Live from Venezuela: Election Results and Analysis, w/ Rania Khalek & Zoe Alexandra

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  • @蝦記
    @蝦記 3 місяці тому +28

    Thank you guys for reporting the actual Venezuela elections result

  • @isanewday
    @isanewday 3 місяці тому +52

    Thank you Rania and Zoe for the accurate coverage.. .

  • @jgourgue2004
    @jgourgue2004 3 місяці тому +87

    Viva Venezuelan and the Boliviarian Revolution. We Haitians support Venezuela as history will show its was Haiti who helped free Venezuela and 8 additional Latin American countries🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

    • @arismaiden6457
      @arismaiden6457 3 місяці тому +6

      you were also the first to support our revolution here in Greece (1821) we haven't forgot that, we ll never forget. You were the first slaves to be freed by your own revolution and your own struggle and not freed by your former masters or the big powers, like black Americans or black Brazilians. Long live the Haitian Revolution and long live Aristide, the true Haitian President! ✌✌

  • @miladylondonlime
    @miladylondonlime 2 місяці тому +2

    This was enlightening and entertaining, thank you!

  • @alokmukherjee8160
    @alokmukherjee8160 3 місяці тому +45

    Thank you to Breakthrough News and People's Dispatch for bringing us the truth about Venezuelan election. Even Canada's public broadcaster has been telling us the version being fed by the US-led right-wing forces.

    • @ToliverWrist
      @ToliverWrist 3 місяці тому

      Imo, CBC has been compromised for at least a decade now, when retiring progressive voices from the 60s were gradually replaced by a new generation of Neoliberal careerists. Even Radio Canada isn't the same as it used to be, say 30 years ago.
      If the US ever chooses to invade another country, under the pretext that that country has "weapons of mass destruction", which everyone knows to be non-existent, rest assured that the CBC will now be one of the US military's biggest cheerleaders.
      For better or worse, for those of us interested in the news, it is now necessary to look towards independent and international sources of news, use resources like Google translate, and parse and filter through the mountain of information on our own, a task which is nigh-impossible for any adult with a full-time job.
      You're either proactive or propagandized.

    • @beantreats
      @beantreats 3 місяці тому

      CBC is pro Israel. Sadly can't trust them anymore

  • @roelitogawilan5854
    @roelitogawilan5854 3 місяці тому +42

    I'm very excited that humaity are electing leaders in their country who are anti imperialists and aren't warmonger.

    • @aliciaczechowski3281
      @aliciaczechowski3281 2 місяці тому

      As US and its henchmen are trying to overthrow them, and assassinate them.

  • @RicanOnARant
    @RicanOnARant 3 місяці тому +5

    So grateful for this. I must admit I don’t know much about Venezuela and I was struggling to find coverage to understand this moment clearly. Thank you guys for your crucial work as always

  • @cristinah.c.5424
    @cristinah.c.5424 3 місяці тому +51

    Thank you all ❤

  • @AyitiSitadel
    @AyitiSitadel 3 місяці тому +84

    Long live Venezuela in its resistance against the neocons in the collective west. Best wishes to President Maduro and the proud Venezuelan people!

  • @davisoneill
    @davisoneill 3 місяці тому +57

    Congratulations to the Venezuelan people for their successful democratic election.

  • @axShinsei
    @axShinsei 3 місяці тому +31

    This show on the ground in the country you are reporting on with many amazing guests has been educational, inspiring and a breath of fresh air. It's great seeing the 2 of you work together to bring this to the world.

  • @ClaytonEdwards-gc4cu
    @ClaytonEdwards-gc4cu 3 місяці тому +7

    Rania & Zoe, the two of you are special, thanks for bringing the world undiluted, independent media from Venezuela. I really enjoy what you do for bringing the world unbiased news.

  • @ivantraveler
    @ivantraveler 3 місяці тому +5

    Thank you so much for your work again. I'm from Russia, and I have to say, that the western strategy is not very different from what we've seen in Belarus, Ukraine or Russia, or in many other countries. It is great that there are people like you who help the rest to break through all of the propaganda. Wishing support to my fellow Venezuelans, stay strong ✊🏼

  • @fiza5403
    @fiza5403 3 місяці тому +33

    u guys are doing noble work speaking the truth, we would have been left to becoming delusional with all this propganda

  • @lortega70
    @lortega70 3 місяці тому +7

    Excellent report, much appreciated!!

  • @fahmielias63
    @fahmielias63 3 місяці тому +12

    Congratulations to all Venezuelan voters for remaining steadfast to uphold true democracy and dump the the US funded opposition coup.
    Congratulations to President Maduro for retaining his seat ❤

  • @rafaelcastellon7238
    @rafaelcastellon7238 3 місяці тому +34

    Saludos Muchachas gracias por decir la verdad de los paises que estan luchando por su Independencia y Soberania. Sigan ❤❤❤

  • @walters2023
    @walters2023 3 місяці тому +25

    Hello From Australia and Congratulations to Venezuelain people and the President Maduro. ❤❤❤ Free Palestine.
    NO to WAR, NO to NATO, and the NO to US, stay out of other countries internal, matters.

  • @asmaburney2028
    @asmaburney2028 3 місяці тому +28

    Excellent discussion, thanks for bringing all the great guests ❤

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 3 місяці тому +68

    I applaud the Venezuelan people for not electing a US puppet. Congratulations Venezuela!

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 3 місяці тому +1

      No, they are electing just another capitalist. Maduro is no socialist.

    • @engelvich6734
      @engelvich6734 3 місяці тому

      ​@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxMaduro is arguably a socialist.

    • @christinecoughlan4699
      @christinecoughlan4699 2 місяці тому

      @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Maduro es por Venezuela y su pueblo en solidaria LIBERTAD . Rebecaca de que ablas❓.

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 2 місяці тому

      @@christinecoughlan4699 Maduro might _pretend_ he's for the working class of Venezuela, but it's only a show. His actions demonstrate he's for the wealthy oligarchs, just as the opposition is. "The Maduro government is seeking to turn Venezuela back to the oil conglomerates under its own terms, to benefit its faction of the bourgeoisie and secure its regime. Just last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Maduro is secretly promising oil executives “generous returns and operational control over joint ventures” and “no-tender contracts without environmental oversight,” as well as “future oil revenues and directly negotiating a restructuring of some $60 billion in debt” to foreign bondholders.
      The program of both Maduro and his opponent Machado, described approvingly by the Western media as “the Venezuelan Margaret Thatcher,” would equally require massive police state repression. The only significant difference is that the far-right opposition is vowing to dislodge Russian and Chinese interests, which is of strategic and pressing importance for US imperialism." (WSWS)

  • @babettegrunow7195
    @babettegrunow7195 3 місяці тому +5

    Wonderfully informative program with everything the NYT won't have. Thanks.

  • @ineffabledialect
    @ineffabledialect 3 місяці тому +7

    Great work thank you for reporting for the people of Venezuela and for the world. Viva la paz, independencia y democracia!

  • @107182253
    @107182253 3 місяці тому +4

    Congratulations to the Venezuelan people. You have defeated the imperialists and their puppets. Viva the Bolivarian Revolution. A Luta Continua ❤❤❤

  • @ronaldoferreira594
    @ronaldoferreira594 3 місяці тому +8

    Excelent job! Congratulations to the channel.
    #LONGLIVERESISTANCE

  • @robertoaltuve4145
    @robertoaltuve4145 3 місяці тому +59

    Venezuelan here, I voted for Maduro. Thanks for being reasonable. Btw I follow this channel way before principally due to Palestine genocide.
    Is always so sad for me seeing my Latin American brothers being manipulated and misguided, and the opposition here is too unchained, they are very hostile if you dare to say you are socialist. Because in their eyes, people like yourself is the source of all their problems, they just don't know better. But I swear that progress, and I don't mean Venezuelan progress, but humanity progress, will never stop. Maybe someday they will understand why our beliefs, some truly just believe Maduro and his people, I just don't believe them, I know our best choice.
    How would I vote against this government who, broke relations with Isr*el long before this genocide? How would I vote against it when they are one of the few that leader a country against the imperialism and hostile international politics of USA and the suffering they have created? I don't feel any better than the disappointed and saddened opposition, because even if we, socialist, communists, left wing, won... There is still an ominous enemy to defeat and it goes even deeper than just USA.
    God if you are there, If you can, give wisdom and will to your children, to humanity

    • @TinaMcCall.
      @TinaMcCall. 3 місяці тому +4

      🎉 Congratulations and solidarity from the US!
      The paragraph that starts with "How would I vote against..." snatched my throat, it was so moving.
      Best to you, and may we live to see the international socialist solarpunk future of our dreams.

    • @ivantraveler
      @ivantraveler 3 місяці тому +6

      Stay strong, hermano, there aren't many people who can actually break through the mainstream propaganda and start connecting the dots, it requires a lot of effort. Solidarity from Russia ✊🏼

  • @cloudmane4159
    @cloudmane4159 3 місяці тому +12

    God this was such an incredible segment

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 3 місяці тому +8

    Excellent gusts and great conversation.. so informative.. thank you. 🙏🏽

  • @rubenlopez348
    @rubenlopez348 2 місяці тому +2

    God Bless Venezuela 🇻🇪. Vote your interest not the oligarchs!!!

  • @anli9730
    @anli9730 3 місяці тому +10

    I don't understand how the opposition can say they are for the people and call for more sanctions. Sanctions harm the people. They literally are calling for more harm for their own people. Makes no sense to me.

    • @aliciaczechowski3281
      @aliciaczechowski3281 2 місяці тому +2

      It makes sense when you realize they are trained and paid by US.

    • @JoeCooper-b4t
      @JoeCooper-b4t 2 місяці тому

      They don't care about the well being of their own people, they are greedy entrepreneurs, who want to make as much money as they can, without government restraints.

  • @sarachiba6012
    @sarachiba6012 3 місяці тому +9

    Thank You Very Much 💐🦋🍃

  • @Pepcgoogoo
    @Pepcgoogoo 3 місяці тому +2

    This was a delightful, thorough, and most excellent show! THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your work!!!

  • @KaiserHooray
    @KaiserHooray 3 місяці тому +32

    Venezuelans are staying strong against attacks from imperialism. The future is bright with the rise of the multipolar world.

  • @Needisupply
    @Needisupply 2 місяці тому +2

    NICE TO SEE YOU BOTH here... Victory to Maduro and these sick people must leave him alone....

  • @AnnelieseLabaja
    @AnnelieseLabaja 3 місяці тому +18

    Pres Maduro the great leader of Venezuelan millions poor people and need to join to BRICS group for prosperity/fast development.

  • @Aisakusainn
    @Aisakusainn 3 місяці тому +4

    Congratulations, venezuela people. ❤ from 🇵🇭 Philippines.
    Free 🇵🇸.

  • @Loganl1980
    @Loganl1980 3 місяці тому +3

    It’s so refreshing hearing people talk hopefully about the future.

  • @Quokka8888
    @Quokka8888 3 місяці тому +13

    Rania Khalek is excellent 👌.

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 3 місяці тому +19

    Well done to Venezuela 🇻🇪❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @danzel1157
    @danzel1157 3 місяці тому +13

    If you want to know exactly what the US thinks of freedom and democracy just take a look at what it's doing in Palestine.

    • @AnnelieseLabaja
      @AnnelieseLabaja 3 місяці тому

      You are right!!The neo Nazi/imperialist Israel/US/Europe doing in Palestinians is the real democratic government in the world which supports genocides act to poor countries

  • @OneEyedMonkey9000
    @OneEyedMonkey9000 3 місяці тому +8

    So relieved. Was worried about about Argentina 2 ❤❤❤

  • @yonasdemissie8842
    @yonasdemissie8842 3 місяці тому +7

    Congratulations president madoro from Seattle

  • @johnsichounidis7881
    @johnsichounidis7881 3 місяці тому +14

    Great news for Venezuela, great news for socialism

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 3 місяці тому

      Neither is true. Maduro and the opposition are rats in a sack fighting to control the country's vast resources. Socialism has nothing to do with this.

  • @SanLucas-hr8pf
    @SanLucas-hr8pf 3 місяці тому +5

    Cogratulation venezuela people!

  • @nicholasszegho6768
    @nicholasszegho6768 3 місяці тому +4

    Congratulations to the Venezuelan proletariat

  • @muzikant61
    @muzikant61 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for your objective informations

  • @adolfodias1681
    @adolfodias1681 3 місяці тому +7

    E Viva el Presidente Maduro ! E Viva lá Revolucion ! Abajo los imperialistas que quierem aprisionar el PUEBLO !

  • @raziazahid8449
    @raziazahid8449 2 місяці тому +1

    LONG LIVE VENEZUELA

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 3 місяці тому +3

    Thank you 🙏🏽

  • @josdumortier5483
    @josdumortier5483 3 місяці тому +2

    Bedankt

  • @muhammedrahman7013
    @muhammedrahman7013 2 місяці тому +1

    Viva Bolivar, Viva Venezuela! God Bless President Maduro and The People of Venezuela!

  • @lenarobinson438
    @lenarobinson438 3 місяці тому +2

    Love Gloria's passion

  • @Comrade_Broski
    @Comrade_Broski 3 місяці тому +9

    "GMO, Genetically Modified Outsider" 🤣🔥

  • @Glumclam
    @Glumclam 3 місяці тому +11

    🇺🇸✊✊✊solidarity

  • @rs3566
    @rs3566 2 місяці тому +1

    We’d be fucked without journalists like y’all.

  • @mikeharvey9811
    @mikeharvey9811 3 місяці тому +3

    Why don’t the South American states unite and tell USA to stop meddling with them. We’d be happy to trade with them and ditch USA. Barb

  • @BereniceMuller-u7r
    @BereniceMuller-u7r 3 місяці тому +1

    Stand strong people the end is near.❤❤❤❤❤

    • @christinecoughlan4699
      @christinecoughlan4699 2 місяці тому

      El final de las miserias causadas por las sanciones por la mafia de la U$A criminal .

  • @billyclifton5710
    @billyclifton5710 3 місяці тому +8

    Rania safer in Caracas than Lebanon currently. Not good to be a rogue state's neighbor. Israel looking for an excuse to escalate

  • @cloudmane4159
    @cloudmane4159 3 місяці тому +8

    Diego is fantastic

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 3 місяці тому +4

    Thanks

  • @acpreysler
    @acpreysler 3 місяці тому +1

    Viva Venezuela. Saludos a ustedes.

  • @zakkiyamazaki
    @zakkiyamazaki 2 місяці тому

    Thank you, all the people of BreakThrough News, for telling us the truth about the presidential election of Venezuela this time. I hope that this true report will spread to every corner of the world as fast as possible. Congratulations to the democracy of Venezuela!

  • @EdCamilo-x1h
    @EdCamilo-x1h 3 місяці тому +19

    Viva Maduro!
    Hasta Siempre, Hugo Chavez!

  • @justinlaing924
    @justinlaing924 3 місяці тому +2

    I have to go back to the beginning but the last three interviews with Dr. M'membe, Gloria La Riva and Vijay Prashad🔥

  • @ronaldoferreira594
    @ronaldoferreira594 3 місяці тому +4

    The People of Brasil are in desparate need of a MADURO!
    #VIVAVENEZUELA

  • @inaruboricua
    @inaruboricua 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for real coverage. Please put time stamps on these long videos.

  • @TinaMcCall.
    @TinaMcCall. 3 місяці тому +3

    There are no poor countries, just pillaged ones. - Parenti paraphrase

  • @jackson32
    @jackson32 3 місяці тому +2

    I am only interested in the elections being fair, transporting, and honest. The fact the the US empire is calling the elections fraudulent very much makes me believe the opposite. I do not even believe in socialism, but there are many different versions of that so it is a nuanced view. I don't like the phrase "far right", if you are being honest these are the phrases of the wests mainstream media, which is owned by the ruling elites of the west. You never hear far left. Also it is a fact that in the US government and media and deep state and ruling elite, socialism and leftism is what they are pushing in the US. I like that Venezuela is for the Palestinians, against the zionists, against the US empire, and want to join the BRICS. What is most important for intelligent, caring people who are only interested in the truth, is be more sure that this election was legit. It would be good to have much more comments and even surveys of these independent election observers. The US empire side is full of hot air, pressure, and violence and no facts or evidence, that leads me to believe that these were honest elections, but again, I think you guys need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, with evidence, that this was an election with a true result. You have truth on your side, this should be easy.

  • @flav2157
    @flav2157 3 місяці тому +1

    The first obligation of journalism is the truth; Its primary loyalty is to the citizens; Its essence is a discipline of verification; Practitioners must maintain independence from those they cover; It should serve as an independent monitor of power; It should provide a space for criticism and public engagement; It should strive to keep information relevant and engaging; It should keep the news comprehensive and proportional; Practitioners should be allowed to exercise their personal conscience; And citizens also have rights and responsibilities regarding the news.

  • @tigertugger
    @tigertugger 3 місяці тому +1

    Vijay such a G coming in with the black zip-up fit

  • @AlexUmali-nz9pe
    @AlexUmali-nz9pe 3 місяці тому +4

    The Monroe Doctrine
    Venezuela 1897. Brits exit. Stars and Skulls forever.
    Philippines 1899.The Yankees invade Manila,

  • @link47549
    @link47549 3 місяці тому +1

    The amount of misinformation on the subject of Venezuela is incredible. Manolo misinformed practically EVERYTHING and was wrong in EVERYTHING he said, Shame.

  • @zahidhossain4533
    @zahidhossain4533 3 місяці тому +4

    Bad for USA😂😂
    NO MORE CHEAP OIL..
    Good days are gone.
    Humiliation every where for USA.
    Thnks PUTIN

  • @cristinah.c.5424
    @cristinah.c.5424 3 місяці тому +11

    Kamala ad as I come back on lol

    • @deborahdean8867
      @deborahdean8867 3 місяці тому +4

      Yes and I've blocked that ad 20 times and still aee it. You know who UA-cam is promoting

    • @spacedonut8157
      @spacedonut8157 3 місяці тому

      Do you think that ad fell out of a coconut tree?

    • @Quokka8888
      @Quokka8888 3 місяці тому

      You need to get UA-cam Premium.

  • @MKhan-sd7hu
    @MKhan-sd7hu 3 місяці тому +2

    The hegemon is not going to give up so easy. There are gonna be rough days ahead for Maduro...!!!

  • @HumanityandIntegrity
    @HumanityandIntegrity 3 місяці тому

    Interesting perspective

  • @hb19110
    @hb19110 3 місяці тому

    So true sadly!

  • @rozalialuks6583
    @rozalialuks6583 3 місяці тому +2

    GREAT GREAT WORK! Thank you both.
    #VIVAVENEZUELA
    #VIVAMADURO
    note:
    We would see a serious obstacle to International Bandits in South America if President Lula of Brazil had half of Maduro's Love and Respect for Latin America.

  • @RicanOnARant
    @RicanOnARant 3 місяці тому

    This is so informative 1:12:37

  • @danielpierno
    @danielpierno 3 місяці тому +2

    The opposition smells like a Kermit Roosevelt/ CIA move again

  • @d.i.d12
    @d.i.d12 3 місяці тому +4

    🙏🏼🙏🏼💯💯

  • @dabkedabke4027
    @dabkedabke4027 2 місяці тому +1

    @raniakhalek
    I watched this show from the start. U had some incredible guests. I loved listening to all of them. I love to know the names of your guests and how to get intouch with them especially Gloria
    Elon Musk’s interest in Venezuela is the Uranium for his Mars exploration. That jet propulsion is gonna take lots of resources

  • @flav2157
    @flav2157 3 місяці тому

    Your concerns about the interviewer's coverage of Venezuela highlight important issues regarding journalistic integrity. Ensuring that journalism maintains independence, thoroughly verifies information, and represents diverse viewpoints is crucial. If you believe the coverage was biased or incomplete, providing specific, constructive feedback to the journalist or outlet can be beneficial. Engaging in dialogue, supporting independent journalism, and educating yourself and others on the subject can help address these concerns and contribute to more balanced and accurate reporting. You never questioned your interviewers in a very pragmatic manner, do not bounced to one side; BE PROFESSIONAL; you are an amateur.

  • @tomiputra3720
    @tomiputra3720 3 місяці тому +2

    It is weird that Elon is on fire to removing Maduro

  • @bundeswher
    @bundeswher 3 місяці тому +1

    offtopic, when i watch rania's vids on breakthrough i lowkey have a drinking game where i take a shot everytime she mentions lebanon

  • @josegoni4461
    @josegoni4461 3 місяці тому +1

    You can tell left socialist narratives of these people. They would love to see the USA be a hard left country

  • @friggakarl2995
    @friggakarl2995 3 місяці тому

    The Bolivarian Revolution forever !!!

  • @يااللهيارب-ف2ق
    @يااللهيارب-ف2ق 3 місяці тому +3

    I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 6 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 15,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 45,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717354582 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/-~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡♡♡~~~: ~:~¡~¡~¡~;I.i.i.i.i.i. i.I.|.......❤❤❤

  • @samuelrosander1048
    @samuelrosander1048 2 місяці тому +1

    Venezuela's voting system is praiseworthy, and the US could learn a lot from it (it won't, but it could/should). But elections aren't democracy. They decide who will get to participate in decision-making, which inherently means that most people will not be allowed to participate, meaning that everything is according to the personal views, values etc of the few individuals which can and often do contradict what the people want and even demand (which is how/why US politics is so ludicrously unrepresentative of the people, and even keeps the people from coming together on anything. That and the capitalist media and the atomizing effects of capitalism and neoliberalism). Popularity of the decision-makers or their decisions doesn't change that they are made above the heads of the people who will have to live with them. The only way to claim democracy is for the system to be designed so that the people directly control their representatives through community-level democracy, *giving officials zero autonomy*. "Grassroots movements" are not that, they are a form of advocacy that has no direct power, unless through their movement they get the state to give them power over the state.
    44:50-45:40 YES! (I have my own thoughts on how, which you can find in my blog linked to my profile.) That, specifically, gets left out of most conversations when talking about "socialist" countries or movements. That should be the first and most prominent aspect of discussion. Including/especially regarding how to ensure that the police are directly accountable to the people.
    58:30 That's actually far too easy when most people maintain hierarchical thinking (aka right wing thinking). You come to believe that you are the only one who can fix things, that your ideas should prevail, that only if you could be in charge everything would get done the right way, etc. It isn't power that corrupts, it's hierarchical thinking that corrupts. A person with power who rejects hierarchy is more likely to use their power to dismantle hierarchy, which is a direct threat to the right, whereas a person with power who accepts hierarchy (Maoists are among the worst "leftists" in that regard) is more likely to reinforce it, which directly enables and empowers the right. All of those people who shifted rightwards almost certainly maintained hierarchical beliefs and ways of thinking. That's why leftists have to thoroughly, completely reject it. Authoritarianism is the method of the right for achieving their goals of stricter hierarchies; democracy is the ONLY method of the left for achieving their goals of equality (anti-hierarchy).
    For someone who thinks hierarchically (themselves and like-minded people should rule "for the sake of everyone else") it isn't that big of a jump to the right. "Their heart is in the right place," but something too many leftists can't come to terms with is that right wingers ALSO have their hearts in the "right place," but their "right place" is dystopian. Once you start shifting rightwards it's easy to take each next step.
    And that is (a big part of) why democratization is so important. If the US had its way and overthrew Maduro with a right winger, the system itself is designed to allow the right winger to change everything. All it takes is one "wrong person" in a position of power to ruin everything, and that "wrong person" may even say all of the "right things" as they do it. The only guarantee that the people will ever have that their government won't be taken over by fascists and the like is if the system is officially changed to democratize the government, making the people themselves the real power that decides everything and the officials nothing more than liaisons (representatives in fact rather than only in name) between communities. There is no other guarantee. "The Party" won't stop it, because often times "The Party" ends up shifting rightwards over time as its right wing thinking and methods (hierarchy and authoritarianism, even with good intentions) make it so much easier to justify every step that way. It's all about the fighting the counter-revolutionaries, you see, and that means banning homosexuality, controlling speech, etc.
    1:26:40 Elections are not democracy. Socialists and leftists more broadly should stop conflating the two. The system has to be redesigned so that the people actually participate in decision-making with legal mandates that their word is the final word. Even if there's a state bureaucracy, the whole system must be controlled through actual democracy practiced by the whole people, not electing "the right people" to do it for them.
    2:40:40 Thank you for making the distinction. A socialist (or socialist leaning...?) government in a still-mostly-capitalist country. They need to work on democratizing, not just improving conditions. They should also work on developing local agriculture to reduce reliance on other countries for food (if they aren't doing that already).
    Great show. My position on democratization aside, improving society is also really important even if it happens from above. And..."Yes to socialism!"

  • @cardanotony1097
    @cardanotony1097 2 місяці тому

    The NightmareS of the White House
    👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
    Comandante Maduro’s
    Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 3 місяці тому

    🇻🇪👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💪💪💪❤️

  • @JuanMoreno_2722
    @JuanMoreno_2722 3 місяці тому

    Well in November we'll find out how good R these people will they be able to pull out One More time

  • @OjanMusic
    @OjanMusic 3 місяці тому

  • @csinger812
    @csinger812 3 місяці тому

    "It's going to rain tonight."
    "It's raining now," I said.
    "The radio said tonight."
    "Look at the windshield," I said. "Is that rain or isn't it?"
    "I'm only telling you what they said."
    --Don Delillo White Noise

  • @Comrade_Broski
    @Comrade_Broski 3 місяці тому +2

    I wish someone would talk about Lula's clownish anti-Maduro propaganda pre-results.

  • @RicanOnARant
    @RicanOnARant 3 місяці тому

    Wow wow wow 1:43:21

  • @andrejmucic5003
    @andrejmucic5003 3 місяці тому

    Viva Chavizmo!

  • @ROFZ-STUDIO
    @ROFZ-STUDIO 3 місяці тому

    That clip of people celebrating…. It was organised by the winning party. It’s not spontaneous. I mean, once the stage is set, music is played, Venezuelans burst into celebration. We are like that.

    • @existentialbaby
      @existentialbaby 3 місяці тому

      yes the protests are spontaneous, I totally believe you

  • @remuscatalin7179
    @remuscatalin7179 3 місяці тому

    my question is: why Maduro will allow all those scums to walk free anymore? Why Guaido is still on the discution?

  • @elimarmo
    @elimarmo 3 місяці тому

    for those who cannot reconcile your reporting (Rania and Zoe) from and of Venezuela, with US MSM reporting despite that they may agree with you on Gaza, and hopefully the whole of Palestine, the issue of Palestine is removed. a one-off that the US has just gotten wrong… it will/would take another live-streamed genocide for that sample population to side with Venezuela, Cuba or the likes… yet, unfortunately, for much of that same sample the grievance would simply be with the death and destruction, not with the grotesqueness of greed and american empire.

  • @KriZtiaN17VL
    @KriZtiaN17VL 3 місяці тому

    Could you put the name of the special guest in the description? I would like to follow him

    • @viz.ryanch
      @viz.ryanch 3 місяці тому +1

      I wanted to do the same as well. His name is Manolo De Los Santos.