Venezuela: Leftwingers counter Mud-slide

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela: Leftwingers counter Mud-slide
Apr Monday 25th 2016

LEFT-WING political and social groups marched in capital Caracas on Saturday under the banner: “All power to the people!” and against the “fascism, betrayal and corruption” of the country’s rising right wing.

Organisers said the US-backed Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) alliance of parties was trying to use the two-thirds majority it won in the national assembly in December to undo the work of the democratic Bolivarian revolution started by Hugo Chavez.

Mud leader Henry Ramos Allup has vowed to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro before his term finishes and has publicly set out a plan to do so.

But the Alexis Vive Collective’s Ana Marin told a press conference: “Yankee imperialism is driving this dispute using all the weapons of its political and military arsenal.

More:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c1a0-Venezuela-Leftwingers-counter-Mud-slide#.Vx1c5OT2awl

[Marksman_91]

1. The only ones using weapons are the Chavista-backed street gangs and corrupt military n/t

[MinM]

2. Venezuela’s Opposition: Attacking Its Own People

The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse; a country where human rights crusaders and anti-government, democracy-seeking activists are routinely rounded up and thrown in jail. Indeed, the picture from both private media in Venezuela, as well as the mainstream press in the U.S., is one of a corrupt and tyrannical government desperately trying to maintain its grip on power while the opposition seeks much-needed reforms. In fact, the opposite is true.

The sad reality of Venezuela is that it is the Bolivarian Revolution that is being undermined, targeted, and destabilized. It is the Socialist Party, its leftist supporters (and critics), Chavista activists and journalists, and assorted forces on the Left that are being victimized by an opposition whose singular goal is power. This opposition, now in the majority in the National Assembly, uses the sacrosanct terminology of “freedom,” “democracy,” and “human rights” to conceal the inescapable fact that it has committed, and continues to commit, grave crimes against the people of Venezuela in the service of its iniquitous agenda, shaped and guided, as always, by its patrons in the United States.

This so-called opposition – little more than the political manifestation of the former ruling elites of Venezuela – wants nothing less than the total reversal of the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution, the end of Chavismo, and the return of Venezuela to its former status as oil colony and wholly owned subsidiary of the United States. And how are these repugnant goals being achieved? Economic destabilization, street violence and politically motivated assassinations, and psychological warfare are just some of the potent weapons being employed....

http://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuelas-opposition-attacking-its-own-people/5520783

Making the Economy Scream

[Judi Lynn]

3. Tremendous article, so well written, it should be read by as many as possible.

It's important for anyone who cares about the truth getting through to the people who matter, the same target of the massive propaganda machine.

This is worthwhile, in addition to your exceprt:

Of course, there’s little doubt that the scarcity of goods is largely manufactured for political ends. One need only look at the conspicuous reappearance of goods in the immediate aftermath of the right-wing Unity Roundtable victory in the December 2015 elections to see how connected the supply problems are with political agendas. Additionally, massive hoarding of basic consumer goods in warehouses owned by prominent Venezuelan business interests sheds added light on the lengths to which the right-wing opposition and elites will go to make their own country’s economy scream.

Thank you.