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Weird in the Venezuelans case, as there is no restrictions for double nationality and having only Venezuelan citizenship doesn't have many advantages. I would guess that it is because most Venezuelans living there already have an European passport due to parents/grandparent, so no need/can't get a third
> It's not like they are getting some long term benefit of having the app on your phone. It's just because WebNFC can't read passports.
The same way we complain that Facebook, Tiktok, etc gather too much data from app install, so can a government agency.
> The reason I say, the root cause is racism and classism, is because they totally underestimated the power of the people to overthrow their corrupt regime.
There was no 'regime', there was a democracy with corruption problems but that was still functional. Nor it was 'overthrown', a populist was elected due to disenchantment and the populist dismantle the state institutions and turn it into an oligarchy ran by his circle.
When your options are being poor, starved to death or dissapeared during the last 25 years, you take any chance for a change