Venezuela looks to S.American leaders as toll hits 20

[MADem]

72. Maduro has told the colectivos (the armed motorcycle guys who shoot the students)

to take down the barricades that the students put up. He's actually ORDERING them to go in there and do this, and it's a dangerous thing he's doing and he knows it. He WANTS there to be "class warfare" but what he doesn't realize is that some of the people on the "student" side of the barricades wear red shirts with PDVSA on them when they're told to show up by their bosses at a rally. His "side" is not holding. He won them over with things--food, cellphones, electricity, running water...when those things are no where to be found, what's the point of loyalty?

The students have no guns. They have no rubber bullets, steel pellets, beanbags, tear gas, or real bullets. They are blockading the streets but they aren't shooting at or hitting anyone, unless the cops line up and start shooting at them--then they're retaliating with rocks (and throwing the tear gas back at the cops). This IS "David v. Goliath" but what the students have is NUMBERS.

The reason for the trash and barricades is because the students want to stop movement throughout the city (as Maduro did when he tried to prevent demonstrations and marches by shutting down the city buses--bet he wishes he could take back that dumbass move). There's going to be a three day general strike--they aren't giving up.

You do know Venezuelananalysis is a total tool of the Maduro regime, don't you? Even wikipedia acknowledges that it is pro-Chavez/left leaning (whatever THAT means, these days...the students in the street look more like leftists these days, wanting silly things like food and an end to inflation and crime for everyone) --it's run by slavish loyalists to the whole Chavista ideal who lived large when Chavez was alive and well. I wonder how long they'd be touting the party line if they actually had to live under those conditions, instead of being fat and happy in USA?

Here are some examples of the incitors/asesinos posts I was telling you about:
https://twitter.com/prosemica55/status/442134783121178625/photo/1
https://twitter.com/SoyVnezolano/status/441989262678839296/photo/1 (making the point you made about motor taxis)
https://twitter.com/SoyVnezolano/status/441989262678839296/photo/1
https://twitter.com/SoyVnezolano/status/441737974896553984/photo/1
https://twitter.com/PK2noticiosos/status/441774199091527680/photo/1
https://twitter.com/the_chinox/status/441719064163913728/photo/1
https://twitter.com/elpataensuelo/status/441226722378121219/photo/1
https://twitter.com/elsabonin/status/441716703118897152/photo/1
https://twitter.com/divinamentebi/status/440524373062352896/photo/1
https://twitter.com/SoyVnezolano/status/441737974896553984/photo/1

The purpose is to prevent them from continuing to disrupt the demonstrations--they're named and known. People see them and know what they're up to, they cannot easily infiltrate and create chaos.