Breaking news from Venezuela and already there was a National Cadena directly related to this, President of Legislative Council of Caracas and Chavista leader Eliezer Otaiza is killed. Apporea has the full story, along with additional news from a Chavista Blog "La Redoma"
Apporea:
http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n249817.html
The President of the City Council of Liberator Municipality of Caracas, Eliezer Otaiza , was found dead on Saturday in the town of El Hatillo, and identified her body on Monday by the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps (Cicpc). Minister of Popular Power for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, informed, via public television channel VTV, that "on Saturday, police in El Hatillo found the body in a sector near San Andrés, no ID, it will be moved to the morgue. They begun to do the work of identification."
He continued narrating that "Polibaruta, get a vehicle with a gunshot wound, and realizes that it is the vehicle Eliecer Otaiza, and notified the Cicpc. They made the necrodactilia. The body has four bullets. Cicpc teams are deployed to investigate the incident; know details.
"Old fellow, comrade, friend, man from 27 November, an important picture for the Revolution, whose main feature was the courage, loyalty. Give a lot of pain, sadness.
On Friday when we were in an activity the first year of the government of President Maduro. Lets history have been a great promoter of Mission Robinson. Venezuela will always present their political action."
General Prosecutor of the Republic, said it appointed 19 National attorniesto investigate the death of the President of the Municipal Council of Caracas.
President Nicolas Maduro, ordered a thorough investigation, said the Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information, Delcy Rodriguez.
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La Redoma:
The body of the President of the Municipal Council of Caracas, councilman Eliezer Otaiza, was found dead in Turgua sector within the municipality Baruta in Caracas. "Last time he was seen alive was on Friday in Turgua in Miranda State , Baruta, then was not heard from again, "the Minister of Popular Power for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, through telephone contact established with Venezolana de Television.
Rodriguez said his body was found specifically between sectors and San Andrés La Araguata subsequently was transferred to the morgue CICPC. In addition, the interior minister said that Polibaruta have gotten today a vehicle with bullet, and that according to the research of the plate was the car of Otaiza.
"The body of Otaiza presents four bullets (...) We hope to clarify what happened to our fellow Eliezer Otaiza in the coming hours," said Rodríguez Torres.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General of the Republic, Luisa Ortega Díaz, announced via Twitter that has been "appointed Attorney 19 National Competition to investigate the death of the President of the Municipal Council of Caracas, Eliezer Otaiza".
Eliezer Otaiza was licensed in Military Arts and Sciences and earned an MA in Political Science at Simon Bolivar University. He served as director of the Disip, he was president of the National Land Institute (INTI) and director of the National Procurement Service.
Eliezer Otaiza was one of the heroes of the glorious 4 February, which marked the future of Venezuela who now lives in Revolution. Commander Hugo Chavez described as follows:
Otaiza is a soldier, his blood watered the streets of Caracas on November 27. He spent all those years studying, he has a doctorate in political science, a very intelligent man. After it was recovered both a swimming world and won, brought his trophy. And now one of these morning said: "Commander, I want to talk to you." Because he was in my trailer, mind you, he was safe, he had made special security training and command. He said: "Commander, I want to go to the Constituent." -Text-Hugo Chavez
- See more at: http://www.laredoma.co.ve/2014/04/ultima-hora-hasta-la-victoria-siempre.html
We may be seeing a start of a disturbing trend in the Guarimba Insurrection: Political assassination of chavista politians and any polticians aligned with or supporting the PSUV.
Monday, April 28, 2014
The Story of Venezuela’s Protests May Be Different From What You Are Told
Originally published by Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Mark Weisbrot easily takes down the Western narrative of the Guarimba Insurrection that has been pushed down for the past two months. While he disagrees with Venezuelan Government seeking an arrest warrant for far-rightist Leopoldo López and the automatic removal of María Corina Machado from the National Assembly for accepting a role as a alternative representative to Panama at the OAS, it's clear that what the far-right movement in Venezuela wants is the removal of President Maduro by force via ungovernablity.
In reacting to the protests in Venezuela, the biggest Western media outlets have drafted a charmingly simple narrative of the situation there. According to this story, peaceful protesters have risen up against a government because of shortages, high inflation, and crime. They have taken to the streets and been met with brutal repression from a government that also controls the media.
It doesn’t take much digging to take down this narrative. First, while there have been some peaceful opposition marches, the daily protests are anything but peaceful. In fact, about half of the daily death toll from Venezuela that we see in the media – now at 41 -- are actually civilians and security forces apparently killed by protesters. A much smaller fraction are protesters alleged to have been killed by security forces. As for the media, state TV in Venezuela has only about 10 percent of the TV audience; the New York Times recently had to run a correction for falsely reporting that opposition voices are not regularly heard on Venezuelan TV. They are on TV, even calling for the overthrow of the government – which has been the announced goal of the protest leaders from the beginning. These are not like the protests last year in Brazil, or the student protests from 2011-13 in Chile, which were organized around specific demands.
Of course the increased shortages and rising inflation over the past year have had a political impact on Venezuela, but it is striking that the people who are most hurt by shortages are decidedly not joining the protests. Instead, the protests are joined and led by the upper classes, who are least affected.
In fact, the protests really got going largely as a result of a split within the Venezuelan opposition. Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chávez and then Maduro in the last two presidential elections, was considered too conciliatory by the more extreme right, led by Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado. They decided that the time was ripe to topple the government through street protests. Both were involved in the 2002 military coup against then President Chávez; María Corina Machado even signed the decree of the coup government that abolished the elected National Assembly (AN), the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
Source: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/the-story-of-venezuelas-protests-may-be-different-from-what-you-are-tol
Now in regards to the narrative in Venezuela, it really shows that despite overwhelming evidence of the truth behind the facts they completely ignore what happened. Because if they did, they will shatter their fantasy world of humble students fighting against an oppressive government. This includes ignoring the socio-economic class of the protesters, which are upper class and upper-middle class. But why they're pushing this myth over and over again?
Because the news media in America, and in some sense in the Western world are another form of entertainment. In addition, most Americans in general do not care about what is going on in Eastern Europe,Africa or South America, South East Asia unless it's politics, violence, war, disaster, or disorder. The reliance of narratives reveals that the Western Media is too cheap to really find the truth behind what is going behind the scenes. It's merely a form of entertainment these days, especially in television news.
In addition, regarding the share of Venezuelan media viewership why VTV has a 10% share? Why the private media is dominant? It has to be something about the telenovelas isn't it? Because even Chavistas were reluctant to have RCTV to be shutdown without a renewal because of the telenovelas.
In reacting to the protests in Venezuela, the biggest Western media outlets have drafted a charmingly simple narrative of the situation there. According to this story, peaceful protesters have risen up against a government because of shortages, high inflation, and crime. They have taken to the streets and been met with brutal repression from a government that also controls the media.
It doesn’t take much digging to take down this narrative. First, while there have been some peaceful opposition marches, the daily protests are anything but peaceful. In fact, about half of the daily death toll from Venezuela that we see in the media – now at 41 -- are actually civilians and security forces apparently killed by protesters. A much smaller fraction are protesters alleged to have been killed by security forces. As for the media, state TV in Venezuela has only about 10 percent of the TV audience; the New York Times recently had to run a correction for falsely reporting that opposition voices are not regularly heard on Venezuelan TV. They are on TV, even calling for the overthrow of the government – which has been the announced goal of the protest leaders from the beginning. These are not like the protests last year in Brazil, or the student protests from 2011-13 in Chile, which were organized around specific demands.
Of course the increased shortages and rising inflation over the past year have had a political impact on Venezuela, but it is striking that the people who are most hurt by shortages are decidedly not joining the protests. Instead, the protests are joined and led by the upper classes, who are least affected.
In fact, the protests really got going largely as a result of a split within the Venezuelan opposition. Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chávez and then Maduro in the last two presidential elections, was considered too conciliatory by the more extreme right, led by Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado. They decided that the time was ripe to topple the government through street protests. Both were involved in the 2002 military coup against then President Chávez; María Corina Machado even signed the decree of the coup government that abolished the elected National Assembly (AN), the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
Source: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/the-story-of-venezuelas-protests-may-be-different-from-what-you-are-tol
Now in regards to the narrative in Venezuela, it really shows that despite overwhelming evidence of the truth behind the facts they completely ignore what happened. Because if they did, they will shatter their fantasy world of humble students fighting against an oppressive government. This includes ignoring the socio-economic class of the protesters, which are upper class and upper-middle class. But why they're pushing this myth over and over again?
Because the news media in America, and in some sense in the Western world are another form of entertainment. In addition, most Americans in general do not care about what is going on in Eastern Europe,Africa or South America, South East Asia unless it's politics, violence, war, disaster, or disorder. The reliance of narratives reveals that the Western Media is too cheap to really find the truth behind what is going behind the scenes. It's merely a form of entertainment these days, especially in television news.
In addition, regarding the share of Venezuelan media viewership why VTV has a 10% share? Why the private media is dominant? It has to be something about the telenovelas isn't it? Because even Chavistas were reluctant to have RCTV to be shutdown without a renewal because of the telenovelas.
Hinterlaces: 73% of residents of Chacao reject guarimbas
This week's polling results from Hinterlaces, already confirms one fact: Most Venezuelans are opposed to the guarimba insurrection. Even the middle and upper middle classes of Chacao. Real question: If there are guarimbas and violent protests, why is most of the Venezuelan people and the middle classes are opposed to it?
73% of the residents of Chacao rejects guarimbas or violent protests, the latest study revealed by Hinterlaces polling.
The study was obtained after consulting with 350 inhabitants in this Miranda town. According to the survey, 68% of residents supports the dialogue between the National Government and the opposition, while 69% of respondents believe that the right-wing should reject terrorist actions carried out in jurisdictions governed by opposition political members to central government leaders. People who support punishing those who commit terrorism also part of the sample.
78% of the respondents said that the Government should impose penalties on those responsible for such acts.
Hinterlaces also highlights that 70% of respondents think that a coup in Venezuela does occur, the economic situation will be worse. Acts of violence since February occurred by far-right groups in some parts of the country, have caused the deaths of 41 people and caused serious injuries to a large number of people affected.
Translation based by Google Translate
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n249785.html
\As much as the Venezuela government can declare a state of emergency to crush the insurrection, and every country has the right to in similar circumstances, it's exactly what the far-right opposition of the country wants. So Maduro is going down the middle path of Stability. Enforcing the law against far-right groups, seeking a compromise with the moderate opposition that wants to talk about legitimate issues, and enforcing laws against people who engage in economic warfare. Already the worst of the insurrection is over, except in Chacao and instances of mobile guarimbas that have been occurring.
73% of the residents of Chacao rejects guarimbas or violent protests, the latest study revealed by Hinterlaces polling.
The study was obtained after consulting with 350 inhabitants in this Miranda town. According to the survey, 68% of residents supports the dialogue between the National Government and the opposition, while 69% of respondents believe that the right-wing should reject terrorist actions carried out in jurisdictions governed by opposition political members to central government leaders. People who support punishing those who commit terrorism also part of the sample.
78% of the respondents said that the Government should impose penalties on those responsible for such acts.
Hinterlaces also highlights that 70% of respondents think that a coup in Venezuela does occur, the economic situation will be worse. Acts of violence since February occurred by far-right groups in some parts of the country, have caused the deaths of 41 people and caused serious injuries to a large number of people affected.
Translation based by Google Translate
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n249785.html
\As much as the Venezuela government can declare a state of emergency to crush the insurrection, and every country has the right to in similar circumstances, it's exactly what the far-right opposition of the country wants. So Maduro is going down the middle path of Stability. Enforcing the law against far-right groups, seeking a compromise with the moderate opposition that wants to talk about legitimate issues, and enforcing laws against people who engage in economic warfare. Already the worst of the insurrection is over, except in Chacao and instances of mobile guarimbas that have been occurring.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Fun with the Venezuelan Guarimba Insurrection by Chavistas - Part 2
446 Years:
Happy Birthday Caracas
#HappyBirthdayCCS
Walloper of Women
This is in reference to San Cristobal's ex-Mayor Daneil Ceballos arrest and subsequent imprisonment for contempt of court for not getting rid of barricades and preventing them from being erected
#GuarimberoFailure
"We were left alone"
Top: So pick up the trash if I have my guarimberos
Merdia - City of Garbage - City of Guarimbas - Mayor of Libertador Municipality
Here, nobody gives up
RespectVenezuela, 23 of Janaury (Neighborhood)
Leapoldo Lopez: Murderer!
Peace
Guide to the Perfect Fascist Guarimbero
For: Henrique, Maria Corina, Leapoldo, R Muchadcho and others
Part One: How to isolate Maduro
Squalid Guarimberos
Left: As they think they are
Right: As in actually are
San Cristobal : "Like" more security
Out of my Community Mercenary Terrorist!
What do you have in mind?...
Guarimba
But don't get angry!
22 countries of the OAS denied a Deputy of the Fascist Right the right to speak.
#RespectVenezuela
Monday, April 7, 2014
The truth of the "peaceful" protests that many try to deny: Guarimberos attacked young Opposition person in Caurimare: They said they had to be there because "those are the orders"
It's now known to the Venezuelan public that this Guarimbero Insurrection is being funded (with people being paid to commit chaos), and well organized to commit political terror and civil disorder. Like British yobs, they're extremely hostile if you try to confront them on their true purpose is. It's common that civilians in their own opposition held areas are under internal siege by these guarimberos. These protesters are not "peaceful" at all. The real question you should be asking is if they're masked and hostile, are they're peaceful?
SCAN OF THE ORIGINAL PHOTO PUBLISHED BY THE YOUNG OPPONENT AND LEGEND THAT ACCOMPANIES IT. THE COMMENTS WERE OMITTED DUE TO THE DEGREE OF VIOLENCE AND ATTACKS WITH THAT OTHER OPPONENTS REFERRED TO THE YOUNG MAN AFTER PUBLISHING HIS TESTIMONY. (CUT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PICTURE CORRESPONDS TO ERROR IN THE SCREENSHOT)
A young Venezuelan opposition named Pedro Armando Medina wrote on his Facebook account on Saturday who lived in Caurimare trying to ask guarimberos (some of them outside the area, according to his testimony) to open one lane so that he and the people living there could use their cars and get to their homes. The conversation with the young guarimbas, carrying radios and other equipment, meant that they were receiving orders and were paid to do them. One of them, whom they had never seen in the area, and for no reason physically assaulted him twice. Baruta Police, far from acting, suggested "shoot them to death." Here is the text to reveal the dangers and implications of these violent guarimberos and the legitimate damage generated by them and to their neighbors, regardless of their political ideology, want to continue their lifestyle.
Medina deleted the text of his own, but we published the transcript, as well as catch (in time) of the complaint made through his profile on the social network [Facebook] said:
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Hello, I want to tell that happened to me this morning.
Last night I was returning from the Club Los Cortijos to my house and we got Alan Sarria by Caurimare to see if they had raised the bar. We see that it is all lockout and parked my car shortly before Gamma Express to talk to the guarimba boys.
We started talking with them, we hear them, we gave our point of view, one of them said: "Do you think we want to be here at this hour? Those are the orders!", i.e. someone sent them and paid them. I also want to add that they had radios to communicate, but that is not the point.
While we were talking there came a dude who had never seen in my life (I am a 26 year old living in the El Cafetal) and began to attack us, obviously I also altered and we yell. To make the story short, the guy threw two rocks at my car (did not hit any) and Alan assaulted. We rode and went to Macaracuay.
On the road I upset saying he wanted to sue that dude with the police for their attacks and then leaving Alan went for St. Louis Police Baruta. There I said so himself: "these carajitos fucking worth, reviéntalos to shots if you can". I just wanted to stop the assault dude (I repeat, never seen in my life).
I got in the car and when I went down to the Boulevard I got together with one gentlemen and I went to talk so that they should at least step channel. I explained to a lady what had happened and when I saw to the chamo again and said "He threw stones, to me, that I'm community and in theory I think equal". The chamo saw me and said, "let's speak then'. I went and told her that down the guard and started to speak, 10 seconds pulled me a hand to treason by face, and then a kick. Threw me to the floor and I began to hang (maybe I don't know actually fighting). There we separated and I began to say: "is this what you want? This is your protest? "." There same one los chamos assisted me with alcohol and ice, and went to the police again. Just so tell me: "you said you reventaras them".
Well, in order, i decided to write this for you to know that we are. This piece of shit that only generates more conflict between ourselves.
Personally, I decided to leave the country, that I will seek options. So I can criticize from outside. I want to.
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This publication is for the purpose of disclosing the truth that exists within the misnamed "peaceful" opposition protests letting you see the degree of intolerance and aggressiveness that is hidden. Comments on the publication of young opposition were omitted in the catch due to its high degree of intolerance and aggression towards the person for having made a public testimony that many want to deny reality.
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Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n248586.html
Translation based on Google Translate: http://www.spanishdict.com/translation
It gotten so bad, that he had to delete this post and left the country not because of the government opporession, but they guarimberos are offended that a person want to get on with his life and concerned about letting people through. Guarimberos are for all intents in purposes hostile against consitutional and civil order, and want their own country changed from before Chavez was elected.
These are the types of people the PNB, the GNB, and innocent Venezuelans have to deal with since Feb. 12. They will go after anyone, regardless of political affiliation that opposes them.
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PETER ARMANDO MEDINA, YOUNG VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION ATTACKED BY GUARIMBEROS IN CAURIMARE
A young Venezuelan opposition named Pedro Armando Medina wrote on his Facebook account on Saturday who lived in Caurimare trying to ask guarimberos (some of them outside the area, according to his testimony) to open one lane so that he and the people living there could use their cars and get to their homes. The conversation with the young guarimbas, carrying radios and other equipment, meant that they were receiving orders and were paid to do them. One of them, whom they had never seen in the area, and for no reason physically assaulted him twice. Baruta Police, far from acting, suggested "shoot them to death." Here is the text to reveal the dangers and implications of these violent guarimberos and the legitimate damage generated by them and to their neighbors, regardless of their political ideology, want to continue their lifestyle.
Medina deleted the text of his own, but we published the transcript, as well as catch (in time) of the complaint made through his profile on the social network [Facebook] said:
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Hello, I want to tell that happened to me this morning.
Last night I was returning from the Club Los Cortijos to my house and we got Alan Sarria by Caurimare to see if they had raised the bar. We see that it is all lockout and parked my car shortly before Gamma Express to talk to the guarimba boys.
We started talking with them, we hear them, we gave our point of view, one of them said: "Do you think we want to be here at this hour? Those are the orders!", i.e. someone sent them and paid them. I also want to add that they had radios to communicate, but that is not the point.
While we were talking there came a dude who had never seen in my life (I am a 26 year old living in the El Cafetal) and began to attack us, obviously I also altered and we yell. To make the story short, the guy threw two rocks at my car (did not hit any) and Alan assaulted. We rode and went to Macaracuay.
On the road I upset saying he wanted to sue that dude with the police for their attacks and then leaving Alan went for St. Louis Police Baruta. There I said so himself: "these carajitos fucking worth, reviéntalos to shots if you can". I just wanted to stop the assault dude (I repeat, never seen in my life).
I got in the car and when I went down to the Boulevard I got together with one gentlemen and I went to talk so that they should at least step channel. I explained to a lady what had happened and when I saw to the chamo again and said "He threw stones, to me, that I'm community and in theory I think equal". The chamo saw me and said, "let's speak then'. I went and told her that down the guard and started to speak, 10 seconds pulled me a hand to treason by face, and then a kick. Threw me to the floor and I began to hang (maybe I don't know actually fighting). There we separated and I began to say: "is this what you want? This is your protest? "." There same one los chamos assisted me with alcohol and ice, and went to the police again. Just so tell me: "you said you reventaras them".
Well, in order, i decided to write this for you to know that we are. This piece of shit that only generates more conflict between ourselves.
Personally, I decided to leave the country, that I will seek options. So I can criticize from outside. I want to.
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This publication is for the purpose of disclosing the truth that exists within the misnamed "peaceful" opposition protests letting you see the degree of intolerance and aggressiveness that is hidden. Comments on the publication of young opposition were omitted in the catch due to its high degree of intolerance and aggression towards the person for having made a public testimony that many want to deny reality.
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Source: http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n248586.html
Translation based on Google Translate: http://www.spanishdict.com/translation
It gotten so bad, that he had to delete this post and left the country not because of the government opporession, but they guarimberos are offended that a person want to get on with his life and concerned about letting people through. Guarimberos are for all intents in purposes hostile against consitutional and civil order, and want their own country changed from before Chavez was elected.
These are the types of people the PNB, the GNB, and innocent Venezuelans have to deal with since Feb. 12. They will go after anyone, regardless of political affiliation that opposes them.
[Video] Only One Lady stands between the GNB and the Guarimberos...
I'm surprised she was not arrested after what she did. If it happened in any other country including the US and Britian, she would be immediately cuffed and charged with violent disorder.
By the way it looks like it, it's actually the National Police dispersing the guarimberos not the National Guard. It's real amazing that they had to dispurse them before cleaning up the guarimba.
Breakfast Reading - Fascist groups yesterday besieged El Cafetal Baruta
Credit: AFP
Credit: AFP
Mortars, molotov cocktails, miguelitos and wires were seized by the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), during the operation to restore order in that sector of the east of Caracas.
The French News Agency (Agence France-Presse) captured on two photographs the moment one of the violent persons displayed and used a mortar.
In other photos are also observed the barricades set up by the fascists that prevented the free transit of the residents in the area, as well as to men, armed with all the implements to attack the security agencies of the Government that have order in the streets that the guarimberos have tried to take.
14 INJURED AND 20 ARRESTED
In this regard, the mayor of Baruta Municipality, Gerardo Blyde, reported that during the events there were 14 wounded and 20 arrested by the PNB.
He further explained that the violence broke yesterday morning, when the PNB sought to clear the barricades which had been placed in El Cafetal and residents responded by throwing bottles and fireworks.
It is important to remember that, since the beginning the terrorist acts, the last February 12, when it was suggested the call #SALIDA, 39 people have died, 31 civilians and the rest police officers, military and one of the Public Ministry. They have also injured 608 citizens, 414 civilians and 194 security personnel of the State.
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n248588.html
Translation based on machine translation from: http://www.spanishdict.com/translation
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Great granddaughter of Mussolini writes a letter to Maduro defending fascism and the Venezuelan opposition
You will not believe this: A great granddaughter of Mussolini, the father of Fascism, wrote a letter to the Venezuelan president defending her father's actions, and the Venezuelan right wing. The letter was public by Noticiero Digital (Digital News).
The important passages are highlighted in bold.
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The Venezuelan opposition has sought ways to distance himself from the fascist nature of their violent demonstrations. To do this, they accuse Chavez of implementing specific actions against their movement, but that is over-at least it should be that way, as the granddaughter of himself Benito Mussolini, founder of fascism, wrote an open letter to the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, in which not only defends the terrible excesses of his father, but also shows its unconditional support to the Venezuelan right.
Here, is the introduction piece:
In his every speech, President Nicolas Maduro constantly emphasizes that the opposition and students who are demonstrating peacefully are "fascists" for nearly two months ago.
Given the violent and conflicting reality that is life in Venezuela, the president bolivariano was sent this particular open letter. The great-granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, Mussolini Martina, the head of state whom he accused of not knowing what is really fascism and being what is "opportunistic".
Martina Mussolini spent his adolescence in Venezuela, and twenty years living in Italy. "I had to leave why country as there was no future and am sorry to repeat to my children that I will not bring them to visit the places of my youth, as this nation is too dangerous," said the great-granddaughter of Italian dictator through the letter published in Noticiero Digital.
And here is the full letter by Martina Mussolini herself:
My name is Martina, and my grandfather Vittorio Mussolini was the son of Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism, a term that refers you constantly used lately. I understood perfectly, by their behavior, they do not really know what is really fascism, but does not know what is communism; his populist oratory without politics, just opportunistic and willing to root, Venezuela has been in total chaos.
I write from Italy, where I live for more than twenty years ago, but mostly I write as Venezuelan adoption, because although I was not born in Venezuela, but in Forlì (Editor's note:. Italia), I had been fortunate to spend my teenage years in this wonderful country, and in this difficult time, my heart and my feelings are towards my Venezuelan brothers. I had to leave why the country as there was no future and am sorry to repeat to my children that I will not bring them to know the places of my youth as it is too dangerous a nation where there is no respect for life and which should ensure justice very often are the first to betray.
The statesman who was my great-grandfather, Benito Mussolini, has fought, loved, and suffered for his people and at the time of his death, when he was hung by his feet in Piazzale Loreto, not a penny out of your pockets! You state as fascist, improperly, students and citizens who demonstrate peacefully for a free, secure, Venezuela and a future.
Mr President, if you apply a policy of dictatorial repression becomes increasingly crimes he coauthored what is fascism? Removing the only tragic stain of racial laws, fascism made an Italy in every corner, created a national identity and culture gave schools, built factories and cities, even with the few natural resources of Italy, connected villages. He crossed the Mediterranean carrying our civilization and our culture in Libya, Eritrea and Somalia, also built roads in those countries and schools, contrary to the colonial policies of the other countries that were essentially limited to exploit. It was understood that a war would have been harmful and when they sought help from democratic nations such as France and England, they refused. We launched into the arms of the Germans had to accept to defend; listen to the speeches of my great grandfather often naming the Germans and did it with contempt .. "ignorant people writing ... in a time when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus".
Mr. President, tell me what is fascism you name in every speech? Fascism is a revolutionary political movement that overcoming the liberal-democratic state and the communist state with a "third way", indicating that the construction of an ethical-hierarchical state founded on the corporate alternative to eliminating the exploitation is proposed capitalist class struggle to create a nation and thus a people conscious of its own mission.
Born in 1919 near the figure of Benito Mussolini and derived from what was left of the "interventista left" after the battles of the Great War, won in Italy by escuadrismo that annihilated the power of the socialist party and thanks to an act insurrection, the March on Rome, October 27 to 31, 1922, allowed its founder to be appointed Prime Minister. Fascism, once in power, had to give up its republican and revolutionary aspiration building a "dualistic system" where monarchical prerogatives long coexisted with the institutions of fascism proletarian inspiration. After the fall of Mussolini (25 July 1943) and the subsequent unconditional surrender of the Kingdom of Italy, fascism returned to power for a short time during the brief period of the Italian Social Republic where he could reacquire his Republican approach to start the social revolution that was among its founding myths forever.
Mr President, right or wrong, these people have left a mark in the history pages of glory quoted with pride and tears pages fiercely from one to the other frenteevocamos to remember.
Mr President, you know that over there fascism and its performance is still spoken today and just in the European Community by eminent economists for the progress and development that such movement can generate? If the fundamental principles manifest Verona implemented, Europe would be out of the economic crisis; if you only thought the English economist M. Shanks, director of the European Commission, who in his book "What is wrong with the modern world?" translated: "Que hay de equivocado en el mundo moderno?" precisely indicates the Corporate State of Mussolini, against persistent crisis of liberalism and Marxism as the only model to overcome the existing contrasts in Parliamentary Democracy, concluding with: "there is no alternative, it's either the Corporate State or collapse of the State "This makes you think deeply and says a world famous economist in the current context of the global crisis!
Let me say that those students that you unfairly perusing, these mothers, these women, these merchants, these workers, to all the wonderful people who freely expresses his feeling of living as Venezuelan people united and compact, not interested in the of left, right or center ideologies! They are hungry! They're tired of endless queues for a piece of bread, want to be able to heal at home where no medicines are terrified by a steady increase in crime and are not hampered by the security forces. Most of them can not understand his own extreme poverty still living in a country with huge natural resources and unlimited economic potential, which Italy has had neither.
The oceanic masses that invade Venezuela and Venezuelan streets are only brought to exasperation by an undemocratic, corrupt regime that promotes hatred, socialism precedent, and does not respect human rights; is a crime, I say it is a crime to follow the guidance of a country without a direction only by the lust for power.
I thank God when I hear opponents call "brothers" to Chavistas, when I see kids deliver flowers to policemen lined up in front of them and the many messages of solidarity of ordinary people around the world. It is at this point that I call upon the international community to intervene to alleviate the sufferings of the people, where are the international organizations that guarantee peace, progress, wherever they are! The tires that loses. I never get tired of giving my support for a free, united and at peace Venezuela.
Martina Mussolini
Source: http://www.laredoma.co.ve/2014/04/bisnieta-de-mussolini-escribe-carta.html
Translation based on Google Translate
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UPDATE 1: A person asked where the original source of this letter came from, so I searched it and found the real source article: http://www.noticierodigital.com/2014/04/bisnieta-de-mussolini-envia-carta-a-maduro-usted-no-sabe-que-es-realmente-el-fascismo/
UPDATE 2- 5:13pm: I was tipped off that the letter was actually originally written in Italian on her own Facebook page. I'm not going to bother posting the actual facebook page, but it does exist.
UPDATE 3: Here's the original letter and the English Translation. Can you spot the major difference? Clue: It's in all capital letters.
Here is the original letter in full:
Mi chiamo Martina Mussolini e mio nonno, Vittorio, era il figlio di Benito Mussolini, uno dei fondatori del sistema fascista che, ultimamente, lei usa a sproposito. Le scrivo dall'Italia dove risiedo da oltre vent'anni, le scrivo poiché nonostante io non sia nata in Venezuela, ho avuto la fortuna di trascorrere in quel meraviglioso paese la mia adolescenza e in questo momento difficile il mio cuore e i miei sentimenti sono con i miei fratelli venezuelani.
Ho dovuto lasciare il paese perché già allora non c'era nessun futuro per me e mi dispiace dover dire ogni volta ai miei figli che non li porterò nei luoghi della mia giovinezza poiché è uno stato troppo pericoloso, dove non c'è rispetto per la vita e coloro che dovrebbero garantire la giustizia, spesso, sono i primi a violarla.
Il grande statista che è stato il mio bisnonno, Benito Mussolini, ha lottato, amato e sofferto per il suo popolo e al momento della sua morte, quando è stato appeso per i piedi a piazzale Loreto, dalle sue tasche non è caduta nemmeno una lira!
Lei addita come fascisti degli studenti che manifestano perché nel loro paese non c'è sicurezza, mancano gli articoli di prima necessità, scarseggiano i medicinali e le possibilità di vivere una vita dignitosa sono inesistenti, dovuto alla corruzione, alla svalutazione della moneta e all'inflazione che hanno preso il sopravvento. Un paese censurato, senza libertà di espressione dove gli oppositori sono incarcerati ingiustamente.
Mi lasci dire, presidente, che a quegli studenti, a quei medici, a quelle mamme, a quelle nonne, a quei commercianti, a quei lavoratori, a tutto quel meraviglioso popolo non interessano le ideologie... Hanno fame! Sono stanchi di fare interminabili file per poter acquistare farina, latte, olio o caffè. Desiderano poter studiare, lavorare, ricevere adeguate cure mediche e vivere nella loro terra, senza dover andar all'estero per vedersi garantito un futuro migliore. NON SONO FASCISTI
La maggior parte di costoro non riesce a capacitarsi della propria condizione di estrema povertà nonostante abiti in un paese con enormi potenzialità economiche e illimitate risorse naturali. Sono venezuelani esasperati da un regime corrotto, che fomenta un odio sociale senza precedenti e che non rispetta i diritti umani.
Ringrazio Dio quando sento gli oppositori chiamare “fratelli” i Chavisti, quando vedo bambini porgere fiori ai poliziotti schierati contro di loro e i tanti messaggi di solidarietà della gente comune in tutto il mondo, mentre le organizzazione internazionali rimangono in un vergognoso silenzio.
English Translation here:
My name is Martina Mussolini. My grandfather , Victor , was the son of Benito Mussolini, one of the founders of the fascist system that , ultimately, she used inappropriately. I am writing from Italy where I live for over twenty years, I write because even though I was not born in Venezuela, I had the good fortune to spend in this wonderful country during my teenage years and during this difficult time my heart and my feelings are with my Venezuelan brothers.
I had to leave the country because even then there was no future for me, and I'm sorry to have to say everytime my children that I can't bring them in the places of my youth because this country is too dangerous, there is no respect for the life and those who should ensure justice, often are the first to violate it.
The great statesman who was my great-grandfather, Benito Mussolini, fought, loved and suffered for his people and at the time of his death, when he was hung by his feet in Piazzale Loreto, from his pockets did not fall even a penny!
She points out how the fascists of the students who manifest in their country because there is no security, shortage of basic goods , medicines are in short supply and the opportunity to live a dignified life are non-existent, due to corruption, devaluation of the currency and inflation have taken over the economy. A censored country without freedom of expression where opponents are imprisoned unjustly.
Let me tell you, President, that those students, those doctors, those mothers, to those grandmothers, those traders, to those workers, to all the wonderful people not interested in ideologies ... They are hungry ! They're tired of doing endless lines to buy flour, milk, oil or coffee. They want to be able to study, work, receive appropriate medical care and live in their own land, without having to go abroad to have a guaranteed a better future. THEY ARE NOT FASCISTS.
Most of them can not comprehend their condition of extreme poverty in spite of clothes in a country with huge economic potential and unlimited natural resources. Venezuelans are exasperated by a corrupt regime that foments unprecedented social hatred and that does not respect human rights.
I thank God when I hear opponents call the Chavistas "brothers", when I see children give flowers to the police lined up against them and the many messages of solidarity of ordinary people around the world, while international organizations are in a shameful silence. --------------------------
I'm just going to leave this here for a while to gather what I think of this. But this is very clear that she supports the Opposition, and fascism, and any foreign intervention, despite what the gains Venezuelan Government performed for 15 years. Maybe she should see some of the footage around YouTube and maybe that will change her mind. But I doubt that.
The important passages are highlighted in bold.
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The Venezuelan opposition has sought ways to distance himself from the fascist nature of their violent demonstrations. To do this, they accuse Chavez of implementing specific actions against their movement, but that is over-at least it should be that way, as the granddaughter of himself Benito Mussolini, founder of fascism, wrote an open letter to the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, in which not only defends the terrible excesses of his father, but also shows its unconditional support to the Venezuelan right.
Here, is the introduction piece:
In his every speech, President Nicolas Maduro constantly emphasizes that the opposition and students who are demonstrating peacefully are "fascists" for nearly two months ago.
Given the violent and conflicting reality that is life in Venezuela, the president bolivariano was sent this particular open letter. The great-granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, Mussolini Martina, the head of state whom he accused of not knowing what is really fascism and being what is "opportunistic".
Martina Mussolini spent his adolescence in Venezuela, and twenty years living in Italy. "I had to leave why country as there was no future and am sorry to repeat to my children that I will not bring them to visit the places of my youth, as this nation is too dangerous," said the great-granddaughter of Italian dictator through the letter published in Noticiero Digital.
And here is the full letter by Martina Mussolini herself:
My name is Martina, and my grandfather Vittorio Mussolini was the son of Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism, a term that refers you constantly used lately. I understood perfectly, by their behavior, they do not really know what is really fascism, but does not know what is communism; his populist oratory without politics, just opportunistic and willing to root, Venezuela has been in total chaos.
I write from Italy, where I live for more than twenty years ago, but mostly I write as Venezuelan adoption, because although I was not born in Venezuela, but in Forlì (Editor's note:. Italia), I had been fortunate to spend my teenage years in this wonderful country, and in this difficult time, my heart and my feelings are towards my Venezuelan brothers. I had to leave why the country as there was no future and am sorry to repeat to my children that I will not bring them to know the places of my youth as it is too dangerous a nation where there is no respect for life and which should ensure justice very often are the first to betray.
The statesman who was my great-grandfather, Benito Mussolini, has fought, loved, and suffered for his people and at the time of his death, when he was hung by his feet in Piazzale Loreto, not a penny out of your pockets! You state as fascist, improperly, students and citizens who demonstrate peacefully for a free, secure, Venezuela and a future.
Mr President, if you apply a policy of dictatorial repression becomes increasingly crimes he coauthored what is fascism? Removing the only tragic stain of racial laws, fascism made an Italy in every corner, created a national identity and culture gave schools, built factories and cities, even with the few natural resources of Italy, connected villages. He crossed the Mediterranean carrying our civilization and our culture in Libya, Eritrea and Somalia, also built roads in those countries and schools, contrary to the colonial policies of the other countries that were essentially limited to exploit. It was understood that a war would have been harmful and when they sought help from democratic nations such as France and England, they refused. We launched into the arms of the Germans had to accept to defend; listen to the speeches of my great grandfather often naming the Germans and did it with contempt .. "ignorant people writing ... in a time when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus".
Mr. President, tell me what is fascism you name in every speech? Fascism is a revolutionary political movement that overcoming the liberal-democratic state and the communist state with a "third way", indicating that the construction of an ethical-hierarchical state founded on the corporate alternative to eliminating the exploitation is proposed capitalist class struggle to create a nation and thus a people conscious of its own mission.
Born in 1919 near the figure of Benito Mussolini and derived from what was left of the "interventista left" after the battles of the Great War, won in Italy by escuadrismo that annihilated the power of the socialist party and thanks to an act insurrection, the March on Rome, October 27 to 31, 1922, allowed its founder to be appointed Prime Minister. Fascism, once in power, had to give up its republican and revolutionary aspiration building a "dualistic system" where monarchical prerogatives long coexisted with the institutions of fascism proletarian inspiration. After the fall of Mussolini (25 July 1943) and the subsequent unconditional surrender of the Kingdom of Italy, fascism returned to power for a short time during the brief period of the Italian Social Republic where he could reacquire his Republican approach to start the social revolution that was among its founding myths forever.
Mr President, right or wrong, these people have left a mark in the history pages of glory quoted with pride and tears pages fiercely from one to the other frenteevocamos to remember.
Mr President, you know that over there fascism and its performance is still spoken today and just in the European Community by eminent economists for the progress and development that such movement can generate? If the fundamental principles manifest Verona implemented, Europe would be out of the economic crisis; if you only thought the English economist M. Shanks, director of the European Commission, who in his book "What is wrong with the modern world?" translated: "Que hay de equivocado en el mundo moderno?" precisely indicates the Corporate State of Mussolini, against persistent crisis of liberalism and Marxism as the only model to overcome the existing contrasts in Parliamentary Democracy, concluding with: "there is no alternative, it's either the Corporate State or collapse of the State "This makes you think deeply and says a world famous economist in the current context of the global crisis!
Let me say that those students that you unfairly perusing, these mothers, these women, these merchants, these workers, to all the wonderful people who freely expresses his feeling of living as Venezuelan people united and compact, not interested in the of left, right or center ideologies! They are hungry! They're tired of endless queues for a piece of bread, want to be able to heal at home where no medicines are terrified by a steady increase in crime and are not hampered by the security forces. Most of them can not understand his own extreme poverty still living in a country with huge natural resources and unlimited economic potential, which Italy has had neither.
The oceanic masses that invade Venezuela and Venezuelan streets are only brought to exasperation by an undemocratic, corrupt regime that promotes hatred, socialism precedent, and does not respect human rights; is a crime, I say it is a crime to follow the guidance of a country without a direction only by the lust for power.
I thank God when I hear opponents call "brothers" to Chavistas, when I see kids deliver flowers to policemen lined up in front of them and the many messages of solidarity of ordinary people around the world. It is at this point that I call upon the international community to intervene to alleviate the sufferings of the people, where are the international organizations that guarantee peace, progress, wherever they are! The tires that loses. I never get tired of giving my support for a free, united and at peace Venezuela.
Martina Mussolini
Source: http://www.laredoma.co.ve/2014/04/bisnieta-de-mussolini-escribe-carta.html
Translation based on Google Translate
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UPDATE 1: A person asked where the original source of this letter came from, so I searched it and found the real source article: http://www.noticierodigital.com/2014/04/bisnieta-de-mussolini-envia-carta-a-maduro-usted-no-sabe-que-es-realmente-el-fascismo/
UPDATE 2- 5:13pm: I was tipped off that the letter was actually originally written in Italian on her own Facebook page. I'm not going to bother posting the actual facebook page, but it does exist.
UPDATE 3: Here's the original letter and the English Translation. Can you spot the major difference? Clue: It's in all capital letters.
Here is the original letter in full:
Mi chiamo Martina Mussolini e mio nonno, Vittorio, era il figlio di Benito Mussolini, uno dei fondatori del sistema fascista che, ultimamente, lei usa a sproposito. Le scrivo dall'Italia dove risiedo da oltre vent'anni, le scrivo poiché nonostante io non sia nata in Venezuela, ho avuto la fortuna di trascorrere in quel meraviglioso paese la mia adolescenza e in questo momento difficile il mio cuore e i miei sentimenti sono con i miei fratelli venezuelani.
Ho dovuto lasciare il paese perché già allora non c'era nessun futuro per me e mi dispiace dover dire ogni volta ai miei figli che non li porterò nei luoghi della mia giovinezza poiché è uno stato troppo pericoloso, dove non c'è rispetto per la vita e coloro che dovrebbero garantire la giustizia, spesso, sono i primi a violarla.
Il grande statista che è stato il mio bisnonno, Benito Mussolini, ha lottato, amato e sofferto per il suo popolo e al momento della sua morte, quando è stato appeso per i piedi a piazzale Loreto, dalle sue tasche non è caduta nemmeno una lira!
Lei addita come fascisti degli studenti che manifestano perché nel loro paese non c'è sicurezza, mancano gli articoli di prima necessità, scarseggiano i medicinali e le possibilità di vivere una vita dignitosa sono inesistenti, dovuto alla corruzione, alla svalutazione della moneta e all'inflazione che hanno preso il sopravvento. Un paese censurato, senza libertà di espressione dove gli oppositori sono incarcerati ingiustamente.
Mi lasci dire, presidente, che a quegli studenti, a quei medici, a quelle mamme, a quelle nonne, a quei commercianti, a quei lavoratori, a tutto quel meraviglioso popolo non interessano le ideologie... Hanno fame! Sono stanchi di fare interminabili file per poter acquistare farina, latte, olio o caffè. Desiderano poter studiare, lavorare, ricevere adeguate cure mediche e vivere nella loro terra, senza dover andar all'estero per vedersi garantito un futuro migliore. NON SONO FASCISTI
La maggior parte di costoro non riesce a capacitarsi della propria condizione di estrema povertà nonostante abiti in un paese con enormi potenzialità economiche e illimitate risorse naturali. Sono venezuelani esasperati da un regime corrotto, che fomenta un odio sociale senza precedenti e che non rispetta i diritti umani.
Ringrazio Dio quando sento gli oppositori chiamare “fratelli” i Chavisti, quando vedo bambini porgere fiori ai poliziotti schierati contro di loro e i tanti messaggi di solidarietà della gente comune in tutto il mondo, mentre le organizzazione internazionali rimangono in un vergognoso silenzio.
English Translation here:
My name is Martina Mussolini. My grandfather , Victor , was the son of Benito Mussolini, one of the founders of the fascist system that , ultimately, she used inappropriately. I am writing from Italy where I live for over twenty years, I write because even though I was not born in Venezuela, I had the good fortune to spend in this wonderful country during my teenage years and during this difficult time my heart and my feelings are with my Venezuelan brothers.
I had to leave the country because even then there was no future for me, and I'm sorry to have to say everytime my children that I can't bring them in the places of my youth because this country is too dangerous, there is no respect for the life and those who should ensure justice, often are the first to violate it.
The great statesman who was my great-grandfather, Benito Mussolini, fought, loved and suffered for his people and at the time of his death, when he was hung by his feet in Piazzale Loreto, from his pockets did not fall even a penny!
She points out how the fascists of the students who manifest in their country because there is no security, shortage of basic goods , medicines are in short supply and the opportunity to live a dignified life are non-existent, due to corruption, devaluation of the currency and inflation have taken over the economy. A censored country without freedom of expression where opponents are imprisoned unjustly.
Let me tell you, President, that those students, those doctors, those mothers, to those grandmothers, those traders, to those workers, to all the wonderful people not interested in ideologies ... They are hungry ! They're tired of doing endless lines to buy flour, milk, oil or coffee. They want to be able to study, work, receive appropriate medical care and live in their own land, without having to go abroad to have a guaranteed a better future. THEY ARE NOT FASCISTS.
Most of them can not comprehend their condition of extreme poverty in spite of clothes in a country with huge economic potential and unlimited natural resources. Venezuelans are exasperated by a corrupt regime that foments unprecedented social hatred and that does not respect human rights.
I thank God when I hear opponents call the Chavistas "brothers", when I see children give flowers to the police lined up against them and the many messages of solidarity of ordinary people around the world, while international organizations are in a shameful silence. --------------------------
I'm just going to leave this here for a while to gather what I think of this. But this is very clear that she supports the Opposition, and fascism, and any foreign intervention, despite what the gains Venezuelan Government performed for 15 years. Maybe she should see some of the footage around YouTube and maybe that will change her mind. But I doubt that.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
The Liberation of San Cristobal and Dangers of Using Makeshift Mortars
"...the best present we can give to San Cristobal is the return of our children to school and of our good people to work".
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-Governor Jose Vielma Mora (PSUV - Governor of Tachira)
Early April, the Venezuelan Army was sent into Tachira State to retake the city of San Cristobal, support the National Guard and to dismantle Guarimbas erected in the city of San Cristobal. More specifically, the they cleaned up the barricades in avenues Carabobo, Ferrero Tamayo and Espana. It makes a lot of sense for the Army to dismantle the barricades, because regualr people tried to and some of them got shot and killed for exercising their consitutional right to freedom of movement (see article 50 of the Venezuelan Consitution 1999)
The City of San Cristobal was held under internal siege by barricades and violent groups opposed to the PSUV government since February 12. It's has been like this until recently becuase the mayor of the city Daniel Ceballos not only allowed it, but ordered the building of the barricades. An amparo order was filed in the First Instance Court on Tachia where it was sent to the Consitutional Branch of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas. On Mid-march the constitutional branch ordered the opposition mayors to use whatever means legally necessary to dismantle and prevent guarimbas in their jurisdiction. They're now sitting in prison.
Here's something of interest:
The mayor of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos of the opposition Popular Will party, was removed from office and sentenced last week to 12 months in prison for failing to order the removal of the barricades.
Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled that Mr Ceballos had not only failed to guarantee public order but had lent his support to groups engaging in violent protests.
You can read the actual article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26815745
Now the real reason why they are now in prison is because they were held in contempt of court for being not in compliance of Writ of Amparo. It was not a summary trial in a dictatorship sense, it's a different judicial system.
Venezuela's legal system is based on continental law, not on common law. Many trials are bench trials so there are no jury system. His hearing on the contempt of court case had 12 witnesses from the Public Ministry and the Public Defender, and after the 8 hour bench trial he was found in contemt of court. But it's not just any contempt of court, it's a contempt of precautionary ampario.
Under section 31 of the Organic Law for the Protection of Constitutional Rights and Guarantees 1988 anyone who derelicts this type of judicial order can be sent to prison from 6 to 15 months.
Businesses, school, and stores were not open due to the blockades by these extreme opposition groups. Hopefully, the city can return to normal despite the over the month long disruption. At the same time the CNE is planning new elections since the two mayors are in absolute absense in their time in prison.
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In other news related to the Guarimba Insurrection of 2014 40 people are now dead, mostly related to the barricades. The 39th death was on of particualr interest: Makeshift mortars.
These types of mortars are being used by the guarimbos. What they do is that they use them using plastic or metal, put a firework rocket in it. Light it up, aim, and watch as the fireworks launch and explode.
There are a few examples of those weapons in action on YouTube, such as the excellent video/music documentary from opposition-aligned website Confidential Report.
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These weapons if aimed properly can cause injuries to the target and they've been used more nowadays by the violent groups.
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Now the segment where the battle truly begins on the highway is where it's important as it is the the same makeshift mortars that the person I'm about to talk about.
The 33 year old Italian-Venezuelan, Roberto Annese, was killed by his own weapon when a firework blew apart his mortar on his chest. I first found this out from la iguana YouTube channel (which is connected to VTV's program Falling and Running, a political analysis show)
Now that version does include the gory result of what happened after the explosion, but the link is in the description section of the video.
And here are a few articles about it. Note that the incident occured in the State of Zulia.
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(The prisoners tried to escape in an armored van) Zulia: Autopsy confirms that Robert Annese died from shock caused by explosives
A citizen identified as Robert Annese, 33, died early yesterday in the vicinity of urbanization The Orangery, north of Maracaibo, allegedly while handling an explosive device, on the roof of the residence 15J -1-11 - which exploded and caused injuries to the chest and other body areas.
The victim would be the first in Zulia under fascist violence that has sparked the Venezuelan right since last February. Removal of the corpse officials conducted the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC), accompanied by members of the Public Ministry and the Bolivarian Police Corps of Zulia (Cbpez) around 7:00 am. Yesterday, the Minister for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, said the citizen's death was due the explosion of a mortar. "What was done in the chest was a huge hole created by the explosion of the tube and mortar obviously seen that was not a shot," he told a TV channel. "Forensic report and the autopsy results suggest that the cause of death was a shock of high impact explosive homemade at upper right chest.
The removal of a piece of elongated material, another piece of cardboard and a piece of metal 5 mm thick 8.9 in diameter with a weight of 300 grams which we presume was achieved is a chip or part of the tube used to fire these fires converted into explosive pyrotechnic "Rodriguez Torres. added, "are trying to manipulate some media saying it was a student which is false.
When the boy dies (...) six more people move the body of the crime scene and try to change everything. "
These people then tried to flee. "friends" and family Annese not want to recognize the cause of death Annese and officials blamed Cbpez as the cause of death of young. Annese studied at Wentworth Military College in Missouri, United States and was a cousin of the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Maracaibo, Luigi Annese. State authorities repudiated the violence.
So did the governor of Zulia, Francisco Arias Cárdenas.
While the mayor Eveling Trejo, through the social network, stated: "All our support for the families of the young Robert Annese.
How long the country is filled with blood of our boys? ". G / B July Yepez Castro, director of the Bolivarian Police Corps Zulia State (Cpbez), at a press conference, said that after the fact, in The Orangery were arrested six people who accompany Annese minutes before death and were inside a Ford Explorer armored 2004 plates VBV95T. Arrested were Mary Esneida Fernández Andrade (22 years), José Urdaneta Rodríguez (22), Douglas Enrique Bracho Corner (27), Jharry Alberth Olivar Charity (22), Marcos Chabero Javier Torres (23) and Fernando Campos Lizardo, (28). Yepez Castro stressed that defendants were seized "gas masks, rolls of barbed wire, rods fireworks, lighters, screwdrivers and a cell phone (...) the boys have no background and are not college students.
Regarding Annese reference we have of the fatal victim is not a student. " director Cpbez officials stressed that the 15 installed in the area "reported that around 2:00 am were being besieged by a strongly group of people who were attacking the checkpoint with Molotov cocktails, stones, bottles and mortar.
It is virtually impossible from that place where the officers were (using nonlethal weapons) may have reached the deceased and the height where he was. " the Public Ministry, through a press release, said it has started research related to the death of Annese.
It was learned that the investigation will be led by the prosecutor 11th of Zulia, Lisbeth Dávila. Finally, Minister Rodríguez Torres made a call to the public was to disengage from these acts."
"We are children of the same country, so the call is for parents to supervise their children some linked with violent groups," he said.
http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n248086.html
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Now here's the version form the Panorama newspaper:
Robert Annese have died after mortar exploded: unofficial
Robert Annese, who died early this Saturday at The Orangery urbanization, have died after a mortar explode amid defending a barricade occurred at 4:45 am in the north of Maracaibo.
Information is unofficial in nature and expected to be confirmed within hours by the authorities.
Another version is that he was shot in the chest when he was on the roof of a house defending a barricade before the arrival of troops from the Bolivarian Police in Zulia State.
Witnesses have said Annese would have been shot by members of the Police of Zulia state, but will the authorities to determine what happened. Friends and relatives indicated in the morgue of Maracaibo, the version of the mortar is claiming the police were in place, but it is "false".
The body presented a deep wound in the chest. He was hooded. The site also noted a mortar and several homemade Molotov cocktails.
"That's what they say, but it is not true. He was killed after being shot in the chest," a close friend outside the city medical examiner.
Another relative said the following:. "Roberto was on the roof of one of the houses defending a barricade when committing the police arrived, was there when they started to face and shot him in the chest then arrested five students took the Police Headquarters. "
The governor of Zulia state, Francisco Arias Cárdenas, also spoke and wrote about what happened through his twitter account that "refers Commander @ CPBEZ death of a person by explosion of a device Justice must act. promptly and truth. zuliano The people want to live in peace and tranquility. Stop Violence God! # ZuliaTerritorioDePaz ".
Annese was divorced and leaves a child of eight.
Source: http://panorama.com.ve/portal/app/push/noticia106277.php
Now six people who was with Roberto is now arrested and now being questioned by SEBIN, because the offense has a political motive.
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Remand for the six detainees related to the death of Robert Annese
4/1/2014
The court hearing the case on the death of Robert Annese on Monday night orderd remand to the six people who were arrested last Saturday and ordered the arrest order be executed by the at the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), judicial sources said.
Mary Esneida Fernandez (22), José Urdaneta Rodríguez (22), Douglas Enrique Bracho Corner (27) Jharry Olivar Charity (22), Mark Javier Chaberro Torres (23), and Luzardo and Fernando Campos (28) have accused of conspiracy offenses, public incitement and possession of incendiary devices.
Yesterday around 11:00 AM the detainees were transferred to SEBIN under tight security.
According to authorities, Annese died when a mortar he was using exploded Saturday.
Source :http://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n248228.html
-Governor Jose Vielma Mora (PSUV - Governor of Tachira)
Early April, the Venezuelan Army was sent into Tachira State to retake the city of San Cristobal, support the National Guard and to dismantle Guarimbas erected in the city of San Cristobal. More specifically, the they cleaned up the barricades in avenues Carabobo, Ferrero Tamayo and Espana. It makes a lot of sense for the Army to dismantle the barricades, because regualr people tried to and some of them got shot and killed for exercising their consitutional right to freedom of movement (see article 50 of the Venezuelan Consitution 1999)
The City of San Cristobal was held under internal siege by barricades and violent groups opposed to the PSUV government since February 12. It's has been like this until recently becuase the mayor of the city Daniel Ceballos not only allowed it, but ordered the building of the barricades. An amparo order was filed in the First Instance Court on Tachia where it was sent to the Consitutional Branch of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas. On Mid-march the constitutional branch ordered the opposition mayors to use whatever means legally necessary to dismantle and prevent guarimbas in their jurisdiction. They're now sitting in prison.
Here's something of interest:
The mayor of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos of the opposition Popular Will party, was removed from office and sentenced last week to 12 months in prison for failing to order the removal of the barricades.
Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled that Mr Ceballos had not only failed to guarantee public order but had lent his support to groups engaging in violent protests.
You can read the actual article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26815745
Now the real reason why they are now in prison is because they were held in contempt of court for being not in compliance of Writ of Amparo. It was not a summary trial in a dictatorship sense, it's a different judicial system.
Venezuela's legal system is based on continental law, not on common law. Many trials are bench trials so there are no jury system. His hearing on the contempt of court case had 12 witnesses from the Public Ministry and the Public Defender, and after the 8 hour bench trial he was found in contemt of court. But it's not just any contempt of court, it's a contempt of precautionary ampario.
Under section 31 of the Organic Law for the Protection of Constitutional Rights and Guarantees 1988 anyone who derelicts this type of judicial order can be sent to prison from 6 to 15 months.
Businesses, school, and stores were not open due to the blockades by these extreme opposition groups. Hopefully, the city can return to normal despite the over the month long disruption. At the same time the CNE is planning new elections since the two mayors are in absolute absense in their time in prison.
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In other news related to the Guarimba Insurrection of 2014 40 people are now dead, mostly related to the barricades. The 39th death was on of particualr interest: Makeshift mortars.
These types of mortars are being used by the guarimbos. What they do is that they use them using plastic or metal, put a firework rocket in it. Light it up, aim, and watch as the fireworks launch and explode.
There are a few examples of those weapons in action on YouTube, such as the excellent video/music documentary from opposition-aligned website Confidential Report.
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"Here, we will stay here as long as necessary." Santa Fe (Caracas) March 26, 2010
These weapons if aimed properly can cause injuries to the target and they've been used more nowadays by the violent groups.
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Now the segment where the battle truly begins on the highway is where it's important as it is the the same makeshift mortars that the person I'm about to talk about.
The 33 year old Italian-Venezuelan, Roberto Annese, was killed by his own weapon when a firework blew apart his mortar on his chest. I first found this out from la iguana YouTube channel (which is connected to VTV's program Falling and Running, a political analysis show)
Firing from this form is what killed Roberto Annese
Now that version does include the gory result of what happened after the explosion, but the link is in the description section of the video.
And here are a few articles about it. Note that the incident occured in the State of Zulia.
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(The prisoners tried to escape in an armored van) Zulia: Autopsy confirms that Robert Annese died from shock caused by explosives
A citizen identified as Robert Annese, 33, died early yesterday in the vicinity of urbanization The Orangery, north of Maracaibo, allegedly while handling an explosive device, on the roof of the residence 15J -1-11 - which exploded and caused injuries to the chest and other body areas.
The victim would be the first in Zulia under fascist violence that has sparked the Venezuelan right since last February. Removal of the corpse officials conducted the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC), accompanied by members of the Public Ministry and the Bolivarian Police Corps of Zulia (Cbpez) around 7:00 am. Yesterday, the Minister for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, said the citizen's death was due the explosion of a mortar. "What was done in the chest was a huge hole created by the explosion of the tube and mortar obviously seen that was not a shot," he told a TV channel. "Forensic report and the autopsy results suggest that the cause of death was a shock of high impact explosive homemade at upper right chest.
The removal of a piece of elongated material, another piece of cardboard and a piece of metal 5 mm thick 8.9 in diameter with a weight of 300 grams which we presume was achieved is a chip or part of the tube used to fire these fires converted into explosive pyrotechnic "Rodriguez Torres. added, "are trying to manipulate some media saying it was a student which is false.
When the boy dies (...) six more people move the body of the crime scene and try to change everything. "
These people then tried to flee. "friends" and family Annese not want to recognize the cause of death Annese and officials blamed Cbpez as the cause of death of young. Annese studied at Wentworth Military College in Missouri, United States and was a cousin of the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Maracaibo, Luigi Annese. State authorities repudiated the violence.
So did the governor of Zulia, Francisco Arias Cárdenas.
While the mayor Eveling Trejo, through the social network, stated: "All our support for the families of the young Robert Annese.
How long the country is filled with blood of our boys? ". G / B July Yepez Castro, director of the Bolivarian Police Corps Zulia State (Cpbez), at a press conference, said that after the fact, in The Orangery were arrested six people who accompany Annese minutes before death and were inside a Ford Explorer armored 2004 plates VBV95T. Arrested were Mary Esneida Fernández Andrade (22 years), José Urdaneta Rodríguez (22), Douglas Enrique Bracho Corner (27), Jharry Alberth Olivar Charity (22), Marcos Chabero Javier Torres (23) and Fernando Campos Lizardo, (28). Yepez Castro stressed that defendants were seized "gas masks, rolls of barbed wire, rods fireworks, lighters, screwdrivers and a cell phone (...) the boys have no background and are not college students.
Regarding Annese reference we have of the fatal victim is not a student. " director Cpbez officials stressed that the 15 installed in the area "reported that around 2:00 am were being besieged by a strongly group of people who were attacking the checkpoint with Molotov cocktails, stones, bottles and mortar.
It is virtually impossible from that place where the officers were (using nonlethal weapons) may have reached the deceased and the height where he was. " the Public Ministry, through a press release, said it has started research related to the death of Annese.
It was learned that the investigation will be led by the prosecutor 11th of Zulia, Lisbeth Dávila. Finally, Minister Rodríguez Torres made a call to the public was to disengage from these acts."
"We are children of the same country, so the call is for parents to supervise their children some linked with violent groups," he said.
http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n248086.html
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Now here's the version form the Panorama newspaper:
Robert Annese have died after mortar exploded: unofficial
Robert Annese, who died early this Saturday at The Orangery urbanization, have died after a mortar explode amid defending a barricade occurred at 4:45 am in the north of Maracaibo.
Information is unofficial in nature and expected to be confirmed within hours by the authorities.
Another version is that he was shot in the chest when he was on the roof of a house defending a barricade before the arrival of troops from the Bolivarian Police in Zulia State.
Witnesses have said Annese would have been shot by members of the Police of Zulia state, but will the authorities to determine what happened. Friends and relatives indicated in the morgue of Maracaibo, the version of the mortar is claiming the police were in place, but it is "false".
The body presented a deep wound in the chest. He was hooded. The site also noted a mortar and several homemade Molotov cocktails.
"That's what they say, but it is not true. He was killed after being shot in the chest," a close friend outside the city medical examiner.
Another relative said the following:. "Roberto was on the roof of one of the houses defending a barricade when committing the police arrived, was there when they started to face and shot him in the chest then arrested five students took the Police Headquarters. "
The governor of Zulia state, Francisco Arias Cárdenas, also spoke and wrote about what happened through his twitter account that "refers Commander @ CPBEZ death of a person by explosion of a device Justice must act. promptly and truth. zuliano The people want to live in peace and tranquility. Stop Violence God! # ZuliaTerritorioDePaz ".
Annese was divorced and leaves a child of eight.
Source: http://panorama.com.ve/portal/app/push/noticia106277.php
Now six people who was with Roberto is now arrested and now being questioned by SEBIN, because the offense has a political motive.
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Remand for the six detainees related to the death of Robert Annese
4/1/2014
The court hearing the case on the death of Robert Annese on Monday night orderd remand to the six people who were arrested last Saturday and ordered the arrest order be executed by the at the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), judicial sources said.
Mary Esneida Fernandez (22), José Urdaneta Rodríguez (22), Douglas Enrique Bracho Corner (27) Jharry Olivar Charity (22), Mark Javier Chaberro Torres (23), and Luzardo and Fernando Campos (28) have accused of conspiracy offenses, public incitement and possession of incendiary devices.
Yesterday around 11:00 AM the detainees were transferred to SEBIN under tight security.
According to authorities, Annese died when a mortar he was using exploded Saturday.
Source :http://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n248228.html
Venezuela: A Call for Peace, posted on a International Venezuela Opposition Supporter Newspaper
After weeks of what amounts to be propaganda against a sovereign state benefiting it's working-class people it has come this: New York Times posting a Op-Ed from the Son of Chavez himself.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — THE recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events.
Venezuelans are proud of our democracy. We have built a participatory democratic movement from the grass roots that has ensured that both power and resources are equitably distributed among our people.
According to the United Nations, Venezuela has consistently reduced inequality: It now has the lowest income inequality in the region. We have reduced poverty enormously — to 25.4 percent in 2012, on the World Bank’s data, from 49 percent in 1998; in the same period, according to government statistics, extreme poverty diminished to 6 percent from 21 percent.
We have created flagship universal health care and education programs, free to our citizens nationwide. We have achieved these feats in large part by using revenue from Venezuelan oil.
While our social policies have improved citizens’ lives over all, the government has also confronted serious economic challenges in the past 16 months, including inflation and shortages of basic goods. We continue to find solutions through measures like our new market-based foreign exchange system, which is designed to reduce the black market exchange rate. And we are monitoring businesses to ensure they are not gouging consumers or hoarding products. Venezuela has also struggled with a high crime rate. We are addressing this by building a new national police force, strengthening community-police cooperation and revamping our prison system.
Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/opinion/venezuela-a-call-for-peace.html
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It's clear that the US Government does not want a successful Socialist government in Latin America. Think about it: What if the coup that occurred Chile in 1973 failed? Socialism would spread from that country to Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and possibly all the way to Mexico. It would not be a one-party state but a democratic socialist state, ruled by the working-class public and not bureaucrats. And if the American public had any ideas, it would be game over and they would have to concede, or turn reactionist which the Venezuelan opposition has eventually devolved into.
Despite the massive gains the Venezuelan Government has accomplished there is much to be done. Primarily with the labor movement and democracy. The Venezuean government is in a state of market socialism or the 1st stage of socialism. The second step of socialism is to allow workers to own and control the means of production and their workplaces and with the PDVSA and government owned businesses: Keep them under government ownership but must allow workers to control the means!
The only thing left to do then is deal with the relics of deficient (bourgeois) democracy, as Venezuela has already innovating with participatory democracy. Expand participatory democracy and you'll replace this so called deficient democracy with a revitalized one!
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CARACAS, Venezuela — THE recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events.
Venezuelans are proud of our democracy. We have built a participatory democratic movement from the grass roots that has ensured that both power and resources are equitably distributed among our people.
According to the United Nations, Venezuela has consistently reduced inequality: It now has the lowest income inequality in the region. We have reduced poverty enormously — to 25.4 percent in 2012, on the World Bank’s data, from 49 percent in 1998; in the same period, according to government statistics, extreme poverty diminished to 6 percent from 21 percent.
We have created flagship universal health care and education programs, free to our citizens nationwide. We have achieved these feats in large part by using revenue from Venezuelan oil.
While our social policies have improved citizens’ lives over all, the government has also confronted serious economic challenges in the past 16 months, including inflation and shortages of basic goods. We continue to find solutions through measures like our new market-based foreign exchange system, which is designed to reduce the black market exchange rate. And we are monitoring businesses to ensure they are not gouging consumers or hoarding products. Venezuela has also struggled with a high crime rate. We are addressing this by building a new national police force, strengthening community-police cooperation and revamping our prison system.
Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/opinion/venezuela-a-call-for-peace.html
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It's clear that the US Government does not want a successful Socialist government in Latin America. Think about it: What if the coup that occurred Chile in 1973 failed? Socialism would spread from that country to Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and possibly all the way to Mexico. It would not be a one-party state but a democratic socialist state, ruled by the working-class public and not bureaucrats. And if the American public had any ideas, it would be game over and they would have to concede, or turn reactionist which the Venezuelan opposition has eventually devolved into.
Despite the massive gains the Venezuelan Government has accomplished there is much to be done. Primarily with the labor movement and democracy. The Venezuean government is in a state of market socialism or the 1st stage of socialism. The second step of socialism is to allow workers to own and control the means of production and their workplaces and with the PDVSA and government owned businesses: Keep them under government ownership but must allow workers to control the means!
The only thing left to do then is deal with the relics of deficient (bourgeois) democracy, as Venezuela has already innovating with participatory democracy. Expand participatory democracy and you'll replace this so called deficient democracy with a revitalized one!
Venezuela’s "Failing" State
Los Teques, Venezuela — As I compose these words from the Ramo Verde military prison outside Caracas, I am struck by how much Venezuelans have suffered.
For 15 years, the definition of “intolerable” in this country has declined by degrees until, to our dismay, we found ourselves with one of the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere, a 57 percent inflation rate and a scarcity of basic goods unprecedented outside of wartime.
Our crippled economy is matched by an equally oppressive political climate. Since student protests began on Feb. 4, more than 1,500 protesters have been detained and more than 50 have reported that they were tortured while in police custody. Over 30 people, including security forces and civilians, have died in the demonstrations. What started as a peaceful march against crime on a university campus has exposed the depth of this government’s criminalization of dissent.
I have been in prison for more than a month. On Feb. 12, I urged Venezuelans to exercise their legal rights to protest and free speech — but to do so peacefully and without violence. Three people were shot and killed that day. An analysis of video by the news organization Últimas Noticias determined that shots were fired from the direction of plainclothes military troops.
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You can just read the rest of this article here The editoral was originally published in a opposition Venezuelan newspaper.
As he wrote these words from the military prison, he was struck on how much the upper-class Venezuelans have "suffered". If Venezuela has a high crime rate, why they're are most likely situated in barrios, where they've already taken care of by their own communities while the upper-class have their own private neighborhoods with security. A 57 percent inflation rate because they import almost all of their goods because Venezuela is still a oil based economy. And a scarcity of basic goods because the working-class has more purchasing power than ever before, and currently the industry can't keep up (not to mention that we self-inflicted that shortage by hording goods, smuggling subsized basic goods to Columbia for political ends!)
His crippled econmy is mated by a equally oppressive political climate against the hostile economiclly privileged. Since his guarimba insurrection started more than 1500 insurgents have been arrested and a small portion of that are awaiting trial for serious offenses including murder. 40 people, 15 of them who are apolitical, 12 of the PSUV alined, with 6 people from the police and national guard, are killed. What started harmless campaign for a change in government turned into soft coup disgused as a student movement.
A response to this Op-Ed from of all places, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With reference to the opinion article entitled "Venezuela’s failing state", written by Mr. Leopoldo López, which first appeared in The New York Times and was republished by Saudi Gazette on March 27, 2014, I would like to use my “right to reply” when something biased and false is published about the country that I have the honor to represent.
Mr. Lopez is a politician who unfortunately became known to the international public in April 2002, when he was an active supporter and participant of the failed coup, which only lasted 47 hours, against the elected President Hugo Chávez. At that time, being Mayor of Chacao, one of the districts of Caracas, he committed serious crimes against the Constitution as well as the human rights of the then Minister of Interior and Justice (among others). He was also disqualified from holding public office for three years from November 2008 for being involved in corrupt practices, including embezzlement of public funds.
Leopoldo López, a convulsive politician of the opposition, reappeared on the international scene making a public call in early February 2014 to subvert the national public order and forcibly depose the elected government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This new coup attempt has caused until now the death of more than 30 Venezuelans, while hundreds have been injured and public property has been destroyed.
Mr. Leopoldo López has been in jail since February 18, accused of intentional homicide, terrorism, causing serious damage, incitement to crime and damage to public property. What is written in the article has nothing to do with what is taking place in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Seriously, what failing state?
For 15 years, the definition of “intolerable” in this country has declined by degrees until, to our dismay, we found ourselves with one of the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere, a 57 percent inflation rate and a scarcity of basic goods unprecedented outside of wartime.
Our crippled economy is matched by an equally oppressive political climate. Since student protests began on Feb. 4, more than 1,500 protesters have been detained and more than 50 have reported that they were tortured while in police custody. Over 30 people, including security forces and civilians, have died in the demonstrations. What started as a peaceful march against crime on a university campus has exposed the depth of this government’s criminalization of dissent.
I have been in prison for more than a month. On Feb. 12, I urged Venezuelans to exercise their legal rights to protest and free speech — but to do so peacefully and without violence. Three people were shot and killed that day. An analysis of video by the news organization Últimas Noticias determined that shots were fired from the direction of plainclothes military troops.
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You can just read the rest of this article here The editoral was originally published in a opposition Venezuelan newspaper.
As he wrote these words from the military prison, he was struck on how much the upper-class Venezuelans have "suffered". If Venezuela has a high crime rate, why they're are most likely situated in barrios, where they've already taken care of by their own communities while the upper-class have their own private neighborhoods with security. A 57 percent inflation rate because they import almost all of their goods because Venezuela is still a oil based economy. And a scarcity of basic goods because the working-class has more purchasing power than ever before, and currently the industry can't keep up (not to mention that we self-inflicted that shortage by hording goods, smuggling subsized basic goods to Columbia for political ends!)
His crippled econmy is mated by a equally oppressive political climate against the hostile economiclly privileged. Since his guarimba insurrection started more than 1500 insurgents have been arrested and a small portion of that are awaiting trial for serious offenses including murder. 40 people, 15 of them who are apolitical, 12 of the PSUV alined, with 6 people from the police and national guard, are killed. What started harmless campaign for a change in government turned into soft coup disgused as a student movement.
A response to this Op-Ed from of all places, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With reference to the opinion article entitled "Venezuela’s failing state", written by Mr. Leopoldo López, which first appeared in The New York Times and was republished by Saudi Gazette on March 27, 2014, I would like to use my “right to reply” when something biased and false is published about the country that I have the honor to represent.
Mr. Lopez is a politician who unfortunately became known to the international public in April 2002, when he was an active supporter and participant of the failed coup, which only lasted 47 hours, against the elected President Hugo Chávez. At that time, being Mayor of Chacao, one of the districts of Caracas, he committed serious crimes against the Constitution as well as the human rights of the then Minister of Interior and Justice (among others). He was also disqualified from holding public office for three years from November 2008 for being involved in corrupt practices, including embezzlement of public funds.
Leopoldo López, a convulsive politician of the opposition, reappeared on the international scene making a public call in early February 2014 to subvert the national public order and forcibly depose the elected government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This new coup attempt has caused until now the death of more than 30 Venezuelans, while hundreds have been injured and public property has been destroyed.
Mr. Leopoldo López has been in jail since February 18, accused of intentional homicide, terrorism, causing serious damage, incitement to crime and damage to public property. What is written in the article has nothing to do with what is taking place in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Seriously, what failing state?
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
"One can’t keep playing around with Maduro’s assassin government and its insincere calls for peace"
On March 20, 2014. Political Commentator Pompeyo Marquez written a essay called "Clear Objective: One can’t keep playing around with Maduro’s assassin government and its insincere calls for peace" on the moderate by opposition newspaper "Ultimas Noticias". The piece clearly did not said anything about a coup against the Maduro government, but did called for a "transitional government" to restore a "Civil Republic" and "Democracy", and that the opposition must "stand united" against Maduro's socialist government.
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POMPEYO MÁRQUEZ - Clear Objective
March 20, 2014
One can not keep playing into Maduro's assassin government , with it's insincere calls for peace
In every struggle for freedom , you need to be clear about the objective you are pursued . In this we fight today is evident that this is a ripe maneuver to defeat and conquer a government to govern for all and to unify the country , which can not be further divided into two pieces .
You can not keep playing into Maduro's assassin government , and its insincere called to peace .
A totalitarian character, which has proved its impracticality , its failure, and other democratic character, based on the National Constitution, which states that Venezuela is and always will be democratic: In this confrontation two types of companies are on the board.
This should not be forgotten in no time. Behold precisely the cause of the crisis, and it may only be overcome while Maduro remains in power.
Venezuela needs a transitional government to call new elections and institutionalize the country , with the return to the Civil Republic and Democracy. This is to normalize the country .
Venezuela is experiencing a deep crisis that can not be resolved with warm cloths . This crisis is out: creating a new government, which, as stated above, should be transitional .
Venezuela can not continue living like this. A country without rule of law takes refuge in repression causing dozens of deaths, using torture, must have limits on their actions and their future must be change, but change in a democratic direction .
Maduro has taken refuge in repression. It will go down in history as one of the assassin governments, even dictatorships like Perez Jimenez.
The crisis rocking the country is systemic, ie, covering all areas of national life. There is no partial solution to the problems. Then we have the economic crisis, which has no outlet but a shift. So things are raised.
As for the opposition, which has closer ties to the country and make a choice that is attractive , and that is none other than democratic choice. But the opposition has to stand united and open to new perspectives for the country. A new way of living where all Venezuelans live together and know that we are all treated equally, without degrading insults, and without deepening existing wounds.
Political leader
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Source: http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/opinion/firmas/pompeyo-marquez/objetivo-claro.aspx
Translation Based on Google Translate
I've highlighted the three sections of the essay in bold.
The first one is this: The need for a transitional government. They've tried doing this via soft coup, which has already failed. The Maduro government already made headways, and people in opposition controlled areas are pissed off of the guarimbos. As a matter of fact the National Guard and Venezuelan Army has just liberated the City of San Christobal from Guraimbas and Guarimbos despite some resistance yesterday on 3/31/2014.
Even if there was a transitional government, if it happens you know what's going to happen it one is ever established!
The other way is via the electoral manner, via a recall referendum. But they've already tried that with Chavez with Capiles, and it failed! As soon as Capriles lost and he called for his supporters to "pour their rage!" the people have gotten a taste of what would happen if Capriles actually won the presidency.
People who are aligned via the PSUV and the normally apolitically persons who usually vote for either the PSUV or the opposition have no interest in the opposition what so ever, after all the mayhem they put up with.
Already we have three local public officials jailed for contempt of court! And those local officials will most likely be replaced by PSUV members.
The second: The Venezuelan Constitution and the laws clear state against torture and excessive force. Over 60 instances of violations of the Constitution are already been investigated by the Public Ministry. Many of the repression the mainstream media in the US showed and the opposition media routinely showed were considered necessary force because they were either blocking the highways, obstructing public rights of movement , violently attacking the public who dared dismantled the barricades. As a matter of fact instead of aggressively attacking the barricades (inadvertently causing a media show for the opposition in American media), they let the Guarimbos burn themselves out.
And how they do that? They just take defensive positions and smoke them out using tear gas. Once they eventually get tired out and scattered, they proceed to arrest them using motorcycles. It's a very efficient strategy.
The third: The Opposition has already been fractured, and just today it has even got worse. Ex-assembly woman Machado, already got slapped in the face by the Organization of American states for trying to talk about the country (A few days ago the OAS made a statement clearly supporting the country.), has now has her lost of seat in the Assembly confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice, yesterday. Lopez is already in a military prison (for his own protection, from his own political party) for arson, property damage, criminal association, and public incitement to crime. Machado is already facing the same fate, but add high treason to the mix of charges. Capriles is lucky he's not in prison yet as he's still not doing his job as a Governor of Miranda state and still being a sore loser!
It's clear that the Government and Venezuelan public want peace for the opposition who actually wants dialogue, but several times, the political opposition (not the economic, social, intellectual opposition) refused. So the strategy is clear: Reconcile with the moderates, repress the criminal and extreme opposition. It's actually a good strategy than going full Stalin.
So, yeah, Maduro's is not running an "assassin government", the Venezuelan opposition on the other hand is doing most of the assassination. With now 39 people dead.
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