GENEVA – The Swiss government said on Jan 5 that it had decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or his associates “with immediate effect”.
Bern said it had reached its decision after Mr Maduro was seized in Caracas in a shock US military operation and brought to New York to face narcotrafficking charges.
Describing the situation as “volatile”, the Swiss government said in a statement that it wanted “to ensure that any illicitly acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland in the current situation”.
“The asset freeze comes into force today with immediate effect and will remain valid for four years until further notice.”
Well… he wasn’t exactly innocent.
I don’t condone what happened, but Maduro was not a great man either.
Maduro is a democratically elected president loved by the working classes, he is targeted by the US because he continued Venezuela’s policy of nationalizing the oil industry. This is naked colonialism.
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Maduro was democratically elected because the election was widely observed as fair, Maduro won 51% to González’ 43%, and because surrounding nations such as Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, etc. recognized it as legitimate. The fact is, the same people that claim Biden stole the 2020 election are now telling you that Maduro stole 2024 in order to justify kidnapping him and his wife and steal Venezuelan oil. This is a tried and true tactic of the US Empire.
Both sides play the same game, I just choose to listen to a majority as its harder to get the majority of the world to agree on something. I am not talking about Biden so let’s keep him out of this or it will devolve to scapegoatism (ie. But Biden did that…)
The nonprofit human rights foundation said it was fraud, the majority of south america said it was fraud even countries aligned more to China than the US. Source
Lastly, if the elections of Venezuela where legitimate and Maduro was the “good guy” as you appear to paint him as then why do we have a Venezuelan refuge crisis? Source
Bonus: No one has ever told me that Biden stole the election in the US and also said Maduro stole the Venezuelan election, I don’t listen to propaganda networks like Newsmax or Fox News.
Are you under the impression that there is one single universal “Human Rights Foundation”?
It’s actually called the Human Rights Foundation, actually. It’s a real thing founded by a Venezuelan gusano.
Your source is the Human Rights Foundation, a US State Department - mouthpiece known for manufacturing consent for regime change. What’s actually true is that Maduro is the internationally recognized president of Venezuela.
Gusanos fled Venezuela when their assets were nationalized. Continuous emigration from Venezuela is due to the economic act of war from the US Empire, including sanctions, blockades, and restricting trade with Venezuela. The working classes support Maduro in Venezuela, which is why the US Empire is relying on AI generated videos, older videos celebrating Maduro’s election in 2024, and so forth to pretend Venezuelans are celebrating his kidnapping.
Biden is an imperialist, just like Trump. Operation Gideon happened under Biden, where the US Empire tried a Bay of Pigs style invasion of Venezuela. Desire to overthrow the socialist government of Venezuela has existed since Chavez nationalized the oil industry. You do listen to propaganda, likely CNN, BBC, or New York Times.
Edit: Not directly funded, but a mouthpiece nonetheless.
Um… except it isnt.
Straight from Wikipedia
I guess Venezuela is full of “Gusanos” as you call them because 7.9 million isn’t a small number hermano.
And your point is what? No one is denying it.
Not denying Operation Gideon either, but can you please point me to where Biden did this? According to your own link the operation was primarily planned by Clíver Alcalá Cordones (retired Venezuelan major general) and Jordan Goudreau (a canadian american mercenary).
Venezuela was never socialist. Hell, the US is more socialist than Venezuela. Venezuela is more of a marxism-leninism when it comes to the government it has.
Like I said, I don’t watch imperialist propaganda networks, sorry. Try again comrade.
Lastly, what Trump did is an illegal act of war both in the international laws side and in the laws of the united states as he didn’t even get congress to sign off on (not that this would make it OK either). However, the point isn’t that the US is good or bad (because the US currently has a corrupt and out of control government at the moment), it’s that Maduro did not get elected.
Your daily reminder that liberals think Wikipedia is literally Holy Scripture
From your own link
Essentially, a gusano that lost out when Chavez nationalized the oil industry among others for the good of the people made a non-profit to deliver US State department propaganda around the world about the US Empire’s geopolitical enemies. They also shill for cryptocurrency. They’re a far-right think-tank.
It is and was, but also has had people flee due to economic problems caused by the US Empire sanctioning them, not a fault of Maduro or Chavez.
It was supported by the US government, and is merely one of many attempts by the empire to undermine Venezuelan socialism.
Marxism-Leninism is socialist, but Venezuela is closer to reformist socialism than Marxism-Leninism. The US Empire is capitalist, the large firms and key industries are privately owned and capitalists in charge of the state. I don’t know what you think Marxism-Leninism is, but if you want a primer, check out section 0 of the intro ML reading list I made.
You haven’t proven that Maduro didn’t get elected, though, you’ve just posted that the majority of western countries and compradors believe him to not be. The majority of the world upholds Maduro as legitimate and the constitutionally recognized president of Venezuela. The US Empire has always been corrupt and “out of control,” Trump is just the latest in a long line of imperialists.
“Democratically elected” that’s debatable.
Yeah, the US and its puppets say the election was stolen!
To be fair, I don’t exactly trust the other sources that say he didn’t receive the majority of the votes.
That being said, that doesn’t change the fact he was corrupt and was living in luxury and was well fed while Venezuelans were hungry and poor.
The only thing I admire about him is sticking up to the US, being an economic partner to Cuba and standing in solidarity with Palestinians.
Should the most important person on the country starve to appease the western liberal? Let’s not forget that the US is the one starving Venezuelans through the economic pressure put by the sanctions. His “luxurious” lifestyle is at most the lifestyle of an european petit bourgeois, the average governor of Mexico lives under much more luxury ffs.
Well, yeah. But one doesn’t cancel the other.
EDIT: This is nothing more than whataboutism. “What about Trump?” Yeah I know Trump is a garbage of a human being. If you can even all him human at this point. Him, the people around him and the entire American government have done so much harm to humanity. They’re worst only next to Israel, whose people make the worst fictional monsters look like little ballerinas.
But that doesn’t cancel the fact Maduro was an asshole corrupt crooked motherfucker who inflicted a lot of pain on the people of his country.
Do I condone him being kidnapped like this? Hell no. That’s bullshit. America can fuck off.
you’re the one doing whataboutism bringing up that “maduro is not innocent” come on.
I’m not trying to cancel anything about Maduro. I’m highlighting the parallels between him and the wealthy, corrupt, convicted felon in charge of the US.
Well we all know about the US gouvernent and their crimes.
But why can’t anybody here acknowledge that Maduro was a crook himself? He had to go, but he rigged the system against it.
I mean if we were talking about Chavez, that guy had his people’s well being at heart. And I have a lot of respect for that man.
But Maduro I can’t defend. And it seems to me like the people here are defending him, and argue and downvote in bad faith. If a leader is a bad person, no matter where they stand on the political spectrum, they shouldn’t be defended from any criticism.
Having a motte-and-bailey, eh ZombieCyborg? Classic
The same people who said Trump won 2020 are telling you Maduro lost to an unpopular far-right candidate supported most among Venezuelans by those who live in Miami, not Venezuela.
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Linking the Carter Center as evidence that this is “consensus across the political spectrun” means you’re limiting said spectrum to the pro-imperialist western countries. Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, all recognize Maduro. Edmundo Gonzalez is a far-right comprador that wishes to privatize Venezuela’s oil, and was backed by the US Empire, which the US tried to manipulate the election via sanctions (and the EU participated as well). Gonzalez is more popular among Venezuelans in Miami than in Venezuela itself.
Let’s stick with the facts: The US kidnapped a democratically elected president to colonize Venezuela and strip it for oil, and people who legitimize it by equating Maduro and Trump have blood on their hands.
Another langley-poster.
Go manufacture consent for war somewhere else.
“Neither Washington nor Caracas, but Washington”
If you actually believe in evil, you are a child with no place talking about serious subjects.
You’re coping
Another “The US lies about everything but I trust everything they say about their enemies”
“He was no angel” fuck off