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    UPRISING AGAINST SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT IN VENEZUELA!!!!!

    UPRISING AGAINST SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT IN VENEZUELA!!!!!

    February 15, 2014 News

    James Neighbors
    February 15th, 2014

    Overpass protest movement

    The citizens of Venezuela are rising up against their Socialist government!

    This is being kept from you by their media, and our media!



    http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=1227

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    situacion en chacao

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4j9...e=sharecontrol

    Chacao is one of the five political and administrative subdivisions of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. The other four are Baruta, El Hatillo, Libertador and Sucre. This legal entity is known as the Caracas Metropolitan District. Chacao is also one of the 21 municipalities that make up the State of Miranda, Venezuela.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacao_Municipality
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    Crickets from White House as Venezuelans Risk All to Throw Out the Chavistas

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    BRIDGET JOHNSON

    February 15, 2014 - 12:57 pm

    Florida lawmakers are trying to turn the Obama administration’s attention toward two weeks of escalating deadly protests in Venezuela, where protesters frustrated with the socialist government have taken to the streets to demand a better country.

    The late Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian experiment, continued by his handpicked successor Nicolas Maduro, has resulted in an economy in tatters, sky-high crime, and massive government corruption.

    Maduro has put the world on “alert” that he’s “facing a developing coup plan against the democracy and the government that I preside over, orchestrated by a small group of irresponsible leaders, violent, full of hatred and personal ambitions.” Protesters have demanded he resign.

    “So we are deeply concerned by rising tensions, by the violence surrounding these February 12th protests, and by the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.

    We join the Secretary General of the OAS in condemning the violence and calling on authorities to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the deaths of peaceful protestors. We also call on the Venezuelan government to release the 19 detained protestors and urge all parties to work to restore calm and refrain from violence,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said at Friday’s press briefing.

    In addition to three protesters killed and dozens wounded, the government ordered all cable providers to stop carrying Colombian news channel NTN24 because it was broadcasting the protests live.

    “Let me see what I have on that. Well, certainly, as we do everywhere, we support press freedoms, citizens’ rights to freedom of expression. Obviously, this includes press freedom. We – I haven’t seen the thing about the Colombian TV station,” Harf said. “We do understand that some newspapers are having difficulty securing newsprint, ink, and other supplies to publish, and that some have reduced their pages to conserve newsprint or to stop publishing completely. Obviously, we believe the government should take actions to fix the solution, that it’s not okay, that press freedom is a cornerstone of what we think is important both in Venezuela but also around the world.”
    That’s the only response that’s come out of the Obama administration.

    Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who was an ardent foe of Chavez, said “Maduro’s repressive tactics have undermined the rights and dignity of the Venezuelan people, and now some of the nation’s brave youth have fallen victim to his dictatorial rule.”

    “With the Venezuelan constitution and democracy under siege, the people wish to speak out against efforts to acquire complete control of the country. As these two days have demonstrated, the Venezuelan people still have a voice – and they won’t be silenced,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “I urge responsible nations everywhere to stand in solidarity with those in Venezuela who bravely express their opposition to this regime and seek to protect their democratic liberties. In the struggle for freedom where the state uses violence to harm its people, neutrality is not an option.”

    Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said “the world must wake up to what’s happening in Venezuela as the government’s unprecedented wave of repression is beating, jailing and even killing innocent Venezuelans, particularly its young people.”
    “President Obama should condemn all violent reprisals by government-affiliated groups against peaceful student marches.

    The president and his administration should vigorously enforce all existing U.S. laws to identify and sanction individuals engaging in these human rights violations. And I urge the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to swiftly approve the Global Human Rights Act pending before it, as a means of countering threats against individual freedoms in places like Venezuela,” Rubio said.

    “Nicolás Maduro and his thugs should know that the world is watching, and that they will be held accountable for their cruelty and violations of human rights. The people of Venezuela have suffered long enough and, as they continue taking to the streets in peaceful protest, I stand with them and against the Venezuelan government’s brutal and lethal tactics.”

    Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla) said he urges the international community to “affirm its commitment to the basic freedoms that are under brutal assault in Venezuela, and to stand with the Venezuelan people who are demanding democratic institutions free from corruption, and who are asserting their right to live free from oppression.”

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    @elnuevoherald El pueblo venezolano se merece paz, estabilidad, y democracia!
    — Joe Garcia (@JoeGarcia) February 12, 2014
    Obama admin must support freedom fighters. Where is the freedom of expression in #Venezuela?#Maduro has blocked people’s images on #Twitter
    — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) February 15, 2014
    @NicolasMaduro your crimes are being seen throughout the world. #VamosVenezuelapic.twitter.com/zRKu3i6hTb
    — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 14, 2014
    @NicolasMaduro el titere de Castro, espera instrucciones de La Habana. Maduro,Castro puppet, awaits his orders from Havana. #VamosVenezuela
    — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 14, 2014
    @NicolasMaduro: “Comandante Castro, por favor, please, tell me what to do!” #LaSalida#VamosVenezuela pic.twitter.com/8aAcabvSg4
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    Us diplomats going to universities and offering VISAs?

    Venezuela Kicks Out Three U.S. Officials for Unknown Reasons

    By Danielle Wiener-Bronner
    02/17/2014

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered three U.S. officials out of the country for "conspiring" against him and his country on Monday, following American criticism of his government over recent student-led anti-government protests in Caracas. On Saturday, thousands of pro- and anti-government activists demonstrated in the capital, with competing rallies occasionally turning violent.

    Maduro singled out the Americans for visiting universities and offering visas to students, though he has not specified why they should be deported or who the officials are. This is not the first time Maduro has lashed out to divert attention from domestic problems. The leader essentially inherited the presidency from beloved leader Hugo Chavez, who endorsed Maduro before succumbing to a battle with cancer, and is questionably qualified for the gig. During Maduro's first year as president, Venezuelans have struggled with rising food prices, inflation and crime rates. Maduro may even be forced to mess with one of Venezuela's most treasured traditions — insanely low gas prices.




    In efforts to cloud these issues, Maduro has accused the U.S. and others of countless infringements. In September, Maduro sent three other U.S. officials home for sabotaging the country's economy, and in April he accused Washington of inciting violence after he was elected president. He also said the U.S. poisoned Chavez to death, and once accused Spiderman of violence in the country.

    On Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement of concern about days of protest in Venezuela, which turned deadly last week when three anti-government protesters were killed in clashes, and more than one hundred arrested. Kerry said:

    The United States is deeply concerned by rising tensions and violence surrounding this week’s protests in Venezuela. Our condolences go to the families of those killed as a result of this tragic violence. We are particularly alarmed by reports that the Venezuelan government has arrested or detained scores of anti-government protestors and issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. These actions have a chilling effect on citizens’ rights to express their grievances peacefully.
    Maduro blames the deaths on opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who said that he will lead a march to deliver a list of demands and petitions accusing the government of responsibility for the deaths to the ministry tomorrow, one week after the protests began, despite facing charges of conspiracy and murder. He said in a video posted to YouTube, "I've not committed any crime." The opposition leader has been laying low since a warrant for his arrest was issued on Wednesday.

    Lopez is not the only one accusing Venezuela's government of being responsible for the protesters' deaths. Governor Henrique Capriles, who lost the presidency to Maduro during elections last year, said that "after several days it's obvious that students aren't with the violence."He added that Maduro's government was using violence to "hide the grave problems that the country is facing with the scarcity of food, medicine, the inflation, devaluation and insecurity." That method doesn't really seem to be working.

    This article was originally published at
    http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/0...icials/358158/

    http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-kick...150542201.html

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    Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Fomenting Color Revolution Unrest

    Past efforts to destabilize Venezuela attributed to NED and CIA

    Kurt Nimmo
    Infowars.com
    February 17, 2014

    On Monday the successor of the late Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, ordered the expulsion of three U.S. diplomats in retaliation for working with anti-government activists in Venezuela. The expulsion order coincided with a planned rally by the opposition.



    Maduro had three other diplomats expelled in September, including the charge d’affairs, Kelly Keiderling, after the government accused them of plotting with opponents.
    The leader of the opposition, Leopoldo López Mendoza, has challenged the government to arrest him. Student-led protests have posed a serious challenge to Maduro’s government.
    “I have ordered the foreign ministry to proceed with declaring those three consular officials persona non grata and expelling them from the country,” Maduro told the South American nation in a broadcast. “Let them go conspire in Washington!”
    Recent protests by students in Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo and other cities have gained international attention.
    “We are deeply concerned by rising tensions, by the violence surrounding this February 12 protest and by the issuing of a warrant for the arrest of the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Saturday.
    Secretary of State John Kerry also issued a statement on recent violence resulting in the death of three people. “The United States is deeply concerned by rising tensions and violence surrounding this week’s protests in Venezuela. Our condolences go to the families of those killed as a result of this tragic violence,” he said, also on Saturday.
    The success of the student movement remains in question. “The challenge that the student movement will face is in finding a way to include Venezuela’s laboring class, which for the most part still supports the government, and relies on its redistributive policies,” notes Zero Hedge. “Their inability to rouse broad support across Venezuela’s social and economic classes was in part why previous student uprisings, including significant protests in 2007, failed to generate enough momentum to trigger a significant political shift.”
    The Maduro government did not provide evidence of State Department complicity in the protests and violence. Past efforts to unseat Maduro’s predecessor, however, were orchestrated in part by the National Endowment for Democracy, the AFL-CIO corporate labor union, and the CIA.
    “The U.S. embassy in Venezuela is very active. These days, its main strategy is subversion. This is manifested by USAID, NED, IRI, Freedom House, CIPE, etc. funding of opposition groups,” Eva Golinger told Jean-Guy Allard of Granma International in 2008. “The CIA and the State Department maintain various fronts in the country, as they always do.”

    This article was posted: Monday, February 17, 2014 at 11:41 am

    http://www.infowars.com/venezuela-ac...lution-unrest/
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    Venezuelan President's Public Enemy No. 1: Harvard-Educated Leader Leopoldo Lopez

    Published February 17, 2014Fox News Latino



    • Former Venezuelan presidential contender Leopoldo Lopez (LEOPOLDOLOPEZ.CO
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    In December, in an interview with a Caracas publication, Leopoldo Lopez lamented what he saw as the complacency of some leading opponents of President Nicolas Maduro.

    Lopez, a Harvard graduate with the clean-cut, Polo and khaki looks of a fraternity president, often has said that Maduro could not have genuinely won the presidency.

    If Maduro’s opponents, especially his presidential challenger, Henrique Capriles, had fought the questionable victory of the late Hugo Chavez’s successor, he said, Venezuela would have a different president.

    “I have no doubt that if Henrique had taken the streets following April 14th [2013], like many of us advised him to do, he would be President right now,” Lopez was quoted as saying in Caracas Chronicles.

    “Calle y vote,” Lopez, 42, said, which in English means roughly “street protests and cast your vote.”

    Last week, just two months after that interview, Lopez is Maduro’s top-priority political fugitive.

    He was the lead organizer of a mass protest of mostly students who demonstrated against Maduro and his government last week. Some estimates put that crowd at around 10,000 people.

    Subsequent related protests by the students and others to demand the release of demonstrators detained by government security forces, however, have turned violent, resulting in three deaths.

    Maduro’s government is in hot pursuit of Lopez, who is in an undisclosed location, recording videos urging his compatriots not to back down in the fight for a democratic Venezuela.

    Lopez, who is a former presidential contender, has been one of Maduro’s most hard-line and persistent opponents. He has vowed not to let Maduro finish out his term, which ends in 2019.

    He has said that Venezuela, with a 56 percent inflation rate, soaring crime and dwindling civil liberties, cannot withstand more of a Maduro government.

    “It wouldn’t be right,” he was quoted inCaracas Chronicles as saying about waiting out Maduro’s tenure. “The struggle against poverty, against drug smuggling, against irregular groups tearing into the fabric of our country … can’t wait six more years. It would be immoral to not do all we can right now.”

    Lopez and Maduro, a socialist who subscribes to Chavez’s admiration of the Castro brothers in Cuba, are polar opposites in much more than political ideology.

    Maduro, 51, often condemns the United States as imperialist and an adversary. On Sunday, he ordered the expulsion of three U.S. embassy officials after the Obama administration came to the defense of Lopez, whom Maduro blamed for inspiring the violence of the protests.

    Maduro worked as a bus driver before climbing up the political ladder, becoming foreign minister of Venezuela in 2006 and vice president in 2012, when Chavez won re-election and named Maduro to the post.

    He has a well-known quirky side – last year, for instance, he said that Chavez had appeared to him in the form of a bird more than once to encourage him and to tell him he was doing a good job.

    Maduro’s Twitter account as of Monday showed more than 3,700 tweets and 1.71 million followers.

    Lopez, on the other hand, spent some of his formative years in the United States, studying economics at Kenyon College in Ohio and receiving a Master's degree at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
    He founded Voluntad Popular, which describes itself as a “populist and pro-democracy movement,” and was mayor of Chacao, a subdivision of Caracas.

    He challenged two-time presidential candidate Capriles for leadership of the anti-Maduro movement.

    Though Capriles garnered far more public support, Lopez remained a source of concern for Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan government barred him from running for office at one point, a move that Lopez fought, saying his rights were violated.

    Lopez, who has more than 1.9 million followers on Twitter, has waged a battle against Maduro on the social media site, where both men have called each other cowards.

    On Sunday, Lopez assured his supporters that he is not hiding in fear as Maduro’s security forces search for him to arrest him.

    He said in a video that he took some time to talk with his family, but that will be part of a a march on Tuesday. He said he would turn himself in after the march to the Interior Ministry, where he said he would deliver a petition demanding a full investigation of the government's role in the deaths that occurred during the protests.

    "I haven't committed any crime," Lopez said. "If there is a decision to legally throw me in jail I'll submit myself to this persecution."

    http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/pol...eopoldo-lopez/




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