• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Venezuela is indeed surrounded by countries that have ever reason to help the Venezuelans end-run with US interference; but each of those countries has their own oligarchy the the US has helped gain power within the last few years and are now neutral at best to Venezuela’s plight.

    Brazil and Colombia are the only exceptions and the right wing is expected to take control of it soon as well.

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      19 hours ago

      I wish you weren’t right, and Peru isn’t really bucking US influence in any meaningful fashion either. I’m afraid their mega-port may not even get built, or maybe environmentally or socio-economically that would be the better result.

      I’m neither an expert nor a local to be telling them how to live. Now if only my country wasn’t so certain that “expertise” and violence should rightfully override the sovereignty of others.

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        42 minutes ago

        I’m neither an expert nor a local to be telling them how to live.

        that’s not stopping the american government from telling them how to live. lol

        but then again and in most cases, it’s down through each country’s oligarchy’s mouth pieces like it’s done in the united states; so it seems local enough to them like ours seems to us.