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VENEZUELA: DEATH TOLL REACHES 34 AFTER SECOND MILITARY RAID ON CARACAS SQUARE




Clashes in Venezuela between peaceful protesters and Venezuelan state police have claimed the lives of three more citizens – one not participating in protests at all – bringing the death toll since February 12 to 34 people and increasing the call for an end to government violence in the country.


According to Argentine news outlet Infobae, 31-year-old Wilfredo Rey was shot in the head in the western capital of San Cristóbal despite not participating in protests. 40-year-old Jesús Labrador was shot during protests in the province of Mérida, and 26-year-old protester Argenis Hernández was shot in the abdomen during protests in Valencia, the capital of central province Carabobo. Spanish newspaper ABC reports that Hernández was shot by a Chavista paramilitary member on a motorcycle, who drove by and shot at protesters attempting to barricade the city from the government.
More than a month into the latest wave of protests, triggered by the arrest of Popular Will party leader Leopoldo López, the government announced a "probe" into human rights abuses by state police.
The protests continued throughout the weekend, however, led in Caracas by López's wife, Lilian Tintori, and former opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Newly-christened public enemy #1 María Corina Machado spearheaded another wing of protests. Protesters in Caracas numbered in the thousands, as the mayor advertised the event on Twitter.
After threatening and executing a raid on Altamira Square, a major opposition stronghold in Caracas, Maduro sent troops into the square once again on Saturday, spraying tear gas and attacking protesters. The police also arrested a journalist, Mildred Manrique, who lives in a building in the square, for reporting on attacks on civilians by military personnel.
In the western province of Táchira, considered the most anti-Chavista of the country, protesters flooded and blocked the streets, peacefully chanting "yes we can" before being attacked by gunshots and teargas:


http://youtu.be/H8KZnlBFXZc


The capital of Táchira, the Andean college town of San Cristóbal, was run by a staunchly anti-Chavista opposition mayor until late last week, when Venezuelan secret police stormed Mayor Daniel Ceballos' home in the middle of the night and arrested him for disturbing the peace and "fomenting violence." The arrest of Ceballos and conviction of Mayor Enzo Scarano of San Diego (a town near Valencia in Carabobo) triggered increased threats from President Maduro that he was now targeting public officials that opposed the government, not just protesters.
Members of the opposition have stated repeatedly that they have no intention of ceasing to protest until Maduro sets free political prisoners and orders an end to military violence.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/03/23/Venezuela-Death-Toll-Reaches-34-After-Second-Military-Raid-Of-Caracas-Square

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yn1qcSphBQ

Drone Camera Corrects CNN Español Report On Caracas Demonstrations


Look, up in the sky!
It’s a bird…
It’s a plane…
It’s a drone camera!

And it was a drone camera whose video corrected the false impression left by a CNN en Español report that there was somehow an equivalency in the size of competing demonstrations on Saturday in Caracas, Venezuela. As Daniel Duquenal of Venezuela News and Views complained, the CNN en Español report by Guillermo Arduino gave only closeup shots of competing Chavista and opposition demonstrations. However, the drone eye in the sky revealed the vast panoply of the opposition demonstration that seemed to number in the hundreds of thousands. Here is the post by Duequenal explaining why he was so irked by the CNN en Español report:

I was watching Arduino in his Saturday night news on CNN in Spanish, since there is no solid info we can get from Venezuelan TV. And the only thing I saw was close takes of the chavista and opposition marches. And thus they looked pretty much the same, similar turnout and what not. Well they were not. I cannot fathom why media persists in treating popular support as if it were the same, as if the country were indeed split into two roughly equal halves. It is not.

There is the video below taken by a drone (hence the noise) of the meeting point of the 4 marches today in Caracas. It speaks VOLUMES by itself. I dare any pro Chavez, pro Maduro, or CNN, or BBC or anything to show me a similar turnout recently for a Maduro support rally where NO buses to ferry people were used, where NO booze was given out, where NO breakfast or lunch or cookies were offered, where NO military were asked to attend. Then we can talk again about who has the most enthusiastic support in the country.

…..What media is doing trying to secure access to “official” sources by not “offending” them is distorting the real news. Maduro certainly has support but he has NO ACTIVE support like the opposition does and the images are there for whomever wants to see them.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/03/23/drone-camera-corrects-cnn-espa-ol-report-caracas-demonstrations

Video: Venezuelan National Guard Torturing A Man In Custody

GRAPHIC.  DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

This video was recorded in the last few days.  In it, two prisoners at C.O.R.E 2 a National Guard facility are taken into a room and beaten with a boat paddle.

This is the extent to which Nicolas Maduro and the Cubans who control him are willing to go to in order to keep Socialism in power.

http://weaselzippers.us/180258-video-venezuelan-national-guard-torturing-a-man-in-custody/

...First you get on line and ‘take’ a number... Then you wait...











http://capitalismisfreedom.com/joys-socialism-venezuela/

                                     Venezuela legislators demand investigation into opposition deputy
        Socialists call for Maria Corina Machado to face inquiry into crimes including treason relating to anti-government protests




Venezuela’s congress has requested a criminal investigation be launched into opposition deputy Maria Corina Machado for crimes including treason in relation to her involvement in anti-government protests that have left at least 28 dead.

Machado, a 46-year-old engineer, has been one of the most visible leaders of six weeks of opposition demonstrations against socialist president Nicolas Maduro , the country’s most serious unrest in a decade.

Ruling Socialist party legislators, who hold a majority of congressional seats, voted to ask the state prosecutor to investigate Machado for offences that range from damaging buildings to inciting civil war.

“We will not permit impunity. We will ensure revenge for those deaths. We will ensure these deaths will be paid for,” said legislator Tania Diaz of the Socialist party. “Anyone who violates the right to life is violating the constitution.”


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/venezuela-investigation-maria-corina-machado-protests

En Mérida como la gente pelea por 1 kilo de Leche VENEZUELA

Citizens In Venezuela Fight Each Other For Access To A Truck With Milk

Published on Mar 13, 2014

http://youtu.be/FANovpq3hyI

Wilikon , if it weren't for your posts I wouldn't have a clue about what's happening there.

In one of the biggest newspaper here , if you type "venezuela" the first result is about a record challenged in my country that was held by Venezuela (something to do with lipstick http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1/most-people-applying-lipstick)

And the next result is about f1 because of the pilot Pastor Maldonado

About the clashes , next to nothing at the bottom.

The cute baby polar bear got it right: No News Coverage. None.

That is a sobering reality.
May your God help us all.

I almost waked my girlfriend up while watching the video , man does that girl screams !!!

So has the police finally routed all the demonstration in that Altamira plaza?

http://youtu.be/-S5OUSSogNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mr7ExdkZyk

"Sing, sing companio
your voice is shot
that the hands of the people
there will be disarmed song
Sing, sing companion
sing, sing companion
sing, sing companion"

You're under the wrong impression that just because I hate Russia more than the US i blame all on the poor Russians

Oh... you can't blame Russia for this.... so no media coverage.

Finally... Someone gets it. (of course not sure about 10X, but it is pretty bad. I am NOT linking gorry bloody images on bitcointalk, unnecessary)

So the situation is 10x times worss than in the Ukraine and it gets 1% of the coverage.

http://youtu.be/jmYA8t34FnI

Unclear who killed student during street clashes in San Cristobal, where anti-government protests have been fiercest.


A student leader was fatally shot in the western university city of San Cristobal after a long day of street clashes in which Venezuelan security forces attacked and dismantled barricades at key intersections, according to the city’s mayor.

Local TV reporter Beatriz Font said there were unconfirmed reports of at least two others wounded by gunfire after dark on Monday in the city of 600,000 people where student-led protests erupted last month and where anti-government unrest has been fiercest.

The human rights group PROVEA tweeted that one student was seriously wounded by a bullet.

National Guardsmen firing tear gas and plastic shotgun pellets had battled protesters all day in residential neighborhoods, Font told the Associated Press news agency.

The slain student leader, Daniel Tinoco, was shot in the chest after dark, San Cristobal Mayor Daniel Ceballos said on Twitter. The opposition politician did not say who might have killed Tinoco, but tweeted that armed paramilitaries allied with the government known as “colectivos” had battled protesters along with the National Guard.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/03/student-leader-shot-dead-venezuela-201431153641763808.html