"The ease with which parts of the international community have recognised Guaido reflects not principled support for democracy, but a global reconfiguration of power. This includes not only the rise of a multi-polar world - exemplified by Russian and Chinese support for Venezuelan sovereignty - but also a rightward swing across Latin America alongside the warring colonial conceits of the US and Europe."
Some truths in the article, especially that those who defend the Venezuelan leader of the opposition are U.S. subordinates and right and far-right governments, but the author ignores the role of Maduro's government and its mismanagement and mishandling of the situation. He write in defence of the Bolivarian revolution, but with no criticism.
More importantly, there is no mention in the articles I have seen, and which condemn imperialism and the oligarchs in Venezuela, of the predicament: that Chavez and Maduro have done little to break the power of capital and the oligarchy in the country, that there have been modest changes and little cooperation in the region for a broader change when a handful of countries had left-wing governments, that the power of international capital, the U.S. hegemony, etc cannot be confronted with half-measures and in isolation, that the balance of forces has not favoured the establishment of a new sociol economic structures...
I have also seen others rightly criticising the BBC half-truths in reporting about Venezuela, but without criticism of Maduro. Some of them are the same "anti-imperialists" who have defended the Syrian regime!
Venezuela's slow coup continues
Some truths in the article, especially that those who defend the Venezuelan leader of the opposition are U.S. subordinates and right and far-right governments, but the author ignores the role of Maduro's government and its mismanagement and mishandling of the situation. He write in defence of the Bolivarian revolution, but with no criticism.
More importantly, there is no mention in the articles I have seen, and which condemn imperialism and the oligarchs in Venezuela, of the predicament: that Chavez and Maduro have done little to break the power of capital and the oligarchy in the country, that there have been modest changes and little cooperation in the region for a broader change when a handful of countries had left-wing governments, that the power of international capital, the U.S. hegemony, etc cannot be confronted with half-measures and in isolation, that the balance of forces has not favoured the establishment of a new sociol economic structures...
I have also seen others rightly criticising the BBC half-truths in reporting about Venezuela, but without criticism of Maduro. Some of them are the same "anti-imperialists" who have defended the Syrian regime!
Venezuela's slow coup continues
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