American socialists, longtime supporters of the ruthless Venezuelan dictatorship, appear to be helping the Maduro regime add feminism and LGTBQ+ issues to its long list of Marxist causes, in hopes that the dictatorship will win favor with the Biden administration. -Harris.
Whether the strategy is really helping Caracas is another matter. Yes, it is true that recently the US government approached of the regime of Nicolás Maduro, making concessions, but the official speech still says that the current talks between Washington and Caracas are aimed at removing Maduro from the influence of Vladimir Putin and increasing oil production in Venezuela to help the government contain the increase. in fuel prices. A nonsense.
The Biden-Harris administration has struggled to appease the far left of the Democratic Party, a wing that is not turning its back on the efforts of the Democratic Socialists of America (SDA) to use the Maduro dictatorship as a showcase for causes used by the left. of the US to promote a deeper revolutionary struggle.
Just see how the leftist-oriented DSA and Code Pink are organizing a tour by eight of the most important North American cities, including Washington, DC, taking with them Venezuelan feminists sent by the Maduro regime to say that the sanctions imposed by the United States harm Venezuelan women. Venezuelan exiles are organizing manifestations against these women, who obviously should be arrested in the United States for having ties to narco-terrorists. But it is difficult for that to happen.
And over the last year, as we can see in this announcement showing feminists and transvestites calling Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez “our feminist presidents”, the Maduro regime began to take pride in feminist and LGTBQ+ issues that were previously ignored or despised. Last week, for example, the regime started painting bike lanes in the colors of the LGTBQ+ rainbow.
After years of measurements explicitly homophobicthe decision to support causes championed by American Marxists appears to coincide with a DAS visit to Caracas in July 2021. The new emphasis has surprised some observers, such as the website editors “Political”who published a long and much-quoted article about the subject.
The writer of the text seems to suffer from cognitive dissonance when talking about the DAS visit. He described Maduro’s actions as “lacradora cleaning”. But the friendly relations between Marxists here and there do not surprise Venezuelan observers.
Despite having destroyed the economy and subjected the people to political repression, with more than 300 political prisoners acquaintances (including at least eight Americans), Maduro and his predecessor have always been the darlings of the American left.
For actors like Danny Glover and Sean Penn and directors like Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, Caracas became the mecca that the Côte d’Azur was for actors in the 1950s and 1960s. Pilgrimages to Venezuela showed the world that you cared about “social justice” while making fans ignore the horrific human rights violations in the country.
And the connections with our Marxists go beyond the actor’s signposting of virtue. Former President Obama’s friend Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground terrorist group, also visited Venezuela in 2005, effusively praising how Chávez has used the education system to indoctrinate children. Ayers never expressed regret for his actions and yet today he is seen as an “education reformer”.
To give you an idea, the former terrorist left behind, as Chávez’s translator in Caracas, his adopted son, Chesa Boudin. Boudin, elected San Francisco District Attorney with the support of George Soros, traveled to Caracas several times in the 2000s. Because of the increase in crime in San Francisco since he took office in 2020, he recently lost the election. .
The same goes for Black Lives Matter, whose founders were allies of Chávez and, since his death in 2013, of his successor, Maduro. The top name on the list is BLM co-founder Opal Tometi, the most cosmopolitan of the minds behind BLM. She called herself an “international observer” in the elections held in the country in 2015.
BLM leaders, led by Tometi, invited Maduro to visit Harlem and speak to more than 200 leftist activists in 2015. Shortly afterwards, she wrote a manifest frightening for approaching the Venezuelan situation in racial terms, calling the opposition “white colonizers” and praising “participatory democracy”, an invention of the left to replace the checks and balances of representative democracy and to institute centralized political control. The manifest reads:
In the last 17 years, we have seen the Bolivarian Revolution defend participatory democracy and create a fair and transparent electoral system, recognized as one of the best in the world – a democratic process that defends the rights of Afro-descendants and other oppressed peoples within Venezuela and throughout the world. world. We reject the hypocrisy of the Venezuelan elite who, like the colonizers, cling to their white privilege to the point of promoting the lynching of Afro-descendants. [Em
itálico no original].
Maduro returned the honors by inviting the BLM to be part of the Foro de São Paulo, a Latin American confraternity of Marxist countries and non-governmental entities, during a meeting at a leftist church in Washington in June 17, 2017. At the meeting, the BLM joined other Marxist groups such as the DSA and the Communist Party of the United States, etc.
So no one paying attention to relations between American and Venezuelan Marxists is surprised that the DAS is helping Maduro. Marxists here and there are allies not despite Maduro’s repressive system, but because both sides agree on central planning, regardless of style.
Mike Gonzalez is a member of the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy.
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