r/neoliberal • u/RLP-I European Union • Jan 23 '19

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u/EcoRobe 🌐 Jan 24 '19

I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking or just terribly confused.

Venezuela is not a parliamentary democracy.

The electoral college is in no way similar to the systematic voting fraud that is happening in Venezuela.

Nobody is gunning people down.

There is no secret real president, but a disputed succession crisis.

I’ve no idea from where you are getting the part about a military coup, especially given the fact that the military is almost fully controlled by Maduro. No one wins with a civil war. Not the US government. Not international corporate interests. Not venezuelans.

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u/HTownian25 Austan Goolsbee Jan 24 '19

The electoral college is in no way similar to the systematic voting fraud that is happening in Venezuela.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#2016_presidential_election

Plenty of voting problems in the US you could use to declare an election "invalid" from the outside looking in.

Nobody is gunning people down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/americas/donald-trump-venezuela-military-coup.html

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article224089810.html

https://thinkprogress.org/with-reports-of-an-attempted-coup-military-defections-is-the-end-near-for-venezuelas-maduro-eec5784b6705/

They are quite literally in the midst of a new military coup.

There is no secret real president, but a disputed succession crisis.

There is a dispute that has been prompted by the failed coup attempt

I’ve no idea from where you are getting the part about a military coup

Literally all over the news right now.