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/
“They’re baking orange cakes, and sending them with humus” makes about as much sense as any reason you’ve heard that Venezuela is worth invading. Venezuela is sitting on the largest oil reserve in the world, and anything you hear is just used to manufacture consent. There is no point in arguing it.