MILLIONS MARCH AGAINST CHAVEZ IN VENEZUELA

http://www.publiuspundit.com/?p=3026 ^ | 11/4/06 | Publius Pundit

[Timeout]

This story might speak for itself through its photos - what looks like millions of people - have marched across the 15-mile length of Caracas, from shantytown outskirt to big city skyscrapers to shantytown outskirt, on behalf of Manuel Rosales, who’s destroying Hugo Chavez at the polls. At long last, democracy may be coming to Venezuela, assuming no cheating goes on in the electronic voting machinery. Today, it becomes harder for that to happen. This is one heck of a massive rally.

[Founding Father]

Slide show of pictures here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/alek.boyd/AvalancheInCaracasVenezuela

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Latest polls here:

http://www.bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/

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From Rafael Ramirez to Hugo Chavez, they all come out of the fascist closet once and for all
By Daniel Duquenal
04.11.06 | So yesterday we had Ramirez caught on video threatening violence against those employees within PDVSA that would not put politics in support of the great leader above their work.

Then we had the Vice President Rangel state that it was all good, that they were the democrats and that the other side was not.

And of course the ring circus leader had to come today and support his Oil Minister. Not only Chavez supported him, but he demanded that Ramirez kept forcing PDVSA employees to work for the revolution. And he packed with PDVSA workers the armed force that are with the revolution, meaning of course that they will do all what is necessary for the revolution to continue.

Chavez also added that come next March the private media will be closed. He threatened to close them but since he will be reelected for 6 years with a 100% monochromatic national assembly, we know that he will not tolerate ever again damaging videos to his rule shown on TV. Thus we know the messengers will be shot and all the private TV licenses will be revoked (or forced to be sold to pro Chavez interests, Fujimori did something of the sorts, nothing new in LatAm). He announced it today, it has become an electoral promise, and thus he will fulfill the will of the people next year to shut down private media.

I am not going to insult the intelligence of the reader in explaining why all of this is pure fascism. I will limit myself to state that now in Venezuela we know what is in store for us if Chavez is reelected next December 3. It is clear, it is precise, there will be no excuses for those who vote for him to come back later and say they were sorry, they “did not know”. Concentration camp / Gulag camps guards “did not know” “were following orders” etc…

The script is written.

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PS: the globovision page requires now to pay for the video. However RCTV has its version here. YouTube is not out with the video yet.


http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200611040607

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They march and they march but Hugo holds them in his iron fist.

[uglybiker]

Jimmy was the one who helped Chavez and I would hope those people would run him out on a rail !

Could we make a deal where they'd keep him?

[dforest]

At the DNC headquarters

[StJacques]

Ping to Founding Father's #121 above from Vcrisis.com.

In my post #88 I mentioned that the statements of Chavez, Ramirez, et al. regarding "revolutionary" fervor they felt was required of government employees was fueling a heated political exchange between Chavez and the opposition. Read the short article from Vcrisis.com Founding Father pasted in and see how contentious an issue this is in Venezuela right now.

I think Rosales is about to pick up "closing" momentum. This election may be truly competitive soon.

[Victoria Delsoul]

may Hugo croak it before much blood is spilt.

I agree - the guy is a total moron.

[Alia]

Check out this prominently featured article at the Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California. Today. Santa Rosa is just north of San Francisco.

Oaxaca unrest takes spotlight in SR

snips:

Ortiz, a brown-eyed 20-year-old who moved to the United States with her family when she was 15, strongly supports the Oaxaca teachers, whose demands for higher wages have sparked a political uprising that threatens to topple Ruiz's government.

She and her fellow amateur thespians, who call themselves Mexico '68, are hoping to educate Sonoma County residents about the unrest in Oaxaca, which she says is not being fully reported by the media.

"The military in Mexico has been repressing the people for years, but the press is afraid of the government," she said.

The play kicked off an afternoon of politics, food, music and education organized by a group of Oaxacan natives now living in Sonoma County who call themselves CAMPPO, the committee in solidarity with the movement of the people of Oaxaca.

[StJacques]

All that talk of repression by the military, the government, and they never will discuss APPO's actions openly or honestly.

[Alia]

I grew up near that area - just across the hills. It's D-Lynn ("I hate the Boy Scouts") Woolsey's area. "They never will discuss APPO's actions openly or honestly". Honesty is neither allowed nor appreciated in that neck of the woods. Self-speak is God, there, where all truths are equal ONLY as long as the political leadership approves it.