[Nextrush]

The big story from Venezuela on Sunday.

A retired army general stands up to the regieme armed with a rifle when they came to arrest him with the help of his neighbors who set up barricades.

[Nextrush]

The link did not carry the translated version but you can see the original Spanish language version at this link.

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2014/02/23/allanan-residencia-del-general-angel-vivas/

[dennisw]

Retired army General Angel Vivas sported a flak jacket, assault rifle and handgun as he defiantly addressed dozens of neighbours from the balcony of his home in eastern Caracas.

“I’m not going to surrender,” the 57-year-old Gen Vivas yelled to a crowd of cheering followers.

Supporters rushed to Gen Vivas’ defence after he announced to his 100,000-plus followers on Twitter that a group of “Cuban and Venezuelan henchmen” had come looking for him. The officers withdrew after the crowd built barricades outside Gen Vivas’ house. Gen Vivas’ lawyer said they didn’t have an arrest order.

Mr Maduro on Saturday ordered Gen Vivas’ arrest for allegedly encouraging students to stretch wire across streets where they’ve set up barricades in recent weeks. The president blames the apparent booby trap for the death of a government supporter who raced into a barricade on a motorcycle.

Gen Vivas, one of the government’s fiercest critics in the frequently vicious world of Venezuelan social media, rose to prominence in 2007 when he resigned as head of the Defence Ministry’s engineering department rather than order his subalterns to swear to the Cuban-inspired oath “Fatherland, socialism or death.”

[Darteaus94025]

If he sneaked into the US, he'd be the one Latin American that ∅bama and ∅ldher would try to kick out.

[Darteaus94025]

If he sneaked into the US, he'd be the one Latin American that ∅bama and ∅ldher would try to kick out.

[Shane]

Will any of our generals have the courage to do the same, when the time comes? And will we for that matter? But unfortunately, with the lawless Obama administration the time is coming, and in the not too distant future.

[demshateGod]

Maduro is gone. That picture should make us think differently about the AR-15. Anyone who seeks to take them away from us is trying to make us slaves. They need to be, uh, removed from office. By the votes, or not.

[SkyPilot]

[GeronL]

This guy is pretty brave or nuts. They could have used a sniper but they didn’t

[GeronL]

Add one more name to the very very long list of opposition leaders better qualified to run Venezuela than the bus driver Maduro

[Grampa Dave]

Warning to the commie thugs in charge of Venezuela.

The fate of other terrible dictators like the one shown below is coming to you, soon.

Warning graphic videos of dead Khadafy.

http://gaddafideadnews.blogspot.com/