Venezuela: Tens of thousands march in anti-government protests

[MADem]

20. These folks have leaders who articulate their views.

That's why they get support -- because they tell us what they are protesting about and they get up off their asses and MOVE every day.

Camping isn't protesting. Standing around handing around a talking stick and waving fingers in the air led to what?

The Venezuelans are asking for some basic things, here--we know what they want. They want security--both in terms of protection from crime, to incude 25K murders a year, and FOOD security; they want the shelves of the grocery stores stocked, they don't want rationing, shortages, and Maduro telling them to just eat less, they want a reduction in inflation which is at the runaway stage--the economy is near collapse; they want the police to stop shooting students, they want the hundreds of prisoners taken released, they want the censorship of the media and the internet to cease. For STARTERS....

My grandfather helped to build Caracas, but thanks for your "concern." I've been able to find it on a map for longer than most people are alive.

This isn't "disinformation" either. This is happening, and it's going to keep happening, no matter how often Maduro tells people to "go to the beach." They're organized, they're determined, they're not afraid, and they're doing this the right way--everyone knows what they want, hell, THEY know what they want (unlike huge swathes of OWS, who were not unified in their goals), and they are keeping up the pace, not hanging around in tents all day. So yeah--funny how that actually WORKS when there's competent leadership at the helm:











That's just a few of the protests scheduled for TODAY. I assume, since you're lecturing me with Ye Olde Finger Wag, that you can read all that, if not, let me know what you're having trouble with and I can translate. That is not an all-inclusive list. There will be another list posted tonight to direct people where to go and what to do tomorrow. Amazing how organization and effort can achieve results...! The only solid demos that OWS was able to muster had UNION help and leadership.

This isn't a "Nothing to see here, move along" game. The people are pissed off, quite justifiably, they aren't asking for the moon, they want BASICS. In a country sitting on the most oil reserves in the world they aren't out of line. Maduro and his corrupt cronies have FUCKED Venezuela, and Cuba is extracting as much as they can before the gravy train goes off the tracks. Maduro has made bad bargains with China to get loans he'll be paying back forever in oil--if he can get it out of the ground because the equipment is broken and no one will give him credit because he's a sleaze who doesn't pay his bills. His "friends" are robbing the joint blind. The place is a mess, and it's HIS fault. He's made a bad situation much, much worse. The frigging presidential palace has peeling paint, Chavez's kids won't move out and they're partying like it's 1999 up in there. The country is going to hell. That's why we're seeing this kind of thing, now:




It's not about Chavismo anymore. That died three months before they buried Hugo.