Venezuela's Football Team and Unity: A Partisan Talking Point?

“The lazy point to make about La Vino Tinto’s [Venezuela's football team] exhilarating run at the Copa América this year ^[1] is that it’s a rare, exciting moment of National Unity ^[2] – fútbol as the one last bastion of non-polarization in a politically fractured nation” writes Francisco Toro in Caracas Chronicles ^[3]; but argues that “celebrating the “unity” La Vino Tinto has brought about has become a partisan talking point ^[4]: only the opposition goes there, the government never does!”