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Venezuelan President Is Chased by Angry Protesters
The New York Times ^ | September 3rd, 2016 | By NICHOLAS CASEY

Posted on 09/03/2016 2:36:44 PM PDT by Mariner

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro was chased at a routine political event by a crowd of angry protesters banging on pots and yelling that they were hungry, just days after thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to call for his ouster, local news media reported on Saturday.

Scenes from the confrontation late Friday, which also appeared in videos uploaded to social media, captured the attention of Venezuelans, many of whom blame the unpopular president for the country’s food shortages.

In one video, Mr. Maduro tries to calm the pot-bangers by walking among them, only to be surrounded as the furious crowd yells obscenities.

“What is this?” an astounded voice behind the camera asks in one of the video clips.

Mr. Maduro had traveled from the capital, Caracas, to Margarita Island off Venezuela’s northern coast to inaugurate a number of new public housing units and give a televised address.

During the speech, he denounced his opponents’ calls for his removal from office, calling them “vampires” and saying they were preparing for violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: venezuela
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Shall we call this the American Spring? Or, is that a tainted moniker?

Soon he and many others will be hanging from a lamppost.

1 posted on 09/03/2016 2:36:44 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Reminds me of the riots at Walmart when the EBT computer went down in 2013.


2 posted on 09/03/2016 2:47:35 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Mariner

Soon he and many others will be hanging from a lamppost.

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I suspect you are right. They should have grabbed him while they could. Hungry mobs are unpredictable.


3 posted on 09/03/2016 2:52:04 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Chickensoup

The Mussolini Treatment would have been the most appropriate, one I continue to hope for.


4 posted on 09/03/2016 2:58:37 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Mariner

Mussolini his commie hide.


5 posted on 09/03/2016 2:58:55 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Mariner

If that happened here they would be in trouble for not getting a “permit”


6 posted on 09/03/2016 3:03:11 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Mariner

Until they use the lamppost, their misery will continue.


7 posted on 09/03/2016 3:03:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Mariner

They need to catch his miserable carcass and skin him alive.


8 posted on 09/03/2016 3:04:44 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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The big mustachioed Stump will prolly blame the revolts on Yanqui Imperialist infiltrators.


9 posted on 09/03/2016 3:04:59 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Mariner

I’m not surprised.


10 posted on 09/03/2016 3:09:27 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Mariner

Why hasn’t anyone put a bullet in this guy’s head yet?


11 posted on 09/03/2016 3:11:33 PM PDT by jocon307
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"President Nicolás Maduro was chased at a routine political event by a crowd of angry protesters banging on pots and yelling that they were hungry"

He's lucky they didn't eat him.
12 posted on 09/03/2016 3:14:40 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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“In one video, Mr. Maduro tries to calm the pot-bangers by walking among them, only to be surrounded as the furious crowd yells obscenities.”

They should afford themselves the opportunity to kill him, just like they did in Libya to Khadaffi Maybe Hillary can “help?”


13 posted on 09/03/2016 3:21:54 PM PDT by vette6387
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Vice President Nixon, May 13, 1958
Venezuelan Communists

In his book Six Crises, Nixon recounted that day’s frightening events. With only 12 Secret Service agents for protection, his motorcade encountered hundreds of angry protestors who spit on his car, smashed its windows and rocked it from side to side, threatening to turn it over while chanting Death to Nixon! and Nixon Go Home! The Secret Service radioed for help from the Venezuelan military, which dispatched troops to clear the protestors and escorted the motorcade to safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvigX1doz2U


14 posted on 09/03/2016 3:24:55 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: Mariner

Causcescu Protocol.

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15 posted on 09/03/2016 3:28:34 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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“after thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to call for his ouster”

Nice try, Slimes. Reports were to the effect that it was not merely “thousands”, but hundreds of thousands to a million.


16 posted on 09/03/2016 3:32:25 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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He wasn't president but he was head of the very powerful House Ways and Means committee, Democrat Dan Rostenkowski...here
17 posted on 09/03/2016 3:57:53 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: MUDDOG

He seems well fed..Wonder he gets his food??? Obviously,not sharing it with his people.


18 posted on 09/03/2016 3:58:45 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Mariner

This could happen here too, if we get walked over too much.
Civility and decorum can quickly go in the dumper!


19 posted on 09/03/2016 3:59:01 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Hambone 1934

Some are more equal than others.


20 posted on 09/03/2016 4:00:45 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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