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.

Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like Presumably they would look not-authoritarian, a description that doesn’t fit Maduro at all. It could well be that, in the face of US policy regarding Venezuela, only an Authoritarian could hold onto the country. That still doesn’t make Maduro not an Authoritarian. it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments. That’s a fair observation but, again, that doesn’t mean they are wrong when they say it about Maduro. Maduro is referred to as dictator by Human Rights Watch, the Organization of American States, and other human rights organizations, including some inside Venezuela. Maduro is a dictator. It’s largely the fault of the US that Venezuela has a dictator. If the US succeeds in ousting Maduro, it will almost certainly replace him with an even worse Dictator. All of that can be true with no contradictions.

Presumably they would look not-authoritarian And what does that even look like? Something like Allende, I’m guessing. Human Rights Watch The liberal Zionist western propaganda outlet?