When the rightwing fascists running Capriles (America’s best friends) lost the recent Venezuelan election to Maduro, they went on a wild rampage. This violence was explicitly encouraged by the rightwing media in Venezuela and by Capriles himself, who took to the airwaves and incited his followers to commit violent acts.
The rightwing media reprinted lie and lie. They ran a lot of doctored photos. One photo showed ballot boxes dumped in a field somewhere. That photo was actually from a previous election and I believe that those boxes had simply been discarded after the election. The paper lied and said that these ballot boxes contained votes for Capriles that were dumped by the Chavistas. They knew this was a complete lie, but they ran it anyway.
The fascist followers that America loves rampaged through the streets, attacking Chavista electoral offices, government buildings and supporters. But they particularly attacked medical centers that Chavez had built. They burned a number of these clinics to the ground and murdered and wounded a number of workers in these clinics. It is true that these clinics often house Cuban doctors, but most Venezuelan doctors won’t work in these clinics so the state uses Cubans.
In every Contra war that the US financed, including the one in Nicaragua, the Contras always attacked schools and medical clinics. They murdered many schoolteachers, doctors, nurses and medical workers.
So you can see where the mindset of the rightwingers is:
- Burn the schools to the ground and murder the teachers.
- Burn the medical centers to the ground and murder the doctors, nurses and medical workers.
This is the capitalist mindset.
See why I don’t like them too much?
