For Some, Assad's Fall Sparks Hope

Venezuela is a completely different place, but some players see reasons for optimism in the Syrian tyrant’s overthrow

The last leader to openly support Assad was Maduro in Venezuela. He is now facing his own troubles after losing the elections. After January 10th, he will lose his full legitimacy. Maduro likely realizes that he could be next after Assad. https://t.co/n1Lqsf64zP
— Imdat Oner (@imdat_oner) December 7, 2024

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on what the fall of #Assad means for #Venezuela 🇻🇪:

"Assad leaving the country and leaving behind the people that supported him, is something that creates enormous concern in those that support Maduro now." https://t.co/5fnjWIfMc7
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) December 9, 2024

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Maduro comments on Assad’s fall

While decorating chavista officials recently sanctioned by the U.S., Maduro declared: “Neither Iraq, nor Libya, nor Ukraine yesterday, nor Syria today. None of that will happen in Venezuela (…) The people, in perfect popular-military-police fusion, are on the path of peace.”

“Every time an event occurs elsewhere in the world, the far-right wants that to happen in Venezuela.”

Imágenes de celebración en Siria, caen las estatuas de Assad como cayeron, y volverán a caer las de Chávez y Maduro

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— Leopoldo López (@leopoldolopez) December 8, 2024

Leopoldo López: “Assad’s statues are falling, just as the Chávez and Maduro ones have fallen and will fall again.”

Christopher Landau has been nominated to be Trump's Deputy Secretary of State. A former ambassador to Mexico, his father was Reagan's ambassador to Venezuela 1982-1985. A lawyer, he represented the US side in a compensation claim against cruise liners that docked in Cuba. https://t.co/lKyeZfQEqQ
— Stephen Gibbs (@STHGibbs) December 9, 2024

Why dictatorships fail gradually- and then suddenly https://t.co/6rz0y4J2NW
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) December 8, 2024

“The scenes that followed today in Damascus—the toppling of statues, the people taking selfies at the dictator’s palace—are the same ones that will unfold in Caracas, Tehran, or Moscow on the day the soldiers of those regimes lose their faith in the leadership, and the public loses their fear of those soldiers too.”

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