GENEVA – The Swiss government said on Jan 5 that it had decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or his associates “with immediate effect”.
Bern said it had reached its decision after Mr Maduro was seized in Caracas in a shock US military operation and brought to New York to face narcotrafficking charges.
Describing the situation as “volatile”, the Swiss government said in a statement that it wanted “to ensure that any illicitly acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland in the current situation”.
“The asset freeze comes into force today with immediate effect and will remain valid for four years until further notice.”
Well… he wasn’t exactly innocent.
I don’t condone what happened, but Maduro was not a great man either.
Maduro is a democratically elected president loved by the working classes, he is targeted by the US because he continued Venezuela’s policy of nationalizing the oil industry. This is naked colonialism.
“Democratically elected” that’s debatable.
Yeah, the US and its puppets say the election was stolen!
To be fair, I don’t exactly trust the other sources that say he didn’t receive the majority of the votes.
That being said, that doesn’t change the fact he was corrupt and was living in luxury and was well fed while Venezuelans were hungry and poor.
The only thing I admire about him is sticking up to the US, being an economic partner to Cuba and standing in solidarity with Palestinians.
Having a motte-and-bailey, eh ZombieCyborg? Classic
Well, yeah. But one doesn’t cancel the other.
EDIT: This is nothing more than whataboutism. “What about Trump?” Yeah I know Trump is a garbage of a human being. If you can even all him human at this point. Him, the people around him and the entire American government have done so much harm to humanity. They’re worst only next to Israel, whose people make the worst fictional monsters look like little ballerinas.
But that doesn’t cancel the fact Maduro was an asshole corrupt crooked motherfucker who inflicted a lot of pain on the people of his country.
Do I condone him being kidnapped like this? Hell no. That’s bullshit. America can fuck off.
I’m not trying to cancel anything about Maduro. I’m highlighting the parallels between him and the wealthy, corrupt, convicted felon in charge of the US.
Well we all know about the US gouvernent and their crimes.
But why can’t anybody here acknowledge that Maduro was a crook himself? He had to go, but he rigged the system against it.
I mean if we were talking about Chavez, that guy had his people’s well being at heart. And I have a lot of respect for that man.
But Maduro I can’t defend. And it seems to me like the people here are defending him, and argue and downvote in bad faith. If a leader is a bad person, no matter where they stand on the political spectrum, they shouldn’t be defended from any criticism.
The same people who said Trump won 2020 are telling you Maduro lost to an unpopular far-right candidate supported most among Venezuelans by those who live in Miami, not Venezuela.
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Another langley-poster.
Go manufacture consent for war somewhere else.
Linking the Carter Center as evidence that this is “consensus across the political spectrun” means you’re limiting said spectrum to the pro-imperialist western countries. Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, all recognize Maduro. Edmundo Gonzalez is a far-right comprador that wishes to privatize Venezuela’s oil, and was backed by the US Empire, which the US tried to manipulate the election via sanctions (and the EU participated as well). Gonzalez is more popular among Venezuelans in Miami than in Venezuela itself.
Let’s stick with the facts: The US kidnapped a democratically elected president to colonize Venezuela and strip it for oil, and people who legitimize it by equating Maduro and Trump have blood on their hands.
“Neither Washington nor Caracas, but Washington”
If you actually believe in evil, you are a child with no place talking about serious subjects.
You’re coping
Another “The US lies about everything but I trust everything they say about their enemies”
“He was no angel” fuck off