Yeah. It's been going on for like at least a decade lol.
Every couple of years it heats up and starts to gain some international media attention. The international community usually lends verbal support to the opposition. But it always fizzles out within a few months because (1) only criminals ("collectivos") and corrupt police & military have meaningful access to firearms, (2) whoever the current head of the opposition is always gets jailed or exiled, and (3) people keep trying to seek a peaceful resolution.
Nothing's going to change there until either there's foreign intervention, or Venezuelans are ready to die in order to take back their country.
Trump's been the most supportive of the opposition of any U.S. president in a long time.
I was born in Venezuela and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in high school.
I can tell you, when Trump hosted Guaidó (the current opposition leader and rightful president) at his last State of the Union, he secured the vote of every U.S. citizen of Venezuelan and Cuban origin. We're all immediately repulsed at the slightest whiff of leftist, Marxist, authoritarian bullshit.
Yep, for a couple years they had two men each claiming to be President and half the world recognizing each. I lost a job prospect because of it, the sanctions against Venezuela caused the project to be canceled and the open position evaporated.
That was the 2nd time international events cost me a job, the 1st one was when I was going to work on the design of a new oil refinery in Iraq and then suddenly ISIS popped up. I've joked that politics screws with my career so much that I might as well just become a politician anyway.
Was there a revolution in Venezuela that the media didn't tell us about?
Yeah. It's been going on for like at least a decade lol.
Every couple of years it heats up and starts to gain some international media attention. The international community usually lends verbal support to the opposition. But it always fizzles out within a few months because (1) only criminals ("collectivos") and corrupt police & military have meaningful access to firearms, (2) whoever the current head of the opposition is always gets jailed or exiled, and (3) people keep trying to seek a peaceful resolution.
Nothing's going to change there until either there's foreign intervention, or Venezuelans are ready to die in order to take back their country.
More specifically I meant a successful revolution. I know there's been unrest there for a long time.
Oh yeah, not successful.
Trump's been the most supportive of the opposition of any U.S. president in a long time.
I was born in Venezuela and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in high school.
I can tell you, when Trump hosted Guaidó (the current opposition leader and rightful president) at his last State of the Union, he secured the vote of every U.S. citizen of Venezuelan and Cuban origin. We're all immediately repulsed at the slightest whiff of leftist, Marxist, authoritarian bullshit.
Yep, for a couple years they had two men each claiming to be President and half the world recognizing each. I lost a job prospect because of it, the sanctions against Venezuela caused the project to be canceled and the open position evaporated.
That was the 2nd time international events cost me a job, the 1st one was when I was going to work on the design of a new oil refinery in Iraq and then suddenly ISIS popped up. I've joked that politics screws with my career so much that I might as well just become a politician anyway.
Many attempts, all crushed by their truly fascist regime