Venezuela exposes Macri’s hypocrisy
Venezuela exposes Macri’s hypocrisy
Posted on December 22, 2015 by Sabina Becker
Oh my. This is just golden:
- video at link -
Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodríguez holds up photos showing the “peaceful” demonstrations of the Venezuelan opposition during the Mercosur summit in Paraguay, shaming the new president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, who defended those demos in his speech.
Of course, the demonstrations in question aren’t peaceful at all. They’re violent guarimbas in which people were killed, Public Ministry buildings and public-utility trucks were set on fire by arsonists, and thugs menaced the public, impeded traffic, and even beheaded motorcyclists with trip-wires. Clearly illegal activity, and in no sense to be tolerated by any government with its collective head on straight.
But Mauricio Macri, being a right-wing extremist thug himself, thinks all this qualifies perfectly well as just a peaceful difference of opinion on the part of legitimate political actors. In the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies: He would, wouldn’t he?
But here’s the rub: Just yesterday, I translated a piece from Telesur and Página/12, in which it was reported that Macri was putting out emergency legislation with the ultimate effect of restricting actual, peaceful demonstrations by the various Argentine social movements, leftist parties, and trade unions.
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