Juno News - January 16, 2019


The Turmoil in Venezuela

Topics
turmoil in Venezuela
Mentioned
Nicolas Maduro Chrystia Freeland Donald Trump Hugo Chavez
Trudeau on refugees for photo ops Andrew Lawton with Lindsay Shepherd： Standing up for Free Speech in Canada Pt.1

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

130.01

Word count

362

Sentence count

26

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystie Freeland, speaks out against socialism in Venezuela, but it's not amplified. Why? Because it doesn't sit well with the usual playbook, and she's not allowed to speak ill of socialism.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, something I want to talk about that's really been frustrating me, something that
00:00:07.280 we just haven't been discussing enough, the turmoil in Venezuela, the fact that socialism
00:00:14.120 has absolutely decimated this country and its economy.
00:00:19.040 And it's really big in the news right now, or at least should be, because Nicolas Maduro
00:00:23.400 has just been installed for his second term after continuing to implement the failed policies
00:00:29.380 of Hugo Chavez that is bringing so much harm and heartache to the Venezuelan people.
00:00:35.240 There was one politician who stepped forward, though, to offer a very firm condemnation
00:00:40.640 of Venezuela.
00:00:41.160 I'm not going to tell you who it was.
00:00:42.960 I'm going to read to you the quote first.
00:00:45.000 Having seized power through fraudulent and anti-democratic elections, the Maduro regime
00:00:51.060 is now fully entrenched as a dictatorship.
00:00:54.260 The suffering of Venezuelans will only worsen should he continue to illegitimately cling 0.99
00:01:01.720 to power.
00:01:03.080 Incredibly powerful words.
00:01:05.460 So who said that?
00:01:06.980 Was it some conservative politician in Canada or Europe?
00:01:10.880 Was President Donald Trump?
00:01:12.600 No.
00:01:13.860 It was Canada's Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister, Christy Freeland.
00:01:17.700 And I say to her, bravo, well done, I completely agree.
00:01:22.480 But here's the thing, you may not have heard that quote before, because it got out there
00:01:27.840 in a couple news stories, and of course she posted the statement and the release on her
00:01:32.940 Twitter feed, but it wasn't amplified.
00:01:35.760 It wasn't retweeted.
00:01:36.900 People didn't say it and see it and say, yes, let's send this out there.
00:01:41.400 I think because they didn't know what to do.
00:01:43.520 They got nervous.
00:01:44.360 They got sheepish.
00:01:45.080 Oh, this doesn't sit with the usual playbook.
00:01:47.080 So we're not allowed to speak ill of socialism, even if it is someone like Christy Freeland
00:01:51.960 bringing it up.
00:01:53.360 And that's a real shame.
00:01:55.280 And that's a real problem.
00:01:57.140 If even someone who normally the Liberal media would like to amplify, you know, if she had 0.98
00:02:01.540 said that offhandedly, Trump's a bully, you would see people hashtagging it and talking
00:02:06.120 about how brave she is and so forth until the cows come home. 0.98
00:02:09.080 This crickets.
00:02:11.000 It's a problem.
00:02:12.760 And it's got to change.
00:02:17.080 It's got to change.