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
Ok let me see how the logic goes: “This person said Plame was covert, therefore Chavez is gone.”
LOL.
I’d love nothing better than to see fat Hugo swinging from a lamp post.
Care to twist, er troll any more?
Plame was not covert, that is a common refrain of the DUmmies....keep digging.
well... maybe something else.....
Wow, the title of the thread changed.
Thank you, but what did it even allege?
It reported and we continue to report what is confirmed as what is confirmed and what is unconfirmed as what is unconfirmed.
That is what has to be done, when facing obstacles in the "mainstream" media, whether in Venezuela, or Egypt, or in the United States.
OK.
I went back over his posts going back to Dec. 8, 2010.
Seems like pretty normal comments to me.
Well, that's nothing new.
Good GRIEF what next?
The original title of this thread was alluding to Chavez’s ousting, that he had fled the Country.
Time will tell I guess.
Not to worry. Obama will go and meet Hugo and bow before him, sending a message to the people there they can expect no help in casting off this tyrant.
The original title started with "Chavez Gone? ..."
It was an open question at the time. A report had his private plane gone. He had missed his morning television address.
This is no complaint about you, but the knee-jerk-quick to hen-peck and ankle bite attitude in forums is often not conducive to the teamwork necessary to get to the truth together. FreeRepublic is no exception, sometimes.
We may quit posting in FreeRepublic.com alltogether. Breaking news is breaking news. GulagBound has approval in FreeRepublic.com, by Jim Robinson (whether you are him or not).
Indeed, I wonder why it wasn’t noted in the history though?
Not on Free Republic. Here Breaking News is for front page news stories and Front Page News is for under-the-fold front page news and News/Activism is for breaking news. And Bloggers/Personal is for blogs.
Now if you posted a live thread for Dancing with the Stars or Sarah Palin's Alaska, that would go in Breaking News.
Why do we have post number 55?
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