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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My take is it is a good thing because it is exposing the contradictions with the Venezuela/ US relationship and forcing the Venezuelan left to respond. There were large organized protests to this in Caracas by Chavistas and with the situation going on in Bolivia, my guess is that the struggle will be forced to come to a head which will either see PSUV self correcting or the masses rebelling against them in the way the Bolivian masses rejected MAS after that organization was coopted.

The revolution has always been tenuous due to not being completed and constantly under siege, and there have been many times since Chavez that the state was at odds with the communes and grass roots. This is an important dialectical process that refines the struggle, and is never ending even after a revolution.

For any outsider, the correct take is to support Venezuela by organizing in our own nations to take the outside pressure off Venezuela, and to support the unity of their revolution by not spreading propaganda or editorializing reality. The movement have been aligned with their government for awhile and under this renewed campaign by the US, they are in a new crisis which ideally would be solved by unity and internal discipline instead of allowing themselves to be divided and conquered. This has been the messaging directly from the grass roots even as they criticize the concessions they are being forced to make under threat of immense violence and without any real way to defend themselves.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 day ago

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11688653

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11702398

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11701458

To quote one post in particular:

From what I’ve heard, even Cuban comrades are having a hard time understanding what is happening in Venezuela.

The debates have been intense in the Cuban/Venezuelan and Latin American telegram channels. Lots of comrades from the whole Latin America are joining it too. It feels like hell as if it was struggle session that has no end.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11688653/8235494

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Preparation for the Havana embassy evacuation in case of a US military operation on Cuban soil.