I will say that I think Maduro is a piece of shit, but that's up to the Venezuelan people to handle.
It's not a bad thing he's gone, but what happened was some bullshit.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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i think he sucks, but i don't think it's good he's gone. this hasn't brought venezuelans closer to liberation. the opposite, in fact. i think the people celebrating just aren't familiar with what a foreign occupying extractive economy does to a people
It's good that he's gone. Everything else is fucked.
Imperialist driven regime change always go great. We’ve got Afghanistan I, II, and III, Iran, Guatemala, Hungary, etc
The Afghanistan Trilogy always surprises
That's what I'm saying. It's not good, but neither was he.
You literally just said it’s good that he’s gone…
The way he was removed was not good, but it's good that he's gone. Do you understand?
It’s good that he’s gone, now America can take all their shit. Great analysis dude 👍
I agree. Great that he is gone and many venezuelans are in fact celebrating. There would be many more if it wasn't a foreign intervention.
There are also many Venezuelans on the street demanding his return
Yes, many also want him back to put him in prison.
Like the Nobel Peace Prize winning Machado who asked US oil companies to please get the government to invade and she promised them hundreds of billions in oil contracts if they did?
Yeah, there are a lot of people who want to go back to being a neocolony so they can make more money.
There's also a lot of people angry at the state of the economy and they blame Maduro for it. Meanwhile, US sanctions of Venezuela have been shown to have killed over 100k people in the country, so it's not like any leader would have an easier time solving for poverty while the US is engaged in the crime against humanity of collective punishment.
As a US citizen, Trump and Vance are pieces of shit, but they're suppressing votes and talking about cancelling mid terms, so it's not like us people can do much. If someone took him and handed him over to Iran for the warrants they have on him for breaking international law the last time he was in office, a lot of Americans would cheer too.
Agreed.
Why is he a piece of shit?
Because of everything he did and you can easily learn about all of that by using the most simplest tools available to anyone with the skill to use a keyboard.
I agree that OP is speaking in bad faith right now, so I'm just gonna leave this here for any passersby and not engage with OP directly.
From Wikipedias first section: Maduro was widely considered to have been leading an authoritarian government, characterized by electoral fraud, human rights abuses, corruption, censorship and severe economic hardship.[28] The United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch have alleged that under Maduro's administration thousands of people died in extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans were forced to flee the country due to economic collapse.
I encourage you to read all of the OHCHR reports on Venezuela. I recent started going through them. They don't support these claims.
The first major OHCHR claimed 6k deaths from the Maduro administration, with over 5k attributed to documentation submitted by the Venezuelan government. I can't find that documentation and the Venezuelan government claims that it never submitted any such documents.
This is before any fact finding missions were approved.
Then you can read every year of fact finding reports. Nothing anywhere near as terrible is found as what was written in the original report.
Nearly everything that is found is ultimately a small quantity of human rights in the context of 25 years of US covert operations including soldiers on the ground, spies on the ground, weapons and munitions trafficking, drug trafficking, espionage, kidnapping, murder, sabotage, and organizing violent decentralized groups to attack the people and government of Venezuela.
In this context, the Venezuelan government has been relatively restrained in their behavior. Look at Machado - still alive, still collaborating with the US military, still calling for a US invasion of Venezuela in exchange for money. If Maduro was a bloodthirsty dictator would she be alive? If you think he's tried but failed, is that because the US has a strong network of covert ops on the ground that is a legitimate threat to the Venezuelan government?
Wikipedia is a known propaganda outlet for the US MIC. It sources lots of things that are known propaganda outlets for the US MIC and the international network of propagandists for empire generally. You actually have to analyze and evaluate the claims. You can't just repeat them.
For example, the OHCHR lists failure to feed secure sufficient food for Venezuelan people as a violation of human rights but does not mention the US embargo as a human rights violation, when in fact collective punishment (which is what broad sanctions are) is a full on war crime over and above being a violation of human rights. This claim then gets parroted by the news media internationally (NYT, Guardian, BBC, WaPo, even Al-Jazeera). Then it ends up on Wikipedia with 4 sources and looks totally legit.
Meanwhile, US sanctions have killed 10s of thousands in Venezuela. And the explicit purpose of US sanctions is to make the population suffer so that they will revolt against their leadership. Which means that any country subject to sanctions is going to see revolts aligned with the goals of the US, whether the protestors know it or not. If that country wants to prevent the US from taking it over, it's going to need to manage those protests effectively. Sometimes that means working your ass off on the food problem, which Venezuela under Maduro did, to great effect. And sometimes it means sending in militarized police to ensure the protests don't become extreme riots masking violence and sabotage from US covert ops and their 25-year cultivated network of saboteurs and coup teams.
I know we want to feel like we're on the side of "good" and against "evil", so it's confusing when we're told both sides are evil. But the reality is that you live in the West and you understand that your own leadership is evil. But you don't live in the gap, the periphery, or specifically Venezuela. You don't have first hand knowledge of their leadership. You only have the narratives that your culture gives you, and you have mountains of evidence that your culture's narratives about enemies are full of lies, twisted truths, fabricated evidence, and cynicism.
I don't think I was being rude. I don't know why you wouldn't want to engage with me. I think you think I'm the other dude who deleted his comment.
I didn't call anyone rude, so it's possible you ment to reply to someone else, but the OP I was referring to is the person who posted the meme. They are in my replies and appear to be as bad faith as I assumed. It seems like you and I are in agreement that Maduro was a bad guy but the US had no right to abduct him. OP was asking why he was a bad guy and the person I responded to correctly assessed he was asking in bad faith. It seems like you already know he's a bad guy. My comment was left to support the position he was a bad guy, but I don't want to engage with someone who obviously has no interest in talking about the facts. I just wanted to add the context of his actions because I'm sure many people don't actually know why he was widely hated.
ok my bad!
That's what trolls and tankies do. They want a response so they can masturbate on it or something. I don't know what the point is really.
Yea, that's also my experience. I liked it a lot more when they stuck to specific instances, but here we are. I just added the above because I'm sure there's at least a handful of well intentioned people that legitimately don't know and won't be interested enough to look it up, even if they believe you. Americans at least, myself included, aren't always up to date on foreign affairs, even when our government is doing the meddling.
Ah yes, Human Rights Watch, The UN, and Wikipedia. All famous for totally not promoting western regime change. Remember Libya? LMAO
Can you just tell me what he did?
You are too dumb to look it up yourself?
No, you aren't. You want to relativize, you want fallacies, whataboutisms, deflections,... I don't.
I liked Chavez, he did some things right. Maduro was a worm.
Weird that you can’t provide a single point to support your claim. If he’s so bad you could just explain why…
It's weirdest that you don't want to make any effort yourself.
If you Google anything about Maduro it’s all western oligarch media reporting on a country they have a vested interest to overthrow.
I’m able to recognize that and proceed with caution, while you gobble it up like a good lapdog. Sad tbh.
Of course it is.
Good for you honey.
You got fucking owned lol
What source would you trust that I could provide you? It's somewhat universally agreed upon.
Then why was he democratically elected recently?
Why was Trump? Answer my question. What source would you trust and accept? I'll provide you with a source. Or are you just a trolling tankie?
Trump was democratically elected because Americans love him and he represents their interests. If China abducted him and took control of US resources there would be an armed militia all across the country lmao
because Americans love him
No. Lol. A busted democratic system allowed for a minority of morons to have him elected.
He literally won the popular vote mate. He got more votes than Kamala… If she won would you say the same?
It’s getting real liberal in here…
Maduro was a real authoritarian totalitarian tyrannical despotic autocratic dictator, but the way they removed him from power was just so uncivil. I am a very serious liberal and I am very smart and people like me.
I disagree with Satan but I believe all his lies
I was expecting the Venezuelan "friend" to look like a server rack.