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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