• jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    When the pressure’s on, solidarity becomes a matter of survival (also they’re basically neighbors). I don’t know why we don’t all consider Venezuela and Nicaragua as deserving of the AES label.

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      I think it’s because their governments aren’t explicitly socialist/Communist in the way AES countries are, but Nicaragua effectively became one recently and it’s not really talked about

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        Nicaragua was very pissed with the West for breaking the agreement and imposing sanctions on the country. So Nicaragua stopped pretending to be a liberal democracy and expelled the Americans and Taiwanese from the country.

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      Nicaragua is basically an AES. Venezuela openly states they respect private propety and some liberal democracy stuff, there were plans to slowly change the constitution (which would have led to same-sex marriage being approved) but those were stopped because Juan Guaido decided he was the president of Venezuela and shut down any voting for any kind of reform.