The situation and events in Virginia and Venezuela have very little in common. A mob of white supremacists making nazi salutes and shouting nazi slogans is different from the unrest in Venezuela which has resulted from animosity between two groups of people who have different economic backgrounds and interests, and different political affiliations.
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera who teaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London, recently wrote this in the Guardian regarding the situation in Venezuela:
"The right wing opposition can’t rally a majority beyond the middle-upper classes even while many Venezuelans, especially the poorer, suffer from very real shortages and economic hardship. Why? There’s only one sensible answer: the majority of them fear the return of the right wing to power more than the alleged incompetence of Maduro. They know that if the current opposition leadership comes to power, backed by the likes of Trump and the notorious former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the result would be austerity and most likely a civil war as devastating as that of neighbouring Colombia."
Of course, not everyone will agree with this analysis but it is a perfectly respectable point of view and one that other reputable commentators also put forward.
I doubt that many respected commentators would put forward the view that what happened in Charlottesville was not primarily caused by fascists who wanted to intimidate and incite violence against non-white people. Even the republicans have admonished Trump for making a statement that appears to let the fascists off the hook by, in effect, blaming both sides for the violence that occurred - even when a person has been deliberately murdered and many others hurt.
These continued attempts by the right wing press and others to discredit Corbyn is, in my view, just another example of the tactics of the Conservative anti-Corbyn smear machine to demonise Corbyn in order to detract from its own record:
"Overall, £2.5m of military goods have been sold to the country [Venezuela] since 2008, including components for military radar, weapon sights and military aircraft engines. In the last year of figures, to March 2016, licences for goods worth more than £80,000 were approved, including equipment for crowd control to be used by law enforcement agencies.........
" ........No 10 has repeatedly criticised Nicolás Maduro’s government for imprisoning opposition leaders. It described the death of at least 120 protesters as a tragedy, and called on the country to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law.........
".........Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrats deputy leader, said it “smacks of double standards for the Tories to attack the Labour leadership for supporting Venezuela whilst selling arms and security equipment to dictators and regimes with even worse human rights records." [Guardian 11 August]
