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[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Oh this makes sense.

Keeping the social democrats who already has the levers of power (who might have been responsible for the invasion, there are signs this might have been an internal op) makes more sense in handing it efficiently over to capital, it buys time. The right isnt going anywhere, but just because domestic support for the Bolivarian government has waned doesnt mean the right is ready to take power. They still have zero mandate, and starting a civil war is no guarantee that the right wing of a revolutionary government, albeit one that has severely degenerated over decades, will prevail.

Kidnapping Maduro (theoretically) makes the social democrats (who may have allowed/facilitated Maduro's kidnapping) get in line, and puts them on the defensive; but the right, being a bunch of greedy little pigs, all lines up at the trough waiting for their slop.

If the right was given actual power they might try and carve a little piece off for themselves as compensation. The sheer brutality carried out by a right wing with a mandate is likely to backfire, given the existing power of what is left of the Bolivarian revolution. Political legitimacy is only one kind of power.

The Nobel peace prize thing shows this dynamic in a major way, the fact that she dared to take anything for herself disqualified her. She doesn't get the big job, and the right learns there is nothing but middle-class serfdom/waiting for them. And because they're cowards and fools for believing even that is on the table, they will continue to destabilize the country politically while the banks and oil corporations draw up the new maps.