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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 01:31 PM Apr 2013

Venezuela at the crossroads

Venezuela at the crossroads
As post-election tensions continue to escalate in Venezuela, we ask where is this political crisis heading.
- Inside Story Americas Last Modified: 18 Apr 2013 10:44


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The impasse has led to violence - at least seven people have died and dozens more have been injured since voting day as rival supporters closed ranks behind their leaders.

Clinics set up by Hugo Chavez to provide free healthcare to the poor have been torched.

The opposition has been further emboldened by the Obama administration which refuses to recognise the election result - a position which leaves the US virtually alone in the hemisphere.

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So where is the political crisis heading and what is coming next for the country?

Inside Story Americas, with presenter Shihab Rattansi, discusses with guests: George Ciccariello-Maher, a writer and political theorist; Daniel Hellinger, a professor of political science from Webster University; and Diego Arria, former Venezuelan representative to the United Nations and ran as a candidate in the opposition primaries last year.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/04/201341873528724566.html


There's a VIDEO AT LINK with a couple comments (pasted below) prominently highlighted.
Ugh, the video starts with ax-grinding coup supporter Diego Arria I can't listen/watch it right now and miss the inauguration.

" ... what's really been attempted is to create a situation of uncertainty and thereby instability so for example with these Cuban clinics that were being burned down just because an opposition leader was tweeting that the Cubans were burning the ballot boxes which doesn't make any sense ... it's about a broader effort to destabilise this country, if not to overthrow the government now then certainly to discredit it and defeat it at the polls later."

- George Ciccariello-Maher, political theorist


"The opposition has been burning down health clinics, there've been serious incidents of violence .... Diego Arria has been very disingenuous in sort of suggesting that this is all a plot just to make the opposition look bad, and that the international community is leaving the opposition isolated."

- Daniel Hellinger, professor of political science, Webster University

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Venezuela at the crossroads (Original Post) Catherina Apr 2013 OP
we just showed yesterday that the clinics were not torched yet you posted Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #1
K&R idwiyo Apr 2013 #2

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
1. we just showed yesterday that the clinics were not torched yet you posted
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 01:37 PM
Apr 2013

the same lie today. How surprising. Didn't you say you were going to Venezuela this month? You should visit Petare.

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