Maduro expels 3 US officials amid protest tensions

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18. Can you say 1%? "Leopoldo Lopez Mendoza comes from one of Venezuela’s wealthiest families

and is known for his “good-boy” looks and extreme right-wing agenda.'

http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6750

Colleagues from his Popular Will party had said since Wednesday that Lopez was at home with advisors in Chacao, the wealthy district of eastern Caracas where he was once mayor.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/16/us-venezuela-protests-idUSBREA1F0GJ20140216

The struggle in Venezuela is not so much about one man, President Hugo Chávez, as the right would have us believe. It is a political battle between the left and the right. Not surprisingly, as in the rest of South America, it is the right that has the ugly record on human rights and issues of democracy. And it is the right that represents the rich -- López was former mayor of one of the wealthiest areas of Caracas -- against the majority of the people, much as in the United States.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/oliver-stone/responding-to-leopoldo-lp_b_652925.html

Perhaps the steepest challenge of all: Lopez's broader political future, analysts say, will depend on overcoming a preconception that as a son of privilege, he belongs to the same political class that ignored Venezuela's poor for decades, even as the country's oil wealth ran thick and sweet.

"I cannot negate where I come from," said Lopez, thirty-six, who graduated from Kenyon in 1993 and returned this spring to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at the Honors Day Convocation. "I was born with a lot of privilege in a country with a lot of inequality."

http://bulletin.kenyon.edu/x2473.xml

There’s a strong alliance between a powerful, well heeled domestic opposition and the U.S. government.

http://uspeacecouncil.org/?p=2314

Capriles Radonski/ his very wealthy family are also the original financiers of Leopoldo Lopez that the Venezuelan foreign minister has essentially accused of conspiracy with foreign interests. Capriles Radonski was also involved in the US backed coup against Chavez and has been tied to the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/a161737.html

Wall St. wants their fascist Bankster Boy Lopez to stir unrest and overthrow the Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy so that the 1% can control all Venezuela's resources and oppress the people of Venezuela once again.

Fascism never sleeps, because the 1% feeds it and drives it with their greed and lust for power and control 24/7.