I’m well aware that the opposition in Venezuela are fascist freaks but many western leftists still claim that Maduro is an illegitimate president, repeating the US State department line. I’m aware of multiple disparate pieces of evidence that counter thus narrative but I’m not confident enough in my knowledge to be able to effectively hold a back and forth conversation.
For this reason, I wanted to make a thread where everyone who has information on the topic and relating could post resources. Mainly in order to make it easier for myself and other comrades to have an accessible resource to access as we are going to be involved with conversation surrounding the topic right now. Although videos are useful for dispelling many myths at once, having links to more immediately forthright sources would be ideal but seriously link anything.
I’ll of course leave some links to Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report to start off:
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/07/29/us-government-edison-poll-venezuela-election/
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/08/03/us-government-funds-electoral-fraud-venezuela/
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/16/end-juan-guaido-venezuela-coup/
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/04/29/imperialism-venezuela-bolivarian-revolution/
The fact that the US has already decided who the next “leader” of Venezuela will be renders the whole debate moot. The contenders are claiming upwards of 70 - 80% of votes with no proof.
I think there were reasons why the certification (dont quote me on what it was called exactly) wasn’t normally released after the election (not even nefarious ones), but given the counter claims from his opponents, I think they can be disregarded.
It’s important to be equipped with ways to render liberals completely unable to license their support of empire.