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Well... he wasn't exactly innocent.
I don't condone what happened, but Maduro was not a great man either.
Maduro is a democratically elected president loved by the working classes, he is targeted by the US because he continued Venezuela's policy of nationalizing the oil industry. This is naked colonialism.
"Democratically elected" that's debatable.
Yeah, the US and its puppets say the election was stolen!
To be fair, I don't exactly trust the other sources that say he didn't receive the majority of the votes.
That being said, that doesn't change the fact he was corrupt and was living in luxury and was well fed while Venezuelans were hungry and poor.
The only thing I admire about him is sticking up to the US, being an economic partner to Cuba and standing in solidarity with Palestinians.
Should the most important person on the country starve to appease the western liberal? Let's not forget that the US is the one starving Venezuelans through the economic pressure put by the sanctions. His "luxurious" lifestyle is at most the lifestyle of an european petit bourgeois, the average governor of Mexico lives under much more luxury ffs.
Well, yeah. But one doesn't cancel the other.
EDIT: This is nothing more than whataboutism. "What about Trump?" Yeah I know Trump is a garbage of a human being. If you can even all him human at this point. Him, the people around him and the entire American government have done so much harm to humanity. They're worst only next to Israel, whose people make the worst fictional monsters look like little ballerinas.
But that doesn't cancel the fact Maduro was an asshole corrupt crooked motherfucker who inflicted a lot of pain on the people of his country.
Do I condone him being kidnapped like this? Hell no. That's bullshit. America can fuck off.
you're the one doing whataboutism bringing up that "maduro is not innocent" come on.
I'm not trying to cancel anything about Maduro. I'm highlighting the parallels between him and the wealthy, corrupt, convicted felon in charge of the US.
Well we all know about the US gouvernent and their crimes.
But why can't anybody here acknowledge that Maduro was a crook himself? He had to go, but he rigged the system against it.
I mean if we were talking about Chavez, that guy had his people's well being at heart. And I have a lot of respect for that man.
But Maduro I can't defend. And it seems to me like the people here are defending him, and argue and downvote in bad faith. If a leader is a bad person, no matter where they stand on the political spectrum, they shouldn't be defended from any criticism.
Election fraud goes unpunished all over the world. I'm not defending Maduro, but he was arrested for narco-terrorism, not system rigging.
The initial comment I made was that his election being fair and democratic was debatable, which is true. Then everybody went apeshit trying to defend him with whataboutisms. That's the problem.
I didn't really have a problem with your description. I just thought it was so close to describing Trump that it needed highlighting.
"It doesn't change the fact that [Trump] was corrupt and was living in luxury and was well fed while [Americans] were hungry and poor."
Well we're on the same page. I don't know about the others.
Having a motte-and-bailey, eh ZombieCyborg? Classic
The same people who said Trump won 2020 are telling you Maduro lost to an unpopular far-right candidate supported most among Venezuelans by those who live in Miami, not Venezuela.
Linking the Carter Center as evidence that this is "consensus across the political spectrun" means you're limiting said spectrum to the pro-imperialist western countries. Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, all recognize Maduro. Edmundo Gonzalez is a far-right comprador that wishes to privatize Venezuela's oil, and was backed by the US Empire, which the US tried to manipulate the election via sanctions (and the EU participated as well). Gonzalez is more popular among Venezuelans in Miami than in Venezuela itself.
Let's stick with the facts: The US kidnapped a democratically elected president to colonize Venezuela and strip it for oil, and people who legitimize it by equating Maduro and Trump have blood on their hands.
Another langley-poster.
Go manufacture consent for war somewhere else.
"Neither Washington nor Caracas, but Washington"
If you actually believe in evil, you are a child with no place talking about serious subjects.
You're coping
Another "The US lies about everything but I trust everything they say about their enemies"
"He was no angel" fuck off