These days, we’ve read a lot of foreigners talking about racism as the base of what’s happening in Venezuela. And although there is no doubt whatsoever that there is racism in Latin America, it’s funny how most foreigners frame it in terms of the US’ conflict of White vs. Black.

It’s complicated to frame it so bluntly when most of us are “mulatos”, combinations of Europeans, Natives and Blacks. But, of course, that doesn’t make us impervious to racism.

However, what is troubling is the fact that, while framing the Venezuelan crisis as a White-Venezuelans vs. Black-Venezuelans thing, not only are they erasing us, mulatos, completely. They’re also blatantly ignoring how the Government of Venezuela has mistreated and deceived Natives repeatedly.

Just today, as everyone prepares to receive the humanitarian aid, Maduro’s goons attacked the Pemon (a local group of indigenous people), with a toll of 13 wounded and one killed.

But Boots Riley, Danny Glover, Roger Waters… they don’t care about that. That isn’t convenient for their White vs. Black discourse.

Nope.

They’ll never tell you that the Government tried to ban the three indigenous deputies, using it as an excuse to declare the National Assembly in contempt.

That the Government has abandoned indigenous communities, only visiting the natives every once in a while, just in time for elections. But otherwise, their lives have barely improved.

Or that the Government has repeatedly allowed terrorists and miners to destroy their ecosystem and murder the natives.

That the Government arrested over 70 minors for protesting, including a 14-year old native girl.

It’s a curious way of acting when you’re supposedly not racist, and better than the Governments that came before,… yet repeatedly ignore, use or mistreat the indigenous, whenever you see fit.

It’s better to support a murderous regime by painting them as the victims of a “racist” attack from “White” supremacists.

And yet, to our foreign friends, oppressing and using indigenous communities is not racism. Or -what’s worst- our foreign friends will find a way to blame the US somehow for the deaths produced by Maduro’s soldiers.

Venezuela’s situation is not about White vs. Black. It’s about Maduro vs. Venezuelans. Period.