Breaking news from Venezuela's Venezolana de Television and Aporrea on the forfeiture of deputy Maria Corina Machado seat on the National Assembly. The Constitutional Branch of the Supreme Court of Justice has just ruled that her forfeiture based on Article 191 of the Venezuelan Consitution of 1999 is automatic and did not require any action from the National Assembly.
The Constitutional Chamber, in joint presentation, interpreted the meaning and scope of article 191 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in regard to the acceptance of a representational activity (either permanent or alternates), interchangeably to its time of duration, before an international body on the part of a Member or Member of the National Assembly that is playing his charge for the duration of the period for which he was elected, and its incompatibility with the legislative function, depending on the loss of the investiture of the deputy Maria Corina Machado.
The ruling is based on provisions of the articles 191 and 197 of the Fundamental text, which indicate that members or deputies to the National Assembly may not accept or exercise public office without losing his investiture, except activities educational, academic, accidental or health care, as well as that they are obligated and compelled to perform their tasks to full-time, in the interests of the people. Equally the room noted the effective application of article 149, device that establishes that public officials may not accept charges, honors or rewards of foreign Governments without the authorization of the National Assembly.
Thus, after careful analysis, said the High Court that the application of the legal consequence provided in said Article 191, is automatic, with the acceptance of an alternative representation of a country, regardless of its duration, to an international body by the citizen Maria Corina Machado, who was in office of deputy to the National Assembly, which is an incompatible activity during the life of its legislative function in the period for which he was elected, as the diplomatic function not only is detrimental to the legislative function for which it was previously elected or elected, but in clear contradiction with the duties as Venezuela (Article 130 of the Constitution), and as Member of the National Assembly (Article 201 eiusdem).
The judgment determines that the incompatibilities for the deputies and deputies of the National Assembly, take as a purpose(finality) to avoid performances opposite to the ethics and at the beginning of sovereignty, independence, self-determination, social responsibility, international peace, justice, between others, for being these, fundamental base of the Venezuelan State.
Such a pronouncement took place on the occasion of a protection demand of collective interests against the President of the National Assembly deputy Diosdado Cabello for the supposed route de facto against the city dweller Maria Corina Machado tried by the citizens José Alberto Zambrano García and David Ascensión, in its councilmen's character of the municipality Baruta of the state(condition) Bolivariano of Elevated place, in whose(which) frame, in spite of the absence of legitimacy that produced the unacceptable nature of the demand in the terms in which it was tried, took place the interpretation of this Room, considering the national importance of the raised matter.
Translation based on Google Translate and other sources.
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n248178.html
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This is really big news, because the Constitutional Branch interpreted the term "public official" to include people serving in the National Assembly, and with this it includes anyone working in the government like the President, Vice President, Executive Ministers of Public Power, Judges, prosecutors of the Public Ministry including the Attorney-General. This ruling does not include civil/public servants who work as the bureaucracy of the Venezuelan government.
With the loss of Deputy Machado's seat confirmed by the Court this means that the criminal investigation of her role in the "la Salida" Guarimba Insurrection can proceed without further delay by the Public Ministry!
Oh yeah, here's a video about it as well by VTV!
Monday, March 31, 2014
Fun with the Venezuelan Guarimba Insurrection by Chavistas
Despite the seriousness of the the February 12 Guarimba Insurrection, chavistas and their politically aware supporters have not lost their sense of humor as the events occurred. Facebook and Twitter has been used by Chavistas as much as the people who opposed the PSUV government with the hash tags #SOSVenezuela. Here's a few of the many images I found online
Organization MissPanama
Speech Bubble: I'm not a [national assembly]deputy or a president. I'm the Queen of Guarimas, Queen of Terrorism, and Queen of Capitalism
Top Caption: 9 out of 10 people do not support the [guarimba] protests
Yellow Speech bubble: Who ever get's tired... Epa! Where the people went?
Bottom Caption: The WARimba Failure
"Venezuela is with you Bolivarian National Guard"
Guarimbas of Chucky
Divine Justice puts them behind bars one by one.
Decent Venezuelans DO NOT want political thugs.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Venezuela is Respected: Now in (Somewhat Rushed) English
Then it details how all of this is actually based on a plan to take down dictatorships and turn them into (Western-friendly) democracies known as the Gene Sharp method.
The Gene Sharp method is known to some circles as a soft coup. Escalate the violence and violent civil disobedience to a point of civil war. This will force the government to violently repress the "movement". This will turn soften the government to force an exit of the executive and be replaced by new people or by force by the military.
Fortunately, Venezuela has already know this tactic (which is in the (late) 4th stage as of the time of this post), and have no interest in taking the bait by the opposition.
Finally, it gives details into the ongoing media warfare, tactics of the guarimbas and motiviations of the guarimbos (the people who maintain barricades), the truth behind the facts in censorship and actions of the government and opposition, the real motivation of US Government/ Secretary of State John Kerry's involvement, and what the Venezuelan government is doing right now. It also includes a timeline of before and during the insurrection.
You can download it here.
Friday, March 21, 2014
#LaGuarimba10
Lopez is currently behind bars for arson and conspiracy to incitement. Ceballos was arrested by SEBIN for instigating and actively involved in Guarimbo activity. Simonovis and Scarano are in prison for 10 months and 15 days by the Supreme Court of Justice yesterday after a 8 hour hearing for contempt of court and contempt of citizenry for failing to prevent and remove guarimbas in their city after ordered to do so on the 12th of March. Machado will be joining the first four jailed for treason and incitement as the National Assembly requested the Attoney General and the Supreme Court of Justice investigate her crime related to "La Salida" campagin.
Capriles is lucky he was not jailed for the April 15 post-election violence, but he will eventually face justice, along with the other five currently enjoying their freedom as the la Guarimba 10.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection of 2014: What Really Happened?
It's has been 35 days since the start of the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection on 2014, which started on what was a 200th bicentennial of Youth Day. Barricades called Guarimbas, maintained by Gurarimbos littered the streets of middle and upper class neighborhoods in urban and suburban areas of Venezuela, including Eastern Caracas, disrupting the lives of not only their own opposition neighbors but even those apolitical folk unable to work, go to school, perform business, or enjoy their lives. Stores, malls ,supermarkets, businesses, public transport ,government buildings, community media stations looted or vandalized, or even burned in acts of arson. Food, goods, and supplies are unable to be transported because of the blockades or worse hijacked by violent opposition groups to be burned.
The original goal of the protests was a perceived economic crisis, insecurity, food shortages, many of the made worse by the ongoing economic war. However, the protests was co-opted by two hard-line members of the Venezuelan Opposition, Leopoldo López for Popular Will and María Corina Machado (a independent National Assemblywoman),by a campaign called the "the Salida" or "The Exit".
Whatever protests they have originally been before that time, it has been forgotten
"The Salida" ultimate goal is to dispose the constitutional government via a rolling coup. Their tactic is a mix of peaceful demonstrators with a shock troop of violent opposition groups that has wrecked havoc on the nation and paralyzed society. But as soon as it started, it has slowly burned itself out. Days after the attack on the Public Ministry's HQ in Caracas, they sought out a arrest warrant for Leopoldo López for inciting lawless action and arson. Lopez refused to surrender himself to police until he found out from his family by the Venezuelan security intelligence (SEBIN) on a plan to assassinate him to create a civil war. He eventually surrendered himself to the National Guard after a speech, sent to a nearby courthouse for arraignment, and due to the threat of his life he was remanded to a military prison outside of Caracas.
But the mainstream corporate media has been pushing lies after lies from the start. The Venezuelan Opposition using their connections with like-minded people, created a modern propaganda campaign using international and domestic media while screaming "censorship". In with the power of social media and streaming media they are able to spread a narrative, a false narrative of Venezuela being a authoritarian government, controlled by Cuba, not having real democracy.
The City of Chacao in Greater Caracas, and more specifically Altmaria square has been a focal point of the insurrection with violent protesters attacking the National Guard and National Police barricades in a attempt to advance to a near by highway, while the other side protecting the highway from being blockaded. Recently as of 3/17/2014, the Square has been occupied by National Guard to cease this campaign, and things has slowly gotten back to normal.
Most of the protesters are upper-middle class to upper class, with a growing amount of them from criminal gangs and paramilitaries.
The Venezuelan Government made headways to containing the insurrection. President Maduro called for a peace conference between the economic elite, media elite, and the social elite, this same conference has been actively boycotted by the Democratic Unity Rountable. And the security forces are actually winning by letting the protests burn itself out instead of actively disbursing them. The result of this is that now only five areas of Venezuela are actively violent.
But for the great majority of the Venezuelas who are lower-middle class, working class, or lower-class. They refused to let insurrection control their lives. They're taking back their lives, they're becoming more stronger than ever. Even the apolitical and opposition are sick of the protests and want it to end.
It is clear that the Venezuelan government is doing, by any means legally necessary, to protect civil and constitutional order.
28 people have now died in the conflict, most of them innocent people or supporters of the ruling party.
Starting this week, Venezuela Watch will detail the origins of the Insurrection,how they did it, who were the players in it, why are they did it, who were the real victims, and what needs to be done to prevent another insurrection.
And as the Venezuelan Government liberates the remaining areas under civil insurrection we will be there to report it.
The original goal of the protests was a perceived economic crisis, insecurity, food shortages, many of the made worse by the ongoing economic war. However, the protests was co-opted by two hard-line members of the Venezuelan Opposition, Leopoldo López for Popular Will and María Corina Machado (a independent National Assemblywoman),by a campaign called the "the Salida" or "The Exit".
Whatever protests they have originally been before that time, it has been forgotten
"The Salida" ultimate goal is to dispose the constitutional government via a rolling coup. Their tactic is a mix of peaceful demonstrators with a shock troop of violent opposition groups that has wrecked havoc on the nation and paralyzed society. But as soon as it started, it has slowly burned itself out. Days after the attack on the Public Ministry's HQ in Caracas, they sought out a arrest warrant for Leopoldo López for inciting lawless action and arson. Lopez refused to surrender himself to police until he found out from his family by the Venezuelan security intelligence (SEBIN) on a plan to assassinate him to create a civil war. He eventually surrendered himself to the National Guard after a speech, sent to a nearby courthouse for arraignment, and due to the threat of his life he was remanded to a military prison outside of Caracas.
But the mainstream corporate media has been pushing lies after lies from the start. The Venezuelan Opposition using their connections with like-minded people, created a modern propaganda campaign using international and domestic media while screaming "censorship". In with the power of social media and streaming media they are able to spread a narrative, a false narrative of Venezuela being a authoritarian government, controlled by Cuba, not having real democracy.
The City of Chacao in Greater Caracas, and more specifically Altmaria square has been a focal point of the insurrection with violent protesters attacking the National Guard and National Police barricades in a attempt to advance to a near by highway, while the other side protecting the highway from being blockaded. Recently as of 3/17/2014, the Square has been occupied by National Guard to cease this campaign, and things has slowly gotten back to normal.
Most of the protesters are upper-middle class to upper class, with a growing amount of them from criminal gangs and paramilitaries.
The Venezuelan Government made headways to containing the insurrection. President Maduro called for a peace conference between the economic elite, media elite, and the social elite, this same conference has been actively boycotted by the Democratic Unity Rountable. And the security forces are actually winning by letting the protests burn itself out instead of actively disbursing them. The result of this is that now only five areas of Venezuela are actively violent.
But for the great majority of the Venezuelas who are lower-middle class, working class, or lower-class. They refused to let insurrection control their lives. They're taking back their lives, they're becoming more stronger than ever. Even the apolitical and opposition are sick of the protests and want it to end.
It is clear that the Venezuelan government is doing, by any means legally necessary, to protect civil and constitutional order.
28 people have now died in the conflict, most of them innocent people or supporters of the ruling party.
Starting this week, Venezuela Watch will detail the origins of the Insurrection,how they did it, who were the players in it, why are they did it, who were the real victims, and what needs to be done to prevent another insurrection.
And as the Venezuelan Government liberates the remaining areas under civil insurrection we will be there to report it.
Monday, March 17, 2014
What Really Happened in Venezuela this past 30 Some Days?
Here's a really good summary of what happened in Venezuela in the past 30 days,created by a Venezuelan who speaks good English. Even though it was created during the Civil Insurrection and posted after most of it has died down, it's still a very important video for everyone to see. Even though most of the Western media has gone back to being obsessed with Crimea and the missing airline from Malaysia.
The video does a lot better job explaining it. But I can tell you that the "extremist element of opposition" mentioned in reference to the National Peace Conference is the prominent heads of MUD or Democratic Unity Roundtable: María Corina Machado, Assemblywoman of the National Assembly and Henrique Capriles Radonski (failed) Governor of Miranda and head of Justice First refused to attend. There was a news article from aporrea about the resulting public reaction.
The video does a lot better job explaining it. But I can tell you that the "extremist element of opposition" mentioned in reference to the National Peace Conference is the prominent heads of MUD or Democratic Unity Roundtable: María Corina Machado, Assemblywoman of the National Assembly and Henrique Capriles Radonski (failed) Governor of Miranda and head of Justice First refused to attend. There was a news article from aporrea about the resulting public reaction.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Medical Journal Does Better Coverage on Venezuelan Civil Insurrection than Most Mainstream Media.
I got tipped off on a news article related to the civil insurrection in Venezuela. The numbers of cities and towns affected by the civil insurrection are now 6, down from 8 and those areas are include Eastern Caracas (especially Altamira Plaza where daily fights occur daily between guarimbos and Police/National Guard), and areas bordering the Republic of Columbia. All sectors of life are affected in areas infested by guarimbos (barricaders), even the medical and hospital sector.
Venezuelan unrest increases pressure on health services
Venezuela's health minister, Francisco Armada, said recently that the unrest had “significantly” affected health services. Health authorities warn that the barricades and those manning them are creating an adverse physical, environmental, and psychological effect on public health.
The Department of Health says that the burning tyres and rubbish on the barricades produce dangerous levels of toxic substances, and that the forced closure of road access to communities provokes a range of negative psychological emotions for residents trapped inside.
Outside of the capital Caracas' east side, the areas most affected by the barricades are the main cities of the Andean region in the west. In Mérida, a student town with a population of 300 000, one of the city's three hospitals has been entirely blocked off by the barricades.
In a visit to the hospital, a nurse explained to The Lancet that patients had to be hauled over knee-length barbed wire to reach the entrance. Staff and patients seemed to be using the quiet morning period to leave and enter while barricaders slept.
The director of the Mérida state regional health authority, Denis Gomez, denounced the situation of the Social Security Hospital: “In other countries this doesn't even happen in times of war. When the symbol of the Red Cross is seen, it can pass through in the midst of a conflict. Here not even the staff or an ambulance have been able to get through. This can't be called a peaceful protest.”
Source: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2960467-0/fulltext
Unlike corporate-owned mainstream media who has been routinely engaged in a corporate propaganda campaign to market the violence in Venezuela to Americans who normally do not care about the country as a "peaceful protest", this article focuses on the medical angle of the problem and how it effects innocents and public servants while having a even-sided balance of the civil insurrection. A medical journal, of all places, is doing a better coverage of the civil insurrection than anyone else in the Western media landscape.
It really tells you something about how much Western Media focuses on readership than the need to know aspect covering multiple angles of a certain event.
One more thing, at 30 people have died indirectly because of the respiratory conditions created by burning trash from the barricades.
Venezuelan unrest increases pressure on health services
Venezuela's health minister, Francisco Armada, said recently that the unrest had “significantly” affected health services. Health authorities warn that the barricades and those manning them are creating an adverse physical, environmental, and psychological effect on public health.
The Department of Health says that the burning tyres and rubbish on the barricades produce dangerous levels of toxic substances, and that the forced closure of road access to communities provokes a range of negative psychological emotions for residents trapped inside.
Outside of the capital Caracas' east side, the areas most affected by the barricades are the main cities of the Andean region in the west. In Mérida, a student town with a population of 300 000, one of the city's three hospitals has been entirely blocked off by the barricades.
In a visit to the hospital, a nurse explained to The Lancet that patients had to be hauled over knee-length barbed wire to reach the entrance. Staff and patients seemed to be using the quiet morning period to leave and enter while barricaders slept.
The director of the Mérida state regional health authority, Denis Gomez, denounced the situation of the Social Security Hospital: “In other countries this doesn't even happen in times of war. When the symbol of the Red Cross is seen, it can pass through in the midst of a conflict. Here not even the staff or an ambulance have been able to get through. This can't be called a peaceful protest.”
Source: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2960467-0/fulltext
Unlike corporate-owned mainstream media who has been routinely engaged in a corporate propaganda campaign to market the violence in Venezuela to Americans who normally do not care about the country as a "peaceful protest", this article focuses on the medical angle of the problem and how it effects innocents and public servants while having a even-sided balance of the civil insurrection. A medical journal, of all places, is doing a better coverage of the civil insurrection than anyone else in the Western media landscape.
It really tells you something about how much Western Media focuses on readership than the need to know aspect covering multiple angles of a certain event.
One more thing, at 30 people have died indirectly because of the respiratory conditions created by burning trash from the barricades.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Venezuela is Respected: The new document reveals all about the civil insurrection
The Ministry of Public Power for Information and Communication has just released a document called "Venezuela is Respected". It's a summary of the civil insurrection that has been ongoing since Youth Day 2014. It also reveals the truth behind the misleading and sometimes blatant lies from the corporate mainstream media, and what the Government and Venezuelan public is doing to stem and control this insurrection.
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, said Monday that in the coming days will be issued a new journal which documents all fascist actions developed since February as part of a rolling coup initiated by the national right-wing.
In the special issue that we present below can be observed see photographs and texts that show the damage that led to violent groups. Mature invited the Venezuelan people to make a massive distribution of this publication.
The street actions that began to develop since then in isolated pockets of the nation took the scheme of terrorist agitation known as the guarimba that was used by the actors of the opposition in 2004, during the months preceding the presidential referendum which ratified Hugo Chavez in office.
"Bar your street until Maduro goes" is the only slogan of the guarimberos, intended to create an untenable situation for the government with the multiplication of sources of terrorist violence that saturate the control capacity of the law enforcement agencies.
Translation Based on Google. Actual Source here: http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/politica/descarga-revista-venezuela-se-respeta-resumen-acciones-golpistas/
The Venezuelan Government is currently translating the document in English, and other foregn languages. For now it's in Spanish and can be downloaded on the link above.
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, said Monday that in the coming days will be issued a new journal which documents all fascist actions developed since February as part of a rolling coup initiated by the national right-wing.
In the special issue that we present below can be observed see photographs and texts that show the damage that led to violent groups. Mature invited the Venezuelan people to make a massive distribution of this publication.
The street actions that began to develop since then in isolated pockets of the nation took the scheme of terrorist agitation known as the guarimba that was used by the actors of the opposition in 2004, during the months preceding the presidential referendum which ratified Hugo Chavez in office.
"Bar your street until Maduro goes" is the only slogan of the guarimberos, intended to create an untenable situation for the government with the multiplication of sources of terrorist violence that saturate the control capacity of the law enforcement agencies.
Translation Based on Google. Actual Source here: http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/politica/descarga-revista-venezuela-se-respeta-resumen-acciones-golpistas/
The Venezuelan Government is currently translating the document in English, and other foregn languages. For now it's in Spanish and can be downloaded on the link above.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
#PRAYFORVENEZUELA (if these spoiled preppies take their power back)
From aporrea, I caught word of a parody of a well known Venezuela propaganda campaign video ultimately calling for foreign intervention (read: Invasion by US Marines) presented by VTV's
ZurdaKonducta. It really reveals, as we mark the 30th day of the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection why there are student protesters and guarimbas still occurring in the country.
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The video fully reveals the inconstancy of the of the "peaceful protests" of the guarimbos. If they protesting against food shortages, why are they're burning and looting supermarkets and food trucks. If they're protesting insecurity, why did they besieged the Public Ministry headquarters on February 12 and routinely attack National Guard personnel? If they complain about censorship, why is El National ( "The National"an opposition-aligned newspaper), Globovision, and Venevision covering the protests (but not focusing on the chaos and violence like NTN24 which got removed by Venezuelan cable networks by CONTEL due to breaking article 27 of the Broadcasting and Electronic Media Social Responsibility Act aka Ley Resorte) and people posting what is going on on Twitter, Facebook, and Zello?
If they care so much about Venezuela's problems why haven't they actively involved in the communal councils or the many vectors of participatory democracy that is opened via the 1999 Constitution? And why are they're putting barricades and obstructions to traffic to prevent regular opposition folk who accept that they lost the campaign and trying to live life from getting to work, schools, supermarkets, social activities. Even the apolitical Venezuelans and the normal opposition are getting fed up of it.
The real reason why this insurrection is ongoing is that they rather prefer the old days of passive bourgeois democracy where the wealthy dominated the political scene, rather than active proletarian democracy where the regular people, farmers, working class, and the general public and actively participate. These upper-middle classes, and the wealthy have their political, economic, and social power taken away from them slowly by the 15 years of revolution and in my opinion this is their "Last Stand".
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The video fully reveals the inconstancy of the of the "peaceful protests" of the guarimbos. If they protesting against food shortages, why are they're burning and looting supermarkets and food trucks. If they're protesting insecurity, why did they besieged the Public Ministry headquarters on February 12 and routinely attack National Guard personnel? If they complain about censorship, why is El National ( "The National"an opposition-aligned newspaper), Globovision, and Venevision covering the protests (but not focusing on the chaos and violence like NTN24 which got removed by Venezuelan cable networks by CONTEL due to breaking article 27 of the Broadcasting and Electronic Media Social Responsibility Act aka Ley Resorte) and people posting what is going on on Twitter, Facebook, and Zello?
If they care so much about Venezuela's problems why haven't they actively involved in the communal councils or the many vectors of participatory democracy that is opened via the 1999 Constitution? And why are they're putting barricades and obstructions to traffic to prevent regular opposition folk who accept that they lost the campaign and trying to live life from getting to work, schools, supermarkets, social activities. Even the apolitical Venezuelans and the normal opposition are getting fed up of it.
The real reason why this insurrection is ongoing is that they rather prefer the old days of passive bourgeois democracy where the wealthy dominated the political scene, rather than active proletarian democracy where the regular people, farmers, working class, and the general public and actively participate. These upper-middle classes, and the wealthy have their political, economic, and social power taken away from them slowly by the 15 years of revolution and in my opinion this is their "Last Stand".
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Seige of the El Hatillo Restaurant
Today in the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection, two persons and their families eating a quiet dinner. Apparently someone find out about their get-together and call their "educated" friends to pot-bang and insult them and people who want to eat. It really begs the question: Where's the police when you need them. Oh wait, they don't want to.
The video republished below is a scene that happened on Friday night in the middle – upper middle class municipality of El Hatillo in the east of Caracas.
The name of the restaurant in question is Hajillos and the Venezuelan actors Roque Valero and Jorge Reyes were enjoying what they thought would be a quiet meal with family and friends.
The local “citizens” arrived who do not agree with Valero’s or Reyes’ socialist politics and started to intimidate and harass them with a cacophony of pot banging. The “citizens” gradually transformed themselves into a fascist mob of about 100 people.
The mob trapped them inside and Valero had the courage to come to the door to speak with them. He asked them what they wanted? What he had done? There was silence as there is no answer to justify this type of irrational behavior.
Source: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_66451.shtml
Here is the actual video in question:
The real question why would they bother a bunch of people eating in peace? I'll give you the real answer: They hate anyone who supports or even sympathies with the Socialist government. Even apolitical Venezuelans in middle-class or upper-class can be perceived as socialist if they opposed to the guarimbas that has been ongoing since Feburary 12. And why do they act like this: Years of propaganda and yellow journalism against the socialist government by the three major television station: Globovision, Venevision, and Televen. It's not working in the Western Caracas, but middle and upper classes in Caracas in Eastern Caracas are eating it up like hotcakes. Blindly following the media without question.
And again, where were the police? Most of the guarimbas are in opposition strong holds, and in these same opposition strongholds police simply do nothing to stop them. These are the same areas where opposition governors and mayors refuse fold their police forces into the recently created National Police. They just take the lazy way out and let the National Guard take care of the mess.
The video republished below is a scene that happened on Friday night in the middle – upper middle class municipality of El Hatillo in the east of Caracas.
The name of the restaurant in question is Hajillos and the Venezuelan actors Roque Valero and Jorge Reyes were enjoying what they thought would be a quiet meal with family and friends.
The local “citizens” arrived who do not agree with Valero’s or Reyes’ socialist politics and started to intimidate and harass them with a cacophony of pot banging. The “citizens” gradually transformed themselves into a fascist mob of about 100 people.
The mob trapped them inside and Valero had the courage to come to the door to speak with them. He asked them what they wanted? What he had done? There was silence as there is no answer to justify this type of irrational behavior.
Source: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_66451.shtml
Here is the actual video in question:
The real question why would they bother a bunch of people eating in peace? I'll give you the real answer: They hate anyone who supports or even sympathies with the Socialist government. Even apolitical Venezuelans in middle-class or upper-class can be perceived as socialist if they opposed to the guarimbas that has been ongoing since Feburary 12. And why do they act like this: Years of propaganda and yellow journalism against the socialist government by the three major television station: Globovision, Venevision, and Televen. It's not working in the Western Caracas, but middle and upper classes in Caracas in Eastern Caracas are eating it up like hotcakes. Blindly following the media without question.
And again, where were the police? Most of the guarimbas are in opposition strong holds, and in these same opposition strongholds police simply do nothing to stop them. These are the same areas where opposition governors and mayors refuse fold their police forces into the recently created National Police. They just take the lazy way out and let the National Guard take care of the mess.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
"Peaceful" Protester Kit
Source: http://www.difundelaverdad.org.ve/majunchadas/kit-de-protesta-pacifica/
This is what the Venezuelan National Guard, the National Police Corps, and innocent bystanders of the opposition who want to get on with their lives had to deal with in the past 25+ days. Good thing this civil insurrection is burning itself out and only 6 areas remain active hotspots of violence in the area.
Friday, March 7, 2014
SOS Fascist Symbols and Venezuela
During the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection you saw the various hash-tags on twitter: One of the major ones was #SOSVenezuela. This video from the YouTube Channel "Broadcast the Truth." will blow your mind on the real meaning of this hash tag and the social media campaign. I will give you a hint: It's based on well-known religious symbol that was co-oped into something evil. While the video is in Spanish, eventually you'll understand the real message.
After you see this video, you will understand the true reason why upper-middle classes and the upper classes really want for Venezuela.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
#PrayforVenezuela to Remain a Sovereign Nation
Most of the corporate-owned mainstream coverage of the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection involves the same refrain: "chaos, civil war, 54 percent inflation, crime, exit Maduro, government responsibility, peaceful students, Lopez, Harvard Business graduate, toilet paper..." It's the same refrain and chorus that most media outlets, even the Al-Jazeera Media Network's Al-Jazeera America and Al-Jazeera English repeating. Here's someone who actually lived in Venezuela for three decades in a rural village that has benefited from the ruling party's government.
Please note that this is an opinion piece.
Please note that this is an opinion piece.
When I built my home 17 years ago in a rural area outside Sanare in the western state of Lara, my neighbors were barely eking out a subsistence, digging for potatoes and herding goats and sheep. The only school in town was elementary level, and teachers showed up only two days per week on average. There were no modern modes of transport. If you got sick, you had to walk eight miles to town and get in line at 3 a.m. to be seen by a doctor the next day at the nearest hospital.
Today, that same community has an elementary and secondary school, and a free university that functions on the weekends. Every evening, the university offers adult classes. My neighbors are now doctors, lawyers and teachers. Their younger siblings face few barriers to pursuing their dreams. There are 18 new homes — double the amount before, with approximately the same population — built by the local community council in my enclave. Many of my neighbors have replaced horse sheds with driveways for their vehicles. There is also a free medical clinic, staffed by Cuban doctors and Venezuelan medical students from my community, half a mile down the road.
“For every year of the revolution, I think that everyone has gained a kilo,” said a surprised American visitor, commenting on my neighbor’s plumper physique.
These same stories could be told a thousand times over. If only journalists would actually come to Venezuela and leave their five-star hotels, maybe they would figure out why the country has repeatedly re-elected Chavismo in more than a dozen elections for the last 14 years, in what former U.S. President and democracy observer Jimmy Carter calls “the best electoral system in the world.”
Source: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/venezuela-protestsmaduromediapropaganda.html
Most of the news coverage of Venezuela before the elections and the civil insurrection never focused on the positive changes Chavez and Maduro made to the country 15 years since the revolution. Great advancements made in food, medical services, education, economics. The same village that has been destitute and poor, are now rising up to the working-class standards. Living standards for working-class has basically shot through the roof, allowing them more disposable income to contribute to the economy. Even in the National Conference for Peace, held by Maduro, the president of the Polar Group of Companies stated that he actually benefited from the revolution as he gained more customers who can now buy his goods and participate in the economy.
The country, despite rising inflation, insecurity, and shortages of basic goods (all connected to the economic war that has been ongoing since 2004 and state governors aligned with the opposition who has refused to fold their police forces into the Venezuelan National Police Corps) is still actually in the initial stages of socialist democracy. When we mean a socialist democracy, we mean a active economic and political democracy than the passive democracy of most Western States. It is essential that the United States, deal with it's own problems than to interfere with another countries sovereign affairs. Besides the United States has much problems dealing with economic and social inequality in it's own borders.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Public Reaction of Capriles rejection of the peace conference and supposed "unity" of the Venezuelan Opposition
"What is your opinion that Capriles has decided not to attend the peace conference?". Asked the result showed that 71.7% of respondents answered that the decision is the following: somewhat bad (12.5%), poor (24.9%) and bad (34.3%).
According to the same study, the decision of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) not attending the Peace Conference was frowned upon. The numbers were 74.3% of respondents pointing to something bad, poor and bad.
The sample was based on 900 people contacted between Anzoategui, Aragua, Barinas, Carabobo, Guarico, Merida, Miranda, Lara states, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo and Zulia.
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n246222.html
Translation based on Google Translate:
(VIDEO) Intensity of blockades in the city of Valencia
The follwoing video was taken by a citizen of Valencia city in the State of Carabobo and then, given its size and 'strong language' was edited and translated from scrawny to Spanish. It's short and reveals as they are.
Also: @ Okrimopina Video recorded in the urbanization of middle class Prebo 2 Valencia, Carabobo state, on 02/27/2014. A group of neighbors, all opponents of the Bolivarian Revolution, led to a fight between a group put barricade themselves, which prevents the free passage of others do. recorded the video I did not but I saw online. What-I reduced the original had almost twelve minutes, and select the highlights and added subtitles for greater understanding, because in many instances residents speak jostling product of the nerves of the moment. If you want to see the original video-twelve minutes, without subtitles-you can do it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fnRiCxtTg
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n246204.html Translation based on google translate.
Also: @ Okrimopina Video recorded in the urbanization of middle class Prebo 2 Valencia, Carabobo state, on 02/27/2014. A group of neighbors, all opponents of the Bolivarian Revolution, led to a fight between a group put barricade themselves, which prevents the free passage of others do. recorded the video I did not but I saw online. What-I reduced the original had almost twelve minutes, and select the highlights and added subtitles for greater understanding, because in many instances residents speak jostling product of the nerves of the moment. If you want to see the original video-twelve minutes, without subtitles-you can do it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fnRiCxtTg
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n246204.html Translation based on google translate.
(VIDEO) Schemel: Venezuelan Right-wing promotes a psychosocial destabilization process in the country.
President of the Hinterlaces Group Oscar Schemel said the violence by violent groups of the extreme right in the country responds to a psychosocial destabilization campaign overblowing the country situation and collective anxiety to cause a soft coup.
"Military can no longer perform a coups but psychosocial process produces from the political right-wing were injected into the society and institutions that overflow because the final responses (from many individuals) are not rational", he said Saturday at the Mesa Information (Information Table) program, broadcast by Venezolana de Television (VTV).
He referred that there are laboratories and mass clinics operating "in this process of destabilization and creation of conditions from accumulation anguish, "a process" that occurs at different times, have different chapters and has a psychosocial end".
Today, that campaign focuses upon oversizing of the situation created by the Venezuelan economic war waged by the right, which has generated hoarding and speculation. Such a situation has been addressed by the Executive through the enactment of the Organic Law of Fair Prices, the creation of the National Center of Foreign Trade (Cencoex) and, more recently, the establishment of the Commission on the Truth in economic matters.
"To the extent that the national government will solve essentially economic problems, the shortage, which is causing more discomfort, which is what allows cause a psychosocial response...will decrease uncertainty and anxiety that are used to heat the street", Schemel said. His comapny Hinterlaces said the dialogues promoted by the National Conference for Peace, installed this week in Caracas, should serve to "lower levels of anxiety, despair and uncertainty that exist in much of the population and restore peace and hope".
Fostering this dialogue takes place in a context marked by the respect for institutions. According to the latest Hinterlaces Country Monitor presented by Schemel, 70% of Venezuelans support the handling of the issues of the country by constitutional means.
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n246209.html
Originally came from the Venenzuelan News Agency.
Translation based on Google Translation Result
You can see the video here (in Spanish Only):
"Military can no longer perform a coups but psychosocial process produces from the political right-wing were injected into the society and institutions that overflow because the final responses (from many individuals) are not rational", he said Saturday at the Mesa Information (Information Table) program, broadcast by Venezolana de Television (VTV).
He referred that there are laboratories and mass clinics operating "in this process of destabilization and creation of conditions from accumulation anguish, "a process" that occurs at different times, have different chapters and has a psychosocial end".
Today, that campaign focuses upon oversizing of the situation created by the Venezuelan economic war waged by the right, which has generated hoarding and speculation. Such a situation has been addressed by the Executive through the enactment of the Organic Law of Fair Prices, the creation of the National Center of Foreign Trade (Cencoex) and, more recently, the establishment of the Commission on the Truth in economic matters.
"To the extent that the national government will solve essentially economic problems, the shortage, which is causing more discomfort, which is what allows cause a psychosocial response...will decrease uncertainty and anxiety that are used to heat the street", Schemel said. His comapny Hinterlaces said the dialogues promoted by the National Conference for Peace, installed this week in Caracas, should serve to "lower levels of anxiety, despair and uncertainty that exist in much of the population and restore peace and hope".
Fostering this dialogue takes place in a context marked by the respect for institutions. According to the latest Hinterlaces Country Monitor presented by Schemel, 70% of Venezuelans support the handling of the issues of the country by constitutional means.
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n246209.html
Originally came from the Venenzuelan News Agency.
Translation based on Google Translation Result
You can see the video here (in Spanish Only):
Minister Rodríguez: International media use social media to misinform about situation in Venezuela
Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information, Delcy Rodríguez, reported that international media have conducted a media campaign, using social networks to generate matrices of negative opinion on the situation in Venezuela and promote the overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro.
"They've done a media campaign to promote a coup. They've done photo montage of protests from other countries. They're trying to criminalize the action of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB). Manipulate the truth about what is happening in Venezuela", she said in an interview with HispanTV, a television channel from Iran in Spanish owned and operated by IRIB, Iran's state-owned public broadcasting corporation.
She noted that social networking groups of people has posted pictures of protests in Argentina, Brazil, among other nations, attributing them to demonstrations in Venezuela. "Problem is these means use these photos without verifying them, saying that our military forces act violently, when it has become clear that it is not, our troops have dealt rather contain these attacks."
The Minister indicated that these means have convenience informed what happened in the country since February 12, and placed special emphasis on the ABC newspaper in Spain. "They have a correspondent who constantly manipulates the truth about Venezuela. She lies, manipulates, maneuvers information about Venezuela. This journalist was not the greatest audacity to submit a photo of protests in Egypt as a violation of human rights in Venezuela", she declared.
She said they have not yet received a formal apology from ABC of Spain and therefore, "we will take legal action Against this environment and against this journalist.", added that there are violent groups, promoted by the Venezuelan right, that have tried violence overflows attacking the security forces of the State. "They shot our workers, our institutions, against GNB and we continue to act to contain the violence. The enemy has tried to keep violence from overflowing and our performance has been containment, at any time of repression", she said.
Translation is based on Google Translate's result.
Source: Apporea, and came from the Government-owned Venezuelan News Agency: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n246201.html
"They've done a media campaign to promote a coup. They've done photo montage of protests from other countries. They're trying to criminalize the action of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB). Manipulate the truth about what is happening in Venezuela", she said in an interview with HispanTV, a television channel from Iran in Spanish owned and operated by IRIB, Iran's state-owned public broadcasting corporation.
She noted that social networking groups of people has posted pictures of protests in Argentina, Brazil, among other nations, attributing them to demonstrations in Venezuela. "Problem is these means use these photos without verifying them, saying that our military forces act violently, when it has become clear that it is not, our troops have dealt rather contain these attacks."
The Minister indicated that these means have convenience informed what happened in the country since February 12, and placed special emphasis on the ABC newspaper in Spain. "They have a correspondent who constantly manipulates the truth about Venezuela. She lies, manipulates, maneuvers information about Venezuela. This journalist was not the greatest audacity to submit a photo of protests in Egypt as a violation of human rights in Venezuela", she declared.
She said they have not yet received a formal apology from ABC of Spain and therefore, "we will take legal action Against this environment and against this journalist.", added that there are violent groups, promoted by the Venezuelan right, that have tried violence overflows attacking the security forces of the State. "They shot our workers, our institutions, against GNB and we continue to act to contain the violence. The enemy has tried to keep violence from overflowing and our performance has been containment, at any time of repression", she said.
Translation is based on Google Translate's result.
Source: Apporea, and came from the Government-owned Venezuelan News Agency: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n246201.html
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