How to "spin" the death of democracy in Venezuela

[GatoGordo]

Venezuela's Grassroots Debate Constituent Assembly

By KATRINA KOZAREK – VENEZUELANALYSIS.COM , May 29th 2017

"Venezuela's social movements are holding popular assemblies across the country to debate proposals for a new constitution in response to President Nicolas Maduro's move to convene a National Constituent Assembly earlier this month. Among the proposals on the table are initiatives for not only consolidating existing gains under the current constitution, but also measures aimed at radicalizing the revolutionary process, including decriminalizing abortion, legalizing same-sex marriage, and expanding communal power."

Read it here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/video/13157

(Venezuela Analysis is the official English language mouthpiece of the Chavez/Maduro government. It, along with TeleSur, are vital cogs in their propaganda machine.)

[Zorro]

1. Our resident LatAm savant is noticeably silent about events in Venezuela these days

What's up with that?

[Marksman_91]

2. There's a point with certain regimes when if you keep supporting them, you're seen as a fool

The Maduro regime has reached that point, and anyone who tries to defend it and its atrocities will be considered fools and supporters of a tyrant. Unfortunately many first-world caviar leftists are still willing to sell themselves as propagandists for such a regime. Look up Abby Martin and Michael Prysner, two very staunch leftist American "journalists" from Florida who openly work for TeleSur english who do nothing more than spread Chavista propaganda. Must be getting paid very good in order to spread their lies. Not too different from Eva Golinger.

[GatoGordo]

3. You will never get them to admit they are/were wrong

Sometimes, they lose sight of the fact that DEMOCRACY has died, and in its place, they now worship at the altar of "political purity".

Maduro can't be bad.... he is a leftist... correct? Ergo, he will find a way to solve the problems that NO OTHER LEFTIST COUNTRY IN LATIN AMERICA is suffering through. (Its all a US plot!)

The Jurassic Left Doubles down on Maduro
By Clifton Ross* - June 5, 2017

"If you thought people on the Left had already lost heart and given up on the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela, think again. Right now, we’re in the middle of the “Emergency Days of Action to Stop US Intervention in Venezuela.”

“The corporate media – the voice of the Pentagon and White House – has set up an international campaign of blatant lies that try to present the terrorist actions of the fascist hoards [sic] as repression from the Revolutionary Government,” the campaign website helpfully explains. “The truth is that these terrorist acts are directed against state’s buildings and agencies and against the supporters of the revolution. The aim of these protests is to create chaos to declare a ‘humanitarian crisis’ and demand US intervention.”

Who talks like this anymore? The International Action Center (IAC) does. It comes out of the revolutionary communist Worker’s World Party (WWP), both of which are connected to the founding of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. organization (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).

If you’re tempted to think these are just tiny millenarian communist cults, think again. Early in the last decade, A.N.S.W.E.R. organized some of the largest demonstrations against the Iraq war, and International Action Center continues to be a central hub of left-wing activity in major US cities.

The aim of these protests is to create chaos to declare a ‘humanitarian crisis’ and demand US intervention.

That such groups well into the 21st century could be called “progressive” is oxymoronic. They’re living fossils from a bipolar world – remnants from the Cold War when the CIA and theKGB each went around toppling governments in their enemy’s sphere of influence. You remember the Cold War, right? Half of you won’t — folks born after, say, 1982 can hardly be expected to. But some dinosaurs are reputed to have extraordinary memories despite their utter obliviousness to present reality.

For many on the younger Left that came up post-Cold War, this paleolithic Left is no mere oddity. They show up to “be the vanguard” at demonstrations and “lead” the marches. Another glaring irony: this utterly retrograde, backward-looking left seems to feel it owns its place at the head of the parade."

read more here: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/06/05/jurassic-left-doubles-maduro/

*Clifton Ross recently published his political memoir documenting his conversion from Chavismo to the opposition. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and co-editor, Marcy Rein, and their two cats.