Venezuela's Maduro jeered by crowd as unrest grows

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN17D2F3?il=0


Angry Venezuelans threw objects at President Nicolas Maduro during a rally on Tuesday, as protests mount against the unpopular leftist leader amid a brutal economic crisis and what critics say is his lurch into dictatorship.

State television footage showed a crowd mobbing the vehicle that Maduro was standing on as he waved goodbye at the end of a military event in San Felix, in the south-eastern state of Bolivar. Amid the commotion, people threw objects at Maduro, who was wearing a traditional Venezuelan suit and a yellow-blue-red presidential sash, while his bodyguards scrambled.

The state broadcaster then halted transmission.

In a separate video shared on social media, voices yelling "Damn you!" were heard as the vehicle apparently transporting Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader, tried to make its way through the crowd.

[Marksman_91]

1. Saw the "official" footage shown on state TV and then the raw footage shot by civilians

The State TV broadcast was cut off the moment people were starting to rile up against the asshat, and the civilian footage captured it in all its glory, with bodyguards jumping on top of the car like gerbils and receiving plenty of eggs and rocks and the people's anti-Maduro chants. Thank god we live in an age where it's so easy for anyone to record videos and share it with the rest of the world. Censorship is no longer a weapon that authoritarian governments can use.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Here is a vid with the state television cutting off and the amateur video with objects thrown at

Chavez' son.

[DetlefK]

3. Somehow Maduro's strategy of riding out the storm is not working.