He is an authoritarien and the country went to shit. Venezuela is not a nice place to live in. Maduro is a corrupt dictator, trump aswell and the current opposition to maduro most likely will just be an authoritarian and fascist pupped goverment that will act in the USAs interest. So yeah multible things can be true at once, just because a nation is opposed to the american empire does not mean that it is automaticallly good. Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into( USA, EU Australia etc.) And just replace that with other imperial powers like russia and china. Like why?? How about not bootlicking authoritarians?

Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like to you and how they would resist the constant pressure and hostile actions of the US government, because it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments. The only way to avoid being labelled as authoritarian is to be friendly to the imperial core countries, i.e. being capitalist.

👆If you don’t suppress the inevitable imperial-supported bourgeois counterinsurgencies, your socialist project will go the way of Allende’s Chile.

What a loser-ass mentality. It’s absolutely possible to remain just and free while being secure. Skill issue.

Point me to one single socialist revolution that hasn’t been immediately attacked by capital. Just one. You can’t.

Name one single socialist revolution that didn’t start as a violent dictatorship. You can’t.

exarcheia, and the Paris commune