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@rogerwaters
When you parrot Venezuelan regime propaganda, you become an ally of Venezuela's dictatorship.
That's true whether or not that's what you intend to do.
It's true whether or not you realize it's what you're doing.
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The basics:
Everybody hates Maduro.
Four out of five Venezuelans want him out.
It's not just the U.S.: every major country in the Americas (except Mexico) is calling for him to go.
He has destroyed the country in every way you can imagine, and some ways you can't.
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@rogerwaters
Roger Waters supports FAES, Maduro's death squads.
It's likely he doesn't realize that. But that's neither here nor there.
As a matter of plain fact, Roger Waters supports death squads.
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@rogerwaters
Roger Waters supports the torture chambers SEBIN runs under Plaza Venezuela, (La Tumba.)
He supports the imprisonment of political dissidents in El Helicoide.
It's likely he's never heard of SEBIN, or La Tumba, or El Helicoide.
It doesn't matter. He still supports them.
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This needed English captions.
Live censorship on Venezuelan state TV. It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s Venezuela.
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Siri, show me a joke all Venezuelans understand but ONLY Venezuelans understand...
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Blanquito
Gracias por la música
Gracias por el Spanglish
"Be yourself que no importa what they say"
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1/Thing is, Venezuelans have a hyper-developed ear for communist propaganda. We've been on the receiving end to this stuff for *decades*.
So when a first world leftie like
@IlhanMN
or
@BootsRiley
starts parroting state media, we notice *immediately.*
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Lovely to be joined by so many new Venezuela experts tonight!
Welcome y'all...we've been waiting 20 years for you to notice.
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12 European countries recognize
@jguaido
as caretaker president of Venezuela:
🇩🇪Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇸 Spain
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇦🇹 Austria
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇬🇧 UK
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
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Countries recognizing Guaidó today:
🇩🇪Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇸 Spain
🇵🇱 Poland
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇦🇹 Austria
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇬🇧 UK
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Countries recognizing Maduro today:
🇰🇵DPRKorea
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#NotJustCaracas
This is a pro-Guaidó rally in...Altagracia de Orituco!
That's *insane*.
Nobody's ever heard of a political demonstration in Altagracia de Orituco.
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A chavista agent tries to intimidate a journalist while covering the nationwide blackout -which has also turned into a water crisis.
"Who is your President?" the agent asks, "say it, Nicolás Maduro Moros."
The journalist deflects by asking the question to the crowd. Smart kid.
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Absolutely stunning videos coming in from all around Venezuela.
It's not just Caracas and Maracaibo and the other big cities. It's the kind of small, rural cities where no one has ever protested these last 20 years.
No tear gas anywhere. No arrests anywhere. Maduro dare not.
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Hamster and Gretel premieres today on
@Disney
channel and on August 17th on
@disneyplus
@pedrofromvzla
interviewed head-writer/co-producer/star
@Joannahausmann
on how she injected some Venezuelan culture into a Disney show.
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Recently a Very Silly Spanish Girl stood in front of a McDonald's in Caracas and made a very silly argument that set off a very silly hate-viral debate.
Her "point", such as it was: there can't be a food crisis in a country where you can buy a Big Mac with Fries.
La "crisis humanitaria" de
#Venezuela
parece que no llega al McDonald's. ¿Será porque a ellos les surten vía "canal humanitario"?
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No tweets, no Instagram, no Whatsapp chat messages. No power, no communications.
Five hours and counting.
Darkness and silence
#Venezuela
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When Hugo Chávez took office for the first time, in February 1999, you could buy one American dollar for 573.8 bolivars.
💸 Today, the price of a dollar is 31,277,000,000,000 of those bolivars.
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Guaido's oath, and the support he got from Canada to Argentina, are designed to communicate to all those secretly anti-Maduro officers: now's the time.
Nobody has to go first.
You can all jump *together.*
Do it now.
That's why no Venezuelan you know will sleep tonight.
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There’s a big game in Lima tonight: Peru plays Venezuela to qualify for the World Cup. There’s a bunch of Venezuelan migrants in Peru.
Guess what? Peruvian migration authorities will be asking for papers at the game.
The dim line between cheating and violating human rights.
Asimismo, la
@PoliciaPeru
contará con el apoyo del
@ReniecPeru
y
@MigracionesPe
para el control de identidad, personas solicitadas por la justicia y de quienes no hayan regularizado los documentos para su estadía en este país.
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Our friend
@LuisCarlos
is one of the most visible faces of dissident journalism in Venezuela. A few days ago, Diosdado's
#conelmazodando
targeted LC with a tinfoil hat propaganda campaign linking him to "the US planned" nationwide blackout.
#D
óndeEstáLuisCarlos
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Peak emotional moment for Venezuelans.
#AskAVenezuelan
what the song Color Esperanza by Diego Torres has meant to the opposition for 15 years.
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We’ve been through a lot.
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Standing ovation in Miami for Simón, directed by Diego Vicentini. The film tells the story of a student who flees Venezuela after being tortured by the Venezuelan National Guard.
Powerful stuff.
Produced by friend of the blog
@MarcelRasquin
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Satellites pictures show how, in two decades, a common prison spawned slums with streets, a pool and zoo area and even a baseball diamond.
@ljmaldon
shows how a whole city –increasingly formal– sprawled around Tocorón's buildings 🧵
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There's a lot of confusion in Caracas right now. Filter what you read, and be mindful of what you share.
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Terrible for Venezuela and countries where authoritarian regimes limit access to information.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
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Our dear
@Naky
that she hasn't had any contact with her husband
@LuisCarlos
since this afternoon (5:30 p.m.). As most of you know, Luis Carlos Díaz is a very incisive journalist who has been fact checking and challenging the regime since the beginning.
#D
óndeEstáLuisCarlos
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How to identify a Venezuelasplainer:
1-Gives long conferences about a country he/she doesn’t know.
2-Fights on the internet with Venezuelans who live the crisis everyday
3-Says dictatorship is a necessary ill.
4-Doesn’t understand facts nor figures.
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In case there are any non Venezuelans reading, the tune of the national anthem is also used for a popular lullaby to which most of us have been put to sleep.
Very appropriate ending for such an exciting day 🥲 🇻🇪
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No, bueno, si lo hubiésemos escrito nosotros diría —
As the good people of Venezuela make your voices heard tomorrow, on behalf of the American people, we say: "Maduro, bruja, termina de renunciar mmgvo."
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It's starting to feel like a historic day for Venezuela.
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He hangs on ***EXCLUSIVELY*** because he's managed to keep the Army on his side.
He's kept them onside through patronage.
He's given the generals control of the oil industry.
He lets generals to grow rich through corruption, illegal gold mining and drug trafficking.
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TL;DR: In the process of making a non-sensical argument every economist has known wrong since 1981, Very Silly Spanish Girl accidentally proved Venezuela is a dictatorship.
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Horrific. A chavista-made tragedy that can be seen from space.
Troubled Waters: Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo is choking with oil slicks and algae.
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7/Which is why it's important to understand:
WHEN YOU REPEAT MADURO REGIME PROPAGANDA YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE MADURO REGIME.
Please grasp this.
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Maduro announces a 30 day power rationing regime in Venezuela.
He explained the reasons for the nationwide blackouts:
🤖 cyber attacks
🔥 provoked fires
👉 snipers
🤵🏻 spies
After the address 3 things are clear:
1. It's all BS
2. They can't fix it
3. It'll be MUCH >30 days :)
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Army officers suspected of disloyalty are arrested and tortured.
If they hide, their relatives are arrested and tortured until they give up their whereabouts.
This is not just some tweet saying it: Human Rights Watch has documented it.
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Yes, we have Chavez derangement syndrome.
We get it that we tend to Chavezes everywhere.
We understand that that's part of our collective PTSD.
But AMLO IS NOT MAKING THINGS ANY EASIER FOR US, nojoda...
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Steven Seagal travels to Venezuela in representation of the Russian government.
#CineMillonario
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It's likely most Army officers want Maduro out.
But no officer wants to act first.
That would risk jail, torture, death.
Everyone wants to go second.
So, it's a *coordination* problem.
Today's events —Guaidó's oath, and the international backing— is aimed at solving it.
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Patients of a dialysis center in Caracas are in their second day without treatment because of the blackout. Neighbors hear desperate screams: "we're going to die!"
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Non-Venezuelans will struggle to wrap their minds around how unusual and *wonderful* this tweet is.
@ForoPenal
normally caps protest days with a tweet recapping the day's arrests, violence and repression. Today, the tweet says: nothing.
No incidents.
No arrests.
Nothing.
#2Feb
Reporte de
@ForoPenal
a las 8:00PM: No ha ocurrido incidencia alguna en relación con concentraciones en
#Venezuela
No hay denuncias de detenciones u otros incidentes.
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2/You might think you're putting out a bold and fearless new radical analysis by railing against a "U.S.-backed coup" designed to install a "far-right U.S. puppet" in Venezuela.
But Venezuelans are bombarded with this shit 24/7 on state radio, state TV, state websites...
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Some insane shots coming from the opposition march in Caracas.
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Amazing how everything the left accuses the U.S. of wanting to do in Venezuela —siphon off oil wealth, install a puppet dictator, run hundreds of spies, crush democratic institutions— is stuff Cuba is *actually* doing.
And has been. For years.
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Caracas born
#CruzDiez
, developed a visual language of his ow in the 1960s, he is believed to be one of the fathers of kinetic art, which plays with the viewer's perspective to provide the illusion of movement.
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3/We recognize this kind of Marxplaining instantaneously for what it is, because we have loooooong experience on the receiving end.
Sometimes, they'll jam this stuff down our throats in "cadenas", which are mandatory broadcasts that ALL radio and TV stations MUST carry live.
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Chavista Workers' Day march: 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌
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Not a lot of diversity in Venezuela’s fourth Bs. variant. Just the one dude.
98 / 2008 / 2018 / 20021
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What a way to spoil Chávez Day celebrations.
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1-Air Force General Francisco Yánez posts video recognizing Juan Guaidó as president.
2-Minutes later, the Air Force labels him a traitor, reveals there's a corruption file against Yánez.
Conclusion?
They have files on all their own people. Ready to go.
For when they flip.
No se podía esperar menos del TRAIDOR GD Francisco Esteban Yanez Rodriguez, sobrino del corrupto Gral Yanez Mendez que por cierto tiene un expediente en la Contraloría General de la
#FANB
por corrupto!
#LealesSiempreTraidoresNunca
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Close to 7 hours without power in Venezuela. You know, the country. The one with the huge oil reserves and stuff.
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Meanwhile, many troops and even mid-ranking officers go hungry.
Literally hungry.
They're kept in line through fear: intensive counterintelligence surveillance determined to suss out anyone even vaguely suspected of disloyalty.
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#NotJustCaracas
This is Calabozo, another small city in Guárico state. This is the Venezuelan equivalent of, I dunno, Sioux City, IA or like Tuscaloosa, AL.
This is not the kind of place you expect a political protest.
A mis amigos europeos, les explico:
Esto es Calabozo, estado Guárico. Aquí hace unos años se juraba que la gente era 100% propiedad de Chávez y de Maduro.
Miren esto hoy,
#2Feb
. Guárico y Venezuela cambiaron para siempre. Esperamos por ustedes.
#UEHoraDelCoraje
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1/Venezuelans are giddy after a day of genuinely nation-wide, good-humored, hope-filled, *peaceful* protests.
For years, we've been saying violence only comes to opposition protests when the regime represses them.
Today, there was no tear gas and, lo and behold, no violence.
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Julio Mayora wins the first medal for Venezuela in the
#Olympics
🥈
Silver in weight lifting (very appropriate). Congrats!
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And his "Cromointerferencia de color aditivo" for the Maiquetía airport became the background for the goodbye photo many Venezuelans took when leaving the country.
He was with us to the very end.
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8/When you repeat Maduro Regime Propaganda you're aiding and abetting one of the regime's key survival strategies.
That's true whether that was your intention or not.
It's true whether you realize it, or not.
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Meet Maduro’s latest headache: the suddenly famous university professor who the opposition coalition has backed to fill for politically banned Maria Corina Machado in the Venezuelan presidential elections. Our interview with Corina Yoris:
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Olympic medalist
@Danieldhers
dedicates his win to the memory of Dave Mirra, his friend and mentor.
#bmxfreestyle
He chokes up a bit (and so did we).
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Venezuelans do have a reputation of taking foreign causes personally. But, boy… if there was ever a foreign cause personal to Venezuelans it’s this one:
#PatriaYVida
#entodosloschorritos
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6/It's relentless. Maduro regime propaganda is designed to saturate Venezuelans' consciousness. They spend millions to make sure that it's inescapable.
The hilarious thing is that the useful fools they've lined up abroad actually feel BRAVE for parroting it!
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Rumors about the Maduro Regime recruiting Russians to fight for him: confirmed.
Just got to Venezuela & am already being ask to enlist in Maduro’s Armed Forces. Let me settle in first.
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1-There's a reason Venezuela's dictatorship spends lavishly on foreign propaganda.
It's one of the dictatorship's key survival strategies.
When you repeat regime propaganda lines, you objectively ally yourself with the dictatorship.
A note from Roger:
THIS IS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP THIS LATEST USG INSANITY, LEAVE THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE ALONE. THEY HAVE A REAL DEMOCRACY, STOP TRYING TO DESTROY IT SO THE 1% CAN PLUNDER THEIR OIL.
US HANDS OFF
#VENEZUELA
!
#NICOLASMADURO
#STOPTRUMPSCOUPINVENEZUELA
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Me: I'm serious, the guy has lost any semblance of contact with reality.
You: Prove it.
Me:
En este momento, en el que las empresas de comunicación mundial mienten tanto, invitamos a todos a que vengan a compartir las bellezas de nuestra tierra de paz y la incomparable calidez y solidaridad del pueblo venezolano.
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Today at 5.50 am (Caracas time) Caretaker President
@jguaido
called people to the La Carlota base to join him with a group of active members of the armed forces.
@leopoldolopez
can be seen in the frame. "Usurpation ends today," he says.
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20 years deep into the Chávez/Maduro autocracies Venezuelans give a massive display of civil values: a primary election, organized by the citizenship, giving millions of Venezuelans all over the country and across the globe the opportunity to vote for a unitary candidate.
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4/You turn on the radio and flipping to a different station is useless, because what you think is "bold, fearless and fresh analysis about a U.S.-backed coup designed to install a far-right U.S. puppet" in Venezuela is coming at you LITERALLY on every station.
Same thing on TV.
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The task at hand is delicate.
The U.S. needs to persuade Venezuela's generals that it's serious about military escalation while simultaneously persuading other governments in the region it's all a bluff.
So la patria depends on the delicate touch of...Donald Trump.
Oy vey.
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#CruzDiez
was celebrated around the world and his work was exposed in most of the more important museums of modern art. But for Venezuelans his art is more than a source of enormous pride.
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