@redpossum,

>I do think that your opinions on the situation in Venezuela seem to be overly shaped by the MSM narrative, without regard to what's actually happening on the ground.

One of my best friends on Steemit is @hlezama. He is a university professor who lives in Venezuela. His opinions are precisely my own ... and he and his family are living the nightmare. And, I have a number of other Steemit friends who are also Venezuelan who corroborate everything he says.

>You seem to place all the blame upon the forces of the Bolivarian revolution,

Yes, all of it. How many times do "Socialist Revolutions" have to fail (there's already been dozens), and how many more millions of people have to be murdered by the authoritarian regimes they ALWAYS produce, before people of the Left finally throw in the towel on the idea? 

Marxism ... doesn't work. 

>... without considering 6 years of economic sabotage by the USG, even before the current blatant regime change operation actively began.

The US is to blame (as it always is). Where the Hell is the evidence to support such an assertion? **Not allegations and conspiracy theories ... EVIDENCE.** The blackouts are caused by US sabotage. Evidence? Evidence? Evidence? Does Maduro saying something ... "make it so?"   

There are 3.5 million Venezuelan refugees throughout South America ... and they are not blaming anything on the US. They're blaming Maduro. Are they all wrong too? There are millions more marching in the streets, while the remainder starve in the dark. 

Are you denying that Maduro and his cronies are corrupt? That the generals are not, in fact, Mafiosos? 

Almost every Central and South American country has forsaken Maduro. Are they all puppets of the US? And almost all of Europe as well? Ah, but Russia, China and Cuba are on his side. Do you honestly believe they have more credibility that the rest of the world combined? That their untold billions invested in Venezuelan oil fields has nothing to do with their support? 

Sorry, mate ... but I'm a democratic capitalist and I do not look kindly upon ideological Utopias of one kind or another. They destroy too many lives.

*Quill*