Venezuelans set fire to Hugo Chavez statue: It Has Started

American Thinker ^ | 1/23/2019 | Monica Showalter

[simpson96]

Operation Boot Maduro seems to be moving to stage two.

Following this week's military mutiny, which was squelched, but not before locals ran out and attempted to defend the troops in pitched street battles, now at least sixty - sixty! - neighborhoods in Caracas have erupted into riots - big riots, with people reported shot dead. Take a look at the series of tweets posted by Caracas Chronicles on its Twitter feed enumerating the names of the neighborhoods now in open revolt.

Here was its last tweet: (snip)

And to underscore just what this nightmare was about, late last night angry Venezuelans burned the big statue of their late, unlamented strongman, Hugo Chavez, whose socialism - so praised at the time by Bernie Sanders and the Hollywood left -- turned their formerly rich country into a wasteland. Someone needs to let Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about this vaunted socialism - and where it leads. Watch Chavez go up in flames: (snip)

Yesterday, I did a pre-recording of a radio show with the highly recommended Conservative Commandos predicting that Catia and 23 de Enero would blow up (it will air today), and boy, I didn't know the half of it -- those places - and a lot of others - were at the bottom of the dynamite fuse and ready to go.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Has Maduro Started heading for the Airport for his flight to Cuba? I suspect he has already salted away all huis money in foreign banks.

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