Despite an abysmal environmental and human rights record, Venezuela’s president is back on the international stage

Blaming Maduro for undermining Cop. Meanwhile all the spaces occupied by climate activists and NGOs have been replaced by fossil fuel companies selling products and services. One activist called it an expo. :the-gunman: the Guardian

  • Notabutler [she/her,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Maduro opened up the area to mining in 2016 and it has since become a lawless, disease-plagued region under the control of armed groups clearing the forest and poisoning its rivers.

    Venezuela’s military turns a blind eye to the activities of drug-trafficking militias such as the Colombian ELN rebels in return for a share of their profits.

    idk the context but this part seems pretty bad, what are you saying with the garf? I dont get it, this just seems like a venezuela L

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      what are you saying with the garf?

      That its pure projection.

      Crack open the first chapter of "Carry" by Toni Jensen (CW: Physical and Sexual violence, among other shit) and you get an eyeful of the very normal behaviors that happen in oil fields and other extractive industries across the US and the impact they have on locals. Migrant communities that lack permanent or elastic social services routinely develop problems of crime, disease, drug-trafficking, sex-trafficking, and every other vice. When locals are bold enough to crack down, they're vilified by state and national leaders as "nanny staters" and chastised for being unfriendly to local businesses. More often, they exist to facilitate the deprecation.

      I dont get it, this just seems like a venezuela L

      During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. ... A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. ... What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

      • Michael Parenti

      If Venezuela wants to develop their domestic mineral assets, they're Taking Ls by creating mining camps. And if they don't develop their domestic mineral assets, then they're Taking Ls with bad economic policy that's impoverishing their people.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Bad indeed but massive projection/hypocrisy too.

      Kettle and pot or some shit like that.

      • Notabutler [she/her,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        ohh ok bad government props up drug trade in their own country ❌ :maduro-coffee:
        good government props up drug trade in many other countries ✅ :billdawg: :biden-troll:

        grr why isnt there a reagan emote