GENEVA – The Swiss government said on Jan 5 that it had decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or his associates “with immediate effect”.

Bern said it had reached its decision after Mr Maduro was seized in Caracas in a shock US military operation and brought to New York to face narcotrafficking charges.

Describing the situation as “volatile”, the Swiss government said in a statement that it wanted “to ensure that any illicitly acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland in the current situation”.

“The asset freeze comes into force today with immediate effect and will remain valid for four years until further notice.”

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    Irrelevant mountain Nazis behaving like trolls again. Gaddafi was right about this inverted Red Cross country.

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    Swiss government says it’s going to go ahead and hold on to that money until everyone forgets about it.

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        Another “The US lies about everything but I trust everything they say about their enemies”

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        Maduro is a democratically elected president loved by the working classes, he is targeted by the US because he continued Venezuela’s policy of nationalizing the oil industry. This is naked colonialism.

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              To be fair,  I don’t exactly trust the other sources that say he didn’t receive the majority of the votes.

              That being said, that doesn’t change the fact he was corrupt and was living in luxury and was well fed while Venezuelans were hungry and poor.

              The only thing I admire about him is sticking up to the US, being an economic partner to Cuba and standing in solidarity with Palestinians.

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                Should the most important person on the country starve to appease the western liberal? Let’s not forget that the US is the one starving Venezuelans through the economic pressure put by the sanctions. His “luxurious” lifestyle is at most the lifestyle of an european petit bourgeois, the average governor of Mexico lives under much more luxury ffs.

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                To be fair,  I don’t exactly trust the other sources that say he Trump didn’t receive the majority of the votes.

                That being said, that doesn’t change the fact he was corrupt and was living in luxury and was well fed while Venezuelans Americans were hungry and poor.

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                  Well, yeah. But one doesn’t cancel the other.

                  EDIT: This is nothing more than whataboutism. “What about Trump?” Yeah I know Trump is a garbage of a human being. If you can even  all him human at this point. Him, the people around him and the entire American government have done so much harm to humanity. They’re worst only next to Israel, whose people make the worst fictional monsters look like little ballerinas.

                  But that doesn’t cancel the fact Maduro was an asshole corrupt crooked motherfucker who inflicted a lot of pain on the people of his country.

                  Do I condone him being kidnapped like this? Hell no. That’s bullshit. America can fuck off.

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            The same people who said Trump won 2020 are telling you Maduro lost to an unpopular far-right candidate supported most among Venezuelans by those who live in Miami, not Venezuela.

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                Linking the Carter Center as evidence that this is “consensus across the political spectrun” means you’re limiting said spectrum to the pro-imperialist western countries. Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, all recognize Maduro. Edmundo Gonzalez is a far-right comprador that wishes to privatize Venezuela’s oil, and was backed by the US Empire, which the US tried to manipulate the election via sanctions (and the EU participated as well). Gonzalez is more popular among Venezuelans in Miami than in Venezuela itself.

                Let’s stick with the facts: The US kidnapped a democratically elected president to colonize Venezuela and strip it for oil, and people who legitimize it by equating Maduro and Trump have blood on their hands.

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                If you actually believe in evil, you are a child with no place talking about serious subjects.

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    It’s very telling seeing how the Western countries reacted to Russia invading Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and now the US invading Venezuela. It’s now crystal clear that the West does not care about any moral principles, and the actual tension over Ukraine is whose sphere of influence it’s under.

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      Turns out that instead of arresting any pedophile in the Epstein files it was easier to invade another country on fake charges and arrest a guy to steal his oil.

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        I saw some mastodon posters calling this a distraction from the Epstein files as if anti-communism, installing far-right dictators, and privatizing everything weren’t already the highest priorities for burgerland.