"Hello, I'm an American leftist, and I'm here to tell you poor brown people about how only I truly know what is best for you".
It's staggering. I'm Venezuelan, I'm socialist, and I can tell you right now FUCK
EVERY SINGLE CHAVISTA, MADURO IS A MONSTER. That's my message which I am effectively screaming into the void over and over again in support of my fellow Venezuelans.
Venezuela is a resource-rich country and a lot of foreign interests are going to want to use those resources. That's almost inevitable. But that's a long-term evil that's only ALMOST inevitable. The short term, immediate evil is people starving, dying of preventable illness, and getting killed by the military or paramilitary, with Maduro's extended rule giving us a guarantee of just as much being stolen from the average person with a side-dose of human misery. If there was some third option where Maduro and his armed goons just *ceased to be* and autonomous syndicalism suddenly sprang up, that'd be great. That isn't what's happening. The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago.
We have what we have and what we have is already paramilitary death squads. Supporting Maduro is the WRONG idea even if you think the best thing that could happen is Guadio T-posing and falling through the ground the second he wins.
PLEASE don't forget the people who are suffering right now, is all I ask. They WILL need help no matter what.