The west is gripped by Venezuela’s problems. Why does it ignore Brazil’s?

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Reporters ask Jeremy Corbyn if he will condemn Nicolás Maduro. But the undemocratic abuses of Michel Temer aren’t flashy enough for the news cycle

 

 

Thursday 10 August 2017 13.58 BST

 

By Julia Blunck

 

 

 

‘Brazil has carried on as most stories about Latin America do: unnoticed and uncommented on.’ Riot police monitor protests against the government of Michel Temer in Brasilia, May 2017.

Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/10/west-gripped-venezuela-ignore-brazil-jeremy-corbyn-nicolas-maduro

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'Totally divided': how Venezuela's crisis split the Latin American left

 

After months of political turmoil in the country, Latin America’s once broadly united leftist movement is in disarray

 

 

 

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá, David Agren in Mexico City, Dan Collyns in Lima and Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires

Thursday 10 August 2017 10.00 BST

 

 

 

 

Anti-government activists demonstrate against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on 8 August.

Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

More pics in link

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/10/venezuela-crisis-left-divided-maduro-hugo-chavez

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I sure do not see the west “gripped” by the latest socialist experiment disaster known as Venezuela.  To acknowledge the government created crisis would mean the left would have to acknowledge that socialism has failed yet again.  That being said, why would the left want to double down and admit the socialistic failure in Brazil too?  I think the old saying needs to be amended to; “In life, nothing is certain except death, taxes, and the failure of socialism”.