Name: 委內瑞拉的危機。我的自由派同胞們不理解的事情｜紐約時報評論員 (Venezuela’s Crisis: What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Understand | NYT Opinion)
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“There is total chaos in Venezuela — hunger,

lack of medicine, and latest, nearly the whole country

But most of the conversation in the States

focuses on what Trump is doing about Venezuela,

and rumors are spreading that the U.S. is considering

against any U.S. involvement in Venezuela

We’ve got Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters, Oliver Stone,

Boots Riley, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Jill Stein, and Bernie

“Why have you stopped short of calling Maduro

“And of course, we’ve got this lovely guy.”

“It is not a good look when your slogan

but this time it seems like it’s the liberals who

is Ruth Bader Ginsburg in workout clothes.

glorifying a brutal dictator and promoting inaction.

First off, if you look closely at these protests,

it’s very unlikely you’ll bump into an actual Venezuelan.”

“Trust me, if this was an actual Venezuelan protest,

Second, let me remind you what’s going on back home.

Bolivars are so worthless, people are literally

Mass malnutrition and shortages of medicine

have caused life expectancy to fall 3.5 years,

and at least 3 million people have fled their country,

is in economic ruin because of U.S. sanctions,

Venezuela’s economy completely collapsed in 2016

after decades of corruption and incompetence of Chavez

were only travel bans and frozen bank accounts

like, for example, Chavez’s former bodyguard, who

has three private jets, and owns more horses

That has nothing to do with how corrupt this guy is,

In January, the sanctions on the state oil company

were designed to stop funding Maduro’s regime

While Venezuela’s situation is a dumpster fire,

“We just returned from two weeks in Venezuela,

is no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.”

“Just the crisis of U.S. imperialism.”

of meddling in Latin America should give people pause.

But complete inaction out of fear of the U.S.

repeating its interventionist mistake from the '80s

Hands off can actually mean blood on your hands.

Supporting Venezuela’s efforts to restore democracy.

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委內瑞拉的危機。我的自由派同胞們不理解的事情｜紐約時報評論員 (Venezuela’s Crisis: What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Understand | NYT Opinion)

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