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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s in a bad state now because of the sanctions placed upon it. It was in a bad state before because of capitalist rule.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For a colonial power, Spain was a real douchebag.

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  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are plenty of other former Spanish colonies that are doing much better than Venezuela

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But are any doing well?

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      • gaspar_petersen@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Uruguay and Chile are kinda okay

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  • DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A colonial powers in the Americas were real douchebags. They genocided the natives, then went to another continent to enslave people and bring them over. All this was for sugar and tobacco. Millions of deaths and enslaved so some people in Europe could smoke cigarettes while they have sweets. It couldn’t get much worse than that.

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    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not about the sweets and cigarettes it’s just about the wealth acquisition. Same then as it is now. Companies are still using slave and otherwise coerced labor to extract all kinds of wealth from foreign countries.

      If any countries try to take control over their own economy by closing it to Western “investment” they get wrecked by the world bank and invaded or sanctioned by the US and/or its allies.

      Global capitalism is neo-colonialism.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine living under a government that disrespects its people.

  lol you in antarctica?

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• underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And I wonder who’s fault it is for turning and keeping it in a state of perpetual decay 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  that’s because the us and the cia spent years destabilising it

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• yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Self-centered USAmericans thinking Venezuela is the way it is because of them, ha. The USA has just followed in Venezuela’s footsteps, electing a dictator

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