the class photo of Guaidó’s party members in the National Assembly, white as snow… :
the congress members who support the elected President Nicolás Maduro. The Maduro supporters are nearly all of a darker hue:
This is the story of Venezuela in black and white, the story not told in The New York Times nor the rest of our establishment media. This year’s so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor.
Four centuries of white supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority. This turn away from white supremacy continues under Maduro, Chavez’ chosen successor.
— source gregpalast.com | Feb 8, 2019