Posted on 01/23/2019 12:07:31 PM PST by detective
It's working.
The global effort to persuade the Venezuelan military to begin to revolt against their commanders - by phone calls, web postings, other means, is starting to kick in. The Venezuelan dictatorship said it put down its first revolt from a National Guard unit out in a really miserable slum of Caracas called Petare. Here's the details of what went down in Caracas from the Associated Press:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government said Monday it put down a mutiny by a National Guard unit in a poor neighborhood a few miles (kilometers) from Venezuela’s presidential palace.
The uprising triggered protests in the same neighborhood, which were dispersed with tear gas as residents set fire to a street barricade of trash and chanted demands that President Nicolas Maduro leave power.
The armed forces in a statement said that it had captured all those involved in what it described as “treasonous” acts motivated by “obscure interests tied to the far right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Venezuela has been a hot mess since before Chavez died. Maduro just made it worse with his uber commie attitude. Communism/Socialism always fails. Always.
It wasn’t a matter if Venezuela was going to crash and burn; only when it would.
The second amendment calls for firearms for all so that we would have a well-regulated (means well-trained) militia.
While we may have enough guns and people to be behind every blade of grass - we are not well trained as a group. It sounds as though the Venezuela national guard is also not well trained as a group.
It will take more than one small group of NG in one part of the city to overthrow the government. Although hopefully their defeat will make the other units rise up and coordinate efforts.
“Venezuela has been a hot mess since before Chavez died. Maduro just made it worse with his uber commie attitude. Communism/Socialism always fails. Always.
It wasn’t a matter if Venezuela was going to crash and burn; only when it would.”
Venezuela was the most prosperous country in all of Latin America. It had huge oil reserves, abundant natural resources, a stable economy and a freely elected government.
Then Chavez and the socialists won a fraudulent election. They began destroying the economy. Maduro was Chavez’s number two man. When Chavez died, Maduro took over and the country continued to decline. Eventually the socialists had looted all the wealth and left the country in ruins.
Wasn’t Maduro’s Venezuelan regime recently implicated in organizing those illegal immigrant caravans from Central America, into the USA?
A hostile act.
LOL! They ate the animals in the old zoo to survive, why not the animals in the new zoo?
I really hope the people of Venezuela succeed in crushing socialism.
I really, really hope and pray Americans aren't stupid enough to fall for it here and they stop Brezhnev's prediction...."We shall destroy you from within".
“Lazy Journalists” is redundant.
I know the people who goto journalism school. I had many friends in college in journalism. I was a graphics editor on the school paper for a couple years, I know exactly the kind of people who go into journalism.
They start their weekend partying on Thursday afternoon.
Which President will the Military arrest tonight?
Just read some comments from a socialist on Twitter. They said Venezuela is not socialism. They always say that. Apparently true socialism only occurs when socialism works, which is never.
I don’t get it, I thought socialism works. That’s why democrats pushing it, right?
Yeah, that a-hole came to mind
I was passing through downtown Columbia, SC on the way home from being a productive working person and passed the state house.
Across the street was an older latina with a poster board sign pro Maduro and yelling something about being legitimate and elected.
On the state house grounds I guess something for this new guy. There was quite a crowd on the steps.
Photoshopped. It’s a Benetton ad.
Don’t claim to be an expert. However, the revolutions in Eastern Europe weren’t military coups but the peoples reaction to the fall of the Soviet Empire after more than 50 years of Soviet occupation. Military coups in Latin American have a sad history of replacing one set of bastards with another set. Maybe Venezuela can be an exception, but I don’t have a lot of hope. In any event, the U.S. should keep out of this mess.
I was shocked to see Trudeau agree on this.
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....probably an indication that Maduro isn’t globalist enough for Trudeau’s tastes.
Would that be "legitimate" or "licentious" freedom?
Things are really heating up in Caracas!
Americans may not realize but Justin Trudeau does almost none of his own thinking, he is briefed on what to say by powerful forces behind the scenes and so if he says he doesn’t like Maduro, then they don’t like Maduro. If he says build a pipeline, they want it built. If he says China bad, they think China bad, etc etc. If he says he likes cotton shirts he may be passing along his own thoughts.
He is basically like Obama was only without even any sort of facade of a university degree in a relevant field, he’s a drama teacher by profession. I think he’s actually quite a nice guy, unlike many Canadian conservatives who think he’s the incarnation of evil, but at the same time he is just a front for Liberal Party Inc and a very good marketing tool for them, the three leaders they had before him, not so great with the voters (although tons more qualified than Justin).
They’ve been caught interfering in other South American countries’ politics as well, which is probably why Argentina and Colombia recognized the new guy quickly:
“Venezuelan Given 15 Months in Suitcase of Cash Scandal. They detailed an elaborate plot by Venezuelan and Argentine officials to cover up the origin and destination of a suitcase containing $800,000, which prosecutors said had been sent by Venezuela ’s state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, to the campaign of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner two months before she was elected Argentina ’s president.”
and
“Laptop emails link Venezuela to Colombian guerrillas
President Hugo Chávez faces serious allegations over Venezuela’s links to Colombian guerrillas after an investigation into seized laptops. Interpol announced that a two-month forensic investigation of the laptops seized in a raid by Colombian security forces on a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) camp in Ecuador concluded that they belonged to the Marxist group. Leaks from the trove of files and photographs have suggested high-ranking Venezuelan officials plotted to help the Marxist group obtain weapons and funding for its decades-long insurgency”
For the customers paying to see that, licentious. For the girls making a living with lewd dances, it’s not real freedom.
But JS Mills would say that that is both of their private affairs, and we have no right to make them stop, but we can let them know that we disapprove thoroughly and think very little of them as a result of their licentious habits. We can even carry picket signs outside the nightclub.
In PC world, however, you have no right to tell gays that their lifestyle is abhorrent. If you even suggest it, you are branded for life.
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