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Marksman_91

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Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:14 AM
Mar 2014

But this video, damn, even the subtitles at times were written with quite a few really poor basic English mistakes. You'd think they'd at least try to use an actual English speaker instead of Google Translate or Bing. And as for the footage they showed, there's absolutely no mention of the victims from gunshots, which have been the majority of deaths, especially the poor Génesis Carmona. The video doesn't even bother showing the faces or names of the victims, and the footage shown is only that of probably the same police officer acting like he's in agony when all he has is a dumb scratch on his forehead. If the protesters were the ones causing the violence, it would make more sense for this video to show them shooting guns at other protesters or something. Instead they're shown throwing rocks and molotovs at GNB/PNB, who have already shown more than once to show abuse of power when confronting unarmed protesters, case in point, this gem:



I'd be pretty pissed off too and throwing all kinds of shit at GNB if this is the way they deal with protesters by using excessive force. This video is just another pathetic attempt by the propaganda machine to try to hide the reality of Venezuela, which is that the country's economy is going down the drain, and the crime rate is out-of-control and the government won't even bother controlling it due to the fact that it helps keeping an atmosphere of fear.

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