Venezuela govt lying and manipulating the information once again! New record. [View all]

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Last edited Wed Feb 26, 2014, 10:34 PM - Edit history (3)

Here we have once again our president of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, lying and manipulating during his public TV show
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But this time it's even worse.

He tried to destroy the reputation of one of the dead demonstrators, José Alejandro Márquez, by showing some pictures that they picked in the guy's facebook where he's dressed in military clothing, carrying what seems to be an assault rifle. Other men surround him, same clothing, same weapons. According to Cabello, the intelligence service had found that the pictures were taken from a "paramilitary training camp" in the US, where Márquez had gone with a bunch of fascist comrades. According to him, they were planning to kill Maduro during the recent protests. In order to back this hypothesis, he showed supposed communication between Márquez and his friends. Their supposed messages talked about killing someone if they got near him.

Cabello's conclusion? "Apatrid, mercenary, traitor" Márquez was on a mission to kill Maduro, but he got second thoughts as he was getting closer from Miraflores and when he expressed his hesitation to his comrades, they liquidated him. It was sure, Cabello emphasized, that the killer was in the group picture from the "paramilitary camp" he had just showed "to Venezuela".

I was really shaken up. The pictures looked so real on TV! I thought maybe it's true that some mad people in the opposition are training as paramilitary in the US and preparing to invade our country.




Well.... it turns out that the pictures that Márquez posted on his facebook (without even making them private) came from an airsoft gun tournament he had played in Venezuela months before. The Venezuelan Airsoft Federation just issued a message of solidarity with the guy's family, stating that Márquez was "a young hard-working Venezuelan who liked to practice sports".
Here in Spanish: http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140226/desmienten-a-cabello-y-dicen-que-marquez-practicaba-airsoft

You can see the pictures on his fb account:
https://www.facebook.com/marquezjalejandro

Reminder: José Alejandro Márquez died sunday night in Caracas after 4 days of coma. He was wildly beat up by two National Guards on feb. 19, while he was recording the demonstration with his phone. One of the guards ordered him to give away his cell phone, but he disobeyed. Instead, he started running away. Unfortunately, he fell down, the two guards caught him, stole his phone and kicked him so hard in the head while he was lying on the floor that they ended up putting him in a coma, and eventually killing him.
here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/110826507

José Alejandro Márquez