Armed pro-government militias wreak havoc on Venezuela protestsThat couldn't happen here in The Land Of The Free
Joe DeMaria, the companies’ attorney, said Halvorssen’s allegations are absolutely false.
“My clients build power plants. They supply electricity to millions of Venezuelans,” DeMaria, of the firm Tew-Cardenas, said in an email.
....The payment of bribes to high-ranking government officials has become common practice in Venezuela, according to Transparency International, an NGO that ranks Venezuela as the most corrupt country in the hemisphere, second only to Haiti.
And Cabello, one of the most influential officials in the Nicolás Maduro administration, has been accused more than once of being involved in kickbacks.
According to reports by the U.S. embassy in Caracas, made public in 2012 by WikiLeaks, Cabello is the central figure of “one of the three main centers of corruption”
March 26, 2014: 3 Venezuelan generals arrested, accused of coup plot "(CNN) -- Venezuela's President says his country has arrested three air force generals accused of plotting a coup.
"Last night we captured three generals, who we had been investigating...three generals who were trying to turn the air force against the legitimately constituted government," President Nicolas Maduro said in remarks broadcast Tuesday on state-run VTV. "They were organizing a coup. This captured group has direct ties with sectors of the opposition, and they said that this week was the decisive week."
The generals, whom he did not name, will be charged in military court, he said.
Maduro revealed the arrests as he spoke to a commission of South American foreign ministers who are visiting his country as part of efforts to facilitate dialogue as political tensions mount........"
March 29, 2014: "Venezuela’s neighbors watch as it spirals downward "VENEZUELANS DESPAIR at the lack of international interest in the political crisis that is rocking their country. Since anti-government protests began early last month, at least 34 people have been killed, most of them opposition supporters gunned down by security forces or government-backed gangs. Some 1,600 people have been arrested, and many say they were beaten or tortured. One of the opposition’s top leaders has been jailed for more than a month.
............A delegation from the UNASUR group — promoted by Venezuela as an alternative to the OAS — subsequently visited Caracas and won a commitment from President Nicolás Maduro to accept a “good-faith witness,” possibly from the Vatican, to mediate talks with the opposition. But there’s not much reason to believe that Mr. Maduro — who refers to opposition leaders as “Chucky,” in a bizarre reference to the horror movie — is ready to compromise, or that the UNASUR group will pressure him to do so.
The problem with this fecklessness is that Venezuela desperately needs outside help. With one of the world’s highest inflation rates and one of its highest murder rates, severe shortages of basic goods, chronic power outages and now daily street confrontations, the country is in danger of collapse............"
These Chavezista/Maduro killers had better remember what happened to the street militias of marxist Salvador Allende. They ended up in a stadium and were shot by the people of Chile (including the Army) or hunted down in the streets by the relatives of those they killed.
Their time will come, soon. Ceauscescu had his secret police shoot into the protesting crowds in the street, and lo and behold, the Army shot back and killed them. He ended up executed along with his wacko wife, much like Mussolini and his mistress did.
History has a habit of repeating itself. This time I’m gonna get some popcorn and a Coke, and sit in the cheering section along with the people of Venezuela, shouting “Paradon” (To the wall). Has a nice ring to it - BAM!
Calling Madame LaFarge. Your seat is ready in the front row.
pro-government militias = paid goons
I looked into his eyes once, and saw what I saw,
evil.
Yes it can unless the people rise up in a broad revolution and take back their country. The fact that Maduro has thousands of Cuban enforcers throughout the country will make this all the bloodier. The alternative is a Bolivarian dictatorship that will crush the people indefinitely. Note how Obama and his functionaries are not nearly as concerned about this as they are about Russia, climate change, spreading Islam and Homosexuality around the world and March Madness.
-Sean Penn-
Armed pro-government militias wreak havoc on Venezuela protestsThat couldn't happen here in The Land Of The Free
The leftist have homes. They have to sleep. They bleed. Make them.
