were being used continually against Hugo Chavez Frias from the very first. Were THEY "protesting" the lack of power and food? Were they?
To anyone who is unfamiliar with what "burning barricades" are, and how they got started, just start any search whenever you're ready, to find out about "guarimbas", which have been initiated and implemented by the opposition of Hugo Chavez, so long ago, and have continued, at great price to human life every year since Hugo Chavez was inaugurated in February, 1999.
Information:
Venezuela and the myth of a “Democratic Non-violent” Opposition
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Nino Brown
Aug 3, 2017
The Myth of a “Democratic Non Violent” Opposition
The South American nation of Venezuela finds itself again in the throes of imperialist intervention and domestic counter revolution. Since the onset of the process called the “Bolivarian Revolution” the country has been rife with turmoil and calamities. If one bases their analysis of the country on what is presented in the mainstream corporate media, then one would be led to believe that recent events in Venezuela are marked by the struggle against an “authoritarian” or “totalitarian” dictatorship by a democratic and non-violent opposition. Even some who consider themselves “Leftist” or even “Marxists” have joined in on the chorus of slander and disinformation. However, when we peel back the thick layers of imperialist propaganda and shrill cries of counter revolutionaries domestic and exiled, the reality is much more complex.
The Bolivarian Revolution has always been an enemy to the rich and wealthy elites in the U.S. and in Venezuela. For the first time in modern Venezuelan history, Afro and Indigenous populations were empowered to change their society from the grassroots with the backing of the state. An anathema to the domestic reactionaries, the process is often described as one of a surging of “hordes” of lower class Black and Brown people by the Venezuelan elite based opposition.
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What the opposition is doing and has done is very crafty. They lure the state’s forces with property damage, terrorist attacks, setting up barricades (guarimbas) and then when they get repressed they cry wolf sending images across the world claiming this is the work of a tyrannical government. We should reject this knee jerk notion that just because one is protesting that the cause is sanctified or that just because one is getting repressed that it is unjust. There are class characters to protests, repression, and even media. The world is politicized and to arm oneself, one must have a political compass that can guide one through the morass of bourgeois lies, slander, hypocrisy, and disinformation. Without one, we end up supporting enemies of the people masked as “democrats” and “Nelson Mandelas.”
Malcolm X once said “the media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty inncoent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
More:
https://medium.com/@newafrikan.nino/venezuela-and-the-myth-of-a-democratic-non-violent-opposition-bf7f23219092
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Does anyone remember when the opposition (oligarchs) brought in paid Colombian paramilitaries from Colombia, and housed them on a ranch outside Caracas in a scheme to have them violently overthrow Hugo Chavez? The ranch, named "Daktari" was owned by Cuban-Venezuelan-American, Roberto Alonso. He has been considered the "father of the Guarimba", worked for the CIA for some time in his life, has fled to Miami with his family after he took part in this plot. His sister is actress María Conchita Alonso. That happened in 2004, which shows you how very long the oligarchy has been hiring street thugs, or allowing their own nasty spawn to participate in these barbaric, vicious violent protests always directed at harming the leftist leader in power, no one else.
They are NOT the "Venezuelan people."
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Colombian paramilitaries arrested in Venezuela
Jeremy Lennard and agencies
Mon 10 May 2004 07.20 EDT
Venezuelan police have arrested more than 70 Colombian paramilitary fighters who were allegedly plotting to strike against the government in Caracas, according to the country's president, Hugo Chávez.
Opposition leaders, however, were quick to dismiss the president's claim, calling the raids on a farm less than 10 miles from the capital a ruse to divert attention from their efforts to oust Mr Chávez in a recall vote.
During his weekly radio and TV broadcast, Hello Mr President, Mr Chávez said that 53 paramilitary fighters were arrested at the farm early on Sunday and another 24 were picked up after fleeing into the countryside.
The country's security forces were uncovering additional clues and searching for more suspects, he said, adding that the arrests were proof of a conspiracy against his government involving Cuban and Venezuelan exiles in Florida and neighbouring Colombia.
Mr Chávez also claimed the plot was backed by Venezuela's mostly pro-opposition news media and said that the raids had "eliminated the seed of a terrorist group".
"Now they are importing terrorists," Mr Chávez said of his opponents, adding that the farm - in the municipality of El Hatillo - was owned by Roberto Alonso, a Cuban exile with links to Venezuelan and Cuban exiles.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/10/venezuela.jeremylennard
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