#the post i linked goes pretty in depth on the failures of chavismo

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ok! now i can see the comments.

first of all, maduro is not all to blame for his government. a lot of the country's problems came from the now opposition of right wing christians and fascist nationalists that chávez was in charge to fix.

he did try to fix it when he rose to power and reduced poverty by 20% using the fired up oil prices. even to educate people, like you say, and as it should be. however they did all of this with a very low level of economic sense.

the state became a state devoted to spend and spend. and get debt after debt with a non diversified economy that didn't dedicate its spending to industrialize and better the petrol business. plus he didn't even try to fix the corruption that had impoverished the nation in the first place. this was all of the faults that maduro copied from his predecessor, having the distribution of food completely to himslef, and then, he had the nerve to blame it on the faults of capitalism, the same way you are doing right now. must be amazing not to have the fault of anything at all.

totalitarianism must be defined in this case by the way he wants to endlessly stay in power, the way how, as i already mentioned, threatened his people with not building the 500k homes he had promised over his lost at the legislative elections in 2015. look it up!

the people tried to actually kick him out in a referendum that he slowly killed with the help of the national electoral council.

he has very loyal friends in congress, among judges, in the supreme tribunal of justice, and, as mentioned the nec. also, he has declared states of exception NUMEROUS times to do whatever the fuck he wants.

these are all facts, it isn't a matter of whether i'm a marxist or a stupid nazi libertarian, these are all things that led up to venezuela's downfall.

he even tried to change the constitution that chávez made because even that hinders him from becoming the fascist state he wants to accomplish.

do you actually think the people who denounce him are capitalist brainwashed idiots??? all of them? even those who died in the street teargassed and shot for opposing the absolute tyranny that is going on here??

he even uses paramilitary to enforce his rule, giving out guns to non state loyalists to instill fear and panic.

now going back to what you replied to me: so where did that money go? chávez and maduro were supposed to invest in education, homes and skilled labour? where is that? why haven't they done it after a decade of government? they don't have it because it was all under a brainless economic model that forgot very quickly about the poverty ridden masses that today starve and die under this dictatorship.

just because it had good intentions and just because you have a man with a mouth that babbles against the united states doesn't mean he is the "shining beacon that we must defend", that is literally the same reason why a lot of people voted for donald trump: "because he's funny, because he says things that i like, because he doesn't speak like other politicians"

and frankly i find your take on colombia absolutely ridiculous, while it is true that it is a right wing government, there is a lot of opposition to both the extreme right government and the authoritarian left that lives on the other side of the river.

actually, my sources (and the reason i know so much spanish) come from marxist and leftwing colombian and venzuelan journalists that have discussed with venezuelans of all classes and forms to make actual criticism of the regime and the idiot who controls it

You should check out the post linked at the end here. most of this comment is honestly rly silly & making a whole lot of assumptions I've never said anything about, so honestly just ignoring most of it as a misdirected outburst of anger.

Most of the sources in the longer post are english, but if you want I can get them in spanish too. Neither language nor nationality are signs of trustability.

Check it out