Opposition, pro-govt rallies grip Venezuela

[Bryan]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans on both sides of the nation's bitter political divide took to the streets on Saturday after two weeks of mass protests that have President Nicolas Maduro scrambling to squash an increasingly militant opposition movement.

In Caracas, tens of thousands of opponents of the president filled several city blocks in their biggest rally to date against his 10-month-old government. Across town, at the presidential palace, Maduro addressed a much-smaller crowd of mostly female supporters dressed in the red of his socialist party.

The dueling protests capped a violent week in which the government jailed Leopoldo Lopez, a fiery hard-liner who roused the opposition following its defeat in December's mayoral elections, and dozens of other student activists. The violence has left at least 10 people dead on both sides and injured more than 100.

http://news.yahoo.com/opposition-pro-govt-rallies-grip-venezuela-193430918.html

 

[Petar]

It's good that there is finally some coverage, but this is not a story about equal opposition.

What you have is protestors against a totalitarian regime who have been being killed by the government and its socialist supporters.

The MSM has barely been covering the whole thing because big money is behind socialism, plain and simple.

 

[Henry Rogue]

10-month-old government.*

This seems like a misrepresentation. Isn't his election a continuation of Hugo Chavez's government? That's like saying the U.S. has a new government every time a new president is elected. It's meant to deflect blame away from Chavez.

 

[compromise]

This seems like a misrepresentation. Isn't his election a continuation of Hugo Chavez's government? That's like saying the U.S. has a new government every time a new president is elected. It's meant to deflect blame away from Chavez.

Yeah, the new guy is from the same party as Chavez and was previously a close associate of Chavez.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

The MSM has barely been covering the whole thing because big money is behind socialism, plain and simple.

Sort of like MSM never covered pro-Gaddafi rallies in Libya because regime change decision makers/protest managers goal is rarely motivated by respect for will of the native people.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWzNhk3zv4U

 

[compromise]

I'm strongly in favor of regime change in Venezuela. Hopefully they remove Maduro from office just like Allende in Chile.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

I'm strongly in favor of regime change in Venezuela. Hopefully they remove Maduro from office just like Allende in Chile.

Do you support or oppose regime change in Syria?
And did you support or oppose regime change in Iraq?

Assuming you are neither Syrian, Iraqi or Venez.

 

[alucard13mm]

Usa seem to be inclined to support rebels or protesters in conflicts in last 3-4 years.

 

[compromise]

Do you support or oppose regime change in Syria?
And did you support or oppose regime change in Iraq?

I support both, but I recognize it is not possible to replace the Assad/Hussein regime with anything better in the present time. As a result, I would in favor of the Ba'athist regime over the Islamist one.

What does Iraq and Syria have to do with this thread?

 

[DamianTV]

This seems like a misrepresentation. Isn't his election a continuation of Hugo Chavez's government? That's like saying the U.S. has a new government every time a new president is elected. It's meant to deflect blame away from Chavez.

Or US attemps to co-opt, coup, or flat out control Chavez. Blame is never directed toward the chess player themselves, but the pawns they play.

 

[juleswin]

Usa seem to be inclined to support rebels or protesters in conflicts in last 3-4 years.

Yea except when the person they are fighting is a US supported dictator. Just ask Joseph Kony who was trying to fight the 20+ yr dictator of Uganda. They called him a terrorist and send advisers to the country to assist them in the fight.

 

[Henry Rogue]

Or US attemps to co-opt, coup, or flat out control Chavez. Blame is never directed toward the chess player themselves, but the pawns they play.

Oh, I'm sure the CIA is playing games down there, that's their modus operandi. I was speaking specifically of Chavez's central planning, it doesn't work whether the U.S. is down there disrupting their economy or not. Chavez is culpable for his part in the Venezuela economic disaster and his part was quite large.