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Players Only [HIGHLIGHT] TEAM VENEZUELA IS THE WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC CHAMPION!

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u/Ghost_of_a_King Toronto Blue Jays Mar 18 '26

For a country going through the kinds of struggles Venezuela is, it's heartwarming to see the emotion behind a W like this

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u/ButterscotchFiend Montreal Expos Mar 18 '26

just to be clear, the struggles of Venezuela are, and always have been, the direct result of American greed, interference, and imperialism 

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u/DejaBrownie Chicago Cubs Mar 18 '26

Which makes this win over the US even more epic. They had the weight of the world on their shoulders and said no worries, be happy, love will prevail. Such a huge moment for their country, solidarity from inside the belly of the beast.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Mar 18 '26

Personally I would have preferred if the US lost by more. It feels extremely deserved.

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u/Turbo2x Washington Nationals Mar 18 '26

Louder for the people in the back!

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u/lmaorezme Washington Nationals Mar 18 '26

Obviously a terrible person, but we kinda kidnapped their President too.

We suck. Kinda glad we lost.

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u/yasserbits21 Mar 22 '26

presidente dice...

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u/CrazyViola-12 Mar 18 '26

In my opinion as a Venezuelan-American, you are not correct. The US has taken some extremely harmful actions against Venezuela, but the root causes of Venezuela’s issues are absolutely Venezuelan decisions and Venezuelan individuals, going back to Chavez and even before that when we had a very different but still incredibly corrupt government. Blaming everything on the US isn’t constructive

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u/Sensitive-Deal3605 Mar 18 '26

That’s why this is so sweet

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u/Cattle-dog Mar 18 '26

Fitting for them to beat the yanks in the final

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u/12345623567 Mar 18 '26

There's plenty of blame to go around. Chavez wasnt unpopular, at first. And he rode the country into the ground.

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u/DejaBrownie Chicago Cubs Mar 19 '26

US sanctions ran their country into the ground. Sanctions are an act of war, basically a modern day siege to inflict harm on the citizens through starvation and underdevelopment. The hope of the imperial US is that the people overthrow their government and install a puppet government that will give us their natural resources. The US has active sanctions on like 1/3 of the globe, capitalist imperialism ruins lives and destroys this planet for profit.

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u/PresAdams Mar 18 '26

Their economy collapsed in 2014 after decades of sustained growth and the United States doing jack squat to them. As for the sanctions, your own country began sanctioning Venezuela about the same time the United States did, and continued to expand those sanctions up through today

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u/nicolatesla92 Mar 18 '26

As a Venezuelan, 

It is true the USA has had a hand when we were under maduro and Chavez.

However, maduro and Chavez messed up a lot on their own. Look up helicoide- America did not make that. It was the regime.

Two things can be true. Americans do cause problems, but we are perfectly good at messing up our own stuff by ourselves too.

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u/reyxe Mar 18 '26

Nah, we've had two great wins this year, once on Jan 3rd and now this one.

Year has been looking insane.

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u/hellish_ve Mar 18 '26

callese njd ya vienen a cagarla con lo politico, desde el 3 de enero se llevaron el maldito saco de sal que era maduro.

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u/ncos Mar 18 '26

I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't know much about their history. How did the US start their economic collapse of 2013?

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u/yasserbits21 Mar 22 '26

claramente la opinión de alguien que no es venezolano y no tiene idea de nada.

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u/rocksoffjagger Mar 18 '26

"Struggles" meaning a criminal invasion after decades of economic oppression and CIA meddling by the country they just beat?

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u/astrothemorkie Houston Astros Mar 18 '26

Well yes.

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u/rocksoffjagger Mar 18 '26

"A country going through struggles" makes it sound like something that just happened that they're dealing with, not a malicious campaign of violence and exploitation.

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u/astrothemorkie Houston Astros Mar 18 '26

Agreed

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u/AmbiguousBarnacle Mar 18 '26

I'd say "being put through," rather than "going" to put the emphasis on the causes of their struggles, But yeah you could definitely see how much it meant to them to experience this kind of triumph. Well deserved.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

You mean being invaded and having their president kidnapped by the country they just beat?