Venezuelans in Antigua Condemn Article Portraying Maduro Positively
Venezuelans living in Antigua and Barbuda have issued a sharp rebuke of a recent article they say misrepresented President Nicolás Maduro and ignored the reality facing millions of their compatriots.
In a statement shared publicly, the group said the portrayal of Maduro as a “good man,” framed in anti-imperialist rhetoric and presented as a victim, does not reflect the lived experience of Venezuelans at home or abroad.
“If you are going to publish something, at the very least it should be the truth,” the statement said. The writers stressed that the depiction “does not represent us as Venezuelans.”
They pointed to mass protests that erupted just months ago, when millions took to the streets across Venezuela calling for international intervention to help end what they describe as dictatorship and repression. The group said similar expressions of desperation were visible in Antigua, where Venezuelans gathered in churches to pray and “begging for someone to remove that dictator.”
The statement questioned how such coverage could appear despite what it described as extensive, well-documented evidence of abuses under the Maduro government, including the imprisonment of people for speaking out, the operation of detention and torture centers such as El Helicoide, and the collapse of basic services.
“Did you really not know that there are hundreds of people imprisoned simply for speaking out against Maduro?” the statement asked, adding that millions face hunger and that more than nine million Venezuelans have fled the country.
Writing from exile, the group said the article was “deeply painful,” accusing it of “whitewashing” a regime they hold responsible for persecution, forced exile and the erosion of democratic institutions.
“That is not journalism,” the statement concluded. “That is disinformation.”
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Any Antiguan that never lived in Venezuela under Chavez/Maduro regime want to say anything about this?
In 2020 I met a young Venezuelan lady that told me she that as much as she is proud to be Venezuelan she is fleeing it because the currency and her passport is worthless. Trump chose a surgical extraction instead of a years-long war…Have we forgotten Iraq? He may face problems in congress now because of it but had he gone to them there would have been no element of surprise…and we all know congress would not have hesitated to approve a war on an oil-producing country
I saw the article as well,and it was distasteful to say the least.
An article full of hypocrisy and just, eeew.
😂
We stand with you Venezuelan people, we stand with you. We the righteous who condemns all corruption and persecution of the innocent, no matter who they are.
We stand with you and know the truth.
I for one know the truth.
Continue the fight, and I’m right here fighting with you.
Bravo!
Same can be said about persons visiting China and come back glorifying the regime.
Don’t worry, the imperialist will now get all the oil. Was it Maduro that kept the country down or was it the same Saviour that put all the sanctions on the country to make it crumble. Oh, they ensured that you guys starve because they want you to rise up against the leader (oh how they cared about you). Don’t worry, you are doing exactly as intended.
Bigs plans already on the way to sell off all the oil. It is already stated, the oil belongs to them, not the Venezuelan people.
@JBF: LOL ignorant person that never lived in Venezuela. Ask Venezuelans who work at PDVSA at what price and who take the oil out of the Country at lower price than market price. Why do you think Cuba, Russia, China, Iran was doing in Venezuela for years? Playing Baseball?
USA in any article mentioned is going to take the oil for free or is going to purchase the Oil at Market price?
Maduro use to sell the Barrel of oil regardless the fluctuations of the market at fix price lower by a lot and losing revenues. That was the main reason the oil infrastructure deteriorate because they were unable to profit enough to reinvest.
But anyway, there’s millions of Venezuelans that are tooooooo happy that USA want to buy all oil production at market price, and they took out Maduro. Nobody can’t argue against that factor.
Yes it was maduro who kept the country down..investigate.. sanctions were put in place for government banks, institutions and individuals directly connected to the regime not to private owned companies inside the country.. now that the regime control ports and to this date does not permit these all companies or individuals to import food and medicine is another story same with banks.. state owned banks are sanctioned but you have private banks working inside and out of venezuela offering accounts in usd for example Banesco panama, banesco usa, mercantil and others so before any other person come with the same old sanction story it is not true there is even one venezuelan bank here in antigua and barbuda spewing same nonsense of sanctions so they don’t pay their costumers.
Now you saying that the imperialist are gonna take the oil well as stated the money of that oil that’s gonna get sold on the market will be used for venezuela and the people we will see if that’s true in the coming months and years. I find it funny when people say they will take the oil in exchange for nothing isn’t that was have been happening all along by other countries including CARICOM nations? Venezuelans have not seen a cent from the sale with preferential price of oil and other fossil products to this region.. can you tell me what benefit does the Venezuelan diaspora have in the caricom in exchange for all the money Venezuela have given to you guys? or don’t go to far what has Antigua and Barbuda done for the Venezuelan diaspora in exchange for preferential prices, vouchers for the elderly for food and utilities? answer NONE! so yes let the imperialist take the oil in exchange for the liberation and progress of the country.
So the evil Trump took out the evil Maduro. Ok. Why does America have to control Venezuela? Can’t they run their own country?
@Smith.
And we the critical thinkers do know that our very own GB and a few others in Caricom are directly connected to that corrupt regime in the washing of money and preferential oil prices.
The WIOC president was not detained,searched(phone) for no damn apparent reason.
Our major concern has always been how deep and far our own PM is in thid mess.
Like I keep telling these jokers..US will do what US do, but what are we doing right here at home?
How messy is our PM?
I know the answers, but it is for the citizens of Antigua to not continue to put their trust in a corrupt man.
The WIOC buy their oil from Venezuela cheap, then turn around and sell their take at huge profits to governments of the Caribbean, who in turn sell their portion at a massive profit.
Why you think that gas is so expensive in the Carribean? The WIOC is just the middle man, they produce no oil. They just store it a distribute it, and some cases do a little refining.
There is a reason why Maria Browne and a few others are on the WIOC board. GB couldn’t do it, because it would be considered a ” conflict of interest”.
So they can talk all they like, but everyone has exploited Maduros corruption to the benefits of their own pockets. And it’s been going on for years. How you think GB got rich so fast?
Corrupt oil money. I know this because I’m a business man and had these very same kind of offers came to my doorstep.
But we must learn to avoid temptation as leaders, and start looking out for the people who put you there, instead of your own pockets.
The Venezuelan people in general has not benefited from their oil, and that’s their major issue. They have nothing to show for the resources Venezuela has, nothing.
WHERE IS YOUNG ANTIGUAN COMMUNIST???? WHERE U AT???? COME CHECK THIS OUT AND COMMENT…..OHH YAC!!!!! WHERE YA AT!?!?!?!