In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup

[Judi Lynn]

BY
Greg Palast, Truthout
PUBLISHED
February 7, 2019

Note: Palast covered Venezuela during the Chavez presidency for BBC Television Newsnight and the Guardian. Readers of Truthout may download, for free, the film of Palast’s BBC reports, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. This article incorporates additional reporting by William Camacaro in Caracas.

In January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaidó, former speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself president. No voting. When you have official recognition from The Donald, who needs elections?

Say what?

I can explain what’s going on in Venezuela in photos.

First, we have Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed (and Trump-proclaimed) president of the nation, with his wife and child, a photo prominently placed in The New York Times. And here, the class photo of Guaidó’s party members in the National Assembly. They appear, overwhelmingly light-skinned — especially when compared to their political opposites in the third photo, the congress members who support the elected President Nicolás Maduro.

This is the story of Venezuela in black and white, the story not told in The New York Times or the rest of our establishment media. This year’s so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor. (Forty-four percent of the population that answered the 2014 census listed themselves as “white.”)

Four centuries of white supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez, who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority. This turn away from white supremacy continues under Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor.

More:
https://truthout.org/articles/in-venezuela-white-supremacy-is-a-key-driver-of-the-coup/

Editorials and other articles:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016226057

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[GatoGordo]

1. Yes, look at all them "white skinned" people burying their children who hate Chavismo!

Link to tweet

Seems the "white devils" driving this "coup" (as opposed to the coupsters of Feb. 4, 1992, recently celebrated by Maduro!) are eager to subjugate their inferior, darker skinned countrymen to higher levels of starvation and disease. It's all a very recent cunning and subtle plan hatched by the worlds most incompetent, mentally deficient US president (the Orange Menace) to make Marx/Leninism look bad... not at all the 20 years of wholesale incompetence from people who have completely pilfered every last thing of value from what used to be the envy of Latin America.



Yes. White people are the problem in Venezuela...

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Here are some Venezuelan refugees that chavismo hasn't helped very much