The Game Changed in Venezuela ?

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Last week it seems that in Venezuela
... panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.

People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street.
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What we saw were not “street clashes”, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.
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Venezuela’s domestic media blackout is joined by a parallel international blackout, one born not of censorship but of disinterest and inertia. It’s hard to express the sense of helplessness you get looking through these pages and finding nothing. Venezuela burns; nobody cares...

_http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/]http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/

Anybody has got some clue about this situation ?
 
Let me hope that Galaxia2002 and his family will be able to find a way out of this mess !

Things are deteriorating in most places. All parts of the "game" seem to be getting faster and faster to a dead end...
 
Eos said:
Last week it seems that in Venezuela
... panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.

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_http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/

Anybody has got some clue about this situation ?

You certainly won't get an objective view of the situation from that blogger; he's part of the opposition so he has a vested interest in exaggerating the impression of chaos.
 
Thank you Kniall for your point of view, which I think is something to really consider.

Interests and partial interpretations are uneasy to discern in the flow of informations.
That's one of the reasons why it's important to be able to participate in a reliable and international network !
 
Eos said:
Thank you Kniall for your point of view, which I think is something to really consider.

Interests and partial interpretations are uneasy to discern in the flow of informations.
That's one of the reasons why it's important to be able to participate in a reliable and international network !
Yes, what's cool about this network is we have people on the ground in Venezuela and the Ukraine. Plus people like Kniall and Perceval who are not in the trouble spots but have a great understanding of the geopolitical big picture and how these things are always manipulated behind the scenes.
 
Kniall said:
You certainly won't get an objective view of the situation from that blogger; he's part of the opposition so he has a vested interest in exaggerating the impression of chaos.

The blogger is exaggerating a bit but I can confirm it! The army and some armed groups are doing that! A friend's family were assault by the army in their own house just to "search" or whatever and they destroy many things in the house and then went to the house neighbors doing the same thing, they were not doing anything except watching news on TV and some neighbors only were using some whistle to make a protest inside their houses.. What is worst they took prisoners some people and tortured them.. I mean My country could been attacked from US and friends (which is the case) but this government is responding in a wrong way with their citizens too!
 
George Ciccariello-Maher, a political science professor explains the protests as a US backed operation: Venezuelan Protests: Another Attempt by U.S.-Backed Right-Wing Groups to Oust Elected Government?.

Here is a recent debate on Al Jazeera with such professor, the opposition blogger mentioned above and the advisor to the national assembly president: Link.

The Brazilian alternative web-based media is largely supporting the protesters, mainly because the government of Nicolas Maduro is seen as part and parcel of the supranational organization that brings together the leftist governments in latin america, including Venezuela, Cuba and Brazil.

Some journalists on the ground don't know what to make of the situation, except for the "atmosphere of terror and fear":
Journalists who live in Caracas talked last night with Agência Brasil. They preferred to not reveal their names, and stated that the situation is very confusing and it is difficult to discern what is really happening. "It is not possible to make an accurate reading of what is happening," said a Brazilian correspondent. She said that the arguments get confused, there are "conspiracy theories" and an atmosphere of "terror and fear" in the country. A Venezuelan journalist added that "on both sides, situation and opposition, there is evidence that could justify the charges".
 
Yeah, RT had an interview yesterday or the day before with some guy that said pretty much the same... Western media and it's friends trying to do a Kiev if possible... the usual media routine, and the problems stated are there but blown way out of proportion... sort of like Sochi. The new prez does have the problem of control though, not having the street cred of his old boss, but by now the military et al should be on the same side, something it seems the Ukrainian prez doesn't have. Either way, most people are pretty uniformed and easily led astray. Maduro has his hands full seeing as he has no real experience, but at least he can see it coming.
 
Just to add from the South American perspective, Brazil's Workers Party (of president Dilma Rousseff), the trade blocks Mercosul and Unasul, as well as the Brazilian senate have all issued statements in favor of Nicolás Maduro.

Former president Lula, famous for working on the background since out of office, is said to have lead the discussion inside Mercosul to issue the statement after a discussion with José Pepe Mujica, president of Uruguay. The Brazilian senate later jumped on the bandwagon.
 
Although later denied by Venezuela's Minister of Interior, there are reports of Cuban special forces working in the country. These special forces are called Avispas Negras and are allegedly working undercover to undermine the opposition.

Given the US-West tension with Russia on the Ukraine issue, and now this possible antagonism between US and Cuba through the suffering of the Venezuelan people, are we back to good old not-so-cold war?
 
Yeah, the "Cold War" never ended, just morphed.

One thing to keep in mind in situations like this is that agents dressed in disguise pull off false flag operations to confuse and throw blame at the government/forces that they're targeting. As most on this forum know, this has been going on for a long time.

As an anecdotal example, a couple of men had told my father years ago that during World War II, Stalin and his gang had Russians/Soviets dressed as Nazi Germans shoot a bunch of people in USSR (pretty large scale massacres) to get people angry and motivated to fight harder. This was during a conversation where it was discussed that if the Germans had a more humane attitude, many things could have turned out differently, and many USSR citizen may have rebelled and/or defected, etc. Such things did in fact happen - defections AND actual Nazi atrocities, but the point of the men bringing this up was that it wasn't always REAL Nazi Germans committing atrocities.

Whenever you hear all the claptrap about human rights violations and lack of freedom and democracy in the mass media, you can pretty much bet that it's another black op. Like Lobaczewski said in Political Ponerology, psychopathic organizations and individuals use any ideology to mask their naked obsession with rape, plunder, domination, and destruction.
 

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