US Maoists Tour Venezuela, Walk Right Into Counter-Revolution

[mountaineer]

US Maoists Tour Venezuela, Walk Right Into Counter-Revolution
Trevor Loudon
May 9, 2019

As Venezuela teeters on the brink of counter-revolution, an influential delegation of U.S. Maoists from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization–Fight Back! group (FRSO-FB) is in the country building solidarity with the communist leaders of the embattled regime.

FRSO-FB (not to be confused with the similarly named Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organizacion Socialista del Camino para la Libertad) is a Midwest-based Maoist group that supports China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.

The four Americans arrived in the country on April 28 in time to celebrate May Day with their revolutionary hosts. They probably didn’t anticipate that on April 30, Venezuela’s U.S.-recognized interim President Juan Guaidó, an opponent of the country’s Marxist government, would take to the streets. Surrounded by anti-government armed troops, Guaidó issued a call for the “military to rise up and oust socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.” ...

This is their side of the story, published in Fight Back! News, direct from Caracas, Venezuela:  ...

“Early morning, we woke to hear a lone woman’s voice shouting, ‘My God! My God! Freedom!’ This was in response to television news that coup plotter and right-wing politician Leopoldo Lopez escaped house arrest. We soon watched video of Lopez meeting U.S. puppet Juan Guiado on the highway outside of La Carlota airport. …

Much more at Epoch Times

There's a reason they're called "useful idiots."

[sneakypete]

Who would thing there was a Maoist group still existing in the US these days,never mind one with 4 members living in the midwest?

[Fishrrman]

Pete (who's usually sneaky) asks:
"Who would thing there was a Maoist group still existing in the US these days..."

Where you been, man?
Just take a look at the faculty of nearly every college and university in the country...

[sneakypete]

Pete (who's usually sneaky) asks:
"Who would thing there was a Maoist group still existing in the US these days..."

Where you been, man?
Just take a look at the faculty of nearly every college and university in the country...

@Fishrrman

I am guessing those fools would have a lot more trouble finding a place that welcomes them in the rural midwest. Maybe in a few of the larger cities,but that's about it.

Unless of course you are talking about places like Mn that was settled by Scandinavians. They are mostly very hard-working people,yet most of them seem to have a weird weakness for communism.

[truth_seeker]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/07/a-short-history-of-the-minnesota-farm-labor-party/


anuary 7, 2014
A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party

by Graeme Anfinson