Vladimir and Ernesto Villegas – both well-known Venezuelan journalists – one part of the Maduro government and the other an ex-Chavista, navigate opposing sides of Venezuela’s political divide while remaining true to each other and to themselves. Ed Augustin reports
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They say its what their father taught them and that their disagreements don't take up a lot of their time.I don't buy that at all. It probably makes for very interesting family gatherings.
Thanks, Ed Augustin – great report! Looks like a substantive and illuminating debate could be had between the two. I would like to hear how Ernesto responds to the accusations about stratification in Venezuelan society. And can Vladimir substantiate his claims that there are political prisoners? Can he go into more detail about how society has been militarized?
The Chavez-Maduro Administration has had 20 years to improve the life of the working poor, so why is there still a 60% working poor? Simple, because the 40% most educated own all the land, wealth, political power and 90% of all means of public communication. Only two solutions, nationalize the wealth or put a wealth tax on the rich.
To the Real News Network, this was a good report about family and political divide in Venezuela. Two very different points of view, Thumbs Up
The old middle-class cadres are mourning for their privileges, which they still enjoyed under President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
They do not want to give anything to the poor.
Hmm…..let me guess which one is funded by the CIA
There's a difference between beliefs and facts. Acting according to a belief is very dangerous – acting according to reality is a very different matter. You can believe in anything you want – even Angels, talking snakes, or ideas about political systems but that does not mean they are correct or true.
Those who complain about Maduro government share one common thing: they never mentions foreign interference such as the economic sanctions and the attempted coups by the US and its allies as if they were never a factor in causing Venezuelans suffering to begin with. The guy who runs the private TV channel is a capitalist through and through. If he truly believed in democracy and wealth equality, why would he believe a US puppet government who wants to prostitute national resources to foreign governments is a better choice for Venezuelan ppl? It’s funny how the term “democracy†means different interests for different groups of ppl.
It’s ridiculous how the guy who has a private TV station complaints about the lack of freedom of speech and expression and wealth inequality under this government while he, him gets to own an establishment that aims to do just that. The fact is Venezuela gets to have so many dozen of opposition parties and news outlets that it almost makes the US look like a complete dictatorship. Furthermore, the government always prioritizes fighting poverty over other issues. So his complaints do not make any sense except repeating the talking points of the US Empire and the capitalists who ruined Venezuela prior to Chavez.
There's some truth on both sides
Thankfully Venezuelans can VOTE on whether to continue with the Chavistas, and foreigners don't have to decide the fate of their country for them.
true bothers not letting the politics get in there way.
If Maduro is what the U.S. corporate Kleptocracy claims, how do oposition media and Guido walk the streets free ?
The world can see how their attempt to operate outside of the mega parasite of debt finance banking threatens the criminal power that has our governments in lobbiest strangle holds.
If they Release Venezuelas funds and let the population decide, U.S. citizens might figure out how the richest"free" country in the world was placed into deep slave debt.
Watch them tyrannize their cash cow if it kicks back.
Los pollos hermanos
Central banks were never meant to be independent of the government, because then they'll become foreign agents of global capital, as it is in most countries today (and when exactly did banking become a branch of power in political theory???). And the problem of the separation of powers is totally discredited anyway as a false issue, since political parties overarches the line between legislature and the executive branch, and in most places the government appoints the judges anyway. So what separation of powers again?
One brother is a CIA puppet the other speaks for the people.
Vladimir is such a liberal it hurts.
Ernesto Villegas is much more handsome & wayyyyy smarter.