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Protests in Venezuela May Shake Balance of Power
Fusion ^ | Updated 02/17/2014, 11:17AM | Mariana Atencio

Posted on 02/17/2014 10:31:43 AM PST by Texas Fossil

Young Venezuelans have been rallying for two weeks, despite a security crackdown, a local media blackout, and attempts by the government to censor the web and the airwaves. President Nicolás Maduro remains in control, but without Hugo Chavez’s as the unifying behind "Chavismo," there is a chance the unrest may shake the balance of power in Caracas.

Wondering why Venezuelans are protesting in the first place? Watch our video:


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chavez; cuba; demonstration; hugochavez; leopoldolopez; nicolasmaduro; protest; venezuela
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With Chavez dead and the economy falling appart, will Venezuelans rebell and regain their freedom?

Chavistas and Communists are doing all they can to prevent it.

Will we get to that point in the US with Obozo?

1 posted on 02/17/2014 10:31:43 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

http://fusion.net/Leadership/video/protests-venezuela-twitter-maduro-428347


2 posted on 02/17/2014 10:32:12 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil

And this is plastered ALL OVER the USA media too... NOT~!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 02/17/2014 10:34:58 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Texas Fossil

The government thugs are shooting the protesters and then arresting opposition leaders for the violence.


4 posted on 02/17/2014 10:35:02 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Texas Fossil

http://antipatrioticvenezuelan.blogspot.com/2014/02/what-is-happening-now-in-venezuela.html

http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/17/34988/


5 posted on 02/17/2014 10:37:18 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL

Yes and there are reports of Cuban soldiers on the ground in Venezuela.


6 posted on 02/17/2014 10:37:40 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Mr. K

Correcto.


7 posted on 02/17/2014 10:37:55 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yep. Chavez began infiltrating plain clothes Cuban agents into his security forces nearly a decade ago. They are thoroughly woven into the fabric, and at some point, if things get really bad, will likely be running the show.

I do not speak Spanish, but am told that the Venezuelan and Cuban accents are to Spanish what American and Canadian are to English...virtually indistinguishable from one another.


8 posted on 02/17/2014 10:40:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Texas Fossil

I can believe that. They have become a Cuban colony.


9 posted on 02/17/2014 10:48:09 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Venezuelan government answers to the Cubans from top to bottom


10 posted on 02/17/2014 10:49:20 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Mr. K

Look at top dead center on Drudge now.


11 posted on 02/17/2014 10:49:51 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Mr. K

Media largely ignores violent Venezuela crackdown on opposition

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/media-largely-ignores-violent-venezuela-crackdown-on-opposition/

“What’s going on in Venezuela in a nutshell (English version),”

http://youtu.be/EFS6cP9auDc


12 posted on 02/17/2014 10:50:38 AM PST by digger48
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To: Mr. K

The American media has far more important things to talk about, such as the Olympics. /s


13 posted on 02/17/2014 10:52:11 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Texas Fossil

http://babalublog.com/2014/02/16/cuba-training-armed-government-groups-attacking-and-killing-protestors-in-venezuela/

“There is a very good reason Cuba’s Castro dictatorship is on the U.S. State Department’s list of States Sponsors of Terrorism. As the report and video below clearly show, Cuba’s repressive apartheid regime is training armed groups in Venezuela in the terrorist black art of repression, torture, and murder.

This dark and bloody art is being put to use by Venezuela’s puppet dictatorship, which takes orders directly from Havana and has for the last week been attempting to quash mounting protests with violence and lethal force.”


14 posted on 02/17/2014 10:52:30 AM PST by digger48
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To: Texas Fossil

If venezuela goes, so does cuba, because venezuela gives them something like 200,000 barrels of oil per day for free.


15 posted on 02/17/2014 11:00:39 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

May it be so.


16 posted on 02/17/2014 11:22:18 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Can’t distinguish them? Just look for the ones with the beards.


17 posted on 02/17/2014 11:46:55 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Can’t distinguish them? Just look for the ones with the beards.


18 posted on 02/17/2014 11:47:03 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: GeronL

Coming here soon. Take notes. The communists never change the play book.


19 posted on 02/17/2014 11:49:15 AM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I will bet that the Venezuelans can tell the difference.


20 posted on 02/17/2014 11:56:57 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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