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I don't care about Maduro, as far as I'm concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It's a collective hangover, a horrible one.

It's 2016 all over again. It's seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it's more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.

This is far from improving, and we know it.

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[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maintaining and administering socialist programs is socialism.

So the programs are the only thing that matters?

Okay, I admit it. The programs exist. With their ups and downs, they work, and I can say with certainty that without CLAP, my family and I would have starved to death in 2016, and without Barrio Adentro, I would have died of COVID in its day. That's one of the things that keeps me on the left despite living in Venezuela: I know the programs, the ideas, work...

But they're not enough.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

So the programs are the only thing that matters?

Material conditions trump ideology, yes.