I asked a friend in Venezuela about María Corina Machado. He said, "Opposition leader of what?"

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP Why?

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP They can't tell where the ship is sailing?

@yestestvennaya straight to hell if you ask them

@Northwest Look, all I'm saying is there's a coordinated effort to oust Maduro and put somebody in place that's going to allow the West to do exactly what they want, which is extract oil from Venezuela.

Who is "they"? They are the corporate groups ... the oil companies, Chevron, ExxonMobil, the mining companies, the gas companies. "They" are the billionaires who want to extract the resources.

They are also the NATO and EU members who see Venezuela's oil as a way to boost their own economies and break free from depending on Russia. This is about controlling the largest oil reserves on the planet. It's the same reason they went into Iraq.

And for the US, this may be our way to maintain Dollar hegemon.

@Jokersswild Quite the world salad there. Venezuela turned into a country on life support under Chávez and Maduro, instead of what should be one of the world's most prosperous countries, but it is up to the Venezuelans to fix their own problems.

@jshm2

The Peace Prize might well have more breadth of scope in whom might be awarded than the other Nobel Prizes, but that your last sentence could be applied to most social networking sites...