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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 04:35 PM Sep 2016

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.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelas-maduro-jeered-dozens-detained-activists-174038323.html

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Venezuela's Maduro jeered, dozens detained: activists (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2016 OP
The chavistas might finally be turning on maduro, but he won't leave without GoDawgs Sep 2016 #1
A few videos here of Maduro getting chased around by an angry crowd Bacchus4.0 Sep 2016 #2
these guys never learn Angel Martin Sep 2016 #4
Obviously, CIA paid agitators. FLPanhandle Sep 2016 #3

Angel Martin

(942 posts)
4. these guys never learn
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 07:18 PM
Sep 2016

Ceaucesceau thought the people loved him until he was forced to flee. Looks like Maduro is the same.

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