What You Should Know About the… Protests in Venezuela
What You Should Know About the
Protests in Venezuela
Feb 21, 2014 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/what_you_should_know_about_the_protests_in_venezuela_20140221
Failing to win a mandate from Venezuelans in elections over the last few years, the leaders of the countrys mainstream, U.S.-backed opposition are exploiting discontent among the population in an effort to topple the democratically elected government, sociologist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya writes.
Nazemroaya explains at BoilingFrogsPost:
The same opposition leaders and their foreign supporters are using the cover of the undeniable misgivings about rising crime rates, political corruption, and economic turmoil in Venezuela as a disguise for what is essentially looking like an attempted coup. The socio-economic misgivings of a segment of the population are being used as a pretext to legitimize street action and violence aimed at toppling the government
It is ironic that many of those opposing the Venezuelan government in the name of democracy, equality, and security were once supporters of autocratic and openly corrupt governments before the Chavez era. Memory loss or outright hypocrisy is at play. .............
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