Posted on 01/30/2011 12:28:50 PM PST by cj in tx
GulagBound.com is live blogging beginning this Sunday morning, as events of critical importance are planned in the Sur del Lago region of Venezuela (translated "South Lake" with its key city, Santa Barbara). Just last Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans gathered in Caracas and in cities around the world, to peacefully protest against the Marxist dictatorship of Hugo Chavez and to demand their land and freedoms be returned to them. It has not happened.
One week later, they will be taking as yet unspecified measures at the farms of Sur del Lago and are planning for confrontation with Venezuelan military. They say they have had enough and will confront the tyranny. Gulag Bound will be receiving reports from at least one Venezuelan there on the ground, during the day. Please pray for all concerned and for the people of Venezuela.
Update 11:05am CT ~ Live Blogging from Saturday night through this Sunday, at the link below. There you can see reports, including video, of the explosion and fire earlier today, in a Caracas area ammunitions storage facility (a separate situation) -- also links to key Venezuela news reports in numerous venues around the world.
Update: 2:07pm CT ~ There are rumors on the ground in Venezuela that Hugo Chavez may have fled Venezuela. He failed to show up for his Sunday morning TV program (worship service?) with only a feeble excuse. More on this in the Live Blog:
Ulf Erlingsson: Hugo Chávez canceled his weekly TV show Alo Presidente, with no credible excuse. The suspicion is that he has left the country without the permit of the Congress, which would mean that he - legally speaking - has abandoned his post as president of Venezuela. They are now trying to locate him to counter this rumor.
Ulf Erlingsson: Breaking, a pilot just told me Chavez plane seems to be gone.
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Gulag Bound has been covering the Chavez crisis since his Merry Chavismo farm and business confiscations, beginning just before this past Christmas. See this entry for a list of reports and commentary. We have also published the news in Big Peace.
Perhaps the most thorough analysis of Chavez' tyrannies may be found in our 1/19 article, "Sunday 1/23 May be Make or Break for Venezuela – and Eventually, America." We will be expanding upon this in another article exploring the threat a communist Venezuela presents to the region.
Cross-posted from Ulf Erlingsson's blog:
VENEZUELANS DEFEND AGAINST CHAVEZ'S TREASONA Russian base in Venezuela? They have delivered Suhkoi-30 advanced fighter jets, battle tanks T-72, and have signed a deal to establish a 200 km2 banana plantation south of Lake Maracaibo. In December the government under Hugo Chávez confiscated 47 farms of about that surface area around Santa Barbara. Sunday January 30 they are reportedly planning to confiscate houses and lots in Santa Barbara itself, perhaps to get housing for the Russians. The gendarmes (GN) are assisting with these confiscations. They call it expropriations, but they don’t pay compensation so it is really squatting, and there is no legal procedure involved.
Just like Castro did on Cuba 50 years ago; in fact, Raúl Castro is to this day living as a squatter in a house that belongs to a friend of mine. All of this is of course blatant violations of the UN declaration of universal human rights. Many regular folks in Venezuela are determined to prevent this, to stand up to the military, and the live blog [here] is set up so they can post their tweets and photos in real time as events unfold. However, the real deal behind this is oil: In return for this banana [plantain] contract the Russians got $1.6 billion worth of stocks in the Venezuela government-owned oil company PDSVA. Where are the oil reserves of Venezuela? Take a wild guess. Yes, around Lake Maracaibo. I’d say that this makes Chávez the biggest Quisling since, well, the original Quisling.
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Photos of military operations in the area 2011-01-27: http://plixi.com/p/72828075 http://plixi.com/p/72822750
You’ll know when the internet and cell phone networks close down.
Sniff, sniff, what up troll?
CARACAS: At least one person was killed and three others injured in northern Venezuela on Sunday when a series of powerful explosions shook an arms depot, officials said.
The arsenal is located in the city of Maracay, in Aragua state. All residents living within five kilometres of the munitions dump, about 10,000 people, were evacuated, state governor Rafael Isea said.
As the first large blast triggered a chain of explosions, it took several hours before emergency equipment and personnel could reach the site and bring the situation under control.
sean penn is saddened.
LOL!
I don’t get it. What does being skeptical about an article with an internet rumor have to do with being a troll?
It is rather doubtful that any of this (article) is true.
You will notice the question mark. Calm down and let’s work together to make up for the Marxstream media.
Check out his posting history......
Everything you know is WRONG! Dogs came from the stars! The Aztecs invented the vacation! The brain is not the boss!
you don’t make up for it by posting crap. and you can’t hide behind a question mark.
At the end, let’s see if this “troll” was right or wrong about doubting an article that has the form of a question. Once you see a title with a question mark in it, you have to be suspicious because if you are giving me information, you don’t ask me a question. Is Chavez gone? You tell me, news source. Don’t ask me. I’m the reader.
Moreover, if any President were gone, something would have appeared in at least one major news outlet. And there’s nothing anywhere.
Further updates will occur here:
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Personally, I’ll check back here in a few.
That would be awesome but it sounds too good to be true.
Explosion? Snowball did it!
I'll stand by my assessment.
I found nothing on some of the more reliable Venezuela blogs
at least not yet
Turnin’ out to be an interestin’ weekend, say no???
Maybe there is an attempt to dilute FR’s accuracy with garbage threads. If there were enough bad info posts to detract from our usefulness that would be bad.
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