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In reply to the discussion: The wild card in Venezuela: armed Chavistas [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)Unless their opposition are real dumb thugs, which they may be.
I don't think any major player, the type with an eye to history, is really invested in manipulating the outcome in Venezuela in the way that Latin American governments have been manipulated in the past. I think their wise enough to stand back and let things play out.
The greatest power of the people there is in preserving the structures in the low income barrios that came into place under Chavez in terms of social organisation and aid. The social orders which provide for people have great power against parasitic forms of exploitation. Morality has an aesthetic to it, a beauty to it. The anti-social has an ugliness to it. People can see it and feel it, around the world. To kill the demons of injustice one only has to show them, in their naked and pure forms.