No question that Juan Guaido is a CIA asset and some neoliberal plot to plunder Venezuela's oil reserves.

But the way Maduro basically declared a new legislative branch and stacked both it and the supreme court full of loyalists is shitty too. Was it primarily a measure to stave off a coup attempt? Just rings a little "undemocratic". Am I reading into the history incorrectly?

    • ColonelKernel [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, court stacking is nothing new, and even the US talks about Biden doing the same thing to counter all the Evangelical right-wingers in the US Supreme Court. But to do it suddenly and use it to declare a new legislature doesn't feel very kosher. But as others are saying, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to resist the neoliberal regime change army.