Great education. Please stop using these 3 phrases when you talk about Venezuela

X ^ | 1/3/2025 | Dahlia Kurtz

[cuz1961]

From a Venezuelan journalist:

Stop using these 3 phrases when you talk about Venezuela.

https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/2007649585888673975?s=20

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[nwrep]

Why are her jeans so big?

[NorthMountain]

Heads of State are always uncomfortable when other Heads of State face personal consequences for their actions. They’re perfectly happy sending young men in uniform to slaughter each other ... but you must never directly touch a Head of State.

It’s good to be the king.

[stanne]

Bossy yes.

They need to learn how to cook. The boss has to own that bossiness or they’re out there making some guy very unhappy

[stanne]

I’m a girl. If it’s misogynistic to not want some screeching woman out there invading my home on a Sunday morning then whatever

But just list the theee things on text please

[stanne]

“ Geez, that sounds kinda bossy”

There’s not enough room in my house for 2 bossy women.

But ya. The kids have to cook. When else will they learn

[cuz1961]

Makes sense.

Like what Trump did,

someones gotta do it .

Good on ya.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

TRANSCRIPT

Message to American Media on Venezuela CoverageDear American media,

Please stop using these three phrases in your Venezuela coverage because you're not being neutral. You're legitimizing a dictatorship.Listen, I've worked in American media my whole life. I've even published in the New York Times. And yes, they've been one of the outlets getting this wrong.So here's what to stop saying:

1. "President Maduro"

   Maduro claims he won the election in July 2024 with no proof. The opposition, led by Edmundo González and María Corina Machado, won by a landslide and have the receipts.

   So say: dictator, autocrat, authoritarian leader, de facto ruler. Stop granting him the title "president."

2. "Regime change"

   "Regime change" makes this sound like Iraq or Afghanistan to the American public.

   Use: democratic restoration, constitutional order, a democratic transition, a return to what voters chose.

3. "Delcy Rodríguez is a moderate"

   Speaking French or studying abroad doesn't make someone a moderate.
   Delcy Rodríguez is Maduro's VP. She handles the oil and is responsible, along with his power brokers, for one of the biggest refugee crises in our hemisphere and for torturing and imprisoning thousands of innocent people.
   

   If she replaces Maduro, it's not an ouster. It's a reshuffling.

If this coverage affects you, share this. Send it to your American friends and tag journalists and editors and outlets because if the U.S. public doesn't get the words right, they'll never understand what we're setting out to do.

En español (para venezolanos y latinoamericanos): Si eres venezolano o latinoamericano, comparte este video con tus amigos estadounidenses, con publicaciones, periódicos, editores, porque tenemos que empezar a usar la terminología adecuada para lo que está pasando en Venezuela.

[tsowellfan]

Good advice.

[Hammerhead]

I can confidently say neither I nor immediate family members or extended family members or friends or friends of extended family members ever talk about Venezuela. Sorry, but passed a 24 hour new cycle. Venezuela is usually not a topic of discussion.

[Deaf Smith]

“Watch the sauce. Keep stirring it.”

Goodfellas

[stanne]

“Watch the sauce. Keep stirring it.”
Goodfellas’

Yes. Well I AM from Long Island. I come by it honestly

There’s a similar rendition in The Godfather. Sonny directs proper sauce making when the cooking is left up to the guys

When I make my good sauce- recipe from nameless northern Italian immigrant fabulous neighbor lady circa 1980

[stanne]

Em- When I make my good sauce- recipe from nameless northern Italian immigrant fabulous neighbor lady circa 1980 I call it Sonny Corleone sauce

[9YearLurker]

Okay, then maybe just mommy issues.

[stanne]

9 year lurker, any kind of psychoanalysis is ad homenim

Cease.

[Redcitizen]

I made spaghetti and meatballs yesterday.

My sauce was a jar of Prego.

[stanne]

“ I made spaghetti and meatballs yesterday.

My sauce was a jar of Prego.”

Oh we do that too, Raos, Mutti. But once in a while, this foodie goes in for a can of regulation, certified San Marzano tomatoes and a 3 meat mixture from the butcher.

[Sirius Lee]

Big Y makes better meatballs than I do, so I just buy theirs, dump them in so Rao's or Yo Mama sauce and toss in the hard noodles with the sauce instead of boiling them.

One pot, everything cooks.

[stanne]

That’s fine

I went to culinary school, I also grew up around a bunch of foodies

We go to chick fil an and also get pizza out. Frozen lasagna and also raid around here

The kids, when they’re interested, get cooking lessons. That’s something that needs to get passed down when the opportunity presents

[cuz1961]

That’s something that needs to get passed down when the opportunity presents

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So true !

Exactly like the Monroe Doctrine !!!

[stanne]

It’s my microcosm of the Venezuelan Op. yes.