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RE: John Oliver Got it Right about Venezuela's Crisis
There's a reason I majored in history as an undergraduate: I wanted to know the truth of things. What I discovered was that truth is elusive. You are there, making decisions based on what you understand. How can I challenge that? I hope you're right. I know desperate times demand desperate measures. I hope the measure you welcome will lift the economy and the people and that democracy will be restored, eventually.
Be well in these troubled times. Good luck to you and your family
Absolutely. There is no such a thing as Truth. I learned that too.
I'm fully aware we are choosing the best of two evils here. But I also learned from cultural studies that often times we give too much credit and power to the oppresors, the dominant ideology and tend to asume that nothing can exist outside it, that there cannot be a reaction or counter culture, that we are "always already interpellated by ideology".
I want to think that there are alternatives and that the powerful are all powerful only if we are all submissive. The chavismo got an outrageous amount of power all these years. They even changed our culture and traditions in many ways, they tried to indoctrinate from K.
And yet, you ask any kids at school and they will not hide their disgust for the president and this government that has put them in total deprivation of things they know other kids around the world have access to.
I also hope to get out of this mess safe and sound. I want to think that my chuldren will have something to aspire to. The way we are living now, there is no tomorrow for our kids. My 16-year-old will finished HS in june and there are no universitiesfor her to attend. Zero, unless you count the ones created by the government, without campuses, without their own faculty, only aimed at indoctrinating.
I know the USA may screw this chance big time. It's all about deals. They have deals with Turkey, and Turkey supports Maduro. They are also compromised with the russians and the chinese. It can get really messy and the truth, the truth will always elude us.