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The left’s exotic Venezuelan romance meets reality

3 August 2017

6:00 PM

3 August 2017

6:00 PM

In London’s posh South Kensington ‪on Sunday afternoon I witnessed anti and pro-Venezuelan government protests form outside the Venezuelan embassy. On the pro-government side stood British socialists living in a fairyland defending Venezuela’s slide to totalitarianism. On the anti-government side, Venezuelans whose family members are literally starving.

British leftists have a long history of supporting the Venezuelan regime.

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