Venezuelan security forces have surrounded the Argentine embassy in the capital Caracas, which is sheltering six Venezuelan political figures opposed to President Nicolás Maduro.
Members of the Venezuelan opposition posted images and videos of officers from the country’s intelligence service forming a perimeter around the embassy complex. Opposition figures inside the building said they were under “siege” by Mr Maduro’s regime.
The embassy, as well as Argentine interests in Venezuela, have been represented by Brazil since diplomatic relations between Argentina and Venezuela broke down over the summer due to the outcome of Venezuela’s presidential election.
On Saturday, the Venezuelan government revoked Brazil’s custody of the embassy, it said, in an apparent attempt to remove its diplomatic protection.
Can someone do a quick ELI5 on who the bad guys are here? So much crazy shit going on all over the world I’m having trouble keeping up with who the fascists are.
Venezuela’s current leaders are denying the results of a landslide election which they lost, despite massive interference with the opposition’s campaign. The leaders of Venezuela are now trying to arrest all the opposition figures they can and has promised to send them to prison camps.
Maduro et co, the ones in charge of Venezuela, are fascists pretending to be socialists.
Daily reminder that authoritarianism and socialism are logically, theoretically, and obviously incompatible. That’s why tankies sound so incoherent.
