Posted on 06/07/2007 3:55:37 PM PDT by mgist
Students seek to bypass government media blackout
Venezuelan police, in riot gear, prepare to face a crowd of college students calling for media freedom in Venezuela.
At approximately 3:20 p.m. this afternoon in Caracas security forces murdered a Venezuelan student who was taking part in the ongoing peaceful protests against Hugo Chavez's regime, eyewitnesses said.
The student who was killed was named Andreina Gomez Guevara. She was 24 years old and attended UCAB, the Catholic University of Venezuela.
Students inside Venezuela are using the Internet to try to get out news about this murder and these demonstrations to the outside world. They complain that media inside Venezuela has either been silenced or intimidated, preventing a true picture of events there from being reported, and they appeal for help.
Venezuelan Students Spreading News of Killing via Internet Malury de Morales is a Venezuelan living in Florida who has been following these events closely through a constant stream of e-mails and instant messages coming from students in Caracas.
According to a student who e-mailed Ms. Morales and who claims to have been an eyewitness to this afternoon's murder, the security officers who killed Ms. Guevara went out of their way to do so. Her source says that Ms. Guevara was peacefully protesting, but the police broke ranks in order to go get her and shoot her on the street.
The government of Chavez has issued a statement claiming that the student was killed while engaged in violent protest. Chavez has also broadcast statements that he will "defend Venezuela against violent people."
College students march to support democracy and media freedom in Venezuela. Venezuela College Students Demonstrate Peacefully According to e-mails Ms. Morales has received, the students' protests have involved such slogans as, "We want freedom of speech. We don't want a Communist regime. We don't want violence." All the protests are said by the students to have been peaceful.
Pictures e-mailed out of Venezuela by the students show masses of young people peacefully marching the streets of Caracas.
Prior to today's killing, the students have reported violence being used to try to intimidate them.
"This is a call for aid: Do not be deceived by a tyrant who promotes the destruction and the death of his people." —An e-mail from a Venezuelan student One e-mail reports over 120 minors having been returned to their homes by police after having been beaten.
Chavez Stops Venezuelan Media, Takes Aim at College Media outside of Venezuela have reported that the student protests, which are now in their fifth day, having begun on May 27, were sparked by the closing of the most popular TV station in Venezuela, RCTV.
Venezuelan students kneel down to block a police vehicle dispersing the crowd with a water cannon.But the students' opposition to the Chavez regime had another important trigger. On May 24, Chavez had announced he would end the autonomy of the Central University of Caracas.
This university has existed since the beginning of Venezuela and is highly respected. The students of Venezuela are said by Ms. Morales' e-mail correspondents to have viewed the threat to Central University as symbolic of a general attack on Venezuelans' freedom.
One e-mail concludes with these words: "This is a call for aid, a S. O. S. to all the planet: Do not be deceived by a tyrant, by someone who is unhinged and who promotes the destruction and the death of his people."
With the close of RCTV, the only media outlet said to be still willing to report honestly on events in Venezuela is the very weak T.V. station Globovision. Recently members of the Chavez-dominated national assembly threatened to close it.
The students' e-mails also report that Chavez has now threatened to shut down the Internet.
Does anyone here really think Chavez will pull this off to completion? Are people in the 21st century really going to allow themselves to be enslaved from freedom like this?
So, I’m sure huge numbers of DUmmies and other left-wingers will soon rush down to Venezuela to help Hugo forge his communist paradise and bust-up these student protests.
They might not have a choice if Chavez continues to be aided by one of the most powerful and corrupt political parties on the earth.
Jimmy Carter is probably on his there right now to help....
Chavez that is..
You can be certain that IF the U.S. somehow got involved, these same students would TURN on the U.S. “Imperialists” and suddenly proclaim their devotion to Chavez.
I say the Venezuelan citizens need to reap what they have sewn for putting this a-hole in power. Let em live under a TYRANT for awhile.
I agree, they’ll figure it out sooner or later.
Now is the time to get back at that pompus a## Chavez, US should support democratic elements within Venezuela.
Go on, Chavez. Shut down the internet. I dare you.
Key advice for DUmmmies wanting to go to support the Chavez Revolution:
If you wear your Comrade Che t-shirt with his face on the front, you are part of Team Chavez.
If you wear your Comrade Che t-shirt with his face on the back, Team Chavez will kill you.
This is a new revolution! This is the Chavez revolution! This is the kook revolution, and we are not ashamed!
The aristos must be chastened befor being allowed to continue their policies of rich getting richer with no chance for their peasantry to advance.
Wonder if she is kin to Che? Wouldn't that be ironic?
Meantime, these brave and determined citizens are needing the 'light of truth' to shine from our own media.
Of course, not much of our media left; willing to turn their lights on, for Venezuela.
***Does anyone here really think Chavez will pull this off to completion?***
Why not? Castro did.
Of course, the MSM had no trouble buying the line that the assassination was neither sponsored nor executed by the Chavez regime.
No need to investigate further, the commies’ word is good enough.
That said, the article accompanying this post is short on facts and long on rhetoric. Doesn't’t help much more than reading a CNN or Reuters piece.
The people of Venezuela in the long run will not be the ones who decide if they are enslaved or not.
The military can very easily crush these protests. Chavez recently armed 500,000 of his peasant followers with the front of a pending American invasion
If Chavez doesn't back down, other governments will eventually force the issue either by diplomacy or by force.
There are steps to enslavement. Just check the Liberal/Socialist agendas here in our Country or check out Communist's web sites; all ideas indistinguishable. . .Listen to Hillaryspeak. . Listen to the debased radical Left.
Their goals are tsunami-like. . .you do not see it; until too late.
Just look at who/what we are fighting against. Given tactics. . .MO and agenda of our enemies; does it feel like we are fighting a 21st century war?
If Castro-wannabe, Chavez; does NOT succeed; it will not be because he did not try. . .
And to think that in some quarters, Pinochet is still being savaged.
Just heard from my aunt in Caracas. She had her passport confiscated when she tried to leave the country to visit her sister in Florida. Apparently,the Govt. in Venezuela is not allowing people out of the country if their destination is the U.S.
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