{"id":56658,"date":"2024-07-30T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56658"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:15:06","slug":"the-venezuelan-dictatorship-and-its-allies-further-proof-that-the-cold-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/30\/the-venezuelan-dictatorship-and-its-allies-further-proof-that-the-cold-war-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venezuelan dictatorship and its allies, further proof that the Cold War continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been reading some people saying that the Cold War is over and that there is no longer a right and a left.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/30\/revolt-against-dictatorship-in-venezuela-several-statues-of-hugo-chavez-torn-down\/\">Revolt against dictatorship in Venezuela: several statues of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez torn down<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/29\/the-spanish-left-and-its-support-for-maduro-it-wants-the-same-thing-in-spain-as-in-venezuela\/\">The Spanish left and its support for Maduro: it wants the same thing in Spain as in Venezuela<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>According to this way of thinking, <strong>the old rivalry between democracy and communism has given way to a new rivalry between globalism and anti-globalism<\/strong>. Certainly, the old blocks that existed in the Cold War have undergone changes, and <strong>the democratic block has been infiltrated by ideological approaches that are corrosive to the West, something that is not new:<\/strong> let us remember that in democratic countries of the Western bloc there were socialist governments before 1989 in countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The list of allies of Venezuela's socialist dictatorship is evidence that the Cold War continues. <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1822583\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was one of those who recognized dictator Maduro<\/a>, who has been a traditional ally of Russia. In line with Moscow once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202407\/1316986.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China's communist dictatorship has also approved of electoral fraud in Venezuela.<\/a> To complete the geostrategic picture of Maduro's main allies, <strong>the Islamist dictatorship of Iran, an ally of Russia<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IRIMFA_EN\/status\/1817843106206605606\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has also recognized the Venezuelan dictator<\/a> as the winner in a presidential election marked by massive fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Other Russian allies have also recognized Maduro: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrunoRguezP\/status\/1817794439395373488\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba's communist dictatorship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yvangil\/status\/1817779755652985159\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaragua's socialist dictatorship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/venezuela-elections-map-shows-countries-that-have-recognized-maduros-win-1931498\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea's communist dictatorship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yvangil\/status\/1817806827498701203\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria's socialist dictatorship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/spa\/lukashenko-felicita-a-maduro-por-su-%22nueva-victoria%22-en-las-elecciones-del-domingo\/85353694\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukashenko's dictatorship in Belarus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yvangil\/status\/1817937016539037837\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serbia's government<\/a> (another traditional ally of Moscow) and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TamimBinHamad\/status\/1817852803324252545\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qatar<\/a> (Iran's ally). In Hispanic America, Maduro has also received support from the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XiomaraCastroZ\/status\/1817778950589837356\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far-left government of Honduras<\/a>, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/internacional\/noticia-vicepresidente-honduras-carga-contra-xiomara-castro-felicitar-putin-victoria-electoral-20240319161655.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another Russian ally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let us remember, moreover, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/29\/the-spanish-left-and-its-support-for-maduro-it-wants-the-same-thing-in-spain-as-in-venezuela\/\">the Venezuelan socialist dictatorship has the support of the Western far-left<\/a>, the same far-left that brings together <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/19\/the-most-pro-russian-political-parties-in-each-member-country-of-the-european-union\/\">the most pro-Russian parties in the European Union<\/a>. In 2020, two years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I already warned here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/03\/05\/the-george-soros-of-moscow-vladimir-putin-and-his-support-to-the-radical-left-of-the-west\/\">Moscow's support for the Western far left<\/a> in order to destabilize and weaken NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <strong>Western democracies have many flaws<\/strong> and there are many governments in them that are betting on an ideological line that is purely self-destructive for the West, <strong>but the allies of the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela are a club of the worst tyrants in the world<\/strong>. Even with all the alarming things that are happening in many Western countries, the situation in them is incomparable with <strong>the suffocation of freedoms that exists in the dictatorships that support Maduro and in Venezuela itself<\/strong>. It is a fact that we should never forget, unless some people believe that dictatorships like China, Iran, Russia or North Korea represent the panacea of \u200b\u200b\"anti-globalism\" and that the bad guy in this movie is the \"globalist\" West.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: AFP. A meeting between Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been reading some people saying that the Cold War is over and that there is no longer a right and a left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11471],"tags":[14140,11886,13921,10444,94,10497,161,822,4670,6548,11043,17125,1818,10731,10796,11652,159,7887],"class_list":["post-56658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-hispanicity","tag-aleksandr-lukashenko","tag-belarus","tag-cold-war","tag-communism","tag-cuba","tag-far-left","tag-honduras","tag-iran","tag-nicaragua","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-north-korea","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-qatar","tag-russia","tag-socialism","tag-syria","tag-venezuela","tag-vladimir-putin"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 05:24:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}