduro.

BUT,

Let’s ask those who are dishonorable and want to keep people low-status, who want to bring back servility,

Let’s ask those who want to reinstate slavery.

Let’s ask those people what they think of Maduro.

Let's ALSO ASK WHO, which country Trump will go AFTER NEXT?

Whom will HE REPLACE THOSE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS WITH?-

I WROTE A POST YEARS AGO. IT WAS JUST BEFORE JEREMY CORBYN WAS OUSTED, AFTER BEING TARRED AND FEATHERED BY THE MILLIONAIRE-OWNED PRESS. I SAID:

‘I’ve often been thinking that... when we do get the Socialist green republican party we all want in power, we will have to be vigilant...so that some kind of 'coup doesn’t take place...remembering the Gough Whitlam government in Australia, Grenada, Allende in Chile...among many others. There will be those out to sabotage, maybe possible military involvement.....the Rothmere Murdoch press and all won't stop the tar and feathering, the wealthy corporations aren't going just to sit back and let us achieve our goals and implement our manifesto without a fight after we win our democratic election. The words thwart, scupper, cripple, undermine, disable, and weaken come to mind. Our struggle must continue...not being pessimistic here....but trying to be unsentimental, faithful but hard nosed.