Fiery Maduro foe now fights from Venezuela jail

Associated Press ^ | Feb 19, 2014 12:01 AM EST | Andrew Rosati and Joshua Goodman

[Olog-hai]

Moments before his dramatic arrest, opposition leader Leopoldo López told a sea of white-shirted supporters that he doesn’t fear years behind bars if that’s what it takes to open eyes to the damage done to Venezuela by 15 years of socialist rule.

“If my jailing serves to awaken a people, serves to awaken Venezuela … then it will be well worth the infamous imprisonment imposed upon me directly, with cowardice” by President Nicolás Maduro, a defiant López shouted through a megaphone Tuesday from atop a statue of 19^th century Cuban independence hero José Martí in a Caracas plaza. …

[GeronL]

The rallies were massive. The dictator really arrested the opposition leader for murders committed by the governments collectivos. Everyone knows it too.

This is a very dirty war

[SoFloFreeper]

Is Maduro a true hero? Is he for capitalism? Is he a Christian? Or is he another socialist who thinks the socialist system isn’t being run very well?

I know in Miami the Venezuelans here hate the current regime.

[GeronL]

Marduro is a crook, a commie, a tyrant and totally incompetent. I mean, what do you expect from a former bus driver?

[Joe Boucher]

coming soon to America thanks to this antiAmerican jive ass punk in the white hut

[mgist]

What is happening in Venezuela today will have a direct impact on the rest of the world. venezuela was once an oil rich country that was taken over by Marxists. Venezuela is what the US and most of the world will look like if the UN, and world elites have their way.

Venezuelans are risking their lives to protest the Marxist regime, and serve as an example to all of us. They have a compromised media, no legal recourse, no international government support, and police and union thugs with red shirts and guns who can kill with impunity.

These are very brave people protesting.

[skinkinthegrass]

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