Capriles supporters rally in Caracas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22060730Supporters of Mr Capriles say the march is an opportunity for the people to say the country needs a new leader to tackle its economic problems.
Venezuelans will go to the polls on 14 April choose a successor to the late president, Hugo Chavez.
Mr Chavez died of cancer last month after 14 years in office.
Acting President Nicolas Maduro will be addressing his supporters later on Sunday in Apure state, near the Colombian border.
Opinion polls suggest Mr Maduro has a lead of at least 10 percentage points over Mr Capriles.
Nicolas Maduro in Amazonas state, 6 April 13 Nicolas Maduro was appointed by Hugo Chavez as his preferred successor
During a rally in Amazonas state on Saturday, Mr Maduro put a curse on those not voting for him next Sunday.
He likened his main rival candidate, Henrique Capriles, to Spanish conquerors fighting indigenous people in the 16th Century.
"If anyone among the people votes against Nicolas Maduro, he is voting against himself, and the curse of Maracapana is falling on him," he said.
Video for reference, just in case anyone doesn't believe it:
He was referring to a 16th Century battle when Spanish colonial forces inflicted a decisive defeat on indigenous fighters.
Politicians close to Mr Capriles reacted to Mr Maduro's comments.
"What we want is peace and well-being, it is a positive Venezuela. And that is what we have achieved here today," said member of parliament Julio Borges.
"We saw the hateful comments of the government candidate. We reject that. And, as we say in Venezuela, when you wish bad things on people, it ends up happening to you," added Mr Borges.
Here are some pictures from the Venezuelan news site Noticias24.com:
And some video footage:
It's nice to see a rally filled with people wearing all kinds of colors instead of just one. But obviously, EVERYBODY there must be part of the oligarchs and "burguesía" that Maduro says will destroy the country. I mean, seriously, LOOK at those people! With their peaceful rally and their lack of direct threats against the opposing candidate! Unlike how the Chavistas did last year in their rallies...
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All this time I thought you didn't know it. Now I know I don't have to worry about translating Spanish articles 
Certainly shows you're a more credible commenter than Judy or idw-whats-her-name.
As for the articles you posted, they almost seem to accuse Capriles of backing the assault in the Cuban Embassy. The video I posted shows that he was linked to it by offering security to the staff and the ambassador. I certainly don't see anything he did which makes him a terrorist, which apparently all the sites and sources you post up wrongly accuse him for, which automatically makes their credibility questionable. Just wondering, do you honestly think he would've been released from jail if there was any evidence showing that he participated in the coup, even when Danilo Anderson was assassinated? Surely SOMETHING would've popped out by now after 11 years which the Chavista government could've used to implicate him in the Cuban Embassy plot.
And so far, all the sites that accuse Primero Justicia of being backed by such US entities all seem to produce just text and big accusations, and fail to produce any actually useful links to, say, documentation that proves Primero Justicia was backed by US entities.
I'm posting the jpg of the relevant pages too since some of our resident supporters of the conservative Henrique Capriles love to misinterpret her very clear account.
From 2000 to 2008, Capriles served as Mayor of the wealthy eastern Caracas neighborhood of Baruta. During the shortlived 2002 coup against President Chavez, anti-communist protestors gathered outside the Cuban embassy (located in Baruta), cutting both water and electricity and threatening to storm the building. In response to requests by embassy staff for police protection, Capriles joined the protestors and forced his way into the embassy by climbing over its perimeter walls.
As Eva Golinger notes in her book, The Chavez Code, Capriles “violated diplomatic law by forcing entry into the embassy, where he attempted to persuade Cuban Ambassador German Sanchez Otero to turn in Vice President Diosdado Cabello and other Chavez government officials whom the opposition believed were taking refuge in the embassy”.
“Though Ambassador Sanchez Otero permitted Capriles Radonski on the premises to engage in dialogue”, explains Golinger, “he made it clear that the actions were violating diplomatic law”. Capriles “attempted to force a search of the inside of the embassy by threatening the ambassador that the situation would only worsen if a full search were not allowed. When the ambassador stood firm, Capriles Radonski left the embassy”.
The right-wing mayor allowed protests to continue as they were, abandoning the Cuban diplomats and their request for help. Fortunately, for embassy staff and Venezuelan democracy, massive pro-Chavez demonstrations reversed the short-lived coup before things got worse.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/8515
http://books.google.com.vn/books?id=k51AwjhxmekC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA43&hl=en#v=twopage&q&f=false
Capriles, a progressive? IN WHAT ALTERNATE UNIVERSE?
Since when did Bush and cronies like Jesse Helms ever spawn, sponsor and unleash a "progressive"?
You insult even your own intellectual capabilities by pretending that here.
Let me give you a clue. There's a reason Fox News Latino is the main US media outlet pissing in their pants from excitement as they pump Capriles. The neocon cheerleaders are in the front row seat cheering like fucking loons drunk off those oil fumes. Just because it says "Latino" in front of it, doesn't make it any less the normal Fox News propaganda you're pushing here.
If that's the company you want to keep, so be it but don't even dare pretend Capriles is any sort of a "progressive" 
Here's his little party of privatization, wealth and privilege that seeks to undo all the gains the people made under Chavez. You don't even need to go further than wiki to see how it's classified. Nice try but utter fail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_First
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/05/world/americas/venezuela-capriles-profile
Anytime
But I was skeptical about the information first hand and tried to get some possibly unbiased information on the topic. I saw that Maduro apologized and said he "really didn't have to get into private lives of people". A regrettable remark, ok, I admit, and I'm glad he publicly apologized because he can't express such a bad image, and Chávez himself had never said such a thing. In fact he had (and chavismo still has) support from organizations devoted to the LGBT issue.
This is not enough to make me think that Capriles would be a better or more progressive president. And, call them "ad homs and hateful attitudes" if you want, but I'm pointing to facts here. He's running with a right-wing party (to which he moved after being member of another right-wing party and also he's a former member of the far right organization "Tradition, Family and Property" , which had the Republicans' help to do everything. And funny how media never says anything about the fact that his family owns the daily with the largest circulation in Venezuela as well as a conglomerate of media, with a TV channel, radio chains, industries, real-estate, the largest theaters chain of the country, etc (being defeated by a former bus driver... boy that must hurt. It certainly hurts in our elites in Brazil, with a former metal worker as president).
He's a right winger and his party was born in a Republican maternity. I'm not "slandering" you or anyone for saying this. It's reality. And I really don't recall "repeatedly calling" you a right winger. I said your opinion about Honduras resembled theirs and I've said it again about Paraguay because, again, your opinion resembled theirs.
3 mentions of Capriles, 20 mentions of Maduro.
Yeah, they're biased for Capriles alright.
Here's a quick google grab to act as illustration:
The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 12
April 1, 2013 — Sabina Becker
Burnt-out car on Francisco de Miranda Avenue, Caracas, 2004, after a “peaceful” protest of the opposition, otherwise known as a Guarimba. These supposedly spontaneous local protests were directed by Washington via US diplomatic installations, and were aimed at destabilizing Venezuela so that then President Hugo Chávez would be forced to resign. None of them ever worked.
Ah, that peaceful Venezuelan opposition; gotta love ‘em. They set cars on fire all the time, and we up here in El Gran Norte are supposed to take all this in stride as just youthful hijinks and legitimate protest against an elected government which has supposedly gotten all repressive and out of hand. Anybody buying it?
If you are, still, you’re a feckin’ eejit. Especially after this:This Monday, a destabilization plan will take place during a march called by the ultra-right-wing campaign, which will begin at 7:30 pm on Francisco de Miranda Avenue and will end in Chacao.
It was denounced by the host of VTV’s “La Hojilla”, Mario Silva, via his official Twitter account, @LaHojillaenTV.
“@LaHojillaenTV: We denounce a destabilization plan by the opposition in tomorrow’s march”, wrote the host.
Silva also informed that the opposition rally will be a “Guarimba”.
“@LaHojillaenTV: TOMORROW’S OPPOSITION MARCH IS A GUARIMBA.”
The state channel’s president, William Castillo, wrote on his official Twitter account:
“@planwac: This Monday, Capriles called for a march ‘AT NIGHT’, leaving from Los Ruices for the VTV offices…Beware!”
Translation mine.
Now. What kind of “peaceful law-abiding opposition” calls for demos AT NIGHT?
More:
http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/the-ironies-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-part-12.html
I only have to go back a few weeks to find chavista violence against the opposition:
They're not the same group of people.
Capriles has had night marches and rallies before, this was two days ago:
This has been posted already but there is important back story behind the violent actions of the fascist Chavistas that the post misses. In particular it lacks the imagery of the violent actors and their thuggish behavior.
It is well known that the Chavistas have a strategy to provoke violence at campaign events.
Note: "provocar situaciones de agitacion politica"
Basically: "Provoke situations that agitate politically."
This is not the first time this has happened as they did it in La Vega a few months ago.
Below is video of the attacks in Puerto Cabello, clearly showing Chavistas throwing rocks at Capriles supporters and attacking them with mob violence:
They then went on to torch a campaign truck:
Then they looted another campaign truck that had sound equipment with large speakers and stuff (no doubt to sabotage Capriles' chance to speak to the people of Puerto Cabello):
They then attack an AFP reporter and stole his camera to get rid of the evidence (of course in the information age with high cell phone penetration this is a joke):
Of course, does this stop the great Capriles? Maybe it should have. I know if I was campaigning and I was violently attacked by violent forces I would fear for the organizers who were supporting me and would at the minimum tell my supporters to come again another day. Particularly when the National Guard was doing nothing about the situation.
But no. It doesn't stop Capriles. Not this time. Not like La Vega. Capriles dons a small boat and arrives at the port in the best way you can arrive at a port:
Thousands fill the streets:
Capriles, a great man, gives his speech despite the Chavista violence:
I repost my previous post here because the above poster is using what is known as selective imagery to prove some specious point without giving the full story. Basically a lie of omission, which is still a lie.
