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Maduro Must Be Released Or the Fascists Win - CounterPunch.org

Maduro Must Be Released Or the Fascists Win - CounterPunch.org

If U.S. progressives are serious about combating the expansion of fascism domestically, demanding both the release of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and first lady Celia Flores, as well as the immediate cessation of any further U.S. military incursion into Latin America, must be a top priority. In an interview on Black Liberation Media’s morning show, Chris Gilbert, a political economist in Venezuela who experienced the U.S.’s January bombardment of Caracas firsthand, stated that Donald J. Trump and his allies, “don’t recognize nations. They don’t recognize peoples. They think the world is a bunch of guys like them. And they think by bending these guys, they can make them do whatever they want.” Maduro himself has refused the devil’s bargain with the Trump regime, proclaiming defiantly in his arraignment before a U.S. judge on the spurious charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession, “I am a prisoner of war!”

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