Posted on 04/22/2017 4:01:35 AM PDT by Nextrush
OK, a lot has been going on. I cannot catch up with everything. So here follows a summary of sorts mixed with my conclusions.....
FACT 1
April 19 was the nail in the coffin for street protest from chavismo. The opposition drew a GIGANTIC crowd from Eastern Caracas. Basically anyone that could make it did so....Some experts put at 3 million those who set foot on the street if anything to wave a flag as marchers went by. I will settle for two million which is A-W-E-S-O-M-E.....
But that is not all, there were huge marches in many places of Venezuela, something unheard of in some of those places.......
FACT 2
.....The repression of the last two weeks was bad enough as it was. But what happened on April 19 should get to whomever gave the order a one way ticket to The Hague international court. The indictment could be on Crime Against Humanity or even simply War Crimes. The merits are there for any type of indictment the court may wish to use. Proving that the order came from Cuba will not be easy, perhaps, but proving that the Venezuelan Generals in charge gave the order, or did not try to stop it is, well, vox populi......
FACT 3
The popular discontent can only but grow. The tweet below gives a fascinating video. If your Spanish holds, the message is about how the message of chavismo is not going down anymore. The background are popular districts. The "pueblo" is brown skinned. The only pale guy is the chavista official, ironed red shirt, impeccable shave and hair cut (and apparently some type of body guard). And yet he is booed, he is told that the CLAP food program does not work....the fault is with Maduro and no one else........
(Excerpt) Read more at daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com ...
There are five "FACTS" laid out in the post, the other two not excerpted relate to the financial condition of the country being a disaster plus the notion of a "Nazi style" emerging with the regime giving notice it knows the names and addresses of the people it intends to round up.
The opposition is urging the big bankers of the world not to throw the Maduro regime a lifeline with loans based on Venezuela's gold reserves.
The Associated Press published a story about this featuring Julio Borges, the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela.
He wrote more than a dozen letters to the CEO's of the big banks around the world urging them to refrain from throwing the dictator Maduro a lifeline.
Lenin said the capitalists would sell the Communists the rope they would be hung with.
Will the corporatist bankers "sell" the Venezuelan Communists the rope to hang the Venezuelan people with?
Where is Obama???
I’d like to hear Bernie explain how Venezuelan Socialism is wonderful and why he wants to implement it here.
Neither did the apparent donation by the government-run PDVSA oil bureaucracy to the Trump Administration inauguration (for events), which should have been rejected or still yet, returned (or better yet, monies taken and given to human rights organizations monitoring the situation in Venezuela.) I believe there is still time to do the right thing here.
3 million marchers. Less than a few thousand troops.
And Maduro still stands. If we ever get really riled up, I hope it will not take 3 million before we decide to do something.
Even unarmed, 3 million people should have been able to take Maduro down.
Thanks for posting.
Dear Daniel, that type of thinking will get you a power mad socialist dictator...oh wait...that is what you have! You want to turn sovereignty over to some foreign country to administer justice. No, whomever gave the order needs to feels the pain of a bad decision as soon as possible, by those who are afflicted.
I read overnight that Obama has been in communication with a politician in France, Emmanuel Macron, the corporatist elitist “centrist” candidate for president.
“Even unarmed, 3 million people should have been able to take Maduro down.”
You are so right! The fact is, until the marchers start returning fire in whatever way they can, they’ll just continue to be victimized by the Chavistas. We need to watch and learn from the experience of the feckless and cowardly Venezualans. The Berzerkely protests should teach us a lesson on how we need to counterpunch, instead of participating in an endless parade of “demonstrations” that come to no good end. Our ancestors knew this in 1776 and 1861. It’s time we got with the program, too.
That’s how folks like Daniel think. I don’t like such a notion and its amazing how some ‘leaders’ can escape the court even when they’re charged.
The corrupt leftist South African government let a leader from another African nation visit the other year and disobeyed a local order from a South African judge to arrest the guy to face charges in The Hague.
Time for the USA to take the necessary steps to bring down the governments of Venezuela & Cuba and free their starving, oppressed people. And...yes there is more then one way to bring down a despot government, other then using military force!!! POTUS, Trump get creative...cut a deal with Mexico, Chile & Columbia to bring these tyrants down.
Now is the time for an American POTUS to strike an economic and political blow to foster Latin, Central, South American and Caribbean growth, freedom and great economic progress!!!
I wanted to post a link to the AP story on the National Assembly president’s letter to Wall Street asking them not to bail out the regime in Venezuela.
Someone ought to air drop a few hundred thousand copies of Atlas Shrugged.
They need a good mind-expanding lecture from Juan Galt.
That may sound callous but unless they fight for it they will not appreciate the gifts our blood and treasure might buy them. Many Venezuelans continue to support Socialismo! The envy runs deep as they propagate marxists myths about how Uncle Sam has stolen their treasures and future.
Nope - this is their fight. Let them earn it themselves.
Agreed. The USA should not be used like a global 911. Actions have consequences. Venezualans caused their own suffering. They can fight to change their situation or succumb to their own folly.
Why does “Oh, how we burned in the camps” come to mind? C’mon, Venezolanos, time to step up now.
Cuba calls the tune in Vz.
Until that changes, nothing will change.
Actually all these responses on right on the money!!! The good people of Venezuela have the power to overthrow their tyrant, dictator government, and, with that action, gain their freedom and the determination of their own and their children’s future.
Ya know folks....Venezuela & Cuba...and other Latin, Central, South American countries have great potential for freedom, economic growth, opportunities and prosperity!!!
Both Venezuela & Cuba can be powerful engines for both business and tourism!!! Why? Both countries have a strong culture of hard work ethics and religious strength. Example: The Cubans that came to the Florida shores in the 1980s...have seriously helped southern Florida become the powerhouse state she is!!! That also goes for the Haitian refugees located mainly in south Florida...who are a hardworking culture and positive force in America!!!
We, the USA, need to help and assist where we can without getting involved with our military!!!
Will never happen.
Virtually every country south of the US in the western hemisphere is controlled either by a socialist, communist, or authoritarian regime, with scant few exceptions.
And the EU, along with far eastern communist regimes, middle eastern muslim caliphate wannabes, and the usual assortment of third world shitbags at the UN, will not let that happen.
Nothing short of a bloody civil war in Venezuela between the populace and the chavizmos without foreign influence will solve the problem.
(singing calypso)
Matilda...Matilda,
Matilda she take me money and run Venezuela!
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