Venezuela: What activists need to know about the US-led coup

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1. You cannot be fucking serious!

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The article cites multiple articles from Telesur as source. And guess what? Telesur is a chavist propaganda-network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur_(TV_channel)#Political_bias

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The numbers provided by venezuelan election-officials are not trustworthy: They manipulated the election-machines that were used in the 2017 constituent assembly election. So why should we trust them with the 2018 election?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_Constituent_Assembly_election

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Venezuela has one of the best electoral systems in the world. Voter fraud is not possible as identification and fingerprints are required for each voter.

That's funny. I have read of a certain way of election-fraud the regime uses in Venezuela: You show your papers and get an empty ballot and a ballot that has been filled out to vote for Maduro. You put the pre-filled ballot in the box and fill out the empty one. You hand the new Maduro-ballot back to the people bribing you and in return you get your bribe.

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The article does not mention Venezuela's lack of fiancial reserves, rendering them totally helpless to economic crisis. The article also does not mention Venezuela's lack of investment in infrastructure-maintenance, which causes the infrastructure to collapse right now.

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England's refusal to return Venezuela's gold becomes understandable once you realize how many of Venezuela's governmental elite are moving their private assets to other countries and that the regime is cooperating with drug-running militias from Colombia.

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The opposition is violent? So... when the regime shoots at protesters with live ammo or when colectivos attack protesters with machetes, that's the fault of the opposition?
https://www.democraticunderground.org/110864613

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The article also somehow forgets to mention that Maduro has stacked the Supreme Court with more seats, filled those new seats with judges loyal to him, and then this regime-controlled Supreme Court began attacking the legitimacy of the opposition-controlled parliament.
Yes, what the parliament is doing is illegal! Because Maduro has taken over the Supreme Court in a coup!

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The article also somehow forgets to mention that the regime-controlled constituent assembly should be writing a new constitution. Instead it is instead serving de-facto a parliament parallel to the real one, passing bills and conducting oversight.