US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    would there a marxist revolution against both maduro and trump in venezuela? NOT repeating any US state department talking points (looking at you, hexbear!), just asking. seriously!

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      2 days ago

      Uh, the current Venezuelan government is marxist. They borrowed Cuba and Russia’s playbook.

      • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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        well their ideology is “socialism of the 21st century” which states that both socialism of the 20th century and capitalism failed to solve problems such as poverty, oppression, hunger, corruption and hatefulness and such. seriously!

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          2 days ago

          Sure. That slogan is as true as North Korea’s offical name: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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      Why would there be a Marxist revolution in Venezuela if they already have a Bolivarian revolution going on? Venezuela is an extremely grassroots country, more than 10% of the state budget is allocated to local committees to spend however they democratically desire from what I gather. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are actually enlisting as volunteers this past month to the country’s militias to defend the country from possible American invasion.