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In reply to the discussion: Do you support the overthrow of Maduro in Venezuela? [View all]joshcryer
(62,536 posts)That's why Chavez didn't pick him as a successor though he has military experience like Chavez did. Chavez had an internationalist view.
They're not protesting to put Cabello in power, mind you, they are protesting out of discontent, from crime, food prices, insecurity. It all started because a student got raped and they protested the lack of security. Those students, rather than being listened to, were arrested en mass. Some of them did commit arson, out of rage, but that was only 4 students, the rest, some half dozen, were arrested without cause (some of them were arrested just for checking in on their fellow students to see what the charges were; because clearly asking what the charges were mean you were present during the arson).
You use "opposition" here again when it's just not true that Lopez, Capriles, or Machado are their representatives. If they keep being pushed aside and ignored, then yes, that might happen. If they keep being repressed they will look for representation. If someone from the opposition comes in and represents them, they will take it. Likewise if Cabello comes in and says Maduro must go, they would accept it.