Venezuelans who come to the US tend to be wealthier, in order to be able to get here, and have enough issues with their country in order to leave, issues that they will usually blame on the leadership.

None of this is to say Maduro has majority support, he doesn’t by most accounts, or that they don’t represent a sizable chunk of Venezuelans who don’t like Maduro, but that his support isn’t as non-existent over there as it is here.

It’d be like if Trump took over the US and you only got your views on what Americans think from expat communities in Canada. They would probably cheer his death, even if it was by a foreign empire, but that wouldn’t be representative of average Americans who probably wouldn’t like the foreign intervention, even if they don’t like Trump.

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    504·
    25 days ago

    it’s also likely they know the formula: “show support not protest because protest will get you ICE’d.”

      • foodandart@lemmy.zip
        302·
        25 days ago

        I’ll say yes… Yes they do.

        Trump has made it crystal clear that any non-white South American is subject to deportation on the whim of Steven Miller.

        There’s 100 million Americans of latin/african/asian ancestry to deport, after all.

        Lilywhite America is gonna want to stay the dominant group, any way - legal, moral or not - it can.

          • foodandart@lemmy.zip
            11·
            25 days ago

            So… they’re olive-skinned southern Europeans.

            Unless they can pass as northern WASPS, and they do not have “ethnic” sounding names, they can try and act as white as they want. However, it will only be a matter of time.

            President Drumpf is angling for the 4th Reich and self-loathing acolytes like Steven Miller will happily oblige.

            elbarto777 my friend, I know MY people as well.

              • foodandart@lemmy.zip
                1·
                24 days ago

                Uh-huh. And you’re being blind to how the people in this administration are thinking. Your white-passing Venezuelans are on borrowed time.

                Let me add that Trump has only groused about the lack of Scandinavian and Germanic - that is, minty-green white northern europeans - coming to America.

                Decades ago, people were mocking this kind of thinking. (Can’t find the videos aywhere, but scroll the page and take note of the BUSH ads that were spliced into that particular episode. The third one in particular. I remember seeing it the night it aired.)

                We laughed our asses off at the absurdity of it all, now it’s become political reality and I am not laughing anymore.

                Take care.

      • flandish@lemmy.world
        133·
        25 days ago

        where did i mention papers? ICE is detaining CITIZENS for crying out loud. Support for trump is support for fascism and genocide.

      • smh@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        25 days ago

        Sample size of 3: my naturalized citizen (from Venezuela as an infant) D&D buddy is concerned AF. His (also naturalized) parents are more blithe about the current political climate.

          • smh@slrpnk.net
            1·
            24 days ago

            “only 33% of naturalized citizens from Venezuela have a go bag packed” is not the support you think it is.

              • smh@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                24 days ago

                A “go bag” is a bag you have for when you need to leave (“go”) in a hurry. For example, you might have a change of clothes, cash, hygiene items, your passport(s), snacks, a week’s worth of prescription meds, first aid kit.

                My friend has one because he’s an immigrant and doesn’t feel secure in the current political environment. I have one because I’m trans and I don’t feel secure in the current political environment.

                I downvoted you because it felt skeevy to be told I was providing backup to you, when I didn’t feel my data was particularly supportive. It felt like you putting words in my mouth.