Posted Sep 16, 2020, 3:47 PM UTC
I like that United Nations report detailing extensive human rights violations of Venezuela gets 90 comments while that stupid story about the US legally seizing ships for violating sanctions got 1.5k.
Really shows the priorities of some people.
and the left comes to defend him
*far left
Guaido is centre-left himself.
Meanwhile the US has killed millions in the name of 'defeating terrorism'.
On a large scale, US much worse than venezuela.
This is pure whataboutism.
Two things can both be wrong, doesn't make it not off-topic to be ranting about America in an article on UN's findings about Venezuelan crimes.
Ok liberal
come on guys, socialism has only failed in the past because it wasn't real socialism. its really going to work this time.
oh yeah, orange man is bad and white people are racist.
The guy is a modern Stalin.
Saddam Hussein will do, too.
Yep all three were the same supervillain moustache .
god i wish
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lmao how is he close they're polar opposites
unless you're going into some horseshoe theory madness, but horseshoes are for donkeys
Or, you know, horses? Kinda why they're called horseshoes?
Yeah, he’s a shitty ruler who is also the target of loads of ridiculous propaganda from western intelligence agencies because he hasn’t bent the knee, so that checks out
He is a despot who is starving his people . I know I have family in Venezula.
Please go to venezuela for a week then tell me about maduro. I'll pay for your ticket, visa and hotel
Maduro is a murderer. Google police murders in Venezuela to see what the article means.
I guess that explains why the regime hasn't been toppled by its people yet. Despite the widespread immiseration and hunger, normal people are too scared to rise up, at least for now.
The army is 100% loyal to Maduro and they are the ones with the guns, so sadly any attempt to "rise up" or protest will end in a tragedy, like last ones.
Oh please. Venezuela didn't bend the knee and the west is now vilifying them. How many wars do you need to get dragged into before you realize that the west is an imperialistic entity destroying countries for personal gain?
😂
If only most of my friends knew how to speak English, we could bring a Polar box and have a field day laughing at retarded gringos talking about our country.
It would be funny if it weren't so terrifying how some people here defend Maduro. I would love to see them try to come here to Venezuela for a month.
Nah I'm not terrified of pussies. Granted, they are obviously good enough cocksuckers that they might get a place in the government. I could probably a millionaire right now just sucking off Maduro on TV if I didn't have any dignity.
remember evo? these people will believe anything and just play along with the imperialist narrative, then 2 months after the intervention one of these outlets will come up saying "oops, actually, we were mistaken" and all these assholes will play dumb
i mean these are the people who believed saddam murdered babies
westerners are hopeless
Evo? The man who bypassed a referendum because the majority voted against him, that guy?
the guy who won the latest referendum aka "presidential election", yes.
It's insane how there's a UNITED NATIONS report on Maduro torturing and killing opposition and somehow you still bring this "Venezuela didn't bend the knee" bullshit lmao
Enjoy "imperialism" while I enjoy the marvelous sociliast paradise that is Venezuela lol
The US literally runs a torture camp in its backyard and has killed thousands of people without trial using their drones.
The CIA is also well known for instigating coups in other countries.
I don't think you get to be on a high horse here
So what?
Whataboutism?
This is about Venezuela not the US, go to LSC or socialism with your hate boner lmao
Hate seeing this neoliberal bullshit on this website
Venezuela is part of the west. Americans need to stop pretending we are not the west. It's a fact that according to government figures the police forces killed more than 5000 people in 1 year alone. That makes the Venezuelan police the most dangerous one in the world by a long shot. But sure, keep protecting murderers.
"Not real socialism"
Maduro sucks.
Because the left thinks socialism wont turn to communism, and if it does, it will be different this time. I want all the socialist retards to go live in a communist country for a few years, come back and say the same bs crap.
Waiting for my socialized interstates to become communist.
It's always weird coming across a Canadian disparaging the "left" and "socialism" in the same breath as if both concepts aren't prevalent in our day to day lives already. Bruh, we're proud of our social services up here and we're not taught the same jingoist nonsense in school as the yanks. Clearly you can't handle social media without turning into an absolute American-esque degenerate rube. Spend more time talking to your neighbours and less time shitposting with strangers. Get some seperation in your life before you lose perspective.
I understand socialism, universal health care social programs that dont actually work and increase homelessness. I don't know how Scandinavian countries can better figure out the homeless crisis but Canada has no way to deal with it. The truth is it costs too much for the government to fix and transition people into working individuals, so lets put up half assed programs with staff that are abusive and apathetic to the cause. This is my problem with socialism, in some ways its great but in most its crap.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)
Venezuela's president and top ministers are responsible for probable crimes against humanity including extrajudicial killings and the systematic use of torture, UN investigators have concluded.
The report appeared likely to fan international and domestic criticism of Maduro's government, which has overseen a country in tatters with runaway inflation, a violent crackdown and an exodus of millions of Venezuelans who have fled to neighboring countries to escape the turmoil since he took power in 2013.Critics in other countries have already accused Maduro's government of crimes against humanity.
Under article 7 of the UN treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, a crime against humanity is defined as an act committed as part of a "Widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population".
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Those same crimes apply to the US.
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Weird how they stole their gold and money they had to use to trade for food. And now the same people stopping Venezuela from buying food cry that they cant eat...
The United States was just accused of performing mass sterilizations of incoming immigrants at ICE centers. The UN has their priorities mixed up. Fix your own member's crimes against humanity, before you act like your hands are clean.
If they strung up every world leader who signed off on torture and extrajudicial killings, then there'd be a lot of US presidents hanging by their necks.
And the reason you mention US is because you haven't heard about any other countries or you really believe US is the worst?
When it comes to human rights abuses, murder, and torture the US is obviously by far and away the worst offender. Certainly over the last 20 years in any case.
No one else even comes close. There's like the US, way below them is China, and then all the way down there at the bottom of the graph is a little cluster of barely distinguishable countries, KSA, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and the like.
So your pov is that people of North Korea enjoy better human rights protection?
The US exports its human rights abuses.
In your opinion or the opinion of the people who are experts in this matter and can investigate these things?
How expert do you have to be to know about the US drone assassination program, the US led destruction of Libya, and the the US-backed Jihadist attack on Syria.
Not to mention of course, all the punishing US sanctions that amount to collective punishment, the invasion of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the rendition/torture/murder program, the holding of innocent people without charge, the list goes on.
The US is the biggest exporter of terror on the planet. Obviously. If you don't understand this than you lack historical context.
as a venezuelan, I'm really happy that the un admits of the amounts of crimes that maduro has committed.
people stop protesting because many were tortured, I have a few friends who were tortured and I even got scared of continuing protesting