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AloeVera

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8. Nixon actually said he was worried about...

Reply to Gaugamela (Reply #7)

Sat Jan 31, 2026, 05:36 PM

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"Priests stand[ing] with the workers and peasants against the oligarchs and the armies".

What could be worse for the empire controlled by oligarchs and wholly dependent on the feeding of its war machine?

Chavez co-opted liberation theology, to his great success. For that, Chavismo and Venezuelans had to be starved, sanctioned, invaded, their riches stolen and their country about to be subsumed into the empire.

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