Venezuela Opposition Calls for Consideration of Force Against Regime

[MRubio]

43. Why do the poor march for Maduro?

Many march for Maduro because their jobs depend on it. They're loaded on buses in cities all over the country and driven to Caracas to participate in rallies whether they support the regime or not. Fail to do so and there's someone waiting in line for your job. Who wants to lose a job today with all the benefits when the private sector has been crippled? Think it's tough finding and buying food while employed? Try it without employment.

My favorite example was a number of years ago when virtually all the employees of the Jusepin Plant in Monagas were loaded on buses and taken to Caracas for a rally. While there, the plant experienced a pipeline failure and thousands of barrels of heavy crude (chavismo never really admitted how many) spilled into the nearby river and headed downstream for Maturin, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants. Had the plant been fully-staffed, the spill could have contained much more quickly and with much less environmental damage.

Maturin depended on the river for its water supply as did hundreds of small farms along the river. The heavy oil covered everything, killed all sorts of wildlife, caused many small farmers to go under for lack of water, and caused major problems for the city of Maturin, which, to this day, has not fully recovered from incident. Can you imagine a city of 500,000 without a reliable water supply? Visit Maturin today and see what life is like.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-spill/venezuela-says-guarapiche-oil-spill-under-control-idUSTRE81B0RP20120212

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6817

BTW, the governor of Monagas at the time, a chavista, disputed claims by the feds that everything was under control and little environmental damage had occurred. He was later forced out of office, and out of the country and I believe today lives in the Dominican Republic......and is very weathly after his short time in office I've heard.