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Posted on 01/21/2019 11:29:10 AM PST by jazusamo
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela plunged deeper into turmoil on Monday as security forces put down a pre-dawn uprising by national guardsmen that triggered violent street protests and the Supreme Court outlawed the opposition-controlled congress’ defiant new leadership.
The mutiny triggered protests in a poor neighborhood just a few miles (kilometers) from Venezuela’s presidential palace. It was dispersed with tear gas as residents set fire to a barricade of trash and chanted demands that President Nicolas Maduro leave power.
The military said in a statement said that it had recovered all the weapons and captured those involved in what it described as “treasonous” acts motivated by “obscure interests tied to the far right.”
It said at around 2:50 a.m. (06:50 GMT), a small group of guardsmen took captive a captain in charge of a police station in western Caracas and then moved across the capital in two military trucks to the poor neighborhood of Petare, where they stole a cache of weapons from another outpost.
They were caught a few hours later at a national guard outpost 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Miraflores presidential palace.
A few hours earlier, a group of heavily armed national guardsmen published a series of videos on social media saying they won’t recognize Maduro’s government, which has come under increasing domestic and international pressure over a newly begun second term that the opposition-controlled congress and many nations consider illegitimate.
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I guess their judges write law too...
Yep, but the “rule of law” in Veneszuela is Maduro.
Expect more “revolts” from their National Guardsmen.
Approximately about a weekend a month and two weeks in the summer...
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Coming to a head. Thank Trump.
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Supreme Court outlawed the opposition-controlled congress’
Let the leftists put enough judges on the court and
that is exactly what will happen here.
“Expect more “revolts” from their National Guardsmen.”
indeed. the most likely way Marduo will be deposed is via Military coup or assassination, because the military is the group that has practically all of the guns ...
Maduro’s days are numbered
First, send a detqil to kill the judges.
“Maduro’s days are numbered”
I agree, when people are starving and leaving their country to survive they’re going to unite against tyranny.
Didn’t Jimmah Cahtah go down there and certify their elections as fair and free??
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Here is what Jimmy Carter said about Venezuela's "dictatorship" a few weeks ago: "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world."
Classic moronic statement from the peanut farmer...
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