While US politicians and media predictably denounce the socialist victory in Venezuela, American election observers endorsed the process.

Western media appeared as eager as the U.S. government to undermine the elections in Venezuela and agitate for political strife, writes Alan MacLeod.

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPM
    12·
    9 months ago

    So, your argument is we should support the right-wing, capitalist, genocidal Likud -affiliated Machado and Gonzalez; because Maduro is damaging the reputation of “socialism” in South America?

    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      No. I’m asking you to see who got the most votes. If that’s not your measure of what democracy is, I’m not sure you’re adding anything into the conversation.

      • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPM
        12·
        9 months ago

        No, you want me to agree with you. And even if I did, it doesn’t matter, the election has been decided. Even if Maduro lost, he stays. Venezuelans should decide their future, not outside influence.

          • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPM
            21·
            9 months ago

            Nations that chart a self-defining course, seeking to use their land, labor, natural resources, and markets as they see fit, free from the smothering embrace of the US corporate global order, frequently become a target of defamation. Their leaders often have their moral sanity called into question by US officials and US media, as has been the case at one time or another with Castro, Noriega, Ortega, Qaddafi, Aristide, Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez, and others.

            Michael Parenti , North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink (2009)