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