Once again, I find myself having to disagree with and to lose trust in the new independent media personalities, such as Russell Brand, or even political figures like Ron Paul, due to their immensely bad takes on international affairs.
Once again, their problem is taking the wrong position automatically just because the American Uniparty and its global allies seem to have an interest in the right one. The superior good to them, is always denouncing that interest, not supporting the interest of the population of the country that would benefit from the correct option.
It's a general and recurring issue, but today I'm referring to the criminal Chavista regime in Venezuela, where a massive auto-coup and purge of the opposition is about to unfold, once the US-backed opposition has published proof that they overwhelmingly won the elections. Specifically, they made public digital scanned images of the voting ballot records, numbering 30,000, online, giving a result of almost two thirds of the votes for the opposition.
The "government" refuses to make them public and has taken the issue to the sham "supreme court", obviously put in place and fully controlled by them, after decades of purging and legislating for that purpose. Unsurprisingly, its leader is a member of the United Socialist Party, the regime party founded by ChĂĄvez, and Maduro's.
The pseudo-court has ordered the opposition to surrender the originals, to be "compared" against the ones that the regime will send for review... behind closed doors. That is, they will not be seen by the public. The regime-appointed court will be the only one to judge which ballots, if the regime even produces any, are "authentic". Contrast that with the opposition's behavior, publishing the ballots, which come with an individual QR code and a hash, so they can be scrutinized by the whole world.
But anyway, even if the Chavista dictatorship eventually publishes something, it's obvious that it will be made up, just like they made up the "provisional" results (which where mathematically impossible).
However, they will have achieved what they want:
First, to "settle" the election with the appearance of a legal decision, even though everybody knows the court is just them, saying that they themselves are in the right.
Second, to seize and destroy the physical proof that the opposition now has in its power, to scrub and change reality and prevent the ballots from being sent to a neutral credible third party.
Finally, and probably their main objective, they have already warned that, should the "court" find that the opposition has published "false results", they will send them to jail.
Russell Brand, Ron Paul, and all the independent media seem to have a big problem with the fact that, undoubtedly, the opposition candidate and their movement in general, is funded and supported by the US and the EU. Zero doubts about it, and about the fact that should they come to power, there will be receipts to pay, most likely in form of oil and rights to "invest" in the country advantageously. *But the fact remains that their candidate overwhelmingly won the election.*
And even more importantly, the fact remains that the Maduro dictatorship is a criminal enterprise that is victimizing the Venezuelan people to levels that cannot possibly compared to anything that comes after it. Even if a US-backed government is bad, it will not be worse than the current one. It's so bad in fact, that the Venezuelan people are willing to chance it.
Automatically siding with the dictatorship while sitting at your studio in the UK or the US is simply put an immoral and untenable position. Citing "our tax money" as a major argument against helping the opposition, when in this particular case whatever is funneled to it is less than a drop in the bucket, is particularly ridiculous and repugnant, as if the overspending problem in the US was caused by that, and not by "social programs" spent on American people, to buy American votes, and funneled through American companies, as with the trillions that go to the military-industrial complex.
Finally, the socialist dictatorship has been aided and abetted all the way back from when Hugo ChĂĄvez first attempted a military coup in the 90's, and more so later when he finally came to power, by organized Spanish communist activists and ideologues, who by the way are currently in power in Spain too. Not to mention explicit funding and diplomatic support from Cuba, Russia and China. But apparently all these people do not consider any of that "undue foreign influence".
As I said in the beginning, when I hear and read these horrible takes, diametrically opposed to what I know to be a well founded opinion, because I am closer to the context (I have direct access to Spanish-language sources, I know people in and out of Venezuela, I am aware of the political networks in Spain and Latin America, etc), I can't help but wonder what other horrible, stupid and wrong takes they have that I take from them and end up sharing, about other international issues with which I cannot be so familiar or sure I'm right about.
#Venezuela
