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

Normally, the term "opposition leader" refers to the head of the largest political party in parliament that does not control the government. So how did she become "opposition leader" ? No one in the West had heard of her before she got the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm not saying she wasn't a strong critic, and very well known, but now they're placing her as if she's backed by popular demand and that's not true.

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Northwest · M

they're placing her

Who are they?

Jokersswild

@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.

Northwest · M

@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.