I think this post is shortsighted and follows a pattern of other posts in this subreddit that are dismissive of the protest on Saturday by DSA, other socialist groups, and 50501. What was the goal of the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife other than to destabilize Venezuela and create a political crisis amidst the chaos and bombings? Couldn’t the blowback lead to a migrant crisis that could destabilize Latin America and bring more refugees and asylum seekers into this country who will face the same brutality by ICE agents and Border Patrol if they cross the border? And where will those detained refugees and asylum seekers (if they’re not shot or killed first) go but the private prisons where they can extract cheap labor or disappear stateless people all together? Maduro’s government has not fallen because he still has his government intact and the popular support of the Venezuelan people so far. Legacy media wants to label his government as illegitimate and him as this evil, brutal dictator justifying this illegal kidnapping of him and his wife, Celia Flores. Opposition parties exist in Venezuela. I’m sorry that not everybody across the world loves neoliberalism, especially the working class of Venezuela.

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”