it’s not just about oil (although it involves oil). it’s about destabilizing one of the last remaining sovereign bolivarian socialist governments, which is modeling paths to collective prosperity in the context of global capitalist domination. just be careful not to reduce the war on venezuela to purely ‘trump wants oil’ — this is part of the long war between US imperialism and bolivarismo. yes he wants oil, yes venezuela is rich in oil, but why is venezuela singled out from other oil rich nations? it represents the hope of sovereignty for all people whose life chances are strangled by the US imperialist world system. it is not just about oil, it’s about the threat that venezuelan resource sovereignty poses to the global capitalist system both materially and ideologically. maybe that looks like splitting hairs but i want to get ahead of this narrative now because it was a huge rhetorical error in western opposition to the war on iraq as well; we already know screaming “the bad guy just wants oil” was not enough to stop the genocide in iraq. we need to keep the full historical, social, and political context always in the frame, and we need to oppose this coup by all means available from wherever we are
Hello, I'm Venezuelan. This is insane.
Venezuela doesn't represent any hope, it's government stands for no laudable political ideal and its sovereignty has been thoroughly compromised by corruption and dictatorship for just short of my entire lifetime. It's government is not admirable nor worthy of protection or respect. Is this imperialism? Yes, obviously. But every Venezuelan I know is celebrating because what we've had going on for the past three decades has been worse
the idea that every venezuelan is celebrating the bombing of caracas would be laughable if it wasn’t so insulting. try harder next time, the “I’m X and I think X nation should be couped” formula is a little tired atp
Hi, Venezuelan here.
Look, saying something like Venezuela is "one of the last remaining sovereign bolivarian socialist governments" and reducing what happens there to a political ideology just shows how blinding can ignorance be.
Since 1999 Venezuela has had the same "political ideology" in its government, there is no democracy there. People voted for the regime of Maduro to end, and still they self-proclaimed the winners of those elections, this happened in 2024.
There is no "socialist" interest involved at all. I have seen people starving, I have seen people dying of hunger, I have seen people not being able to buy groceries whether it is because they can't afford it or because there isn't anything to buy.
I have had people from my circle getting sh*t in the head, left blind literally, just for being on a protest. A pacific protest. I have friends that were held captive for being on a protest. I have known people that were tortured while captive. There is right now, as I am writing this, people held captive and being tortured just because they oppose to Maduro. Right now!
It is not hard to ask a venezuelan about this, trust me, we will let you know, and inform you. But it is just disrespectful that because you believe in the words "sovereign bolivarian socialist governments" as something pure and good for the people, automatically think that Venezuela is a paradise and its government is a team of socialist angels. You can research and learn about the real situation there. And trust me, I also don't support a military intervention either, but keep that energy for the injustice happening in that country at the hands of its own government.
