Daniel Margrain — Venezuela: History repeating itself?

Summary:
The corporate media is deliberately giving readers the false impression that Venezuela is ‘flirting with dictatorship’. In reality, these claims couldn’t be further from the truth. But majority support for a Constituents Assembly, and the fact that the Governing United Socialist Party won 17 out of 23 governor races is irrelevant to Washington’s nefarious objectives. US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson is threatening to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is he doesn’t leave of his own accord.” The country is being “softened up” through the press as a precursor to its subsequent destruction.… The politics of Chavez were founded on two very simple tenets: 1) People ought not to be starving in dreadful slums in the world’s most oil rich state.2) The CIA ought not to control

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Bolivarianism, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Nicolas Maduro, US imperialism, Venezuela

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