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Matteo's avatar

The videos of people celebrating are all false? I know someone from Venezuela who says they're ecstatic. Yes it's true it could backfire, but to say literally no one is celebrating?

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Amy Letter's avatar

Venezuelans in the US are definitely celebrating, but that’s not the same as being in-country

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Matteo's avatar

I guess if you search 'Caracas celebration' all of the videos on X are fake then. There is a time for hyperbole, but there is also a time to be nuanced.

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Rose C.'s avatar

You mean like the Cubans, whose security apparatus invaded Venezuela over 20 years ago, hijacking the National Assembly, and sending their collectivo gangs on motos to intimate the local Venezuelan population?

Like that kind of being “in-country?”

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Will's avatar

The video being widely circulated is 18 months old. It was not from this week.

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William Bell's avatar

Quico's caption merely says that no one is celebrating *in Caracas*, and he explains why not. He doesn't deny that people are celebrating elsewhere -- which, to paraphrase what Amy Letter says above, is a horse of a different color.

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Matteo's avatar

I guess if you search 'Caracas celebration' all of the videos on X are fake then. There is a time for hyperbole, but there is also a time to be nuanced.

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S. MacPavel's avatar

Googgle “colectivos.” No one is on the streets because they could get shot.

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Alexis Ludwig's avatar

Sadly, we can expect no understanding from the American president, just relentless lying and spin. Every single assertion will need to be fact checked. Or else one will fall victim to the same delusion that the American president no longer knows he’s in. The Venezuelan people living in Venezuela will know best.

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Rose C.'s avatar

Well, the Dirección de Inteligencia de Havana (their foreign intelligence service) has been running Caracas for over 20 years. Why this isn't more widely discussed is a mystery to me. They are a very aggressive security service, using their colectivos in Venezuela to intimate anyone who gets in their way. However, they were supposed to be defending Maduro and their "Bolivarian project." Maduro's closest allies around him were Cuban. And yet, he was put on a plane, read his rights, and now he's going to jail. It stands to reason that Havana's DI would be rethinking their life choices up to this point.

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Chris's avatar

Not unusual to be cynical of what might come next. Given Trump’s fixation for “no boots on the ground” it is indeed hard to understand what the next step looks like

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dbistoli's avatar

ppl do seem to be celebrating tho

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Shak's avatar

They really don't understand how dictatorship works, they think it's like getting a divorce, even if the regime was fully thrown. The people will be in grief for years

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Alex's avatar

Why is this in 1% Brighter?

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Alex's avatar

I like Toro's writing and was happy to find 2 articles from him in my inbox on the recent events, but then I noticed one was from the clinate Substack I subscribe to

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