Defusing the Crisis: A Way Forward for Venezuela

1. We need a worldwide revolution to end imperialism at its roots – the USA and its European colonialist partners. As for this Sociology professor, Edgardo Lander, you don't fool me with your bull about the Government of Venezuela. You're obviously an opposition mole pretending to be objective. Why does this news network give voice to these traitor USA lackies I don't understand your objective. You know what lies they're going to claim. So what's up with that?

2. Edgardo Lander claims the last legitimate elections were in 2015 when the opposition won, bullshit

3. A wake up call for Maduro.. he better fix his government pronto.!!

4. ..declare martial law and send home all foreigners… imprison all defectors .ask assistance to countries you consider as a friend to rebuild your country…maybe the best solution …many countries are eyeing on your natural oil reserve… maybe..

5. Venuezuela! The most important country in the world.Leave them alone.

6. The plan to take over the Oil and natural resources in Venezuela through destabilising the govt would have a long history of undermining the social structure by inducing corruption – not difficult for those who are corrupt..so the nation would naturally see high level of inefficiency and general non-coordination

7. WHILE half
   of the United States CONSIDERS
   Donald Trump a DICTATOR..

8. The USA is awful for the world. Too bad. Sad. I'm not proud to be an American (US)anymore. I'm glad I'm out of the Marines.

9. Maduro has China, Russia, Iran, Ireland, Greece, Mexico, Italy, Turkey and more. I hope the good Venezuelan people know that China is working for them secretly and silently.

10. Democracy is the 51% most educated always voting to enslave my uneducated laboring-class by poverty and police terrorism. End result being, the 50% working poor has not the funds to hire the politicians needed to gain liberty, which allows the 25% most wealthy to win all elections. And to motivate the upper-half of society into being slave drivers, they are allowed to hoard all the land and wealth.

11. Twice the professor stated that Maduro had only a minority of support of the population. Than why did 67% of voters elect Maduro President last March?

12. This guy is lying, it is not true that the opposition is majority, the real problem of Venezuela is not to have a strong opposition to balance the powers. The opposition is totally sold to the US. They do not have a project to run the country and they are fighting between each other for power. They choce Guido that is a nobody because they want to use him and disposs of him…Even the old traditional right wing opposition that was counting on the younger right wingers to take power are speaking openly against them…If Venezuela had a strong opposition it would be a more balanced and strong country and the US would not be able to distabilize it from outside.

13. The CIA has long used different parties to dilute the votes of opposing parties. So for example if you have a moderate socialist that wants to nationalize the nation's resources, the CIA will form a cadre of moderate socialist parties to dilute the main opponent. This was the lesson learned from Chile's Allende. The Venezuela took stops to stop this nonsense and this professor Edgardo is not addressing.

14. This professor is a CIA asset. He is probably paying off students to start protesting Maduro.

15. The people that are indeed corrupting our planet are trillionaires, having some slush fund of 50 trillion dollars (Giants: The Global Power Elite
    by Peter Phillips). I am not talking about Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. I am talking about the clandestine banking group that create most of what we use for money illegally. This cabal got their money from using people's sign promissory notes and lending it back to them. They got from collapsing the economy and buying corporations on pennies on the dollar. They gave us nothing in return for having taken that much wealth from society. This cabal of trillionaires have a huge hole in their heart because all of the material goods are theirs and now they are intoxicated with world dominion. They control television news and they control the educational system. Do you think for one second that they wont pay shills to come here and try to sway people in their favors? These guys, these shills calling to take venezuelan oil are talking about this nonsense about socialism may well be these paid shills. They descent on a youtube video and then they offer a one-liner comment and his partners join in to make it look real. Then there are the useful idiots

16. Maduro's faction has under 50% support, approximately 30%, but the other factions are less popular, with the next highest only having about 20% support. Maduro's government is obviously the legitimate government. There's probably some problems with the government, just like in ANY government including ours in the US, that does not justify a coup.

17. Wow!!! Sounds just like USA. Shit candidates as viable choices… WHAT A SCAM!
    Wake up folks!!!

18. For undemocratic, look to the US two party electoral college system ripe with primary corruption, or the unelected governing body of the EU). The opposition in Venezuela had and still have the majority of the National Assembly and chose not to run in the last presidential election. Why didn’t they even try to leave it to the electorate?

19. This was not a good mark for TRNN. Edgardo Lander is a liar, since he said they were not allowed to participate. They chose to boycott the election. He just uses talking points and is an academic whore for Davos. VZ has resources but a government that wants to also help the people. But Davos can't have that and so Sanctions, which is warfare. Why? They take over the oil, they are taking over the Gold, this is international rape. UN is just their cover, it's like the bar that always provides an alibi for the Mob Hit Squad. Yeah, they were at the bar all night. Yeah the elections were rigged. Gordon Dimmack studied the electoral process and found it was

20. This is why I love The Real News: Rather than a black and white picture that fits a predefined narrative, we get a sincere analysis with two people respectfully disagreeing on the severity of a couple of points. It's just good journalism and good journalism coming from a democratic socialist perspective is what the world most direly needs. On the one hand, it's absolutely clear that the stance of the US (supported by Canada, the EU and others) is against international law. There's no bonafide doubt possible on that account. It's also clear, that the motive behind this on the side of the US is pure robber capitalism, as this is consistent with the general stance of the forces behind the Trump administration. On the other hand, though, we outside Venezuela would also like to understand the various causes of unrest within Venezuela. This isn't idle curiosity: It's about understanding the problems a democratic socialist movement has to face, both from domestic forces it has to tackle and from its own internal dynamics. I would love to see a more in depth analysis of this. Again: No matter, what you think of Maduro, the US stance is still against international law, so this is not the issue.

21. We Americans reject the Drumpf fascist junta! A lot of good that it's doing!

22. This is an imbalanced interview. The problem with Eduardo Lander's analysis of Maduro's popularity is a week-to-week popular-will 'government-by-polls-&-street-protests'. Maduro was just elected in 2018 with more than 67% majority by close to . Greg Wilpert should have been dissecting Eduardo's outlandish statements. As interviewer Sharmini Peries should have had background to know this form of government-by-polls has never been implemented anywhere else in the world.

    If the professor Lander was honest, he would acknowledge his system as 'academic' & if he had any experience he would know it is unfeasible & irresponsible.
    The 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') peoples of Venezuela before the Spanish conquistador genocidal slaving invasion had real Economic Democracies in the specialized production-society-guilds & using the integrated (capital, currency, condolence-social-security, collegial-education-credit, professional-costume etc) time-based equivalency String-Shell accounting value Quipu system. Since the inception of oligarch-financed colonialism, these invader nations have never had anything even close to democracy. Real 'democracy' (Greek 'power-of-the-people') requires Economic-Democracy whereby, people are economically in control of their economic & political processes. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/8-economic-democracy

23. Having been in the Army during Vietnam all i can say is,if it looks like and smells like it is what it is.

24. Note # correct me if I'm wrong but the Carter Center gives them thumbs up yet the opposition decides to boycott elections but then finds it can win in 2015 but Maduro punishes them for their earlier funny business by saying they have to re-register. Maybe there is more going on, but you don't f" around when it suits you to then whine if there is a reaction to that. Maybe two wrongs don t make a right but Prof isn't giving the full context.

25. I'd like more of a follow-up or that the guests have a chance to cross examine statements made. You cannot just have he said she said and leave it at that. If someone makes a claim the elections since 2015 were rigged then dig into it don't leave it hanging.

26. People, the bald guy talking here is not Paul Jay, it's Greg Wilpert. They even tell you his name in the description of the video.

27. Do it the right way then. Beat the elected in the next election. Make it democracy. You don't like the elected, try to beat him only in the election.

28. Edgardo Lander is lying through his teeth every chance he gets, particularly starting at 23:00 about the national constituent assembly, since he must know that SINCE 1965! there is a law that dictates that ALL political parties that didn't participate in the previous election or didn't get at least 1% of the national vote, MUST renovate their parties every year. If they don't validate their parties, they are invalid and CANNOT postulate candidates using THAT party in the next electoral process. This law has nothing to do with the national constituent assembly and the process it is not exceptionally difficult at all, it's the same simple process SINCE 1965!
    The opposition parties that didn't participate in the previous election were allowed to renovate their parties and participate but instead, in order to HIDE THEIR LACK OF POPULAR SUPPORT they tried to boycott the elections calling for abstention and leaved their valid candidates hanging in midair, now that the boycott didn't pay and they gave away the election, it backfired and are now paying the price we hear them screaming FRAUD, ILLEGITIMATE and USURPER on every chance they get.
    Source1: http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Parties/Venezuela/Leyes/LeyPartidos.pdf (Political parties obligations – Art. 26º)
    Source2: http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/ley_partidos_politicos/titulo1.php#cap3 (Political parties obligations – Art. 26º)

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