A Venezuelan vote on an oil-rich region of Guyana raises concerns of a South American military conflict
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/01/americas/venezuela-essequibo-referendum-guyana-intl/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/01/americas/venezuela-essequibo-referendum-guyana-intl/index.html
15 Comments
nicetriangle@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Relevant: https://www.reuters.com/world/venezuelas-maduro-expected-visit-russia-putins-oil-point-man-says-2023-10-16/
boredtortoise@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Is there a place in the world where right wingers aren't making everything worse
Pohl@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Maduro is a socialist. He is an ally of Putin and a strong supporter of Palestinian freedom.
The world isn’t so simple as you pretend it is. Conquest is not solely a right wing hobby.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
What socialist laws or programs has he passed? I've only found articles about him doing authoritarian stuff.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Quacks like a duck. We'd be stupid to believe liars saying they're socialist and then allying with antisocialism
Pohl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
No true Scotsman amiright!!
Read the dudes Wikipedia page, investigate the party and Hugo Chavez. They are autocrats like most other socialists/communists who hold any power. But they seem to be legit leftists
TheDankHold@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
When the Scotsman was born in Austria and lived their whole life in Russia I don’t care how much they insist they’re a Scotsman. Definitions matter.
I doubt you’ll insist that NK is a democratic republic.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
I'm a Scotsman. Is it true now that I've said it?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Depends, can you recite the Address to a Haggis from memory?
boredtortoise@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Absolutely not.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Well, ye be no true Scotsman.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
Bravo
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
No it does not, Venezuela barely has money for the ruling class and cleptocrars.
Their Russian allies will Not stop feeding Chinese and N. Korean weapons to their main front in Ukraine to feed this proxy war even if they wanted.
Source: Venezuelan living abroad.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Que?
cobson@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 2y