• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Machado is not a leftist, if that’s who you were referring to. She’s a hard-right capitalist, who’s been offering Venezuela’s resources to whoever agrees to regime change Maduro.

    She also has no real power within Venezuela’s government…so it’s unlikely that Trump will actually put her in charge. He’ll most likely just take the trophy from her and then turn around and cut a deal with the interim president that’s currently in power.

    He just needs someone there who’s willing to give him what he wants, and has the authority to make it happen. It doesn’t matter who. That way, Congress wouldn’t need to authorize anything, and he still gets what he wants.

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      1 month ago

      Returning to a real democracy is a wide left shift from the current Maduro regime. All Autocracy is Right Wing.

      The result being comparatively moderate or right wing to other nations is irrelevant in the context of Venezuela.

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        Autocracies are not inherently “left” or “right”…they are just autocracies. Anyone of any political or economic ideology can become a dictator if they abandon democratic principles, in favor of maintaining their own power.

        Machado is a conservative, free-market Capitalist. That’s what makes her right-wing. Why else do you think the folks on Fox News love her so much?