Venezuela: Resistance or disintegration?

[mabar]

Obviously, in virtually every Spanish-language media this news spread like wildfire...

Univisión afirma que varios de sus periodistas fueron temporalmente retenidos durante una entrevista con Maduro][/URL]
Univision claims several of its journalists were temporarily detained during an interview with Maduro

The U.S.-based Spanish-language network Univision claims that six of its correspondents were "arbitrarily detained" for more than two hours this Monday in the middle of an interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Miraflores Palace.

Presenter Jorge Ramos, one of the journalists in question, denounces that his equipment and belongings were confiscated after the president was displeased with the course of the interview. Subsequently, Venezuelan Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez accused Washington of inventing "a new false positive with a show and a setup.

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X Miraflores has had hundreds of journalists who have received the decent treatment that we usually give to those who come to do the journalistic work, and have published the result of that work. We don't lend ourselves to cheap shows

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"Nos han robado nuestro trabajo": liberan al equipo de Univision retenido por Maduro y decomisan sus equipos y material[/URL]]
"Our work has been stolen": Univision team held by Maduro released and their equipment and material confiscated.

Six journalists from Univision Noticias who were interviewing Nicolás Maduro this Monday at the Miraflores Palace will be deported from Venezuela on Tuesday. The interview was interrupted by Maduro, who was uncomfortable with the questions, and gave the order to confiscate the equipment and the recording. The journalists were held in the palace for almost three hours.

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The team of six journalists from Univision Noticias, headed by Jorge Ramos, will be deported Tuesday after being held at the Miraflores Palace on Monday afternoon on orders from Nicolás Maduro for almost three hours and then released.

It all began when Ramos interviewed Nicolás Maduro: he disliked the questions and ordered the seizure of recorded material, television and telephone equipment, and the detention of journalists. Maduro's security forces did not return the material, equipment or personal articles of the journalists after releasing them.

"We've been robbed of our work. (...) This is going to come out with video or no video," journalist Jorge Ramos told Patricia Janiot during the Univision News, minutes after he was released. I never thought they were going to do something stupid like this. I never thought they were going to take the whole interview and rob us.

Maduro accepted the interview with Ramos last week and it finally took place this Monday afternoon. At one point in the conversation, Ramos showed Maduro a video of several Venezuelans eating garbage and this made him uncomfortable. Then he gave the order not to stop leaving the palace the material recorded until then.

"What I told Nicolás Maduro is that millions of Venezuelans and many governments around the world did not consider him a legitimate president but a dictator. That's what I told Nicolás Maduro, he obviously didn't like it and that's why the interview was stopped," Ramos added.

Univision Noticias journalists held in Miraflores include María Martínez, Claudia Rondón, Francisco Urreiztieta, Juan Carlos Guzmán, Martín Guzmán and Jorge Ramos. All of them are already in their hotel in Caracas.

In total, the team of journalists was isolated for two hours and 50 minutes. During a moment of detention, Ramos and Univision Vice President Maria Martinez were taken to a separate habitaci´ón and held there for a few minutes with the lights off, away from the rest of their comrades.

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[mabar]

North American libtards are bad enough, but when you see pathological persistence in emotional Latin Americans, it's a strange combination of a soap opera and libtards. "I hate you and you are a stupid bastard for not agreeing with me, but I'm saying this with love, dear." It's almost funny, actually.

Yes, it is a little frustrating, and I also have to tie my hands so as not to write anythin in their wall, I've come across with posts that follow false news or messages like "Maduro burned "humanitarian aid" so, we have to pray that the angels of heaven, so they will take away and so salvation will come to Venezuela".

 

[caballero reyes]

A video that shows people eating garbage doesn't seem well intentioned because it can't represent the socioeconomic reality of some country in general.
In every country in the world there are people who eat leftovers from garbage.
Most likely Jorge Ramos wanted to produce a media effect who knows with what intentions.

 

[caballero reyes]

The video here:
[URL="http://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2019/02/26/un-video-de-gente-comiendo-de-la-basura-fue-lo-que-molesto-a-maduro-jorge-ramos/"[/URL]

 

[fabric]

A video that shows people eating garbage doesn't seem well intentioned because it can't represent the socioeconomic reality of some country in general.

As per usual the media will cherry pick the ‘evidence’ in favour of whatever narrative they want to spread. But it doesn’t make a strong case for it. It’s like taking this video about the San Francisco or this one about Paris and telling the world “see how bad these countries are?” and expecting everyone to agree that the way to solve this problem is through military intervention.

 

[Galaxia2002]

I understand you Chu, I am in a position where I see people wishing a military intervention (not all but some), but I have to shut up for my own security especially in my job and FB, they are completely hysterical and yes, there are a lot of complaints and bad things about this government, but to come to this point of invoking an intervention is completely insane.

It’s like a whole bunch of cognitive biases coalesced in a single event, confirmation bias, tribalism, wanting a quick magic pill fix, confirmation bias and on and on until their behavior is controlled by something so far from the truth that is impossible to explain.

Agree, especially the quick fix and also a kind of ingenuity regarding the danger of intervention. I have heard things like "it will be like Panama, a precision operation" and stupidity like that. Yeah, really? The neverending story to try to reason with people like this.

 

[Alejo]

And then there’s this by the Russians:

US amasses special ops in Puerto Rico, army in Colombia to oust Maduro – Russian Security Council
US amasses special ops in Puerto Rico, army in Colombia to oust Maduro – Russian Security Council

 

[sToRmR1dR]

A US spy plane has been spotted flying over Venezuela.

US Spy Plane Reportedly Spotted Over Venezuela as Maduro Warns of Risk of War
26.02.2019

 

[mabar]

UN Security Council Addresses Situation in Venezuela-Live

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[mabar]

After hearing so much nonsense and lies from most of the Security Council countries, it is a relief to hear the representative of Russia. Objective, clear, exposing data and realities, is what Venezuela needs.

 

[mabar]

yeap, it sounded like it!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100486017277198338

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[angelburst29]

I hope this U.N. Draft Resolution is voted down tomorrow - if it's passed - it would give VP Pence and Guaido "an official excuse" to move forward in their plans to oust Maduro?

The United States has asked the United Nations Security Council to vote on Thursday on a draft resolution calling for free and fair presidential elections in Venezuela and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, diplomats said.

February 27, 2019 - US seeks U.N. Security Council vote on Venezuela on Thursday: Diplomats
U.S. seeks U.N. Security Council vote on Venezuela on Thursday:...

FILE PHOTO: Members of the United Nations Security Council gather during a meeting about the situation in Venezuela, in New York, U.S., February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

The draft resolution is likely to be opposed by Russia, the diplomats said. A resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, France, Britain and the United States to pass.

The U.S. draft asks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to help ensure there is a free, fair and credible presidential election with international observers. It stresses the need to ensure the safety of all the members of Venezuela’s National Assembly.


Exclusive: Venezuela removed 8 tons of central bank gold last week - legislator
At least 8 tons of gold were removed from the Venezuelan central bank's vaults last week, an opposition legislator and three government sources told Reuters, in the latest sign of President Nicolas Maduro's desperation to raise hard currency amid tightening sanctions.

The gold was removed in government vehicles between Wednesday and Friday last week when there were no regular security guards present at the bank, Legislator Angel Alvarado and the three government sources said.

Alvarado and the government sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not say where the central bank was sending the gold. They said the operation took place while central bank head Calixto Ortega was abroad on a trip.

Venezuelan vice president to fly into Moscow for talks on Friday: RIA
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez will hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Friday, the RIA news agency reported, the latest in a flurry of visits by Venezuelan politicians to staunch ally Russia.

Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido to visit Brazil Thursday: envoy
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will visit Brazil on Thursday and meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and other government officials, his envoy in Brasilia, Maria Teresa Belandria, said by telephone on Wednesday.

 

[mabar]

I hope this U.N. Draft Resolution is voted down tomorrow - if it's passed - it would give VP Pence and Guaido "an official excuse" to move forward in their plans to oust Maduro?

I'm a little concerned that, despite the whatever resolution, the US is not a country known for following them, specially when it already has a the target in its sights.

The Foreign Minister stressed that: “We’re calling for dialogue, dialogue with the United States — why not between Presidents Maduro and Trump?

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza appeared before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UNHRC) in Geneva Wednesday to discuss the interference and threat of military intervention being wrought on his country by the United States.

And, today ...this:
Venezuelan Authorities: Terrorists Behind La Guaira Food Warehouse Arson

CARACAS (Sputnik) - Jorge Luis Garcia Carneiro, the governor of the Venezuelan state of Vargas, said on Wednesday, that the fire at a warehouse in Venezuela’s port city of La Guaira, where food is stored for distribution among the population in the framework of the government program, was a crime committed by terrorists.

"We have no doubt that these are the acts committed by terrorists, these are their criminal hands that encroach on the food of our people", Garcia Carneiro said at a press conference, adding that investigators along with firefighters continued to establish a cause of the fire.

 

[angelburst29]

I'm a little concerned that, despite the whatever resolution, the US is not a country known for following them, specially when it already has a the target in its sights.

I suspect more trouble ahead? Juan Guaido is headed to Brazil to meet Jair Bolsonaro and then Bolsonaro (still recovering from surgery) is headed to Israel to meet up with Netanyahu. (What could go wrong?) To top it off, speaking with fork-tongue, Mike Pompeo who's standing behind VP Pence in ousting Maduro, is advising the leaders of India and Pakistan to avoid "any action that would escalate and greatly increase risk." Pompeo's words are - hypocritical - considering the US's "escalation" to violence and over throw in Venezuela?

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido met with European Union ambassadors to Brazil on Thursday ahead of a meeting with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro in an effort to drum up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down.

February 28, 2019 - Venezuela's Guaido to meet Brazil's President in anti-Maduro push
Venezuela's Guaido to meet Brazilian president in anti-Maduro push

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido waves as he arrives at the European Union headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil Febbruary 28, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Although Bolsonaro’s right-wing government was one of the first to recognize Guaido as the legitimate leader of neighboring Venezuela, Guaido will be received without the military honors that are usually afforded to foreign dignitaries and which he received in Colombia last week.

Guaido’s office said the Bolsonaro portion of the visit would be private, but the Venezuelan opposition leader’s meeting with Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo would be official.

Araujo has led Brazil’s contribution to the U.S.-led humanitarian aid plan that has so far failed to get food and medicine into Venezuela, which is suffering from a deep economic crisis marked by widespread shortages of basic necessities.

After meeting Bolsonaro at 2 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), Guaido will hold a news conference at 4 p.m. at the Foreign Ministry.

Brazil’s military, whose former officers occupy one third of Bolsonaro’s cabinet posts, have been careful to avoid breaking off relations with Maduro, a socialist in power since 2013, not least because the northern Brazilian border state of Roraima depends on electricity supplies from Venezuela’s Guri dam.


U.N. Security Council to vote on rival U.S., Russian proposals on Venezuela
The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on rival U.S. and Russian draft resolutions on Venezuela, diplomats said, with Washington's proposal calling for free and fair presidential elections and unhindered aid delivery.

Pompeo says U.S. working on getting humanitarian aid to Venezuela
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States is still working on plans to get humanitarian aid delivered to Venezuela after troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro violently drove back foreign aid convoys last weekend.

Brazil's far-right leader to visit Israel in potential boost for Netanyahu
Brazil's nationalist President Jair Bolsonaro will visit Israel days before its April 9 election, the Israeli government said on Thursday, in a potential boost for fellow right-winger Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

U.S. top diplomat urges ratcheting down of India, Pakistan tensions
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that he has spoken with the leaders of India and Pakistan amid tensions between the two countries and has urged them to avoid "any action that would escalate and greatly increase risk."

 

[angelburst29]

The United States and Russia both failed on Thursday in rival bids to get the United Nations Security Council to take action on Venezuela, cementing a global split over how to deal with a political and humanitarian crisis in the South American country.

February 28, 2019 - IS, Russia fail in rival bids for UN action on Venezuela
U.S., Russia fail in rival bids for U.N. action on Venezuela

Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a free and fair presidential election in Venezuela and unhindered aid access. The U.S. text garnered a minimum nine votes - forcing the double veto, while South Africa also voted no. Three countries abstained.

The council then voted on a rival Russian draft that aimed to express support for a political solution and back the Venezuelan government as the primary coordinator of international assistance efforts in the country.

The Russian text failed after only four council members voted in favor of it. Four abstained and the rest were against. A council resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, France, Britain or the United States to pass.


Senators propose bill to let thousands of Venezuelans remain in U.S.
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators proposed legislation on Thursday that would let an estimated 72,000 Venezuelans remain in the United States after fleeing chaos in their country.

Paraguay says Venezuela's Guaido to visit on Friday: tweet
Paraguay President Mario Abdo said by tweet on Thursday that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will visit the country on Friday, as Guaido tries to drum up support in the region and put pressure on Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro to step down.

Venezuela's Guaido vows to return to Caracas despite threat of prison
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, visiting Brazil to drum up support for his bid to push for a change of government in his country, said on Thursday he will return to Caracas by Monday despite threats of imprisonment.