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Venezuela doesn’t have food or medicine, but the Marxist dictatorship’s parliament does have a Subcommittee on Sexual Diversity. There are no more free elections, but under Article 146 of Venezuela’s Civil Registry Law, everyone who hasn’t fled the country may change their name if it does not “correspond to their gender, thus affecting the free development of their personality”.

Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro swore in the ‘Presidential Council of Popular Government for Sexual Diversity’ (pictured above) whose members include Representative Dilberly Rodríguez, a transgender man, a member of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela, who bills himself as an activist for ‘sexual diversity’ (‘sexual diversity’ is the Spanish equivalent of LGBTQ) while posing in dresses and cleavage on his Instagram account.

Diosdado Cabello, the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, claimed that Maduro was “the candidate of sexual diversity.” (The U.S. has a $10 million reward for information leading to Cabello’s arrest for his role in trafficking drugs to America.) And last year, the Revolutionary Movement for Sexual Diversity expressed its support for Maduro as “the candidate of inclusion”. Maduro has waved the rainbow flag alongside gay groups and told them that “It gives me joy to see you here and to know that the LGBTQ+ community is not easily manipulated.”

None of this would normally be worth discussing, but in light of President Trump’s crackdown on the Marxist regime and its associated drug cartel, Cartel de los Soles, which smuggles drugs to the the U.S., the ‘woke right’ is clamoring that the Marxist regime is really ‘conservative.’

“The question is why are we doing this, why are we so opposed to Nicolas Maduro?” Tucker asked, putting on a baffled face,before suggesting that it’s because Venezuela doesn’t have gay marriage. “This whole project is Globohomo,” the podcaster suggested to his audience.

“In Venezuela, gay marriage is banned, abortion is banned, sex changes for transgenderism are banned,” Tucker falsely claimed. “On social policies, it’s one of the most conservative countries… and by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro’s place if he were taken out is of course pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezeula.”

“We’re Bombing Maduro for the Gays,” a video put up by the Tucker Carlson Network claimed.

That’s an interesting argument since one of Tucker’s producers, Justin Wells, who founded the Tucker Carlson Network, was accused of kissing a man and grabbing his genitals. Tucker had previously bragged about his “gay producers” before claiming we’re bombing Maduro for them.

That same argument was picked up by another Tucker ally, anti-Trump retiring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who in her previously politically incarnation had attacked Venezuela, now claimed that it’s a “a predominantly Catholic country with very strong laws against abortion” while Maduro’s opposition is “more left leaning on abortion and LGBTQ issues.”

Abortion had been illegal in Venezuela since 1926,  long before the current Marxist regime seized power, and it was Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, who began the Marxist dictatorship, and his radical leftist political party who had fought to legalize abortion.

Minister Iris Varela, a founding member of the Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario, Chavez and Maduro’s movement, and the Minister of Popular Power for the Prison Service (in Venezuela, many of the prisoners are political prisoners) had tried to legalize abortion.

Varela had urged legislators not to “fall prey to the prejudices and false morals of the Catholic Church.” The failure of those efforts led her to admit more recently that “Venezuela is not ready to legalize abortion or same-sex marriage” while still defending it under some circumstances.

When the Catholic Church objected to that, the Socialist leaderwent on a tear, ranting, “I want a priest to explain to me if he is in favor of rape resulting in a pregnancy, or if he is in favor of a father raping his daughter. These cases are very common in Venezuela. I want their opinion on cases of child rape, because priests are involved, priests in cassocks.”

Iris Varela also argued that the country wasn’t ready to recognize gay marriage yet, but could take an incremental step “for same-sex unions is to recognize joint property ownership”.

The only reason abortion and gay marriage aren’t technically legal is because the country has a conservative Catholic population, not because there’s anything conservative about the regime.

The Asociatión Civil de Planificación Familiar (PLAFAM), a part of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, operates openly in Venezuela. While abortion is technically illegal, penalties are routinely waived when there’s a social or medical pretext for it. And the rare case when an abortion led to charges involved a 13-year-old girl who had been raped. The activist  was eventually sentenced to house arrest despite an official 6-year penalty on the books.

During the media coverage of the story, Reuters reported in a telling quote, “I don’t remember in the last 10 years an activist like Vannesa being arrested.”

So much for what Tucker Carlson claimed was “one of the most conservative countries” and what Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene insisted was  “a predominantly Catholic country with very strong laws against abortion”. Tucker claimed that President Trump’s campaign against Venezuela’s narcosocialist regime was “probably not about drugs.” Is that true?

Minister Iris Varela had posed with Teófilo ‘The Rabbit’ Rodríguez: the boss of the ‘Tren del Pacífico’ cartel. Rodríguez got the nickname because in addition to having Catholic icons in his cell (even the country’s drug cartels are ‘traditional’) he covered it with Playboy centerfolds. Under Varela, the ‘prison’ was a prison in name only and had a yacht club, and a disco with dancers. That’s typical of Venezuela where the inmates run the prisons. And the country.

That’s because the Venezuelan regime is one big Marxist drug cartel.

Contrary to Tucker’s denials, it’s not about abortion or gays, it’s about the drugs. There’s nothing ‘conservative’ about the Marxist drug dealers running Venezuela.

Where might Tucker and his ‘woke right’ allies have gotten that spin to try and sell conservatives on the religious morality of a bunch of Marxist drug dealers set up by Communist Cuba?

Tucker Carlson brought on Robert Amsterdam: a former American Marxist acting as a registered foreign agent for the Venezuelan regime. In typical Tucker fashion, the disgraced former FOX News host didn’t explain to his audience that Amsterdam had been a Marxist or a registered foreign agent for Venezuela and also for a Nigerian Muslim official responsible for aiding the murderers of Christians (which Amsterdam and Tucker denied was happening.)

Instead, Tucker described Amsterdam, a former Marxist of Jewish ancestry, as “defending Christians around the world”. He did not mention the estimated $4 million that Amsterdam had received from the Venezuelan regime that Tucker has warned we must not challenge.

Whatever Tucker’s motives in pushing pro-Marxist regime talking points are, they are false.

Venezuela is conservative because of its people, not its government. It’s conservative in the way that Nicaragua was when the Sandinistas were burning people alive in churches. It’s religious in the way that many Latin American countries are, despite being ruled by Marxist criminals.

Not because the Marxist drug cartel is religious or conservative.

There are arguments that can be made against intervention, and those trying to make the case should stick to the truth  instead of lying that  the Marxist criminals sending drugs to America and promoting the LGBTQ movement are really social conservatives whom we should support.