Now this is an excellent resource and not the ramblings of some dude online acting like he knows what he's talking about (talking about me). Gracias, hermano, venceremos!
That's big praise, thanks, comrade. Now I'm obligated to go over this more seriously and add more examples throughout the text. So I'll get back to work on it and mark the new edits with something.
Thanks, comrade, I'm happy now that I did it, because I was thinking broadly about comrades who don't follow this shit like me, rain or Ayache, whom are very close to this project. I may be speaking out of line on behalf of them, but for us, the Bolivarian Revolution is like our own. We feel it as if it were us, like family. I'm actually more affected by this debacle than our Venezuelan comrades who're out there marching every single day. Been a wee bit broody these days, Hahaha.
As for tackling this, I tried some time ago a mini general effortpost on Chavismo and why we should support it, but I think you're right, we need documentation that debunks escuálido bullshit because what the revolution does is in Spanish, so a lot of our comrades abroad don't see it.
For English sources, I recommend Orinoco Tribune, they have a newspaper online, Misión Verdad, I think has English options, Venezuelanalysis is good, too. But the strongest sources I have are in Spanish, like Mario Silva La Hojilla Nueva Cuenta, Luigino Bracci Roa, Michelo Picante, Diego En La Lucha frequently interviews 2 comrades from Venezuela, Ennio and Ricardo, and Venezuela News.
I've been too lazy to start like a series that I considered back when I wrote this: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5309900
But we'll see, I'm grateful for your suggestion.
I can speak on 3 very prominent cases of ''political prisoners'': Yon Goicoechea, Leopoldo López and Daniel Ceballos. What do they have in common? All 3 were part of ''Voluntad Popular'', the same party as Juan Guaidó. I'm gonna be brief. They all came out of prison healthier than they were, and I've seen the inside of the Helicoide through a video that Diego En La Lucha did. They have a restaurant or cafeteria with a view of Caracas, they have basketball courts, gardens, gyms, etc. Daniel Ceballos has even been on Chavista shows, spoken openly about his mistakes and how he understood that violence was not the way. He currently has his own party, Arepa. Venezuela has one of the most humane prison systems in the world, where they make sure to uphold human rights. Leopoldo López was gardening, working out, eating well, and somehow even got his wife pregnant during that time. Which is why people joke and call him ''el Inalámbrico'', like ''the Wireless''. Leopoldo is today living in Salamanca, Spain, enjoying the fruits of his corruption and family wealth. If I honestly saw any mistreatment of these people I would mention it, but I never have in the years I've followed the Venezuelan saga. All the opposition has are testimonies, words, and literal virtual reality simulacra, like the unironically named: ''Realidad Helicoide'', which is a VR headset you wear that simulates torture. It's as deeply unserious as you imagine.
Pictured below is a collage of ''political prisoners''. I will comment about a few. For those like me who follow this a lot of these faces are familiar, and I can tell you, every single fucking time I hear about a ''political prisoner'', I search their name, and they've all shown up on Carla Angola's show. She's the premier escuálido ''source'', directly from the teat of the State Department. Carla is a ''journalist'' in the same vein as Jorge Ramos, a ''palangrista'', a stenographer. About 95% of the people pictured here are currently living in Miami, Madrid or D.C. Except the one I know about, Daniel Ceballos who stayed in Venezuela and normalized. He's the one with the beard and long hair. The guy to the left of where it says ''Yon'', is Gilbert Caro, who infamously did 2 things: Took his clothes off in the middle of the National Assembly, like a ''showsero'', and ran someone over in the US and drove off. The old fuck beside him is Antonio Ledezma, who was mayor of some town, stole money, and has been a long time politician of the old guard from the ''Cuarta República'', which preceded the Bolivarian Revolution. People call him ''El Vampiro'', cause he looks like a count and drained public coffers. The bald clown by ''Yon Goicoechea's'' ear is Iván Simonovis. He was head of the Metropolitan Police, which no longer exists, I believe, during the 2002 coup, where snipers were placed to shoot on both Chavistas and escuálidos to provoke a disturbance. He was jailed for treason, but eventually was able to ''escape'' and was also associated with Eric Prince during the ''Ya Casi Venezuela'', which was a scam. He is currently living in Miami, I think.
What I want everyone to understand and take from this is that these so-called ''political prisoners'' were not imprisoned for their beliefs, but because they were terrorists or average liberal bourgeois crooks. Every single one without exception, broke the law at some point and most have gone abroad, where they're protected by the premier criminal organization of this planet, the US. You're always gonna see family members of these people crying in front of a camera and narrating some horror story that never happened. It's a fundamental part of their project, that as chuds love to do, they self-victimize, and portray themselves as ''persecuted''. I wish it was true that Venezuela was a dotp and they got what they deserved, but alas, Venezuela is a bastion of light in this world, just look at the country right now after they just kidnapped their president, everything is proceeding normally and at peace. That is Venezuela, revolutionary optimism at its purest.
TLDR: It turned into a mini effortpost, my bad. It's all bullshit, I just wanted to give a more concrete explanation as to why.
I learned a new language and opened my eyes to new perspectives (Joaquín Torres García’s América Invertida drawing was transformative for me).
Instead of understanding the message of the image, that South America's north should be the Global South, she took a liking to it, because it depicted Latinamerica being hanged.
Now this is an excellent resource and not the ramblings of some dude online acting like he knows what he's talking about (talking about me). Gracias, hermano, venceremos!