Trump says U.S. is 'in charge' of Venezuela and warns interim leader to cooperate
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The president's comments aboard Air Force One contrasted with the diplomatic tone of Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez, who extended an invitation to work with the U.S.

In an interview with The Atlantic, Donald Trump said rebuilding and regime change in Venezuela “is better than what you have right now.”

Donald Trump laid out a stark warning to Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, telling The Atlantic that “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”

Rodríguez had been serving as Venezuela’s vice president under President Nicolás Maduro, and the country’s supreme court declared that she would immediately assume the role of acting president after U.S. forces captured Maduro and brought him to the U.S.

Trump’s comments mark a shift in rhetoric from a day earlier, when he told reporters that Rodríguez had a “gracious” conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

  • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    For the ignorant, watch this. It’s a bit intense but very eye opening.

    HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      HyperNormalisation has its flaws (too big of a focus on a single “theory of everything”) and an argument can be made that it emphasizes style over substance, but it’s a great experience. Even if I disagree with some of the structural arguments of HyperNormalisation, it does raise a lot of good points and in a very engaging way.

      I would also recommend Bitter Lake from the same director which IMO is a more intense experience.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        And Century Of The Self which showcases how Freudian analysis got twisted into Propaganda & advertisment by Edward Bernais.