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In Venezuela, the arrests of the coup leaders have begun
Hot Air.com ^ | May 9, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 05/09/2019 4:07:11 PM PDT by Kaslin

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is sending out the goon squad this week to quietly begin rounding up the people who participated in the attempted coup last week. While he’s not yet going after the person who actually sent out the call to revolt, his secret police force started with someone very close to the top. National Assembly Vice President Edgar Zambrano was picked up last night after leaving his office. (Associated Press)

Security forces arrested the No. 2 leader of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress Wednesday as President Nicolás Maduro’s government began going after foes tied to a failed attempt to stir up a military uprising last week.

National Assembly Vice President Edgar Zambrano was leaving his Democratic Action party’s headquarters when he was surprised by a commando unit from the feared SEBIN intelligence agency who surrounded his car.

A half hour later, the officers towed the vehicle away with the lawmaker still inside, at the same that Maduro was speaking live on state TV inaugurating an agricultural project. Neighbors looking on shouted “assassins” as the heavily armed agents pulled away.

It seems that Zambrano was unwilling to get out of his car and go along quietly so SEBIN called for a tow truck and dragged the entire vehicle off to some unknown destination. The rest of the Assembly leadership that spoke out in favor of Guaido’s attempted uprising have clearly been put on notice and are probably getting their affairs in order.

The SEBIN intelligence agency is also known as the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service. They’re described as an “internal intelligence service.” In other words, they’re the secret police who check up on the affairs of their own citizens on behalf of the regime and are empowered to make troublesome citizens disappear if it suits the whims of the dictator. They technically report directly to the Vice President of Venezuela, but it’s Maduro’s world, so he’s calling all the shots.

Thus far Maduro has held off from arresting Juan Guaido himself. The interim president was on the road this week, giving speeches in several different locations. The fact that he’s still not behind bars could be a sign that Nicolas Maduro isn’t quite as sure of his absolute authority as he was a year ago. The United States has been warning him of “grave consequences” if any harm comes to Guaido, so I suppose it’s possible that he’s tempering his response to the coup to avoid trouble with us.

Then again, Maduro may simply be taking his time and having his lawyers make sure he has all his ducks in a row before they arrest him. After all, the guy did stand up on an automotive overpass with some soldiers and call for the military to depose the president. Seems like Maduro could definitely come up with some charges based on that. In any event, the military clearly isn’t ready to abandon Maduro yet and the attempted ouster of Nicolas Maduro has failed… for now.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: arrests; coup; juanguaido; nicolasmaduro; venezuela
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1 posted on 05/09/2019 4:07:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Wow, even a failed marxist state can do better at this than us.


2 posted on 05/09/2019 4:10:23 PM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Kaslin

Well, that ended quickly.

Glad we didn’t waste American troops’ lives on that failure.


3 posted on 05/09/2019 4:11:04 PM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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To: ScottinVA

The people have no way to take their country back they have been disarmed, a true eye opener for Americans!!!


4 posted on 05/09/2019 4:19:23 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kaslin

Soon to be happening here.


5 posted on 05/09/2019 4:20:33 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Kaslin

Tragic.

Prepare for several million Asylum applications from Venezuela.


6 posted on 05/09/2019 4:20:47 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: ScottinVA

Yeah, what gives? After all they’re only people.

It’s not like they deserve freedom or anything like that.


7 posted on 05/09/2019 4:21:51 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Brilliant “4-D Chess” my a••. About to see a Queen or a Bishop unceremoniously overturned.)
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To: SENTINEL

Well, of course. If there is one thing failed Marxists states do well, it is arrest domestic political opponents. I’m glad we’re so “bad” at that.


8 posted on 05/09/2019 4:22:03 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: All

Thread bump


9 posted on 05/09/2019 4:23:26 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Brilliant “4-D Chess” my a++. About to see a Queen or a Bishop unceremoniously overturned.)
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To: ScottinVA

That attempt of a coup was pathetic. Maduro set to purge now.


10 posted on 05/09/2019 4:24:09 PM PDT by teevolt
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
The people have no way to take their country back

Nonsense.

We fought the most powerful navy and a world-famous army in 1775 and won.

This Venezuela situation is EXACTLY like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and lots of other candidate neocon wars - find a local "leader" who fits in at Davos and the UN, believe him when he spins his fairy stories about "the people" longing for freedom (which never turns out to be true), prove America's resolve by sending the sons of deplorables and bitter clingers to lose their lives or be maimed, and then say, "never mind" when the whole thing proves to have been a clever lie.

Not this time.

11 posted on 05/09/2019 4:24:27 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

“It’s not like they deserve freedom or anything like that.”

People deserve exactly what they’ll put up with.

L


12 posted on 05/09/2019 4:24:58 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Kaslin

If you’re going to lead a South American coup, make sure you WIN. Otherwise, it’s cattle prods, cordless drills, and dislocations for you, followed by an unmarked ditch.


13 posted on 05/09/2019 4:25:23 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Lurker

True. We suffered greatly for Obama being elected and re-elected.


14 posted on 05/09/2019 4:27:16 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Brilliant “4-D Chess” my a++. About to see a Queen or a Bishop unceremoniously overturned.)
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To: The Pack Knight

Not only will we do it, but we’ll
have CNN on the ground reporting it live.
And the guy how made the Benghazi tape,
is he out of jail yet?


15 posted on 05/09/2019 4:28:25 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Kaslin

Next week the executions will begin.


16 posted on 05/09/2019 4:28:36 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: IronJack

Yep


17 posted on 05/09/2019 4:28:37 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Brilliant —4-D Chess—my a++. About to see a Queen or a Bishop unceremoniously overturned.)
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To: Lurker

No one deserves freedom. You fight for it and kill for it and die for it.

Only to see future generations piss it away for free stuff.


18 posted on 05/09/2019 4:30:28 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Arm them. Drop AK-47 and ammo cans.


19 posted on 05/09/2019 4:31:02 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens)
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To: The Pack Knight
Really? Think the marxist plotters in the US are going to stop with anything less than force?

Doing it right, is not the same thing as not doing it.

20 posted on 05/09/2019 4:31:47 PM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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