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In reply to the discussion: Caracas Mayor Who Opposed Government Apparently Arrested [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)based solely on unsubstantiated claims from the government regarding their alleged complicity in coup plotting--for which there has never been any evidence produced--show contempt for the "Democratic" part of this website in that they are authoritarians.
The people who are cheerleading the arrest of an elected official--of Caracas, a city of millions of people--based on NOTHING but the claims of an authoritarian thug like Maduro cannot be said to respect the foundations of civil liberty and democracy. They require no evidence to don their pom-poms and cheerlead the government as it puts its critics and political opponents in prison much like Pinochet and Stalin did.
So, between rightwing trolls and leftwing Stalinists, please don't expect us to grant either side the moral high ground.