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wow, "I have a Venezuelan friend, let me invalidate your opinion as a local", no wonder this is a thing: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelasplaining

We've heard it all before, we speak english so you're not a true venezuelan, you're part of some rich caste, you're not brown enough, you're a bot, etc ... 25 years of this bullshit no matter where we go. The international left abandoned us, the international right uses us as circus act.

Of course it'd be easier for your narrative if we were defenseless people begging in our native tongue for help. It's harder when a lot of Venezuelans are actually highly educated and want to control their own country and destiny.

>> IME the venezuelans who ended up abroad speaking English almost exclusively and up being people whose families were sucking on the teat of the oil wealth under the pre Maduro government before he ripped it out of their mouths and redistributed the wealth

you mean the almost 10 million of us that left, 1/3 of the population? the 2.5 million that went to Colombia alone by foot? or the ones that that walked all the way to Peru and Ecuador to meet discrimination and xenophobia. Those are all sucking on the oil teat? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis)

>> So i guess you want this Iraq style military operation to happen. I pity your relatives for what you want to happen to them.

No one wants that, and no one said they want that. Stop making stuff up


Gotta love when foreigners explain to me what my country is going through. And they don’t even stop to think about what they are doing, it’s borderline insulting.


Im perfectly happy that a privileged venezuelan who has never had to live in a slum was insulted by my anti war stance.

Im just as happy that pro invasion iraqis in 2003 hated me.

Hate away. History will judge who is right.


Dude, now you're just being racist. So the only true Venezuelan for you is the one that can't actually stand on it's own and speak to the world? I'm privileged because I speak English?

You have no idea who I am, you're making assumptions based solely on the language I use to speak to you.

And once again, no one is talking about war, you're the only one going on about it. No one wants a war and we want Maduro out, not mutually exclusive by a long shot.

And what's Iraq got to do with this? Stop making everything about the US


I get that you hate Maduro.

Because of that you are voicing support for a woman who allied herself with fascists conducting the world's most recent racism inspired genocide.


This is an extremely uncharitable take. Do better.


You learned the script well and are good at regurgitating it. Congrats!




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