Venezuela threatened by far-right violence
Venezuela threatened by far-right violence
Friday, February 14, 2014
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network condemns the recent violent actions instigated by far-right sections of the opposition in various cities across Venezuela.
The first opposition-led protests were initiated on February 4 in the city of San Cristobal, in the western state of Tachira. Two students were arrested for alleged breach of the peace during a demonstration. The students were released the next day.
The next days were marked by an escalation of student protests in the states of Merida and Tachira, with small groups of masked and hooded individuals engaging in acts of violence throughout the capital city. They claimed they were fighting against “crime”.
Their actions included, but were not limited to, blockading roads, throwing rocks at passers-by, attacking the residence of the Tachira state governor, terrorising passengers on public transport, throwing Molotov cocktails and firing live ammunition at the police. They also robbed and tried to assassinate independent journalists who were covering the issue in the Andean states.
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https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55868
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At one time we had fairly useful conversations, sharing ideas, information, but the right-wingers did drag their fat asses here and started trying to block every bit of real communication we had, then they started personal, cheap, nasty, spiteful, idiotic attacks on democrats, just to make so much trouble it finally wasn't worth it to continue. They have driven off so many priceless people, good, intelligent, bright, funny, warm, enthusiastic human beings, and look at what's left!
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Some Democrats here will continue posting articles, and speaking when there's time, and the spirit moves, and will be posting material and information we run across because to NOT pass it around would be hard to manage. The truth must be heard, one way or another, and sharing it here, and with people we meet, friends, etc, is essential. Gotta climb out of the pit of ignorance our corporate media built for us.
Once people start looking behind the lies, doing their own research, they learn they must keep going, since there is NO going back to the darkness where we lived by someone else's design. It just can't be done. Learning the truth is respect for one's self and for the human race. That part has to be done personally, since everything but the truth is taught to the public from childhood.
The right-wing clowns who infest progressive boards are there to try to keep people from learning what they're searching for by engaging them in nasty, ill-natured scuffles. Just tune them out. They don't matter.
You're not alone in feeling horrified and stunned by the loss of one essential human being who was needed so much. Remember, however, the people have said, even when Hugo Chavez was living, that the struggle would go on, whether he was in office or not. They are not going to let the reeking filthy oligarchs return them to lives of despair, hopelessness again. They will die fighting, if necessary.
They will win, in the end. Even the holy books prophesy it. A-holes are doomed, ultimately, and they brought it on themselves through their greed, their contempt for the masses of human beings they have hoped to dominate, to exploit, to abuse, to enslave.
