Chávez is not all to blame for Venezuela’s plightI started reading The Fall of Venezuela (14 December) expecting that the Guardian would offer me a well-reasoned analysis. In the best of times 40% of the population lived below the poverty line, many without access to education and healthcare. How can the Guardian take such a reactionary line on Venezuela while reserving all its open-minded liberalism for the rest of the developed world? Above all, no long-term solution to Venezuela’s woes can come from the threats of invasion being thrown around in Washington. But O’Toole’s conflation of “England” with “Britain” is surely a troubling usage for those Britons who don’t identify as English.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2019 14:03 UTC