First off before going into the political situation I just wanted to stress how great it was to be reminded how easy it is to fall in love with Caracas, and how amazing the Venezuelan people are.
Someone I'd met briefly 7 years ago, would greet me again as if we were family.
The footage of those four young men broke something in me. I’ve never seen footage like that & all I can think of is the drone strikes across Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen & Afg that tore our men & boys apart just bc they existed as poor Muslims made disposable for imperial violence.
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The "migration crisis" is overwhelmingly about the Western ruling classes making other countries increasingly uninhabitable and then militarizing their borders against the dispossessed.