Inside Venezuela's upper class bubble
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rance 24 is an establishment French TV network. As such its perspectives are usually neoliberal and imperialist. Despite this, it tends to report far more accurately and insightfully on various issues, including international affairs, than any US or British news source.
MAIN IMAGE ABOVE: A Caracas luxury real estate broker comments on the situation from an anti-Maduro perspective. His office walls are adorned with anti-government postes, including one saying "Viva Trump!". This is the upper class layer of the popualtion in Latin America that is always ready to form alliances with foreign agents to jointly exploit their country's people and resouces. Their patriotism is thin, as they identify far more easily with the US, France or Britain, all of which they admire and slavishly imitate, than their own nations. Their proper name is Vendepatrias ("Motherland sellers").
BONUS FEATURE
Max Blumenthal: Venezuela Embassy Siege
The Zero Hour with RJ EskowPublished on May 9, 2019
Closing words
Like vampires fearing light, capitalists elites have always been afraid of the socialist demonstration effect. A huge and constant effort is aimed at “showing” that socialism doesn’t work, that it is tyrannical, inefficient, etc. Thus sabotaging and killing socialism wherever it may arise —Russia, China, Korea, Venezuela, Chile—by any means necessary, no matter how brutal and dishonest, is therefore standing policy. But socialist solutions work. And Medicare for All would show everyone in America, the key capitalist fortress, that many of our nightmares can easily vanish under socialism. For the capitalists and their hanger-ons it would be a Pandora’s box.—P. Greanville
