Publisher’s note: Canadian investigative journalist Aaron Mate does something most US corporate commercial news outlets seem incapable of doing, traveling to and reporting from on the ground in Venezuela, where political events continue to unfold in what Mate calls this “complex country.” Of interest: the US Empire’s continued bipartisan attempts to engineer “regime change” in Venezuela, ongoing US support for “opposition candidate” Juan Guaido, and the socioeconomic class and racial divisions that undergird the national discussion among Venezuelans about the future of their country.