Posted on 05/26/2017 7:42:42 AM PDT by davikkm
At least 55 Venezuelans have died during protests against Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship since April 5, according to official tallies. Venezuelan media claim the number is much higher, however, tallying up 71 dead, among them over one dozen teens as young as 14. Venezuela’s Attorney General’s office places the number of deaths since the Supreme Court attempted to annul the National Assembly in March at 55. The Argentine newspaper Clarín, citing the government as well, reported Thursday morning that 58 people had died in anti-government protests. The Venezuelan independent website Runrunes says the number is much higher, however.
Runrunes is keeping a running tally of the number of protest-related deaths in the country since April 1. As of Thursday afternoon, they have profiled 71 Venezuelans who have been killed either protesting the government or, in very few cases, serving in Maduro’s army or police. The website explains the disparity:
The Runrunes list registers 13 more cases than the Attorney General. This difference is due to the statistics including five people who died in El Valle on April 20. Their names were on the list of bodies at the University Hospital following events in that region south of Caracas, and the families of at least two of them spoke to us and offered the details of their relatives and what happened to them.
The Runrunes list largely corresponds to the Attorney General’s, however, and features an astonishingly young list of names and violent list of deaths. The average age of those killed whose ages are listed is 27. Fourteen of the fallen were teens. The youngest was a boy named Bryan David Principal Giménez, 14, who was shot to death by socialist paramilitary gangs known as colectivos while trying to buy coffee.
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Send Michael Moore and Sean Penn down there to get these anti-socialist demonstrators educated. There is no need to demonstrate when you live in a socialist utopia. Those hunger pains must be imaginary.
Poor kids. That said, the media can’t count.
I just continue to wonder why Maduro is still above room temperature.
When the “government” is the terrorist entity....
Try to imagine that many ppl being killed by any “conservative” govt .... the left’s thermonuclear meltdown would not be hard to miss. Since it is socialist Venezuela, nothing but crickets.
Moore and Penn would be welcomed by the government and shown off much like they do in NK. The American media is washing over the fact that socialism did this. It’s always “they did it wrong.”
Just grab your guns anti-socialists. What? The government took all your guns? Oh. Never mind.
Yeah yeah. Depose Maduro and those fools will just elect another commie.
Is our media even covering this?
Sadly, I believe, the people would just vote for more communism from the next guy that promises them free stuff.
The courts and military need a good purging and some top officials and Generals hung.
in Venezuela too.. ;-]
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