My take is it is a good thing because it is exposing the contradictions with the Venezuela/ US relationship and forcing the Venezuelan left to respond. There were large organized protests to this in Caracas by Chavistas and with the situation going on in Bolivia, my guess is that the struggle will be forced to come to a head which will either see PSUV self correcting or the masses rebelling against them in the way the Bolivian masses rejected MAS after that organization was coopted.
The revolution has always been tenuous due to not being completed and constantly under siege, and there have been many times since Chavez that the state was at odds with the communes and grass roots. This is an important dialectical process that refines the struggle, and is never ending even after a revolution.
For any outsider, the correct take is to support Venezuela by organizing in our own nations to take the outside pressure off Venezuela, and to support the unity of their revolution by not spreading propaganda or editorializing reality. The movement have been aligned with their government for awhile and under this renewed campaign by the US, they are in a new crisis which ideally would be solved by unity and internal discipline instead of allowing themselves to be divided and conquered. This has been the messaging directly from the grass roots even as they criticize the concessions they are being forced to make under threat of immense violence and without any real way to defend themselves.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11688653
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11702398
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11701458
To quote one post in particular:
From what I’ve heard, even Cuban comrades are having a hard time understanding what is happening in Venezuela.
The debates have been intense in the Cuban/Venezuelan and Latin American telegram channels. Lots of comrades from the whole Latin America are joining it too. It feels like hell as if it was struggle session that has no end.
Preparation for the Havana embassy evacuation in case of a US military operation on Cuban soil.
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Venezuela doesn’t yet recognize the zionist entity, nor has it reestablished relations. Claims of the contrary have already been proven false.
I think the person you’re replying to is a crypto fascist.
One of their comment:
The US government really isn’t the problem. It’s US companies and the dipshit morons that keep giving them money.
It’s not the word salad it appears to be. They seem to wish for a change in who is capitalist, but without changing how the government function.
Thanks for the heads up. Recent news have made many people lose hope on Venezuela; I don’t even know if I should keep my comment up, in case things go south for the country.
Don’t lose hope comrade and never stop supporting the revolutionaries in Venezuela. Things are going to get difficult in Latin America sadly. It’s going to be our turn to experience hell as bad as what we did in the past century with the fascist dictatorships sponsored by the USA.
Thanks comrade, I won’t.
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@muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml, you may want to consider defederating from lemmychan.org as many other instances have.
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