Venezuela's Maduro jeered, dozens detained: activists
Source: Reuters
Venezuelan authorities have arrested more than 30 people on Margarita island for heckling President Nicolas Maduro, activists said on Saturday, in what appeared to be a rare public confrontation with the unpopular leader.
Videos published by activists, purportedly from the Margarita locality of Villa Rosa on Friday night, show scores of people banging pots and pans and jeering the socialist president during a visit to inspect state housing projects.
The display of anger followed a vast march in Caracas on Thursday that opposition leaders say has emboldened Maduro's foes after 17 years of socialist rule in the OPEC nation of 30 million people.
After Maduro left Villa Rosa, a rundown area known in the past as a pro-government stronghold, intelligence agents moved in, opposition and rights campaigners said.
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GoDawgs
(267 posts)A bloodbath.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)Angel Martin
(942 posts)Ceaucesceau thought the people loved him until he was forced to flee. Looks like Maduro is the same.