Thread by @robvato

Thread on those leading the charge on bringing democracy to Venezuela:

1.Jair Bolsonaro-1 month in2 his Admin, Brazil prez Bolsonaro & his entire family r alredy drowning in a titanic scandal involving big $$$ laundering & direct links to death squads

2. Elliott Abrams - convicted felon in Iran Contra & Trump's point person on Venezuela was one of the key architects & operational hands of the US support for militaries & death squads responsible for killing 200-250,000 mostly Mayan ppl in Guatemala, 80,000 in El Salvador &

1000s more in Nicaragua. Asked about the devastating effects & scale of the mass murder in El Salvador, Abrams said, “The administration’s record in El Salvador is one of fabulous achievement.” bit.ly/2DCKy83

3. Juan Orlando Hernandez- president of a Honduran govt that @CarnegieEndow report said has "corruption as the default system" is also head of a govt that has murdered its own ppl, forced migration & intensified massive crisis. And his brother is named as a suspect with direct

ties to drug cartels in US federal court. He was arrested in Miami & is even said to have his own line of drugs, complete with his initials on the packages. n.pr/2WlBVpR

4. Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales-Morales is tied 2 right wing extremists wh have continued assassinations of Mayan & othr leaders.He is also mired in crisis, trying 2 block a United Nations-backed anti-corruption investigation into his government. n.pr/2Wll0nj

5. Ivan Duque -Colombia's right wing president has done little 2 stop right wing assassins responsibl for killing of 100s of social movement leaders since 2016, includng over 46 indigenous leaders murdered in Duque's watch.The UN warned Duque, who's done 0 bit.ly/2DA2r7w

6. Sebastian Pinera - highly unpopular right wing president of Chile faces intense criticism for what many believe is s coverup of the murder of Camilo Castrillán, young Mapuche Indian man at the hands of federal police.

These are the bringers of democracy to Venezuela that even many liberal progressives are joining. O, and then there's this guy I almost forgot to mention.