Venezuela: The Right Wing Deploy Their Fascists. Feb 14 Important Updates
Venezuela: The Right Wing Deploy Their Fascists. Feb 14 Important Updates
By Les Blough in La Victoria. Axis of Logic
Friday, Feb 14, 2014
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Leopoldo López (R), right-wing opposition leader who promoted the student protests and violence
over the last 10 days in which 3 people died. A warrant was issued for his arrest yesterday. López
has been in hiding and trying to flee to Colombia according to Diosdado Cabello, President of
Venezuela's National Assembly. (more details in the report below) Photo: VTV [/font]
Introduction
In this report we summarize the violence against the government launched by the opposition during the last two weeks, provide context for the timing of these attacks, the government's response, a brief analysis followed by a proposal.
The Attacks
Week of February 3: Last week "protests" by rioting opposition students and violent attacks took place in two Venezuelan states: Tachira, on the Colombian border and Merida. On February 4th demonstrations orchestrated by the right-wing were launched in San Cristóbal, Tachira and students from University of the Andes (ULA) in Merida and a few other institutions. These operations began peacefully before turning violent with many of them, masked and hooded, throwing rocks, bottles and molotov cocktails at motorists, blocking streets and roads. Venezuela Analysis, based in Merida reported that according to Socialist Governor of Tachira Vielma Mora, on February 6 a group attacked his residence. They broke down the front gates to the residence, destroyed a police sentry post and threatened the governor's wife who was being protected by the police. Mora said that some had turned up at the nursery where his young children were in care "with the intention of taking them out and causing them harm."
Week of February 9
February 10: The riots in Merida and Tachira continued through February 10th with these thugs burning tires, firing live ammunition indiscriminately into buildings, throwing rocks, attempting to storm a communal house in Merida and forcing people off buses at gunpoint. Tamara Pearson, a journalist writing for Venezuela Analysis reported that one of their reporters was held in the street at gunpoint with captors threatening to kill her if she didn't give them her camera.
Merida state governor, Alexis Ramirez, also released photos of the armed "protestors" whom he said was detained and later said he was paid by an opposition leader, Villca Fernandez to protest.
Villca Fernandez is the national coordinator of a right student movement named "Liberation." Tamara Pearson also reported that Fernandez is, "one of the people who held a 'hunger strike' (he was filmed eating) in 2011 for supposed 'political prisoners” ... He claimed the protests were about 'growing insecurity' in the country. However he also stated, 'Maduro has to understand that the student movement will never recognise him as president... he should resign, and we’ll be in the streets until we recover freedom' then invited 'all Venezuelans' to 'go out into the streets and raise your voice against the violence'."
More:
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_66404.shtml
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including on your beloved aporrea.org .
Looks like someone at VTV got creative with Photoshop... 
after he stumbled right off to find your attempted insult to reinforce a clown in LBN today, at this link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014749301#post184
And here YA go, Zorro! Taken right from the Caracas Chronicles, an anti-Chavez/Maduro site!
Spoiler Alert
Francisco Toro / February 17, 2014
There’s a lot of ferment right now, a lot of excitement, as a brand new generation of kids relearning, en cabeza propia all kinds of things that nobody ever learns en cabeza ajena.
Like Juan, I’ve seen this movie before. And so I sort of know how it ends. So – SPOILER ALERT – here are the seven lessons that today’s students are eventually going to figure out, but not before a huge amount of heartache and, well, just plain normal ache:
1.The one thing chavismo can’t do without is an enemy, preferably one that its followers can feel good about hating, a convincingly menacing yet objectively powerless enemy that helps mobilize grassroots support while presenting no real challenge to the governing elite’s power
2.You are the perfect enemy Seriously, you tick all the boxes.
3.They’re not repressing you because they’re scared of you, they’re repressing you because they have a long-term plan to build a fully authoritarian state and society. From their point of view, any event that gives them a pretext to advance that agenda is a feature, not a bug.
4.Nicolás Maduro can’t believe his luck that you started to guarimbear just when his mismanagement of the economy had gotten so bad it was starting to threaten the cohesion of the chavista coalition.
5.Anything that makes a protest in Antímano less likely makes the government stronger because the only thing the government really fears, the only thing that actually threatens the governing clique’s control of the state and its rents, is dissent in its natural base of support.
6.A guarimba in Altamira makes a protest in Antímano less likely, because it reinforces the Us vs. Them, el pueblo vs. la oligarquía framing that’s at the center of chavismo’s ultimate claim to legitimacy.
All of which brings us to the terrible realization people of my generation had towards the end of January, 2003, and which people of your generation are going to have in February or March of 2014:
Middle class protests in middle class areas on middle class themes by middle class people are not a challenge to the chavista power system, they’re part of the chavista power system.
This is really painful, but figuring it out is crucial. Chavismo doesn’t thrive despite this type of protest, it thrives because of it.
It will break your heart. It broke mine. But it’s important to see it clearly because, tragically, some people never do piece it together.
http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/17/34988/
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What do you have to say when your own foaming-at-the-mouth Chavez-hating website runs the very same photo, only many years EARLIER?????????
It really takes all kinds, unfortunately.
It was so surprising to see a couple of other right-wing clowns passing on your attempted insults as if you knew what you were talking about.
There's a large open space left to Lopez where the bottle thrower is on the VTV version you posted originally.
It shows details of the background behind the smoke that are covered by the bottle throwing guy on the VTV photo.
Also, "years earlier" ?? The Caracas Chronicles article says "February 17, 2014".
Your VTV photo:
The same photo with the Aporrea version on top of it:
The same trick, with the Caracas Chronicles version:
