I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.

It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.

This is far from improving, and we know it.

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    Which military is patrolling? Asking bc information is not being shared correctly through mainstream channels. Does USA actually have control of the country?

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      La Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana, our Army.

      If I had seen US soldiers, I would have crashed out.

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      I saw that the TV stations are still broadcasting pro-Maduro stuff, I don’t think the US is actually in control in Venezuela.

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        Sounds like they just went in, bombed some stuff, grabbed Maduro, and left

        I don’t really know though, only info I have is from reading the wikipedia page

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          That certainly is what it looks like at first glance. Trump has declared himself in charge but nothing on the ground has borne that out yet.

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            imo the US’ plan is: [1] destabilize Venezuela [2] “they are unstable and need intervention”

            it sounds too obvious and stupid to be true; but I wouldn’t put it past this admin

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              It’s true. I’m reminded of that old Bill Hicks routine where he likened our Iraq policy to the movie “Shane.”

              “Pick up the gun.” [shoots] “You all saw him! He had a gun.”

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      It sounds like it’s Venezuela’s military trying to stop people looting in their own country.
      People can do stupid things when they panic.