Caracas Mayor Arrested on Sedition Accusation, Plunging Venezuela into New Crisis

NYT ^ | 2/20/15 | GIRISH GUPTA and FRANCES ROBLES

[Kartographer]

There will be blood soon. A chance to study country in collapse as it happens.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[GeronL]

rounding up opposition leaders is what a dictator does

Without leaders the opposition will not have a chance to win their sham elections. The opposition already has no money and no media (the government controls all that).

If they do somehow manage to win 2/3rds of the assembly they might have a shot, but I think they’ll more likely BE shot.

[Cowboy Bob]

From bus driver to president...what could possible go wrong?

[C210N]

Sounds a bit more than just the Venezuelan version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

“....they might have a shot, but I think they’ll more likely BE shot.”
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That’s a great line. I’ll have to remember that.

[skinkinthegrass]

yeah..the End is near..

("Animal Farm") Napoleon:
"Traitors behind every door..
Foreign Armies @ the borders."

[bgill]

working hand-in-hand with the United States government.

Prez Jarrett has no interest in Venezuela but you can bet she's taking notes.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, yes. They’ll be shooting these people next and blaming somebody else. And we’ll be reading ledes like “As Venezuela descends into chaos...”

[GeronL]

they have done it before

shootings from thugs on motorcycles (they have guns because they are chavista’s and probably on the national oil companies bloated payroll)

[molson209]

Venezuela is about ready for a Chinese takeover

[Veggie Todd]

A chance to study country in collapse as it happens.

Coming soon to a country very near and dear to you.

[Iron Munro]

This is certain to give Obam ideas.

[SharpRightTurn]

“From bus driver to president...what could possible go wrong?”

Exactly.

Almost as bad as going from community organizer to President.

[TBP]

Criticized Maduro, did he?

We’re headed down this path.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

But Mr. Maduro, whose administration has been roiled by helped cause an increasingly dire economic crisis in Venezuela

Fixed it.

[VTenigma]

Let the purges begin! /s

[Ditto]

There will be blood soon.

And probably Cuban troops to back up the local thugs.

[Hardens Hollow]

You beat me to it ;)

[gundog]

So, you’re saying jobs and higher self-esteem probably won’t work at suppressing “extreemeism?”