Nicolás Maduro Borrows Woke Lingo of American Left

American socialists, long supporters of the ruthless dictatorship in Venezuela, appear to be helping it add feminism and LGTBQ+ issues to their long list of Marxist tropes, probably in the hope that it will curry favor with the very woke Biden-Harris administration.

Whether it is helping Caracas is another matter. While it is true that the administration has recently reached out to the regime of Nicolás Maduro and made concessions, the official line is that the current talks between Washington and Caracas are meant to peel Maduro away from Vladimir Putin and increase Venezuela’s oil production, to help the snake-bitten administration deflect high oil prices here. A fool’s errand.

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Mike Gonzalez is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

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American socialists, long supporters of the ruthless dictatorship in Venezuela, appear to be helping it add feminism and LGTBQ+ issues to their long list of Marxist tropes, probably in the hope that it will curry favor with the very woke Biden-Harris administration.

Whether it is helping Caracas is another matter. While it is true that the administration has recently reached out to the regime of Nicolás Maduro and made concessions, the official line is that the current talks between Washington and Caracas are meant to peel Maduro away from Vladimir Putin and increase Venezuela’s oil production, to help the snake-bitten administration deflect high oil prices here. A fool’s errand.