This was an execution
As a Venezuelan, it's incredibly frustrating to see how a crisis happening in your own country is being made into a talking point that explicitly excludes you, the Venezuelan, as a party in that discussion.
All this energy invested in ranting about this Nobel Prize, but not a second to consider the reaction of Venezuelans to January 3, or to the Nobel Prize (which many celebrated, as well). Or a moment to talk about how Venezuelans were pummeled after the election of 28-J, when Maduro stole it.
I mean, why do you suppose Venezuelans everywhere were celebrating Maduro's demise? We have waited 27 years for this. I was 25 when chavistas arrived to power. I am now almost 52. We absolutely understand who Trump is, and that his reasons are not noble. We just don't care.
As a Venezuelan, I can absolutely sympathize with the idea of Trump being a beyond-detestable character. But what really puzzles me is the reaction to what happened to us before, and after, January 3. People like you seems to be more offended with this Nobel Prize than with a 27-year dictatorship.
It's a dictatorship.
If the sovereignty of a nation resides in the people of that nation, then, how can Venezuela be "sovereign", when Venezuelan themselves are neither sovereign nor free to choose anything, because they are living under an abject dictatorship?
Si la soberanía de un país reside en el pueblo, ¿Cómo diablos pueden hablar de Venezuela como "nación soberana", si los venezolanos no son libres de escoger o decidir nada, dado que viven bajo la más abyecta de las dictaduras?
Relatively busy over supposedly "closed" Venezuelan airspace. Here's the scene at 1750z.
The fact that a year ago - after it seemed the Assad dictatorship had definitively quashed any serious resistance to it & would remain in power indefinitely - Syria’s people finally pushed through towards a magnificent victory against the regime is a lesson about not giving up if I’ve ever seen one.
The Contradictory Saga that Left 600,000 Venezuelans in Post-TPS Limbo: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/11/13/the-contradictory-saga-that-left-600000-venezuelans-in-post-tps-limbo/
...a los afectados, a los venezolanos (dentro y fuera de Venezuela)
Vaya siempre a la fuente. Pregúntele a los chinos que piensan de las dos bombas atómicas, las de Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Quizá se sorprenda.
Sí, hay mucho nuestroamericano patriagrandero la-espada-de-Bolívar-camina-por-America-Latina (esos mismos que no quieren migrantes venezolanos en sus países) rasgándose las vestiduras ante una posible intervención de Estados Unidos en Venezuela. Pero si quiere saber como es la cosa, pregúntele...
The book discusses several of the ideas that Trump (or shall I say, Miller?) are now implementing, among those, threaten third countries with economic sanctions to force them to take deportees.
Don't quote Wikipedia. Quote the Austrian Far-Right identitarian who coined the term, wrote a book about it, and who is now going gaga about Trump going for it.
Maria Corina Machado lives in hiding—because she’d otherwise be jailed or killed for the crime of sticking up to a tinpot dictator. She’s fought against socialism
and is an ardent defender of the flourishing that comes from free market capitalism.
A great pick. reason.com/2025/10/10/v...
By what standard do you call her "far right?" According to Reason she's a fairly standard classical liberal with social-liberal leanings. reason.com/2025/10/10/v...
As a Venezuelan, I do wonder, what is @alanawise.bsky.social definition of far-right? How far to the left is NPR coverage that Maria Corina Machado is not tagged as "Far right"?
Cada 12 de octubre celebramos todo lo que los hispanos tenemos en común. Pero hay gente muy curiosa que no celebra nada por la violencia en la conquista de América... mientras se niega a reconocer las violaciones de los derechos humanos que cometen hoy las dictaduras de Cuba, Venezuela y Nicaragua.
If George Washington heard Pete Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” speech, he’d probably raise an eyebrow, according to an American history professor.
For Washington, real strength came from self-control and being morally grounded.
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Esta gente me hace acordar de esta publicación: bsky.app/profile/jose...
Because, as usual, they want to make everything about themselves, and how good and righteous they are. Same old speech I've read a thousand times.
