Brazil senators flee Venezuela attack

[alp227]

Source: BBC

A group of eight Brazilian senators on a visit to Venezuela to meet a jailed opposition leader say they had to flee after their bus was attacked.

The Brazilian opposition politicians were trying to meet Leopoldo Lopez, who is in jail accused of inciting violence during protests.

The group said the bus was stoned as it travelled from Caracas airport.

Brazil's foreign ministry says it will seek an explanation from the Venezuelan government.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33195332

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Eight Brazilian Senators?

How many ...?

Oh, never mind.

:hi

[dembotoz]

3. Oh the old jokes r sometimes the best joke and u beat me to it

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. That figures. Brazil is where they shoot the homeless, street children, because

they will steal food from shops when they have none, isn't it?

Notice the would-be trouble-makers are senators? The plutocrat types, not your 'common or garden' congress types.

[7962]

4. I'm sure it was "spontaneous".........

[Archae]

5. Yup, like the mob that attacked the "Freedom Riders" bus.

Back in the 60's.

[Bacchus4.0]

6. chavistas are violent nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. How many countries are they bombing?

[Bacchus4.0]

8. their own country is bombing nt

[NuclearDem]

9. Congratulations! You got the obligatory whataboutism.

Now please excuse the rest of us to discuss Venezuela in the context of Venezuela, not every action the US has ever committed.

[Rossi]

10. What is Venezuela "in the context of Venezuela"?

What "context" is that?

[Archae]

11. Maduro's stupidity.

I mean, after all, Maduro's good buddy, the dictator of Zimbabwe is doing so well too, right?

[Rossi]

12. Your post makes no sense.

[Archae]

17. Think about it.

Zimbabwe's leader and Venezuela's leaders have a history of friendship going back to the Chavez days.

Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and Maduro in Venezuela both have rule by decree.

Both countries have hyper-inflation, pre-Nazi Germany levels.

Both leaders are running their countries into the dirt.

Violence and crime are rampant in both countries, and brutal crackdowns on dissent is common.

[Rossi]

20. Your post is riddled with loose associations.

You should worry about that. It could be a symptom of something serious.

[NuclearDem]

13. I didn't exactly write that sentence in Linear B.

But then, that wasn't a serious question anyway.

[Rossi]

14. Your comment means nothing.

"Venezuela in the context of Venezuela" means nothing, unless it means "Venezuela out of context." Is that what you had in mind?

[NuclearDem]

15. No, it's not.

There's a cadre of posters here who feel an urgent need to take anything done by another country and summarily dismiss it by pointing out something done by the US.

The US bombing other countries has zero bearing on Chavistas being violent.

[Rossi]

16. So you disapprove of any discussion of the pot calling the kettle black?

Then put on some blinders.

[NuclearDem]

21. Private citizens, not representatives of the US government.

No such hypocrisy involved.

[Comrade Grumpy]

19. There's a cadre of posters here who are obsessed with denigrating Venezuela.

I think they must be leftover anticommunist types.

Because they sure don't seem to give a shit about problems anywhere else in Latin America.

[NuclearDem]

22. Yes, because only anti communists could think Maduro is a piece of shit.

[Throd]

24. I'm an anti-communist who thinks Maduro is a piece of shit.

[Comrade Grumpy]

18. Okay, continue with your obsessions. You and the other handful who are always here.

[NuclearDem]

23. Obsession!

[Beauregard]

25. Not like our government!