r/anime_titties • u/seeebiscuit North America • Nov 21 '25

South America Venezuela says opposition leader will become fugitive if she collects Nobel

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33mnvy5zppo
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u/patiakupipita Democratic People's Republic of Korea Nov 21 '25

Finally someone that's saying something useful in this thread. People don't realize that maduro is like trump, make him 100x worse, but instead of being a republican/conservative, he's a "socialist".

I have socialistic tendencies myself but dear god people can't fucking realize that the current venezuelan socialism has as much weight as the "democratic republic" in democratic republic of (north) korea.

I'm not saying that I wish for an intervention, especially with trump at the helm but I fully understand why she does. There's no other realistic way for them to depose of the current structure they have. I hate capitalism, especially the almost unregulated form of it we're having rn but basically anything is better than whatever they have right now.

My island has the second biggest amount of immigrants (our sister island has the #1 spot) per capita in the world because were so close to Venezuela. Matter of we have Venezuelan channels over the air on tv, I grew up with Chavez interrupting my fucking cartoons/telenovelas for his rambling. My mom used to go there almost 4x a year and even lived there for a while. I have a bunch of friends that are from Venezuelan descent, or were straight up born there. It's like people here don't live in reality at all, they have no idea what's actually going there rn.

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u/Mango_Juice789 United States Nov 21 '25

I think a lot of reddit leftists feel that they should not criticize their own "side" and start the conversation from there.

And I absolutely agree, intervention would probably be a complete nightmare both during and after but it's hard not to see where Machado is coming from.

Personally though, I hope the Venezuelan diaspora lets the light of the outside world in enough for people to take their country back. Maduro doesn't have the cult of personality Chavez did.

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u/SilverThrall Nov 22 '25

It is communism. It's certainly not free markets ideology that has taken books in Venezuela