Venezuelans Take to the Streets after Chavista Court Eliminates Congress’ Legislative Powers

Wehrwolfen · Apr 1, 2017

Venezuelans Take to the Streets after Chavista Court Eliminates Congress’ Legislative Powers

By Sabrina Martin
31 March 2017

Venezuelans are blocking highways and taking to the streets in response to an apparent Coup d’ etat.
Though Maduro’s regime arranged anti-riot measures in several Venezuelan cities, hundreds of Venezuelans turned out to express their opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling that dissolved the powers of the country’s congress.
Caracas, Los Teques, Vargas, Carabobo and Anzoátegui are just some of the states where protests are taking place. In Urbina, Caracas — a popular area that has traditionally been faithful to Chavez — is now flooded with protesters.
“No more dictatorship,” they are reportedly chanting. “We want freedom.”
During the protests, members of the student movement were pushed back from the main headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas and the Bolivarian National Guard reportedly detained two students.
Student Leader Hasler Iglesias said the students arrested are Andres Olivero and Rafael Alvarez from the Central University of Venezuela.
Cameraman for the TV channel Vivoplay, Andry Rincon, was detained for 30 minutes.
Since protestors were not allowed to demonstrate at the TSJ, students went to the Palace of Justice. When they arrived, they were attacked, and three more protesters were arrested.
The opposition has called for protests in the country’s streets this Saturday as well. “This is the time to stand up,” said President of the Parliament and Opposition Leader Julio Borges.
Also, the Popular Will party has urged Venezuelans to resume demonstrations in the street so as to “impose the will of the people.”

During the protests, members of the student movement were pushed back from the main headquarters of the
Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas. (Nación)

Source: https://panampost.com/sabrina-marti...court-eliminates-congress-legislative-powers/

Socialism maintains its perfect record as exemplified by Venezuela, failing every time it’s been tried. I can’t understand how people like Barack Obama, Hillary, Bernie Sanders aren’t openly mocked every time he opens his mouth about the virtues of democratic socialism.
Not to worry. Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, and Michael Moore with shotguns in hand will help Maduro denounce, overcome the protesters and the Civil War he's created.
Venezuela should prove to sane people that socialism will always lead to ruin.

Dialectical Kitten · Apr 1, 2017

The court's decision is absolutely legitimate considering that the parliament has tried to stage a coup against democracy by ignoring the court's rulings.

The same opposition who tried to stage a coup in 2002 and ask foreign, imperialist powers for help constantly.

Here is a good article that sums up the situation pretty neatly:

http://www.marxist.com/imperialist-...oup-what-is-really-happening-in-venezuela.htm

waltky · Apr 1, 2017

Venezuelan Supreme Court backs down...

Venezuela: Supreme court backtracks on powers bid
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 - The supreme court's move to assume legislative powers led to days of anti-government protests.

The Venezuelan supreme court has reversed its ruling to strip congress of its legislative powers. It made the decision after the government of President Nicolas Maduro urged it to review the ruling "to maintain institutional stability". The initial decision - announced on Wednesday - had been denounced as a "coup" by the opposition, which dominates the National Assembly. Anti-government protesters have staged daily protests against the move. The supreme court announced the reversal on its website. A day earlier, chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega, an ally of President Nicolas Maduro, became the first high-ranking official to criticise the judges.

The court's original ruling had sparked new protests against the government

Speaking live on TV, she expressed "great concern" about a measure which, she said, violated the constitution. Promising dialogue to end the crisis, Mr Maduro had convened a late-night meeting of the state security council. Afterwards Vice-President Tareck El Aissami said: "We urge the supreme court to review the decisions... in order to maintain institutional stability and the balance of powers." Mr Maduro said: "This controversy has been overcome, showing the power of dialogue."

How did the dispute start?

In its original ruling, the supreme court had annulled the powers of the assembly, allowing the judges to write laws. The court had accused lawmakers of "contempt" after allegations of irregularities by three opposition lawmakers during the 2015 elections. The court has backed the leftist president in his ongoing struggles with the legislature. On Tuesday it removed parliamentary immunity from the assembly's members. There has been widespread international condemnation, with the Organisation of American States talking of the "final blow to democracy" in Venezuela.

Why the reversal? By Will Grant, BBC News, Havana

It seems that a combination of internal and external pressures forced President Maduro's hand. Inside Venezuela, the opposition's outcry was to be expected. However the sight of the normally loyal Attorney General, Luisa Ortega, openly criticising the move as unconstitutional was for many observers a turning point, and perhaps evidence of a wider split within "Chavismo". Externally too, the response was very robust. The Organisation of American States held an emergency meeting in which staunch allies of Venezuela, such as Cuba, lent their support to Mr Maduro. However, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and others called for cooler heads to prevail and for a return to the democratic order. In the end, it seems President Maduro may have decided that the supreme court's move was a step too far politically and hoped to avoid a repeat of the massive street protests which have led to violence in the past.

The opposition says Mr Maduro is turning Venezuela into a dictatorship

Perhaps even the election this weekend in Ecuador played a role. The race in the Andean nation is very tight and it can't have helped President Rafael Correa, as a close friend to Venezuela, to have to support a move that was being billed by some as a "self-coup" in the days before a presidential election. Tensions have been high in Venezuela because the country has been engulfed in a severe economic crisis. It has the world's highest inflation rate, which the International Monetary Fund predicts could reach 1,660% next year. Long queues, power cuts and shortages of basic goods are common. The government and opposition blame each other for the country's problems, made worse by the falling price of oil, Venezuela's main export product. President Maduro has become increasingly unpopular and the opposition has called for his removal.

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waltky · Jun 22, 2017

Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia...

Desperate Venezuelans set sights on Colombia as worry mounts
Jun 22,`17 -- As the first hint of dawn stretches over a Colombian neighborhood known as "Little Mene Grande" after the warm, Venezuelan city where so many recent arrivals are from, six men and women rise from worn, flattened mattresses.

The women do their makeup in front of a mirror hanging from the security bars inside a window. One wraps her 4-month-old daughter in a fuzzy yellow blanket. The men don jackets and baseball caps. Bogota is cold compared to their Venezuelan hometown and their day will be long. The task: Sell 54 mangos at less than a dollar each in hopes of sending a sliver of what they earn to relatives struggling even more back home. "I never imagined living like this," says Genensis Montilla, 26, a nurse and single mother who left her three children with their grandmother.

While Venezuela plunges further into political and economic ruin, the flight of its citizens is accelerating, reaching levels unseen in its history. Experts believe nearly one-tenth of its population of around 31 million now lives outside the country. For better-off professionals the preferred destination is Spain or the U.S., where Venezuelans are overstaying their visas in droves and now lead asylum requests for the first time - 18,155 last year alone. But for many poor people fleeing Venezuela's triple-digit inflation, hours-long food lines and medical shortages, Colombia is the journey's end. The neighboring Andean nation has received more Venezuelans than any other nation. Estimates indicate more than 1 million have arrived in the last two decades, reversing the previous trend of Colombians fleeing war heading to Venezuela.

Saraid Valbuena, 20, holds her 4-month-old daughter bundled in a blanket, as her husband Jesus Barrios slices mangoes to sell, in Bogota, Colombia. “When you talk to Venezuelans, they all say, ‘I want to come,’” said Valbuena, who made the journey with her husband and their then-1-month-old daughter earlier this year. “Even though you come here to sleep on the ground, people want to come because they know with a day or two of work, at least they’ll eat.”

The most desperate cross illegally through one of hundreds of "trochas," unpaved dirt roads along Venezuela's porous 1,370-mile (2,200-kilometer) border with Colombia. "When you talk to Venezuelans, they all say, 'I want to come,'" said Saraid Valbuena, 20, who made the journey with her husband and their then 1-month-old daughter earlier this year. "Even though you come here to sleep on the ground, people want to come because they know with a day or two of work at least they'll eat." The influx shows no sign of waning and has worried Colombian officials enough that they are crafting contingency plans in the event of an even larger spike or a repeat of a crisis like the one in 2015, when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro overnight expelled some 20,000 Colombians.

Recently, Colombia's government sent a delegation to Syrian refugee camps in Turkey to learn how to respond to a sudden wave of mass migration. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is also studying how prepared their offices in Colombia, as well as Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago, are to deal with a potential swell of Venezuelan migrants. "Since about a year and a half ago, it has been a constant flow," said Daniel Pages, president of the Venezuelans in Colombia Association. "They need to leave in order to live." Officially, Venezuela denies its citizens are fleeing to Colombia. As recently as February, Maduro claimed Colombians were still pouring "en masse" into Venezuela. Venezuela has not released migration statistics in more than a decade.

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waltky · Jul 27, 2017

Venezuelans Prepare for the Worst Days Before Maduro Tightens His Grip on Power...

Venezuelans Stockpile Food and Water Ahead of Maduro Power Grab
President says Sunday vote will go on as opponents set strike; Proposal runs risk of drawing sanctions, international scorn

Venezuelans are stockpiling scarce food and water as tensions mount ahead of a widely criticized Sunday vote that President Nicolas Maduro has called to elect an assembly of supporters to rewrite the constitution and strengthen his grip on power. Maduro -- who’s presided over an increasingly autocratic regime that has imperiled the country’s six-decade democracy and left the economy and society in shambles -- is showing few signs of backing down despite growing pressure. He’s broadcast a deluge of propaganda supporting the assembly even as outraged opposition leaders called a general strike Wednesday to forestall it. And opposition is international: The Trump administration was set to sanction more than a dozen senior Venezuela officials Wednesday. The head of the Organization of American States has called for elections and Spain’s former prime minister is trying to broker a deal.

An opposition sign reads "The Constituent (Assembly) Is Not Happening” on a street in Caracas

The Venezuelan president has been vague about goals for the so-called constituyente, although he’s said the body will convene Aug. 3 and sit atop all other branches of government. It alone will determine how long it should stay in power. While some analysts speculated that Maduro called the convention as a negotiating tactic to quell opposition protests and violence that has claimed more than 100 lives, others say Maduro will use the body to delay indefinitely elections he can’t win.

Chavismo Revisited

“People tend to consistently underestimate Maduro," said Raul Gallegos, an analyst at consultancy Control Risks. “What we’re seeing is now is a government showing its true colors.” “This is a government that has absolutely no incentive or intention to let power go,” he said. In calling for a constituent assembly, Maduro is taking a page from his mentor and predecessor, the late socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez. But unlike Chavez’s assembly in 1999, which rewrote the constitution to the delight of millions of his supporters, Maduro’s initiative seemingly has little popular support.

Shutting Down Caracas

The opposition coalition says its 48-hour strike is a last-ditch effort to persuade Maduro to cancel the vote. On Wednesday, while some main roads were barricaded on the east side of Caracas, motorcycles and bikes cruised through side streets, hopping curbs and ducking under ropes and chains. Some small shops and supermarkets remained open, but the sound of birds chirping replaced the routine din of traffic. “This is just the start,” Janeth Santana, a 36-year-old educator manning a roadblock Wednesday morning. “If they impose the constituent assembly, the real fight begins.”

A person shops for groceries at a supermarket in Caracas
The opposition is urging supporters to take to the streets of Caracas on Friday and have promised further actions for the weekend. “The constituent assembly would be the coronation of the coup,” said Juan Guaido, an opposition lawmaker. “It would mark the formal start of a dictatorship.” At the barricade, Santana said that violent clashes could break out Sunday. “Sometimes you have no other choice,” she said. “Many have already lost everything. It’s a fight for our future.”

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Homer J Thompson · Jul 27, 2017

They should try socialism, the libs keeping telling us how great it is, I'm sure they can fix it

vman12 · Jul 27, 2017

Wehrwolfen said: ↑

Venezuelans Take to the Streets after Chavista Court Eliminates Congress’ Legislative Powers

By Sabrina Martin
31 March 2017

Venezuelans are blocking highways and taking to the streets in response to an apparent Coup d’ etat.
Though Maduro’s regime arranged anti-riot measures in several Venezuelan cities, hundreds of Venezuelans turned out to express their opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling that dissolved the powers of the country’s congress.
Caracas, Los Teques, Vargas, Carabobo and Anzoátegui are just some of the states where protests are taking place. In Urbina, Caracas — a popular area that has traditionally been faithful to Chavez — is now flooded with protesters.
“No more dictatorship,” they are reportedly chanting. “We want freedom.”
During the protests, members of the student movement were pushed back from the main headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas and the Bolivarian National Guard reportedly detained two students.
Student Leader Hasler Iglesias said the students arrested are Andres Olivero and Rafael Alvarez from the Central University of Venezuela.
Cameraman for the TV channel Vivoplay, Andry Rincon, was detained for 30 minutes.
Since protestors were not allowed to demonstrate at the TSJ, students went to the Palace of Justice. When they arrived, they were attacked, and three more protesters were arrested.
The opposition has called for protests in the country’s streets this Saturday as well. “This is the time to stand up,” said President of the Parliament and Opposition Leader Julio Borges.
Also, the Popular Will party has urged Venezuelans to resume demonstrations in the street so as to “impose the will of the people.”

During the protests, members of the student movement were pushed back from the main headquarters of the
Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas. (Nación)

Source: https://panampost.com/sabrina-marti...court-eliminates-congress-legislative-powers/

Socialism maintains its perfect record as exemplified by Venezuela, failing every time it’s been tried. I can’t understand how people like Barack Obama, Hillary, Bernie Sanders aren’t openly mocked every time he opens his mouth about the virtues of democratic socialism.
Not to worry. Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, and Michael Moore with shotguns in hand will help Maduro denounce, overcome the protesters and the Civil War he's created.
Venezuela should prove to sane people that socialism will always lead to ruin.

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It didn't fail.

The goal of socialism is for the left to put it's boot on everyone's neck.

The part they miss, is that includes most of them as well.

Tijuana · Jul 27, 2017

Wehrwolfen said: ↑

Venezuelans Take to the Streets after Chavista Court Eliminates Congress’ Legislative Powers

By Sabrina Martin
31 March 2017

Venezuelans are blocking highways and taking to the streets in response to an apparent Coup d’ etat.
Though Maduro’s regime arranged anti-riot measures in several Venezuelan cities, hundreds of Venezuelans turned out to express their opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling that dissolved the powers of the country’s congress.
Caracas, Los Teques, Vargas, Carabobo and Anzoátegui are just some of the states where protests are taking place. In Urbina, Caracas — a popular area that has traditionally been faithful to Chavez — is now flooded with protesters.
“No more dictatorship,” they are reportedly chanting. “We want freedom.”
During the protests, members of the student movement were pushed back from the main headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas and the Bolivarian National Guard reportedly detained two students.
Student Leader Hasler Iglesias said the students arrested are Andres Olivero and Rafael Alvarez from the Central University of Venezuela.
Cameraman for the TV channel Vivoplay, Andry Rincon, was detained for 30 minutes.
Since protestors were not allowed to demonstrate at the TSJ, students went to the Palace of Justice. When they arrived, they were attacked, and three more protesters were arrested.
The opposition has called for protests in the country’s streets this Saturday as well. “This is the time to stand up,” said President of the Parliament and Opposition Leader Julio Borges.
Also, the Popular Will party has urged Venezuelans to resume demonstrations in the street so as to “impose the will of the people.”

During the protests, members of the student movement were pushed back from the main headquarters of the
Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas. (Nación)

Source: https://panampost.com/sabrina-marti...court-eliminates-congress-legislative-powers/

Socialism maintains its perfect record as exemplified by Venezuela, failing every time it’s been tried. I can’t understand how people like Barack Obama, Hillary, Bernie Sanders aren’t openly mocked every time he opens his mouth about the virtues of democratic socialism.
Not to worry. Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, and Michael Moore with shotguns in hand will help Maduro denounce, overcome the protesters and the Civil War he's created.
Venezuela should prove to sane people that socialism will always lead to ruin.

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This is where all governments that succumb to Leftists end up. This ideology is now 0-38 in human history.

Tijuana · Jul 27, 2017

Dialectical Kitten said: ↑

The court's decision is absolutely legitimate considering that the parliament has tried to stage a coup against democracy by ignoring the court's rulings.

The same opposition who tried to stage a coup in 2002 and ask foreign, imperialist powers for help constantly.

Here is a good article that sums up the situation pretty neatly:

http://www.marxist.com/imperialist-...oup-what-is-really-happening-in-venezuela.htm
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What difference does that make? The system has failed; it matters little what those who speak for the system say. This government is now non-functional, and therefore now irrelevant. The people who are trying to keep the failed system alive are not helping the citizens. They need to get out of the way, so the revolution can complete it's cycle.

Wehrwolfen · Jul 27, 2017

Homer J Thompson said: ↑

They should try socialism, the libs keeping telling us how great it is, I'm sure they can fix it
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Hmm...., They did under Hugo Chavez and now with Nicolas Maduro and it's still failing.

What difference does that make? The system has failed; it matters little what those who speak for the system say. This government is now non-functional, and therefore now irrelevant. The people who are trying to keep the failed system alive are not helping the citizens. They need to get out of the way, so the revolution can complete it's cycle.

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That's what it was designed to do. Has a Marxist Socialist government ever lasted 100 years?
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Homer J Thompson · Jul 27, 2017

Wehrwolfen said: ↑

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Hmm...., They did under Hugo Chavez and now with Nicolas Maduro and it's still failing.

What difference does that make? The system has failed; it matters little what those who speak for the system say. This government is now non-functional, and therefore now irrelevant. The people who are trying to keep the failed system alive are not helping the citizens. They need to get out of the way, so the revolution can complete it's cycle.
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I was joking.

Wehrwolfen · Jul 27, 2017

Homer J Thompson said: ↑

I was joking.
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I understand that the daughter of Hugo Chavez left Venezuela with $8 billion. Now people are starving, babies have no milk and people can't even afford toilet paper. Viva La Revolción Comunista.

waltky · Mar 29, 2018

Silicon Valley worker runs one-man operation to help Venezuelans escape...

Silicon Valley worker runs one-man operation to help Venezuelans escape
Fri, Mar 30, 2018 - At his stand-up desk in a Silicon Valley office complex, Guido Nunez-Mujica’s telephone buzzes nonstop as he tries in vain to concentrate on his work.

The text messages are from 9,600km away in Santiago, Chile, where he is helping to resettle a group of young Venezuelans trying to retrace his own immigrant’s journey to a better future. Between deciphering data and writing code, he fields questions that come flying fast: What is the fastest bus line downtown? How do you apply for an immigrant identity card? Any leads on a job? “Sometimes I’m rude and tell them to look on Google, or I have to just turn off my phone because I get five messages all at once,” Nunez-Mujica, 34, said. The demands on his time and energy are part of his solitary battle to give those trapped by his homeland’s economic crisis a fresh start abroad. Since the end of last year, he has shelled out about US$40,000 of his own money helping about 40 Venezuelans — most of them complete strangers — migrate to other South America nations. The acts of generosity range from a few months of free rent at an apartment he manages in Santiago to bus fare for a surgeon, so he could move to Peru with his wife and daughter.

Guido Nunez-Mujica, back to camera, who has helped about 40 Venezuelans escape their country, hugs Jose Manuel Hernandez as Jose David Fernandez stands by, during their first in-person meeting in Santiago, Chile

Nunez-Mujica has now launched the crowdfunded Salto (“Leap”) Project to scale up the assistance effort, convinced that the only immediate solution to Venezuela’s mess is helping those who can escape. So far he has raised US$5,250, but the goal is more than US$40,000. “There’s no way someone like me can do anything about the situation in Venezuela, but if I can do a little bit to help people leave that helps me to sleep at night,” he said in an interview from the offices of Slice Technologies, where he earns a modest tech worker’s salary coming up with solutions to improve e-shopping experiences. “I know it’s a drop in the ocean, but it’s something within my reach to do.” It is a homespun solution to an ever more desperate situation. Mounting hunger, hyperinflation and an authoritarian government are increasingly driving Venezuelans abroad in one of the largest exoduses in Latin America’s history. Independent groups have estimated that 3 million to 4 million Venezuelans have abandoned their home country over the past few years, with several hundred thousand fleeing last year alone.

Daniel Klie, 25, is one of the recipients of Nunez-Mujica’s “micro-sponsorships,” in his case US$200 for a plane ticket to Santiago. With almost no savings to his name, Klie’s first two months in Chile were torment. A college graduate with two degrees, in journalism and library sciences, he worked under the table at a butcher shop, toiling long hours seven days a week for less than the minimum wage. Then, buoyed by Nunez-Mujica’s coaching and moral support, Klie won an internship at an advertising agency. He now has a full-time job earning about US$550 a month — five times as much as he made in an entire year holding down three jobs back home. “In Venezuela, trying to save money is a titanic undertaking,” Klie said. “It’s all about trying to eat and survive each day. Planning ahead is impossible.” Nunez-Mujica, who abandoned Venezuela in 2011, first for Chile and then three years ago for the US, said that the idea of helping others was born from the frustration he felt hearing stories and seeing pictures of friends who had lost weight struggling to feed themselves.

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vman12 · Mar 30, 2018

waltky said: ↑

Silicon Valley worker runs one-man operation to help Venezuelans escape...

Silicon Valley worker runs one-man operation to help Venezuelans escape
Fri, Mar 30, 2018 - At his stand-up desk in a Silicon Valley office complex, Guido Nunez-Mujica’s telephone buzzes nonstop as he tries in vain to concentrate on his work.
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I wonder if he has time for I, the Nigerian prince.

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