Quote: (10-22-2016 09:42 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
I'm not sure you understand how much the USFedGov is despised in South America and indeed in most of the non-western world.
The second the US/UN arrives in VZ, Maduro trumpets it as proof positive of his claims that the ongoing depression in oil prices is a conspiracy by US puppet regimes to bankrupt the glorious socialist revolution.
Nobody in VZ, hungry or not, is going to throw down socialism and embrace a US occupation. Meanwhile Maduro, like most people's revolutionaries, will make sure that the people of Venezuela die before giving up on their utopia.
Your analysis, my friend, lacks the most important aspect regarding today's Venezuela: its ethnic component.
"Afro-Caribbean" (-identifying) Venezuelans support Maduro and use communism as a rallying flag, without actually understanding what marxism means.
Indigenous or "White-latino" (-identifying) Venezuelans try to get rid of Maduro, his red-shirt muggers, and communism, for their own group and personal survival.
In the 21st century, it's totally blue-pill to try to understand South-American politics without factoring in the ethnic facts and geographical and societal divisions (think Brazil here, especially, but most other SA countries too). Just look at the current ethnic separation of the different groups living on the continent, each group voting for its own candidate. Generally speaking, identities explain politics in SA...