Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by simonsarris on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:53AM
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Constant low grade civil war and dictators has been the offhand history of south america for a very long time, sadly. Definitely predates drug cartels and US influence.
I only raise this because there is a common and lazy supposition to Venezuela's state of affairs that goes something like, "It must be drug cartels or the US that caused all the problems, fundamentally." The country's problems are probably nuanced, deeper, and older.
See Darwin: http://imgur.com/Q68r0uD
From: http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=image&...
I only raise this because there is a common and lazy supposition to Venezuela's state of affairs that goes something like, "It must be drug cartels or the US that caused all the problems, fundamentally." The country's problems are probably nuanced, deeper, and older.