Posted on 03/10/2026 5:52:21 AM PDT by Twotone
NPR correspondent Eyder Peralta was amazed during a segment Friday by his recent trip to Venezuela following President Donald Trump's arrest of the country's president Nicolás Maduro.
"It is absolutely surreal because you land at the airport and the signs are in Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese, which tells you just where this country was facing a few months ago," Peralta told host Steve Inskeep. "And then you go out on the streets and people here tell you that they feel like a weight has been lifted."
He continued, "For the first time in a long time, there are street protests. Opposition groups are holding public meetings. I was at the justice department building yesterday, and there was a group of protesters calling for all political prisoners to be released."
Peralta recalled his encounter with Edward Ocariz, a former political prisoner who Peralta said had "faced the wrath of this government."
"But then, right there in public, he taunted the government. They call us traitors, he said, but look at them now," Peralta said. "'Now it's them who are not only kneeling,' he's saying, 'but sleeping with the United States.' And to be clear, he thinks the U.S. intervention was regrettable, but he also thinks that something good came out of it, and that allows him to say this in public without being thrown back in prison."
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He has seen the future, and it works.
A friend of mine is from Venezuela. He is over the moon happy that his country is rid of Maduro. He has been here for 20 years and is making plans to move back. He has already invited me and my wife to come down there and spend a month with him and his family.
You mean Communism isn’t wonderful?
Next stop for NPR...Tehran?
Who does Eyder vote for?
These idiots need to be exposed to the horrors of communism. It’s the only way their little brain washed pea brains would understand. Still this clown will come and continue to vote for communism. Because we’ll do it better!!
I thought NPR was disbanded.
I think most NPR “journalists” are “stunned” when reality slaps them in their ignorant, leftist faces.
I’m surprised that the NPR correspondent didn’t end his report by saying “Its a shame that they didn’t give Socialism just one more chance to work this time.”
Communism is never communism and is always a deadly dictatorship.
When journalists want to “stay on message”, they interview other journalists. Citizens might say something that goes against the narrative as NPR found out.
This is not surprising. We were in Caracas decades ago, and found lovely people and lovely hospitality, and none of that with "government" types. A lesson -- as we watch the degradation of Democrat-led inner cities here -- is that "government is the problem." The bigger and more force-wielding a government anywhere, the lesser and more cowed become a people.
Coo-ba
/s
When I was about 12 my neighbors had two high school exchange students from Venezuela. They were from a wealthy family there. We taught them to play American football. They taught us to play soccer(their football). I still remember 50 years later because one taught me to close my mouth when you head the ball so you don’t bite your tongue. He did not speak any English. I did not speak any Spanish. Yet, we bonded over sports.
Amazing what you see outside of your cubical. You might even find what you call news out there.
The rodent media, like their rodent masters, cannot process honesty and wholesomenes.
Of course it is. The Venezuelans just didn't do it right.
/S
Communism can only work long term on a small scale and is usually only successful in religious communities (monastic colonies).
Even then they usually have an outside income such as selling beer, wine, hand crafted items and donor income.
Thanks for the lovely anecdote. Because of my "high mileage," I've met many from many nations, and good people are simply good people. No regard to that which distinguishes us, one from another. Rather that which is shared, irrespective of language and culture.
The inverse is true, as so much Leftist messaging and especially that "identity politics" -- think the Clintons and the Obamas -- at work today is meant not only to divide, but to keep divided. The old adage is true: 'divide and conquer.'
I doubt they report the truth, though, because it helps Trump, and they are a Democrat Propaganda Organization.
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