Posted on 02/20/2015 12:31:14 PM PST by Kartographer
The regime tonight has crossed one of those big, sloppy, obvious, dangerous red lines tonight. The kind of crossing from where there might not be a return point. Not that I am picky on that, as far as I am concerned that red line was crossed when RCTV was closed. But I digress.
Yet, arresting the mayor of Caracas, the highest recipient of votes in the country after the presidential vote, a reelected mayor, and well reelected at that in spite of all the bias in favor of the regime's candidate who was then named as a sabotaging shadow mayor anyway, breaking into his office with dozens of goons, some masked, breaking the window pane to enter the office, arresting, or rather, kidnapping him since there was no arrest warrant or judicial order shown, shooting live bullets in the air to disperse curious and protesters, and probably more that I am not aware of, is truly a Rubicon.
Let's not be mistaken about it: tonight arrest of Ledezma is only comparable to arrests in the middle of the night in the darkest regimes of totalitarian nature.
(Excerpt) Read more at daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com ...
meanwhile the last opposition Presidential candidate still sits in prison, I guess he is about to get a cellmate...
Will they be arresting opposition leader Maria Corina Machado next? She signed the letter too.
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The mayor was arrested/kidnapped for signing a letter calling for peaceful transition of power to a unity government.
Daniel is still a leftist but he has enough brains to see the Venezuela government for what it is.
The opposition needs to realize that Maduro will never leave office other than in a box and street protests won’t be effective either. Venezuela has reached the point where only armed revolution or a coup have any chance of changing Maduro’s path to completely run the country into the mud.
How long before Jimmy Carter declares the arrest to be open and fair?
Didn’t the people there vote for all this though?
I don’t think anyone knows, because nobody trusts those who are counting the votes
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