What is happening in Venezuela?

Wehrwolfen · Feb 14, 2014

By Silvio Canto, Jr.
February 14, 2014

We don't know how long these demonstrations will go on in Caracas but they are turning ugly, as our friend Fausta Wertz has been reporting.

Daniel Duquenal, an extraordinary blogger reporting from Venezuela, has been fighting censorship and blackouts to tell the world about his native land:

"Well, it seems the regime is not satisfied with at least three deaths, dozens of injured, X arrests and a few "disappeared". It has decided to take the opportunity to start removing opposition leaders that are bothersome. Leopoldo Lopez is the first one, accused even of throwing the baby's water today."

The incredible thing about this Venezuela story is the absence of US media coverage. I understand that we have a lot on our plate but a little coverage would be the responsible thing to do.
The AP did post a summary of the situation:

"Armed vigilantes on motorcycles attacked anti-government demonstrators in Venezuela on Wednesday, setting off a stampede by firing into crowds as the biggest protest against President Nicolas Maduro's year-old administration turned violent. Three people were killed."

The New York Times is reporting that the Maduro regime is looking for Leopoldo Lopez, an opposition leader. They want to blame Mr Lopez for the unrest.

We don't know if this is the beginning of the end for President Maduro's very corrupt government or whether the people have had enough of inflation, shortages and censorship.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/02/what_is_happening_in_venezuela.html

The legacy of Hugo Chavez, starvation, deprivation and Marxism. Hmm.... I wonder why the people of Venezuela are revolting? They're living in a Utopia of Communism. Isn't that exactly what Obama wants for all Americans. By redistribution it will give all Americans the same thing. Universal poverty and wealth for the Progressive few.

waltky · Apr 7, 2014

Now dat Chavez is dead, ever'thin' goin' to hell inna handbasket...

Are Race and Class at the Root of Venezuelas Political Crisis?
April 06, 2014: WASHINGTON, D.C. For weeks, protesters have taken to the streets in Venezuela, opposing Nicholas Maduro, who succeeded the authoritarian Hugo Chavez as president.

Demonstrations that began in the western state of Tachira soon spread to the capital, Caracas. Protesters cite runaway inflation, shortages of food and basic goods and runaway crime, including the world's highest murder rate, as the reasons for going into the streets. But some observers say the protestsat least those in the capitalare more about returning the social and political elite to powerand that at its roots the conflict in Venezuela is really about race and class. To understand the issue of racial identity in Venezuela, its is necessary to go back into history. Venezuela was colonized by Spain in the early 16th Century. Tens of thousands of Africans were brought there as slaves until abolition in 1854. Following World War II, former dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez encouraged the immigration of Europeans, Italians, Portuguese and Germans to help develop the country, a move that writer Winthrop R. Wright, author of Café Con Leche, says was a deliberate move to whiten the country.

Venezuelans mixed heritage

Today, most Venezuelans call themselves mestizo, or mixed, an amalgam of indigenous, African and European peoples. There are no people sitting on the back of the bus, there are no rest rooms assigned for people of this color or that color in Venezuela, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, an associate professor of public relations at the University of Georgia and a native Venezuelan, told VOA. And also theres acknowledgement that nobody is of pure European descent, or indigenous descent. Thats why many people think, Theres no racism here. But, she says, theyre wrong, citing Venezuelas abundant beauty pageants and the telenovelas which embrace the light skin and straight hair the Western European standards of beauty. And if you look at the upper socio-economic levels of the country, Acosta-Alzuru said, they tend to be whiter than on the lower socio-economic levels. That is something that is very apparent to everybody.

Chavez's legacy

Hugo Chávez was the first Venezuelan leader to embrace his Afro-indigenous heritage, telling an interviewer, Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth, because of my curly hair. And Im so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because its African. And this is also where its very different from the United States: You had people upset and even saying they were disgusted at having to look at Chavez. "He was often called the black (el Negro) by Venezuelan elites and also understood to be Afro- and indigenousas opposed to mestizo, Ciccariello-Maher said. Part of what angered elites so much when Chavez came to power was that he was a person who didnt look like he was fit to govern, said George Ciccariello-Maher, an assistant professor of political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is the author of We Created Chávez: A Peoples History of the Venezuelan Revolution.

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mutmekep · Apr 7, 2014

More CIA financed "protests".

Yeah Chavez was so authoritarian that the people overthrown a coup against him....

munter · Apr 7, 2014

Nearly all Western media coverage of Venezuela is hopelessly biased.

Most people love Chavez and Maduro - they are heroes

Burz · Apr 7, 2014

Maduro is getting rid of the fascists before his county becomes another Ukraine.

Burz · Apr 7, 2014

Wehrwolfen said: ↑

The legacy of Hugo Chavez, starvation, deprivation and Marxism.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...e-told-you-so-but-they-are-wrong-9155295.html

Wehrwolfen said: ↑

Hmm.... I wonder why the people of Venezuela are revolting?
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They're not.

Wehrwolfen · Apr 7, 2014

Burz said: ↑

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...e-told-you-so-but-they-are-wrong-9155295.html

They're not.
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[video]http://on.aol.com/video/anti-maduro-protests-turn-violent-in-caracas-518150108[/video]

[video=youtube;5g-6fdXMrfI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-6fdXMrfI[/video]

[video=youtube;7U9QEcKhio0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U9QEcKhio0[/video]

[video=youtube;v3DZDwmfrTY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3DZDwmfrTY[/video]

[video=youtube;PrajEdCL1gM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrajEdCL1gM[/video]

http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/turmoil-in-venezuela-5193099.html

Hmm...., I guess people starving, shot and killed by the Maduro regime can be blamed on the Obama regime. Eh? Fact is that Obama is doing the same thing that Maduro is doing in Venezuela. It's called Repression

munter · Apr 7, 2014

who has Obama done this to?

arbus · Apr 7, 2014

If the US-funded opposition pulls a Kiev in Caracas, be sure it will not stop there. It will be a full civil war.

munter · Apr 9, 2014

The rightists would just love that, wouldn't surprise me if they tried real soon

johnmayo · Apr 10, 2014

Vice documentaries has videos of the riots. These are not CIA anything. They are kids tired of socialism. Everyone eventually rebels against socialism. Rulers have no clue how to run business unless they nationalize it and all tey have to do is sell resources at commodity prices. (Russia Venezuela Africa etc..)

munter · Apr 10, 2014

Kids will always rebel against authority, Socialist or Capitalist - so another Fail post from you.

waltky · Jul 24, 2016

Maduro's in-laws drug dealers...

Prosecutor: Venezuela first lady's nephews confess drug deal
Jul 24,`16 -- Two nephews of Venezuela's powerful first lady confessed to trying to smuggle 800 kilograms (1,763 pounds) of cocaine into the U.S., according to prosecutors in the politically-charged case.

The court filings Friday by prosecutors shed new light on the case that has sounded alarm bells about high-level corruption and drug trafficking by Venezuela's political elite at a time of increasing economic and political turmoil in the South American nation. Efrain Campo and Francisco Flores were arrested last November in Haiti in a sting operation coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. They were then flown to New York, where they are in jail awaiting trial for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. Both have pleaded not guilty.

The documents filed Friday seek to refute a motion by the defendants' attorneys to suppress their post-arrest statements to DEA agents on their way to New York because they allegedly hadn't been informed of their rights and were coerced after being taken into custody by armed men in ski masks in what they at first thought was a kidnapping. Prosecutors allege Campo and Flores hatched the drug deal in about two months. They said it was first brought to the attention of the DEA by a wheelchair-bound cooperating witness nicknamed "El Sentado," who met Campo and Flores in Honduras and who wound up being killed three weeks after their arrest.

As part of the DEA investigation, confidential sources were sent to Caracas to meet with the two young men. The court documents include photographs allegedly taken from a secret video of those meetings that prosecutors say show Campo examining a brick of cocaine with plastic gloves as Flores looks on. Campo allegedly said the narcotics came from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. During the meetings, Campo allegedly brags about owning several Ferraris and being at "war" with the U.S. and Venezuela's opposition. He also describes high-level connections with the government that will make it easy to move drugs through Caracas' international airport and prevent any cocaine-laden plane from being follow by law enforcement because, he said, "it departs as if .... someone from our family was on the plane," according to a statement by U.S. attorneys for the southern district of New York.

In the court filings, Campo first suggested to agents that the cocaine deal was to fund Cilia Flores' congressional campaign. "I know I said that but in reality it was for me," a court document quotes Campo as telling a DEA agent. "Campo stated that friends in the drug business had told him to be careful not to get robbed so he made the statement regarding his Mom's campaign for protection," the DEA agent wrote in his post-arrest report. In reality, Campo said he was struggling financially, earning just $800 a week from a fleet of taxis he owned in Panama, according to the documents. He also described being rebuffed by his cousin, Erick Malpica-Flores, then finance director of state-run oil giant PDVSA, in a plan to charge commissions to businesses trying to collect on debts owed them by the company.

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Veteran Mexican drug lord says he didn't kill DEA agent
Sunday 24th July, 2016: Veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero denied carrying out one of the most notorious murders in Mexico's narco wars - the killing of U.S. anti-drugs agent Enrique "****" Camarena in 1985 - and said he was no longer involved in drug trafficking.

Caro Quintero, convicted of ordering Camarena's torture and murder, was unexpectedly freed from a Mexican prison in 2013 after serving 28 years. The move angered the U.S. government and he then went underground.

He told Mexican magazine Proceso in an interview published on Saturday that he was not behind the murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Camarena, but admitted that he was present. "I didn't organise, kidnap or kill Mr Camarena...I was in the wrong place," he said, speaking in an undisclosed location. The DEA said at the time of his release that it would push for him to be tried in a U.S. court. The United States is currently offering a reward of up to US$5 million dollar for information leading to Caro Quintero's recapture.

Separately, the U.S. Treasury said in May that Caro Quintero was continuing to traffic illegal drugs since being released from a Mexican prison and it named his common-law wife as a key accomplice. But Caro Quintero, a former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, said he is no longer involved in the drug trade and just wants to be left in peace. He said he was short of money. "I'm not a danger to Mexican society or the government or the United States," he said.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/veteran-mexican-drug-lord/2982368.html
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waltky · Jul 31, 2016

Put the children first...

UNICEF calls for Venezuelan children, teens to be focus of crisis solution
July 29, 2016 -- UNICEF has called on the Venezuelan government to prioritize the needs of children and teenagers amid a crippling economic crisis that has led to shortages of food and medicine.

"UNICEF calls for any dialogue, as well as any action of the state and of society, to have the best interest of the child and the absolute priority of children at its core," UNICEF said in a statement following U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for dialogue between the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the political opposition and non-governmental organizations to create solutions.

Basic goods, food and medicines have been missing from store shelves throughout Venezuela, a country dependent on oil revenues to fuel its socialist system. Low oil prices have exacerbated an economic recession to the point the government has struggled to pay back debts. Venezuela this year has sold at least $1.7 billion in gold reserves to pay debts, which has decreased the South American country's gold reserves to the lowest level on record.

The basic goods shortages have led some Venezuelans to cross the borders into Colombia and Guyana to purchase items. "UNICEF shares the concerns demonstrated by national authorities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and relevant social sectors about the consequences of the current circumstances for children and adolescents in the country," UNICEF added. "UNICEF joins the U.N. Secretary General´s call for a dialogue between the sectors able to bring meaningful and practical solutions to society, and welcomes the integration of new actors to facilitate such a process."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N...-crisis-solution/5561469800286/?spt=sec&or=tn
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