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Fears of more protest clashes high in Venezuela

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Security forces closed off access to a plaza where anti-government demonstrators were set to rally behind fugitive opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in a tense standoff with pro-government forces who have organized their own march.
The competing demonstrations loomed one day after President Nicolas Maduro's government gave three U.S. Embassy officials 48 hours to leave the country, claiming they were supporting what he says are opposition plots to topple his socialist administration. The U.S. denied that.

My Way News - Fears of more protest clashes high in Venezuela
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Let's hope the protest is peaceful.....With Maduro calling for competing protests, probably not....Well, we all know that leftists can't take criticism, and it is a shame that people will die over it....
 
Lots of protests against the regimes around the world. [and these aren't Muslims]
 
WCH said:
Lots of protests against the regimes around the world. [and these aren't Muslims]
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Uberal progressive authoritarianism is losing the propaganda war.
 
If there's a protest aimed at toppling a government around the world, its bound to be a government that the US would like to see toppled, and the US is bound to be behind it supporting it.


CARACAS - The Venezuelan government on Monday ordered three US diplomats accused of inciting violent protests that left three people dead and dozens injured to leave the country within two days.
"All these diplomats are required to leave from our sovereign and independent homeland of Venezuela in the next 48 hours for actively being involved in the organization and promotion of these groups that now intend to generate violence in our country," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told a press conference.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-02/18/content_17288955.htm
 
j-mac said:
Let's hope the protest is peaceful.....With Maduro calling for competing protests, probably not....Well, we all know that leftists can't take criticism, and it is a shame that people will die over it....
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I say we send the protesters there guns and ammunition. Lots of guns. And people who volunteer to go there to help train the protesters. Maybe some people that are good at tactics also.
 
DVSentinel said:
I say we send the protesters there guns and ammunition. Lots of guns. And people who volunteer to go there to help train the protesters. Maybe some people that are good at tactics also.
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Hey, you've been sending guns to every other bunch of criminals in Latin America for decades. Why stop at the Venezuelan coup organisers?
 
Andalublue said:
Hey, you've been sending guns to every other bunch of criminals in Latin America for decades. Why stop at the Venezuelan coup organisers?
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Only to those fighting Socialist. We won't to Venezuela because, one, were broke and two, we have a worthless socialist dickhead in the white house at the moment.
 
DVSentinel said:
Only to those fighting Socialist. We won't to Venezuela because, one, were broke and two, we have a worthless socialist dickhead in the white house at the moment.
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I think you've got more than a few million arms to spare your right-wing death squad buddies, and I don't think it would require anyone to seek the permission of the C-in-C before shipping them off. You can always get around stuff like that. Remember the Iran-Contra affair?
 
Andalublue said:
I think you've got more than a few million arms to spare your right-wing death squad buddies, and I don't think it would require anyone to seek the permission of the C-in-C before shipping them off. You can always get around stuff like that. Remember the Iran-Contra affair?
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It is always refreshing to hear from a hard core anti American.
 
fmw said:
It is always refreshing to hear from a hard core anti American.
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I was expressing my disdain for those who would have the US behave in the way it has behaved badly in the past. I don't believe the US will arm the right-wing Venezuelan conspirators this time around. I'm not anti-American, just anti-American imperialists. Fortunately they are few in number, DVSentinel happens to be one of them.
 
Andalublue said:
I think you've got more than a few million arms to spare your right-wing death squad buddies, and I don't think it would require anyone to seek the permission of the C-in-C before shipping them off. You can always get around stuff like that. Remember the Iran-Contra affair?
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That was the C-in-C getting around congress.
 
DVSentinel said:
I say we send the protesters there guns and ammunition. Lots of guns. And people who volunteer to go there to help train the protesters. Maybe some people that are good at tactics also.
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Like the good old days?

Still, I think the CIA has their feet up on the table with this one.
 
Andalublue said:
Hey, you've been sending guns to every other bunch of criminals in Latin America for decades. Why stop at the Venezuelan coup organisers?
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So those protesting the Venezuelan autocrat are criminals? You've got to stop reading the Guardian. Meanwhile, what will be your reaction when the Russians, in the interest of ending the suffering in the Ukraine, decide to visit that country in numbers in their favorite vehicle for visiting their neighbors - the Tank? I'm guessing the silence will be deafening from the European left. As usual.
 
Van Basten said:
Like the good old days?

Still, I think the CIA has their feet up on the table with this one.
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You got that right. They failed their coup in 2002 so why not try again? Hopefully, they'll install a very wealthy and sympathetic business elite in power again.
 
We still import a small percentage of oil from them. It would probably be more but they have heavy sour crude which is harder to refine. Our main interest should be solely that they do not destabilize. I don't believe we should be meddling with their home protests in any way. I abhor that we have allowed the CIA the role we have.

That said, their system, as Chavez imagined it is doomed. He built his vision on the back of windfall profits and failed to provide for the slump that comes after the windfall.
 
Maduro doesn't have the charisma of Chavez

Venezuelan opposition leader Lopez due in court after surrendering - CNN.com

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appears ready to move forward with the prosecution of a leading opposition figure (Lopez) Charges against him include murder, terrorism and arson in connection with the protests, according to his party, Popular Will
Many of Maduro's claims -- of U.S. intervention, of assassination plots -- were also lobbed by the late President Hugo Chavez
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at some point these shortages have to be addressed, there are demonstrations and counter demonstrations - I don't know of any real US involvement in this mess. Seems internal
 
Montecresto said:
We do have a previous failed coup attempt in Venezuela. And the president claims the US is working with and fomenting the protests.
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Venezuelan president you mean? I'm not all up on that area's history, and it could be so....don't know for sure, just SEEMS to be a more internal power struggle.
Thanks for the coup attempt remark, i'll have to goggle it.
 
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