Venezuela’s Political Crisis Is Coming to a Head

[amw]

This Sunday, Venezuelans will vote to elect a constituent assembly that will be charged with rewriting the country’s constitution, which President Nicolás Maduro claims is the only way to restore stability to the troubled country after months - well, years - of unrest. The Venezuelan opposition, however, and much of the international community have

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[icetypejim]

Hi, sorry for the late response. You say I'm ignoring several things and overstating US intervention, but then neglect to mention the US' deliberate sabotaging of the Venezuelan economy by having Saudi Arabia flood oil markets? I don't disagree with the need to diversify, but that presumes that it would be possible to respond in a way that wouldn't be met with further attempts at sabotage. The US' efforts becoming less overtly aggressively militaristic doesn't mean their investment in manipulating the region has stopped and again, I don't understand how it undermines the autonomy of the Venezuelan people to state that this has happened and is still happening? They are not the source of every problem and I never said anything to that effect. I'm not arguing that the US is singularly responsible for every bad thing in Venezuela and that they've succeeded in stealing away the will of every person there, I'm arguing that a powerful empire is doing what it has done for decades: try to manipulate state politics in a foreign country to its material benefit. The West still hasn't stopped punishing Haiti for their revolution, but I'm supposed to believe that the US has backed off from Venezuela?

Anyway, as a "US-centrist" person, the most common exposure to news about Venezuela is from outlets which are explicitly against Maduro's government, so it's weird that you would act like my only possible exposure to info about this is from left-leaning Maduro sympathizing media when that stuff is in the severe minority here even among many left-leaning outlets. I would hope my original post made it clear that I also have skepticism of Maduro as much as I do some of the opposition.

I'll definitely check out Tal Cual though, thanks for the recommendation.