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.
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Say they do. How will this help the population? No food, no gas, no toilet paper. The country has been destroyed.
Clears the way for new leadership.
As long as Maduro stays, they sink.
about as thick as the paper our laws or written on.
Exactly. Even IF they manage to boot out the dictator of the year without massive casualties in the first place (remember - no 2nd amendment and no big hunting culture down there) the vast majority still don’t have the faintest idea of how to improve things. External intervention that included a forced dismantling and rebuilding from the ground up is the only hope for permanent change for the better and the few remaining white Christian nations that COULD do that I doubt will.
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