Russia Today might be a state diplomatic channel, but it focuses on real news that the regular news agencies in the US don't report. Even though Czar Putin is behind the influence of news directly related to Russia. In Russia's Today's interview program Sophie Co, she speaks to Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Andres Izarra regarding the civil insurrection and the truth behind what is going on in Venezuela.
Friday, February 28, 2014
What is Really Going on in Venezuela? The Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection of 2014
I found this interesting FAQ from the British oriented Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. It basically tells the average person everything you need to know of the fascist insurrection that is still on-going. Much of the information revealed here has not been mentioned by the corporate-owned mainstream media.
In recent weeks, a wave of violence has left 13 dead and 150 injured in Venezuela. Many misleading reports and images have been recycled in the international media, without verification, giving the impression of state-organised violence against peaceful protesters. Here we answer some frequently asked questions with facts, revealing a very different picture. (Version 2, Feb.27)
• What started the current wave of violence? On 22 January, a number of opposition leaders demanded “the ousting” (La Salida) of the elected Government of President Nicolas Maduro. Leopoldo Lopez, a right-wing politician, leads this faction of the Venezuelan opposition coalition and has said the aim is regime change: ”there should be a complete … change in those who are in power… It’s clear now that the problem isn’t just Maduro, it’s all the heads of the public powers who have kidnapped the state“. He added that this was only possible by “getting the people into the streets”
Source: http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/whatisreallygoingoninvenezuela/
*In Spanish: La means "The" and "Salida" means Exit. These two words can have different meanings like The Exit or The Ousting.
Opposition representatives state that the campaign has it's roots in a protest against insecurity in a Tachira State University when a female student was raped. They claimed that there was repression by the police there. But it's clear that the more hard-line and neo-fascist elements has co-opted the protests for the own end into a civil insurrection. But the real reason is that the trigger for insurrection, was the Enabling Act against the Economic War that has been ongoing since 2002. More specifically the Law for the Control of Fair Costs, Prices and Profits.
Despite active enforcement of such laws, the hard-liners of the opposition used this oppotunity to "protest" this law by using their "useful idiots". Most of the "useful idiots" of the insurrection are european, upper-middle/middle class Venezuelans, and students and the hot beds of violence are in opposition controlled areas or middle-class areas of European influence. And according to reports, they're under 2000. A minority of course. But add to the fact that they're building blockades, committing crimes of arson, property damage, assault, and violent disorder and you have a formidable brigade of "useful idiots".
But what about the people who are caught in the middle of these hot beds of insurrection? Many of them who voted for the opposition but apolitical and want to live their lives? They can't get to work, or have goods in stores primarily because of the blockades.
One practically tragic case needs no words to describe: But it involves a elderly man.
In recent weeks, a wave of violence has left 13 dead and 150 injured in Venezuela. Many misleading reports and images have been recycled in the international media, without verification, giving the impression of state-organised violence against peaceful protesters. Here we answer some frequently asked questions with facts, revealing a very different picture. (Version 2, Feb.27)
• What started the current wave of violence? On 22 January, a number of opposition leaders demanded “the ousting” (La Salida) of the elected Government of President Nicolas Maduro. Leopoldo Lopez, a right-wing politician, leads this faction of the Venezuelan opposition coalition and has said the aim is regime change: ”there should be a complete … change in those who are in power… It’s clear now that the problem isn’t just Maduro, it’s all the heads of the public powers who have kidnapped the state“. He added that this was only possible by “getting the people into the streets”
Source: http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/whatisreallygoingoninvenezuela/
*In Spanish: La means "The" and "Salida" means Exit. These two words can have different meanings like The Exit or The Ousting.
Opposition representatives state that the campaign has it's roots in a protest against insecurity in a Tachira State University when a female student was raped. They claimed that there was repression by the police there. But it's clear that the more hard-line and neo-fascist elements has co-opted the protests for the own end into a civil insurrection. But the real reason is that the trigger for insurrection, was the Enabling Act against the Economic War that has been ongoing since 2002. More specifically the Law for the Control of Fair Costs, Prices and Profits.
Mérida, 10th February 2014 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The period allowed for businesses to adjust their prices to the new Fair Prices Law ended today, with the government planning a wave of inspections to ensure the legal measure is applied.
The Law for the Control of Fair Costs, Prices and Profits aims to prevent price speculation, product hoarding and other activities deemed to be “destabilising” the Venezuelan economy and contributing to on-going economic problems. Further, a maximum profit margin of 30% has been established across the economy to prevent companies from over-charging.
“From Monday, the someone ... who is hoarding and speculating will have the law enforced on them. No one has any excuse, because it [the law] has three weeks since it was published,” said President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.
For the past year citizens have experienced high inflation and shortages in some basic goods, while the value of the dollar on the illegal market has increased to over twelve times the official value.
Source: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10343Despite active enforcement of such laws, the hard-liners of the opposition used this oppotunity to "protest" this law by using their "useful idiots". Most of the "useful idiots" of the insurrection are european, upper-middle/middle class Venezuelans, and students and the hot beds of violence are in opposition controlled areas or middle-class areas of European influence. And according to reports, they're under 2000. A minority of course. But add to the fact that they're building blockades, committing crimes of arson, property damage, assault, and violent disorder and you have a formidable brigade of "useful idiots".
But what about the people who are caught in the middle of these hot beds of insurrection? Many of them who voted for the opposition but apolitical and want to live their lives? They can't get to work, or have goods in stores primarily because of the blockades.
One practically tragic case needs no words to describe: But it involves a elderly man.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Reports of Blockades Across Venezuela
From: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n245987.html
From the early hours of Wednesday morning, blockades appeared in various parts of Maracaibo which creates traffic congestion and use public transport difficult. Barricades use wires, barbed wire, and trash to obstruct traffic flow. Worse, they're using rebar hammered into the asphalt to catch unsuspecting motorcyclists.
These types of blockades has been rampant in days especially in areas in middle and upper class area, and despite the National Guard dismantling them it will get worse before it gets better.
Oh and here's a Venezuelan motorist fed up with going around a blockade and simply blows through it. Resulting in insurrectionists pounding the vehicle with rocks.
From the early hours of Wednesday morning, blockades appeared in various parts of Maracaibo which creates traffic congestion and use public transport difficult. Barricades use wires, barbed wire, and trash to obstruct traffic flow. Worse, they're using rebar hammered into the asphalt to catch unsuspecting motorcyclists.
These types of blockades has been rampant in days especially in areas in middle and upper class area, and despite the National Guard dismantling them it will get worse before it gets better.
Oh and here's a Venezuelan motorist fed up with going around a blockade and simply blows through it. Resulting in insurrectionists pounding the vehicle with rocks.
Violence Still Grips a Venezuela State.
More news from the surprisingly still active fascist insurrection in Venezuela. And I thought that the Venezuelan military put end to this farce.
In the city of San Cristóbal, Táchira, Telesur television reports that the Tachiran Tourist Corporation building was destroyed in an act of arson. Also fire and rescue personal has been obstructed from doing their duty to put out fires and attend to street accidents by street rioters. In some blockades, motorists have been forced to pay bribes to go through. Notice in this report that most of the interviewees are of the Middle Class European Venezuelan type. It's clear that most if not all the insurrections and violence are occuring in middle class areas of Venezuela, especially in Caracas. Caracas alone, the Western half of the city had no violence whatsover, while in the east there is.
In the city of San Cristóbal, Táchira, Telesur television reports that the Tachiran Tourist Corporation building was destroyed in an act of arson. Also fire and rescue personal has been obstructed from doing their duty to put out fires and attend to street accidents by street rioters. In some blockades, motorists have been forced to pay bribes to go through. Notice in this report that most of the interviewees are of the Middle Class European Venezuelan type. It's clear that most if not all the insurrections and violence are occuring in middle class areas of Venezuela, especially in Caracas. Caracas alone, the Western half of the city had no violence whatsover, while in the east there is.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Whip of Counter-Revolution Drives the Bolivarian Horse Forward
Eternal Viliance is the price you pay for a democratic society. Especially in a democratic socialist society which has done much more to improve itself in the last 15 years. The Bolivarian Revolution and it's people that support it are in this for long haul against neo-fascist groups domestic and abroad.
The violent counter-revolution taking place in Venezuela since February 12rd continues but has been drawn down by the effective management by the government led by President Nicolas Maduro. Following the spirit and policies of former President Chavez, the government has dealt with each act of violence with exceptional restraint by the police and national guard but with appropriate force in identifying and arresting the fascists. In this report we provide 4 of the latest news stories published by SiBCi, the Ministry of Communication and Information and VTV along with photographic and videotaped evidence of the acts of violence and the government's response.
The full report can be found here: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_66418.shtml
Venezuela is currently experiencing Czar Stalin's theory of aggravation of class struggle under socialism first hand. While Stalin was nation-builder and a tyrant, we can't discount him as a Marxist theorist.
The violent counter-revolution taking place in Venezuela since February 12rd continues but has been drawn down by the effective management by the government led by President Nicolas Maduro. Following the spirit and policies of former President Chavez, the government has dealt with each act of violence with exceptional restraint by the police and national guard but with appropriate force in identifying and arresting the fascists. In this report we provide 4 of the latest news stories published by SiBCi, the Ministry of Communication and Information and VTV along with photographic and videotaped evidence of the acts of violence and the government's response.
The full report can be found here: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_66418.shtml
Venezuela is currently experiencing Czar Stalin's theory of aggravation of class struggle under socialism first hand. While Stalin was nation-builder and a tyrant, we can't discount him as a Marxist theorist.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Retired General to be Arrested Following Slicing of Motorist Neck at Neo-Fascist Blockade
An arrest warrant has been issued for General Angel Vivas who promoted the use of wires and Molotov cocktails to neutralize people on motorcycles and vans.
On 20 February Vivas tweeted “In order to neutralise criminal hordes on motorbikes, one must place nylon string or galvanised wire across the street, at a height of 1.2 metres”.
He also tweeted, “to render armoured vehicles of the dictatorship useless, Molotov cocktails should be thrown under the motor, to burn belts and hoses, they become inoperative”.
Source: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10391
The end result was a death of a motocyclist named Santiago Enrique Pedroza, aged 29. He was unable to see the wire while driving.
Now, the retired general has been found holded up in his home in an armed standoff against Venezuelan police.
One of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's most outspoken critics has become the latest rally cry for opposition protesters after engaging in an armed standoff with security forces Sunday.
Retired army Gen. Angel Vivas sported a flak jacket, assault rifle and handgun as he defiantly addressed dozens of neighbors from the balcony of his home in eastern Caracas.
"I'm not going to surrender," the 57-year-old Vivas yelled to a crowd of cheering followers.
Supporters rushed to Vivas' defense after he announced to his 100,000-plus followers on Twitter that a group of "Cuban and Venezuelan henchmen" had come looking for him. The officers withdrew after the crowd built barricades outside Vivas' house. Vivas' lawyer said they didn't have an arrest order.
More here: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-venezuelan-general-armed-standoff-home-004442943.html
If Viva's lawyer says he does not have a warrant, how come the Venezuelan government has issued one?
Saturday, February 22, 2014
An update on the Aftermath of 12F
An update of the situation in Venezuela in the aftermath of Feburary 12th civil insurrection. Caracas and Tachira are now returned to normal. A joint effort between the National Guard and the Venezuelan Army entered the State of Tachira to take back the area from neo-fascist street blockaders and paramilitaries from Columbia. The operation occured without a single speck of blood and have "collected 180 tons of scrap metal" from the blockades. Food, fuel, and goods are now flowing back into Tachira.
More information regarding this can be found here: http://www.sabinabecker.com/2014/02/venezuela-order-restored-in-tachira.html
In other related news, a Progressive political periodical known as "The Nation" posted a news analysis of the civil insurrection entitled: #LaSalida? Venezuela at a Crossroads Ukraine. Bosnia. Venezuela.
Tear gas. Masks. Water cannons.
Ours is an age of riots and rebellions, of radical self-creation in the heady streets: Spain’s indignados, the Occupy movement, Mexico’s Yo Soy 132, and of course the Arab Spring. We are understandably excited when we see people in the streets, and our pulse may even rise at the sight of masks, broken glass and flames, because for so long such images have represented the shards of the old world through which we can catch the perceptible glint of the new. Recent protests in Venezuela against the government of Chávez successor Nicolás Maduro might therefore seem to be simply the latest act in an upsurge of world-historic proportions.
Not so fast.
Despite hashtags like #SOSVenezuela and #PrayForVenezuela and retweets from @Cher and @Madonna, these protests have far more to do with returning economic and political elites to power than with their downfall.
Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution” leapt forth from the historical collision of radical social movements against a repressive, neoliberal state. Fifteen years ago, Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela amid the collapsing rubble of the old two-party system, but the “revolution” over which he would preside has far deeper roots. For decades, armed guerrillas, peasants and workers, women, Afro- and indigenous Venezuelans, students and the urban poor struggled against a system that—while formally democratic—was far from it in practice. These revolutionary grassroots movements, which I document in We Created Chávez, blew a hole in what Walter Benjamin would call the continuum of history in a massive anti-neoliberal riot that began on February 27, 1989.
Read more about this here: http://www.thenation.com/article/178496/lasalida-venezuela-crossroads
More information regarding this can be found here: http://www.sabinabecker.com/2014/02/venezuela-order-restored-in-tachira.html
In other related news, a Progressive political periodical known as "The Nation" posted a news analysis of the civil insurrection entitled: #LaSalida? Venezuela at a Crossroads Ukraine. Bosnia. Venezuela.
Tear gas. Masks. Water cannons.
Ours is an age of riots and rebellions, of radical self-creation in the heady streets: Spain’s indignados, the Occupy movement, Mexico’s Yo Soy 132, and of course the Arab Spring. We are understandably excited when we see people in the streets, and our pulse may even rise at the sight of masks, broken glass and flames, because for so long such images have represented the shards of the old world through which we can catch the perceptible glint of the new. Recent protests in Venezuela against the government of Chávez successor Nicolás Maduro might therefore seem to be simply the latest act in an upsurge of world-historic proportions.
Not so fast.
Despite hashtags like #SOSVenezuela and #PrayForVenezuela and retweets from @Cher and @Madonna, these protests have far more to do with returning economic and political elites to power than with their downfall.
Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution” leapt forth from the historical collision of radical social movements against a repressive, neoliberal state. Fifteen years ago, Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela amid the collapsing rubble of the old two-party system, but the “revolution” over which he would preside has far deeper roots. For decades, armed guerrillas, peasants and workers, women, Afro- and indigenous Venezuelans, students and the urban poor struggled against a system that—while formally democratic—was far from it in practice. These revolutionary grassroots movements, which I document in We Created Chávez, blew a hole in what Walter Benjamin would call the continuum of history in a massive anti-neoliberal riot that began on February 27, 1989.
Read more about this here: http://www.thenation.com/article/178496/lasalida-venezuela-crossroads
Friday, February 21, 2014
The real battle that will determine Venezuela's fate will begin
It is clear that the fight for Venezuela is not over yet. This battle of the regressive fascists might be won, but the ongoing war of economics, media, and ideology against the revolutionary socialist government is still on going.
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe. There are so many places like that – it is impossible to list them all.
They want you back in their deadly embrace; they want you to be corrupt and hopeless, as you were before the “Bolivarian Revolution”.
They want you to be the top oil exporter, but with all those horrific slums hanging, like relentless nightmares, over your cities. They want your elites and your military top brass to speak English, to play golf, to drive luxury cars and to commit treason after treason, as they used to commit treason for decades, before your brave predecessor, President Hugo Chavez, began serving and literally saving the poor, in Venezuela and all over Latin America.
Those who are planning to destroy you, those who belong to the so called ‘opposition’, in their heads, are already portioning you; they are dividing your beautiful body – fighting over which parts should be taken where and by whom. They are arguing which pieces of you should stay at home, and what should be taken abroad – a leg, an arm, and your deep melancholic eyes, the color of the profound pools under the mighty waterfalls of Canaima. They want to sell your jet-black hair, as black as those evenings in the mountains, or like that endless night sky above Ciudad Bolivar.
Read more here
It's clear the President Maduro should use any means legally necessary by law and Constitution to prevent and suppress any attempt the regressive fascists and their useful idiots (upper-middle class private university students)
Open Letter to President of Venezuela: Soon, the Battle for Venezuela
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe. There are so many places like that – it is impossible to list them all.
They want you back in their deadly embrace; they want you to be corrupt and hopeless, as you were before the “Bolivarian Revolution”.
They want you to be the top oil exporter, but with all those horrific slums hanging, like relentless nightmares, over your cities. They want your elites and your military top brass to speak English, to play golf, to drive luxury cars and to commit treason after treason, as they used to commit treason for decades, before your brave predecessor, President Hugo Chavez, began serving and literally saving the poor, in Venezuela and all over Latin America.
Those who are planning to destroy you, those who belong to the so called ‘opposition’, in their heads, are already portioning you; they are dividing your beautiful body – fighting over which parts should be taken where and by whom. They are arguing which pieces of you should stay at home, and what should be taken abroad – a leg, an arm, and your deep melancholic eyes, the color of the profound pools under the mighty waterfalls of Canaima. They want to sell your jet-black hair, as black as those evenings in the mountains, or like that endless night sky above Ciudad Bolivar.
Read more here
It's clear the President Maduro should use any means legally necessary by law and Constitution to prevent and suppress any attempt the regressive fascists and their useful idiots (upper-middle class private university students)
Caracas back to normal, Maduro commences expulsion proceedings against CNN en Espanol.
It appears after the violent demonstrations of last week and this week, everything is back to normal. Primarily in Western areas of Caracas. The Eastern areas of Caracas is getting back to normal aside from revival of violence in certain limited parts.
In other related news, the Maduro administration has commenced expulsion proceedings against CNN en Espanol.
Venezuela has revoked or denied press credentials for CNN journalists in the country, following the president's announcement he would expel CNN if it did not "rectify" its coverage of anti-government protests.
"They want to show the world that there is a civil war in Venezuela," President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday in a televised speech.
Anti-government protests have become a daily occurrence in the country, and clashes with security forces or pro-government supporters have resulted in at least eight deaths, officials said.
What CNN is not showing, Maduro said, is "the people working, studying, building the homeland."
Thursday, February 20, 2014
María Corina Machado cries 'repression'
Venezuela opposition politician María Corina Machado was interviewed via Skype on Al Jazeera America’s prime-time program “Consider This” regarding the neo-fascist driven student “protests” in the country since February 12th.
This is what she was actually saying:
Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Illegal Detention! Military Prison! Totalitarianism! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Censorship! Torture! Repression! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Basic Goods Shortage! Human Rights Being Violated! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! The Venezuelan upper-middle classes economic, political power have been slowly taken away for 15 years by the working class! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Full analysis available tomorrow.
This is what she was actually saying:
Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Illegal Detention! Military Prison! Totalitarianism! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Censorship! Torture! Repression! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Basic Goods Shortage! Human Rights Being Violated! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! The Venezuelan upper-middle classes economic, political power have been slowly taken away for 15 years by the working class! Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Full analysis available tomorrow.
Venezuela unrest energizes opposition but will fail in the long-run.
Lopez's narrow middle-class message is limiting their reach because he reflects the minority privileged upper-middle class that used to rule Venezuela economically, socially and politically before the 5th Republic was founded. The real reason why there is violence in this country is because the privileged class economic, and political influence is slowly taken away by the working class of Venezuela over the past 15 years.
This privileged class was hording basic goods, jacked up prices, and speculate foreign currency against their own class peers as a prelude to the civil unrest. Their strategy is to stir up their "useful idiots" to rise against the government. When Maduro wisely used the current Enabling Act allowed by the 5th Republic Constitution to combat price-grouching, generic usury, and speculation, their sky high profits are threatened and now they're resorting to violent measures to take back their power.
This is what the real battle is about: Regressive Fascism (Neo-Fascism) vs 21st Century Socialism (Neo-Socialism). It is clear that in the end, 21st Century Socialism will win out as the working-class Venezuelans already have better lives, and they don't want a return to the old days of the 4th Republic, and they especially do not want another Chile-style Fascist Autocratic.
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