The Coup in Venezuela, Explained

It's not the main reason for this postmodern coup, but the right here and abroad will be riding this "socialism ruined Venezuela" against any hint of social democracy or really anything that isn't neoliberal suicide. You see it already; some examples run through at the beginning of this.

Thing is, that idiocy--something pretty much on the epistemological order of the kind of racist xenophobia that undergirds our current "national emergency"--has been embraced by the oh-so-liberal, Ivy League latte-sippers.

Of course!

By the way, this might have something to do with US support for the opposition.



And for what it's worth--and you don't see this kind of in-depth interview in the media, much, do you?--here's the foreign minister of Venezuela (the real one) in a series of interviews over the past month. Yes, he's biased. No shit.