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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The Nature of the Venezuelan right

15 years after the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan Opposition (MUD) has still not won a single election, except a victory in a referendum of constitutional amendments that would like Cuba entrench socialism in the country. Instead of making reasonable alternatives to socialist policies, instead of creating opposition bills in the legislature, instead of making reasonable solutions to economic, inflation, and insecurity in the country, all this time they've been trying to regain power. Not regain power within in a system of democratic constitutional order, but outside it.

The end result is the ongoing coups, insurrection, media and economic war has been on going since 10 years ago. And now it has led to the Cucuta Connection, which will be detailed at a later post (Hopefully). Thankfully SEBIN found out about it and those suspects are in prison awaiting trial.

Mission Veradad (Mission Truth), posted a column explaining why the MUD (Democratic Unity Roundtable) is focused on gaining power back instead of earning their power back by actually solving problems.
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With two months to ask the head of Aveledo, the MUD still struggles to assume the chair moves so gloomy character. The MUD is divided with the creation of the MID. For one walk guarimbeo enthusiasts, on the other, those who say they support (but I do not support it), trying to protect their tiny political capital.

Capriles collapsed in the clearest being ostracized, hated by many who were his followers, for "ambiguous", "demobilizing" and wrong way to "do politics". Hardly anyone says anything including Leopoldo, Ledezma wants to be President, MariCori plays offside by election campaign. Finally.

In no easy circumstances for the country, in the midst of a tough economic warfare, anyone could believe that the opposition could have assumed a vanguard role that would allow Capriles to gain space. It has not been. By contrast, right after Maduro was elected came electoral defeats (such as municipal elections) division, demobilization, loss of support and failure.

The guarimba [insurrection] only served to gain more ground to Chavismo and to generate a loss of cohesion between the leaders and the followers of the right. Despite the enormous resources coming from abroad, the substantial pension to the internal businessmen that financed the leadership of the right means at their service and a large base of support  - that is a basic dissatisfaction with the Government to support them - right still called "opposition" and his name is unsuccessful.

But such a failure must be explained in some way. Review what can be some variables that affect outcome as fatal to them. These are essentially expressions of the fundamental codes with the right "know how to do politics." These are issues of congenital right behavior, formulas, patterns, reproduced in high places and come downstream. They are elements of his own nature that have inhibited their political success and that it is impossible to discard.

-Personalist Business entity: As a matter of policy and the pseudo inherited from the older AD-COPEI tradition, MUD, or MID and etceteras, are a small conclave of economic franchises, business groups who fight each other in the dispute political power was fragmented after the arrival of Chavez. Their struggles for quotas for elected office, for nominations for presence in the media, preventing effective unitary, cohesive and amalgamated political practice.

The MUD is a small group of party leaders who fail to agree with each other and expect to lead an entire country with millions of Chavistas that they are not going to be subordinated. Despite such political upheaval, the right-wing media have managed to paint the face of his leadership making it look like a "unit block" that can "unite the country", stripping it of its client, business nature, and governed by sectarian and personalistic projects .

The MUD  - and its predecessors -   born as a group of parties and economic sectors that lost privileges and tried to recover, for that reason they are forces of democratic corporate-party origin. That is their nature. That is its essential component. They can become anything, but are not and will not be a popular alternative.

It is true that almost any country, alternatives become corporate power. That happens all the time. The issue is the context of Chavez's Venezuela, where the logic of the forces of social direction must be genuine, popular, with a deep sense of identity with the people, in the exercise of power to distribute wealth into social benefits was imposed . It is difficult that to be credible in the MUD where your family, business and partisan caste tillers kill each other. A policy option loosely to the inner, more economic and media power have, is doomed to failure.

Negative Community: The other day I went through a pendejo average article in appearance, and to associate politically acquired otherwise. It had to do with "negative people and communities (groups)." One of the signs of people and groups with this feature were "not to promote what they like rather mentioned and always promote what they do not like.". The opposition from leaders to followers is a negative political community.

We back this up with more questions: If the opposition has mayors, governors and congressmen why opponents do not usually broadcast their work, or mention or comment? Why do we never see opposition leaders speaking well of the work he and Capriles being a leader?

If opponents follow their leaders, why  almost  no gestures we support their work ?, Why do not we see gestures of support for management? If so and so did this, managed this or did that, why his political opinion is reduced to the complaint and the eternal despite all what the revolution is wrong, but do not mention what for them would be good attributes Right in the government?

If they assume that everything is now bad and everything was better before, why not publish at least one of a lavish photic bridge was adeca? It seems that the positive and come from themselves, is an affront to the cult of the negative. The contravention.

The point is that denial, negativity and bad vibes perennial discontent, became a "way of doing politics," and the formula is the negation of the Venezuelan yes. It is the equation of denying the positive, affirming the negative.

In a changing society of Venezuela, where he takes on more purposeful spaces and "doing", "solving" is more grip on the public imagination, it is difficult to build a "language of hope" among the gendarmes the negative. While they have managed to expand their support base at the expense of discontent, while unknown language imposed by the Chávez era, of hope "doing, achieving and consolidating" to the detriment of the historic "put me to me that I do what I do well. "

That subjective game, that semiotic component of the right, is the "malaise speech", a dangerous recipe for failure if it comes from the hand of the same faces from the malaise of the past and present:-AD, COPEI, and derivatives adecos copeyanos The oil strike, the April coup, those of guarimbas, economic warfare, currency speculation, cadivismo, unleashed speculation, the media shows, and et cetera.

Ethics of power for power : A simple sentence may summarize this part: "The right is more busy trying to gain power, that working for the welfare of the country and its people." Perhaps the only clear strategic cohesive element that itself has the right to take power, which is currently fragmented: Chavez has the political power, the right has economic power. The right wants it all. The nature of power is identical to that of capital in capitalism; tends to be concentrated in few hands, and that's what you try to republish the Venezuelan right; it is an attitude of his own nature.

For many, their very specific action simply want back the power is more than apparent that ethics makes clear his desire for political power and thereby extend its economic power. People notice. That is obvious.

They have not understood that the forms of political power are changing, they have not understood the dialectical question of our political change means that from Chavez "our leaders must look like us, be like us." That explains how the right has not been raised as a popular choice; because it is not, they are not.

The formula of wealthy children of wealthy in the political arena has only to put on the electoral Card class contradictions, understood as political mistakes like behavior ethics of power for power. A right could serve demagogues leading candidates with a painted area face, but between the class language, sometimes racist, fascist and stigma have made Chavez, will be difficult to wash face any more mud and grime get stronger. Hence Chavez sectors they have no identity try to seduce them. Their failure is not only election, is symbolic, is subjective.

In Venezuela, the only thing that is not changing is the aesthetics of Venevision. But on the street, in the imagination, projecting new forms, new symbols, new codes of cultural identity, political identity. In the 90s we were told that this country needed a "manager" who came from the privileged classes "so I would not need to steal." A Capriles he tried to sell him as such, but the formula did not work reissued. We ended up choosing Mature, emphatically claiming their origin as Metrobus driver.

Today people start concretely associate entrepreneurship with large economic woes. Responsibility for economic data is not only ascribed to the Government. In the internal crisis of the right entrepreneurship as "the lead" becomes more visible, and this creates subjectivity to the public that the same visible faces of speculation are erected themselves as the solution.

Trying to sweep under the rug this paradox, many continue to support the right, but others notice such ambiguity, to the point that the guarimbas what has grown is the basis of "desapoyo" or "rejection" of the opposition leadership. Only the ethics of power for power makes it possible to suppress the popular nature must have a political movement, and that is played socially in our codes. Therefore, in our language, we associate "sifrina" with "skinny", "middle class" with "opposition", "dealer" with "speculator". Are these expressions historical result of the practice of open and notorious done right, and how has resemantizado Chavez.

To conclude

The right despite its weakness is not a political force to be underestimated. Historic reversals have been around the political context, there are a very dangerous force for the Bolivarian revolution. Visible face of this threat, the task of revolutionaries is to build a revolution revolutionary consistency, more inclusive and radically. More amalgamated ideologically, organizationally more painstaking.

Is that the formula to reproduce more clearly the nature of antagonism between them and us.

Source:http://misionverdad.com/columnistas/la-naturaleza-de-la-derecha-venezolana
Translation Based on Google Translate
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The entire article reminds of this video (It's in English, so don't worry):




This begs the question: Why Venezuela does not have a functional opposition? An functional opposition that would have given ideas of how to solve actual problems there? To paraphrase Egyptian Cleric Talaat Zahran during the 2014 Gaza War (Operation Protective Edge):

As for mobilizing the sifrina to support Venezuela… Driving the Chavistas out of Venezuela is, indeed, a duty, but who do we really support when we support the MUD? We need to know what the goal is and who the leader is. Those sifrina in Venezuela neither a goal nor an emir. They are power obsessed and money obsessed, so they must not be supported. 

They started their guarimba groups against the Chavistas, in order to worry the Chavistas and ostensibly force them to attack them. It's perfectly clear that MUD and their economic friends coordinate what places in Venezuela should be targeted. Therefore, MUD must not be supported in this struggle. Furthermore, some of them – especially the leaders – are absent in their government duties or imprisoned. 

Henrique Capriles is absent from his Governor duties and not doing anything, while Leopoldo López are jailed in the Military Prison in Ramo Verde because of a potential assaination plot from his own collition. Only the sifrinan Venezuelans people get beat in the crossfire. 4,000 people were arrested on the first three months. 

This is a MUD-led conspiracy against the Venezuelan people. This is a clear case of "rooster-baiting," the purpose of which is to drag the United States into a war against Venezuela. This would be going into war pell-mell. This is what the MUD and their economic bosses want. The United States must not be dragged into this.

In short, they only care about one thing: Getting back the government power from Chavistas, and using that to get the money that the Government makes from oil sales. Like politicians, actually trying to solve problems involves work. For every time you see them complain about the Big 3 issues in Venezuela, they have not offered a single reasonable solution or plan. Not one. Instead you have different factions of the MUD doing their own strategies to getting back power, this along with the irregular warfare via multiple fronts in order to weaken the government.

These multiple fronts include economic warfare, media warfare, political warfare, and civil insurrection. This has grown to actual political terrorism thanks to some people in Columbia. All of this instead of solving problems, they create or exacerbate problems to make the MUD look good come election time. Instead each one of them have backfired and in the long-run made the MUD's problems worse.

Despite all of this, the Venezuelan country has been much stronger, the people are happier with chavistas despite problems, and there government is still working hard to solve problems despite irregular warfare. Meanwhile, the MUD has been a 15 year losing streak, which will going to be a 16 year losing streak once they lose the National Assembly elections and Presidential Recall vote since they don't offer any real solution to the Big three problems other than political drama and social-economic warfare.

At the same time the PSUV should not be complacent and underestimate what the right-ring opposition can do when they're desperate. They've lost a replacement election in San Cristobal because they did not focus on local issues. They must prepare for anything that the right-wing may chuck in front of them. The price of freedom, or in this case the freedom of all people in a socialist country, Including workers, farmers, intellectuals, and minorities who have gained so much in the past 15 years, is eternal vigilance from those who threaten it.

Monica Spear's Murderers brought to Justice

Monica Spear's murder in January 2014 sparked a huge debate in Venezuela in regards to it's insecurity problem, and was used as a building block for the guarimba insurrection or the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection of 2014. While all of that was occurring, CICIP, the Venezuelan Criminal Investigation Police, was busy investigating the case and just now on yesterday there was a court case.

Venezuela does has the second-highest peacetime murder rate, just below of El Salvador, and it's city San Salvador.
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<i>A court in Venezuela has sentenced three men to lengthy jail sentences for the killing of Venezuelan beauty queen Monica Spear in January.

The three had pleaded guilty.

Ms Spear, 29, and her British partner, Thomas Berry, were shot dead in January in front of their five-year-old daughter during a roadside robbery.

UN figures suggest that Venezuela has the second-highest peacetime murder rate in the world, but the brutality of the crime shocked the country.

Prosecutors said the three men were part of a larger gang which targeted motorists along a highway leading from Valencia to Puerto Cabello.

The court said seven other people were still on trial for the crime but had denied the charges.

The sentences for the three men range between 24 and 26 years in jail.

The family, who lived in the US, was on a visit to Ms Spear's home country when they were targeted.

They were travelling at night from the city of Merida to the capital, Caracas, when their car hit a sharp object, puncturing two tyres.

While they waited for breakdown assistance, they were ambushed by the armed gang.

When the couple and their daughter hid inside the car, they were shot at by the robbers.

Ms Spear and Mr Berry died instantly. Their daughter, Maya, was shot in the leg.

The murder of the popular beauty queen, who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004, prompted demonstrations against the country's high crime rate.

President Nicolas Maduro promised to respond with "an iron fist" and said he would make tackling crime one of the government's top priorities.

Last week, he announced his government would invest $47m (£29m) to further expand a plan to disarm civilians.

But opposition activists say impunity and corruption remain rampant and accuse his government of doing too little to tackle insecurity.</i>

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29339924
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Three men convicted of murdering a former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband this year were sentenced to at least 24 years in jail in a case that shook the crime-ridden South American nation, authorities said.

Monica Spear, 29, a soap opera actress, and Thomas Berry, 39, died after being attacked when their car broke down at night on a highway in central Venezuela in January.

The 2004 Miss Venezuela winner lived in the United States but was vacationing in her homeland at the time. The pair's 5-year-old daughter survived but took a bullet in her leg.

Three men confessed to their involvement in the murder, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Jean Carlos Colina, 19, got a 26-year sentence, while Jose Ferreira Herrera, 18 and Nelfrend Jimenez Alvarez, 21, were jailed for 24 years, the statement said. Four other men, one woman, and two adolescents still face proceedings in the case.

The case devastated Venezuelans who saw it as a particularly awful symbol of the violent crime they have long suffered.

Venezuela's official homicide rate late year was 39 per 100,000 inhabitants, but local non-government organizations put the figure at nearly twice that for a total of 24,000 deaths.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said beating violent crime is a top priority and spoke movingly about Spear's death at the time. His critics say state anti-crime plans do not tackle root causes, such as impunity for many criminals, corrupt judges and complicity by some poorly paid police.

(Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN0HJ03A20140924
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It is worth mentioning that despite the iron fist Maduro promises, the country does not have the death penalty and was THE first countries to abolish it after gaining independence. There is also no life imprisonment, as the maximum sentence of any serious crimes is 30 years.

This will be one of the most buried stories in Venezuela as it was one of a series of events that has contributed towards the Guarimba Insurrection on Youth Day on Feb. 12. As this case is officially closed, Monica Spear and Thomas Berry can finally rest in peace.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Guarimbas violate at least 14 constitutional articles and 7 criminal articles.

or Guarimbas and the Guarimberos are against Constitutional and Public Order

Venezuela is a country, unlike the United States, takes constitutional order very seriously. When they mean, very seriously, we don't mean we say this so we can just reassure them and then actually do nothing, we say this because have actively ensured constitutional order and guarantee constitutional rights over the past 15 years. Note the arrest last month of local public officials in Tachira State for being in contempt of a constitutional protection order from the TSJ's Constitutional branch. In addition, the Venezuelan government has taken swift action against public safety officials suspected of excessive force.
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From http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n248985.html
Tranalsation based on Google Translate

April 13, 2014 - As of February 12, after the call of the leader of the opposition political party Popular Will , Leopoldo López and former deputy of the National Assembly, Maria Corina Machado, to head out into the streets of the country against the Legitimate Government of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, have perused constant attacks, assaults and violations of human rights under the Constitution.

From the right to free movement laid down in Article 50 of the Constitution, which states that "any person can move freely in any medium throughout the country" to the" inviolable" right to life enshrined in Article 43 are some of the offenses committed by right-wing sectors of Venezuelan, blinded by hate, irrationality and incited by opposition leaders.

However, the opinion matrix generated by some sectors and means of national and international media, seek to divert attention and focus on an erroneous view of the current situation, in terms of human rights concerns, discrediting the performance of the Venezuelan State to restore order and ensure the welfare and tranquility to the people, calling it a "crackdown on students."

For constitutional lawyer Jesús Silva , "these criminals operating in known guarimbas really can not be described as students ... but there are armed groups that can be classified as terrorists, mercenaries, paramilitaries that have been paid to promote-in 18 of the 335 municipalities existing in Venezuela-events of violence."    

Citizens has been unable to persue their regular activities as a "consequence of this street terrorism, and guerrilla warfare in urban areas, which have a clear connection to the party Popular Will and leaders of the far right such as Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado ".

However, the Government is obliged to restore public order and protect the life and personal integrity and citizen , so that the deployment of the national security authorities has been rational and proportionate "to contain these criminals using guayas, explosive devices, Molotov cocktails, adapters and have attacked unarmed civilians treacherous and premeditated manner. Consequently, the activity of the Venezuelan State has been framed in the Constitution and laws; and if there were some violations of human rights as some opponents have denounced it, I think there are clear demonstrations of commitment to investigate and punish these isolated cases, which are by no means the general policy of the Venezuelan state practice. "  

Violation of Human Rights

The professor at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), Jesus Silva, confirms that the protests of the past two months have been a undemocratic and unconstitutional character that besides causing 39 deaths (as of 5/15/2014: 44 people have been killed in the insurrection) and 579 injuries have affected the right to education (Articles 102 and 103) right to work (Articles 87 and 89), the right to health (Article 83), right to recreation (Article 111), environmental law (127), among others.

But the main violation of these demonstrations of political violence is the violation of Article 2 of the Constitution : Venezuela is a democratic and social state of law and justice, which holds as superior values ​​of its legal system and its performance, life, liberty, justice, equality, solidarity, democracy, social responsibility, and in general, the preeminence of human rights ethics and political pluralism.

According to Silva says "these acts of violence and terror seek to impose a new political order through force, intimidation, threat and harm innocent people. So the guarimberos and political leaders who are somehow entrenched democratic parties in what is said, but are organizations to commit a crime, we have to say they ignore the will of the people and know the importance of democracy and popular sovereignty contained in this Article 2 where voting is recognized as the primary mechanism to resolve our differences. "  

Crimes against the environment

The cutting and burning of trees, arson mountains, national parks, forests and other, contains what is called a multiple offense, criminal environmental offense , which in the doctrine of international law, is known as fourth generation right within the group of human rights.

For Silva "no doubt that this radical violent opposition, this criminal stream is overthrowing the government   has lashed so cowardly and treacherous to the ecosystem . And we trust that the Missions and other programs to restore the ecological order as the Tree Mission and other government initiatives will help repair the damage caused; and especially the rejection of society to these actions must be demonstrated conclusively to follow such cases no longer happening. "    

Rule of Law

Silva believes that the State's commitment to human rights is widespread evidence, because the 1999 Constitution is unique in the history of the country where the fundamental rights of Venezuelans have never been suspended, contrary to the 1961 Constitution which guarantees were suspended at least 21 times.

"The rule of law that exists today in Venezuela there has been respect for human rights, particularly from the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999 (...) which guarantees freedom of people provided that they act within the framework of the Constitution and the law. While in the past, the State was practicing the doctrine of state terror, a policy of persecution, murder, forced disappearance of persons ... "he said.

He recalled that the guarantees established in Article 2 have remained intact, "having to do with political pluralism, freedom of association, freedom to choose and be chosen , i.e. a set of civil and political rights that have been sheltered in this new era of the Republic."

Legal Basis

Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Article 55:  Everyone has the right to protection by the state through the public security organs regulated by law, in situations that constitute a threat, vulnerability or risk to the physical integrity of persons, property, enjoyment of their rights and fulfill their duties.

Article 127:  It is the right and duty of each generation to protect and maintain the environment for the benefit of itself and the future world. Everyone has individually and collectively to have a life and a safe, healthy and ecologically balanced environment law. The State shall protect the environment, biodiversity, genetic resources, ecological processes, national parks and natural monuments and other areas of special ecological importance. The genome of living organisms can not be patented, and the law relating to bioethical principles regulate the matter. It is a fundamental obligation of the state, with the active participation of society, to ensure that the population develops in a pollution free environment, where air, water, soil, coasts, climate, the ozone layer, the, they are specially protected species live in accordance with the law.

Article 130:  Venezuelans have a duty to honor and defend the country, its symbols, cultural values, safeguard and protect the sovereignty, nationality, territorial integrity, self-determination and the interests of the Nation.

Article 324:  Only the State may possess and use weapons. All that exist are manufactured or imported into the country will become the property of the Republic without compensation or process. The National Armed Forces shall be the competent authority to regulate and control, according to the respective law, the manufacture, import, export, storage, transit, recording, monitoring, inspection, trade, possession and use of other weapons, ammunition and explosives.

Penal Code

Article 283:  Whoever publicly incites or by any means to another or others to commit acts contrary to law, by the mere fact of incitement shall be punished:
1. The instigation If whatever to induce them to commit crimes has been established imprisonment, to imprisonment for a third of the instigated crime.
Two. In all other cases, with fines of hundred tax units (150 UT) as the entity of fact instigated.

Article 285:  Whoever incites to the disobedience of the laws or hatred among its people or makes apology for acts that the law provides for such offenses so as to endanger the peace, shall be punished with imprisonment from three years to six years.

Article 286:  If two or more persons associate for the purpose of committing crimes, each shall be punished just because of the association with imprisonment from two to five years.

Article 357:  Whoever put obstacles in a flow path of any means of transport, open or close the communication of these routes, make false signals or perform any other act with the purpose of preparing the danger of an accident, will be punished by imprisonment from four years to eight years.

Article 358:  Any damage to railways, machines, vehicles, tools or other objects and gear for your service, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to five years.

Article 513:  Whoever, without permission of the competent authority, any unloaded firearm or any burnt fireworks or explosive devices or other dangerous or uncomfortable doeth explosions in a place inhabited, in your neighborhood, or along direction a public way, shall be punished with up to two hundred tax units (200 UT) fine; and in severe cases may be imposed arrest for up to one month.

Article 537:  Whoever commits cruelty to animals, mistreat or submitted without a clearly excessive work, shall be punished with fine up to one hundred tax units (100 UT). The only with a scientific or didactic purpose, but out of the places for the study or teaching, has undergone animal experiments or tests or cause annoyance to persons that witness, shall incur the same penalty.

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Now, note the actual amount of people arrested in Venezuela who are students: 40%. So the guarimbas is coming from hooded thugs and yobs who are actually being paid by the the right-wing to cause chaos. While they're not obvious paramilitaries as they lack guns, they're just as bad with other projectiles that can cause serious damage to innocents.

Even in the recent raid on the 4 student encampments by the Police and National Guard on May 8th 2014 only a small fraction of the protesters are students. Some of them where children and some were hearing disabled that were paid in food to occupy the camps. Most of the protesters were released without charge, many of them were granted police bail, while some have been referred to substance-abuse clinics for use of recreational drugs. Only 11 has been hauled before the courts to commence judicial proceedings.

Unlike Occupy Wall Street, these camps were used as cover for the real business: Insurrection.

These photos were taken exclusive by Chavista Blog LaRedoma.co.ve which you can find them here: http://www.laredoma.co.ve/2014/05/fotos-exclusivo-se-sorprendera-de-lo.html

While they were some harmless goods such as food and drinks, cell phones, radios, others were more dangerous: Drugs, Firearms including shotguns, and tear gas stolen from police and national guard, nails attached to hoses, and melee weapons such as bats, and fireworks and makeshift motors.

If it was not for the raid, the situation would have been worse.

It's clear that the Guarimba Insurrection is no ordinary campaign of civil disorder, it's political terrorism of the highest order. A campaign against the Venezuelan people, more specifically, a campaign against the Venezuelan people who have reclaimed their country from the economic privileged. And now the economic privilege have already embraced fascist tactics to this end.

The insurrection's second stage has begun and the Venezuelan Government must do whatever it takes to take down the fascist insurrection by any means legally necessary.

There's already a phrase for people of such kind and their leaders, the highest order counter-revolutionary who will use violence against their own people for exercising their Constitution rights:

Enemy of the Constitution and People

It's what they are, it's what the Venezuelan Government needs to treat them as such: Take them down, and send them to courts where they'll face justice according to law and Constitution. The best way to deal with Political Terrorism is through strict abidance to law and Constitutional order. It is the only path to peace, and it's believe it or not the Venezuelan Government is doing that for the past 90 months.

University Controlled by Guarimbero in Zulia

Since the beginning of the guarimbas in the country, the Private University of Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacin (URBE) in Zulia state, serves as a center of refuge for terrorists who have hijacked the right of hundreds of students to attend classes to advance their programs in degree training. Petrol bombs, stones, meters, Chinese, mortars, launchers, guns of all kinds, hoods, gas masks, debris, flames, and no books and notebooks, are the order of the day in the current reality of the academic house in Maracaibo.

On May 15, there was a new onslaught of fascism against the police trying to restore order in the area. The Secretary of Zulia of State Safety, Jairo Ramirez, reported that about "80 people are the ones causing the violence" also stating that "it may not be possible for a small group of young affecting more normal 30 thousand students, corresponding to the enrollment URBE. "

Meanwhile, Ramirez reported no operative was arrested after Thursday.

Although social networking websites and communication portals claim repression and alleged "violation" of human rights allegedly "peaceful" students, the images show below speak for themselves of the armed movement that keeps the university subject to complaint .

Translation based on Google Translate
See more at: http://www.laredoma.co.ve/2014/05/fotos-bajo-secuestro-asi-permanece-la.html

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Universities in Venezuela and in Latin America countries are autonomous universities. Meaning by law the police can't even enter unless they have a arrest warrant or are invited in by the University. However, public universities outside of the Bolivarian Universities are abusing this right by allowing Guarimberos effective control of the grounds. This prevents regular students from attending their studies thus obstructing the normal students of the constitutional right to a education.

Why is this going on? Because in some universities such as URBE and the Central University of Venezuela and are controlled by rectors aligned to the ultra-opposition sector of the MUD (Democratic Unity Roundtable).

90 days of Guarimba Insurrection and some of the universities are facilitating this farce.


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.

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.

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?
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PETER ARMANDO MEDINA, YOUNG VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION ATTACKED BY GUARIMBEROS IN CAURIMARE

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.

[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.

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". -

-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