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This is the story of #Venezuela in black & white, a story not told by the MSM. The so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor. gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-w… 
I can explain what’s going on in #Venezuela in 3 photos...
First, we have Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed (and Trump-proclaimed) president of the nation, with his wife and child, a photo prominently placed in The New York Times. gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-w…
First, we have Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed (and Trump-proclaimed) president of the nation, with his wife and child, a photo prominently placed in The New York Times. gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-w…
Next, the class photo of Guaidó’s party members in the National Assembly, white as snow…gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-w…
…especially when compared to their political opposites in the third photo, the congress members who support the elected President Nicolás Maduro. gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-w… #Venezuela
Four centuries of white supremacy in Venezuela came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez. Why do the poor march for Maduro? Even though the Mestizo majority suffers today, they will not turn back to the pre-Chavez days of de facto apartheid. gregpalast.com/in-venezuela-w…
