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Marching on May 1st, Labor Day in Venezuela (FRONT LINE REPORT FROM VENEZUELA PROTESTS)
Venezuela News And Views ^ | 5/2/2017 | Daniel Duquenal

Posted on 05/02/2017 3:56:35 AM PDT by Nextrush

..... with the crowds I found these nuns in perfect anti Maduro gear. The crowds, patiently waiting, were already significant......

... walking all the way uphill to the Cota Mill avenue where we would supposedly turn left to bypass already installed blockades.......

I heard a big rumor while I was walking up a hill. By the time I turned back I realized it was a squadron of well, "freedom fighters." The youth of Caracas has learned to fight and to get organized. What you see is the mere tail end of one of those groups that went by me, albeit the bigger one I saw. Others were smaller, or simply two or three kids together. Observe how they are dressed, all skin protected, gas masks, water and assorted protection, back pack etc.....

They run together holding each other, just as they will hold each other during an attack when visibility goes down.

....There are also the white helmets with green crosses. These kids have organized themselves so well that they even have a rescue team that picks up those who are injured!.....

....I started hearing "thuds" and "thumps" in the distance. The attack had started, the Nazional Guard has started its descent from the Cota Mil with a massive throw of tear gas.......

....a side street that supposedly was going to take us to the next exit of the Cota Mil....I went for what was going to be another trap, one that I escaped because somewhere along the way I has twisted my knee....the side march went to meet its fate close to Pedregal, where colectivos and Guard dosed them abundantly with tear gas....

...We are at pre civil war levels. I saw it. With my own eyes. From the organized youth to the resolve of the people....

(Excerpt) Read more at daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cuba; nicolasmaduro; venezuela
Daniel Duquenal's account of his participation in yesterday's May Day protests in Caracas with pictures and videos.

He saw young people on the streets ready for a fight

When Nicolas Maduro made his May Day speech to a small crowd of supporters he decreed a "Constituent Assembly" throwing down the gauntlet to the millions of Venezuelans protesting in the streets in recent weeks.

Maduro is now moving to throw out the existing constitution with his hand picked 'assembly' and make Venezuela into a new Cuba.

Fidel is smiling in hell, not to mention the 'sulfur smeller' Hugo Chavez.

Meanwhile, the opposition has called ALL VENEZUELANS out onto the streets today.

National Assembly President Julio Borges has called on the armed forces to stop Maduro's coup.

1 posted on 05/02/2017 3:56:35 AM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

This Twitter feed from NTN 24 provides a lot of info, pictures, videos on events as they develop.

https://twitter.com/ntn24ve


2 posted on 05/02/2017 3:59:03 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Nextrush

So the citizens have organized into militias but they have no guns.

Maybe someone could smuggle in some liberators.


3 posted on 05/02/2017 8:04:04 PM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: joshua c

The opposition may end up fighting and perhaps some of the people with guns will switch sides at that moment in the face of a large crowd.

Perhaps the protestors will end up taking guns from the thug militia and police units.


4 posted on 05/02/2017 10:52:54 PM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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