Yes.
The street thugs rise up, and the people caught in the middle beg their overlords to take control.
As an aside, Chavez (Vz) used street thugs to deal with political opponents. They could be beaten or killed and it just went down as street crime. Or they could surround a newspaper for days bottling everyone up inside, and he could pretend it wasn't him.
That's an old aspect of Latin politics. Marc Antony was Julius Caesar's "street-mob director", as Caesar had been Crassus's; and it was all in a day's work to catch a senator out late at night in the Roman streets and kill him.
The Second Triumvirate (Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus) systematically murdered most of the Roman political class who didn't belong to their own faction. Anyone who knew how the offices worked, how to stand for and campaign for office, what the Roman constitution said: All dead meat. That was the real Roman Revolution, the real "end of the Republic". Mass murder.