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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Venezuela: An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name

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Venezuela: An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name

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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” Elon Musk, 25 July 2020, Twitter Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18217536

*“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with *it.”

Elon Musk, 25 July 2020, Twitter

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    Yes, it’s disappointing when we have John Bolton on camera admitting to a coup.

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      Once the US tries to coup you once, every military dictatorship is allowed, so long as it blames the US for everything. Got it.

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        If the US doesn’t want to be blamed for coups, maybe they should stop trying to topple sovereign governments.

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          So now you decided that the venezuelan population should take one for your “team”. All that was wrong with Pinochet was that he didn’t sing the international socialist, everything else was cool, wasn’t it?

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            No, it was not:

            During the ensuing 17-year rule of Gen.** **Augusto Pinochet, more than 3,000 people would be disappeared or killed and some 38,000 would become political prisoners — most of them victims of torture.

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              you missed the point, but let Maduro rule 6 more years and keep the tally. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foro_Penal if you care

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                The U.S. doesn’t care about Venezuelan citizens, it cares about oil.

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                  That’s ok, Venezuelan citizens don’t care about you either.

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                    They shouldn’t, but they should care about foreign interference with their country.

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          The U.S. has caused coups, therefore all coups are caused by the U.S. is faulty logic.

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            Pooh-Pooh

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              That really is not a rebuttal to your faulty logic.

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