Catholic Church blasts Venezuela for 'brutal repression'of protestors

Reuters ^ | 4/2/2014 | Eyanir Chinea

[Nextrush]

Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church accused President Nicolas Maduro's government on Wednesday of "totalitarian" tendencies and "brutal repression" of demonstrators during two months of political unrest that has killed several dozen people.....

Monsignor Diego Padron, who heads Veneuela's conference of bishops, said the "principal cause" of the crisis was the government's attempt to implant a blueprint for government that Chavez left behind called "the fatherland plan."

"Within it they are hiding the promotion of a totalitarian-style system of government, putting in doubt its democratic credentials," he said, reading a church communique'.

Though defending students' and others' right to protest, the Church condemned both the demonstrators' tactic of barricading roads and the state's "brutal repression" of dissidence.....

[Nextrush]

Reuters has a lot of pro-regime content if you read the whole story but the Roman Catholic bishops have come out against the brutality and totalitarian intentions of the Cuban backed Maduro regime.

[Berlin_Freeper]

http://socialismisnotanoption.com/show/031814-show-185758.mp3

[Reaganez]

I think our boys would rather be stationed in Venezuela than Afghanistan or Irag. Venezuela Women's Soccer team.

Miss Venezuela/Universe

[mazda77]

But, the regime has lost the church. They be in deep doo-doo.

[Dan in Wichita]

As Josef Stalin once famously said, “how many divisions does the pope have?”