Venezuelan opposition stages march against hunger

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Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate in Green Bay, WI

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Critics of Venezuela’s socialist administration staged a small protest against hunger and crime in Caracas Saturday as the South American country struggles to control violence in food lines.

The past week saw daily reports of looting in supermarkets and raids on food trucks. The country’s opposition coalition called for Saturday’s march after a man was killed and 60 were arrested amid the looting of several grocery stores in an industrial town.

There have been 56 episodes of looting and 76 looting attempts in the first half of 2015, according to the nonprofit Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict.

President Nicolas Maduro has called these episodes part of a plot to weaken the country’s 16-year-old revolution, and has accused the United States of helping orchestrate them.

Read more: http://wbay.com/ap/venezuelan-opposition-stages-march-against-hunger/

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Of course "Querido Líder" (Dear Leader) blames the US for his screw-ups...

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1. How long before the marches become riots which becomes a civil war??

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2. Most of us hope it doesn't happen...

But it is almost inevitable.

Dictators, no matter if they are on the far-right, far-left, "elected," self-appointed "rulers for life," and rule by terror and decree will do whatever they can to hold on to power.

In Maduro's case he is trying to outlaw the opposition by banning them from their elected offices.

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3. On the other hand the U.S. has been undermining the Venezuelan

…government since Chavez was first elected.

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4. Venezuelan opposition admits scant attendance at Caracas demonstration

Venezuelan opposition admits scant attendance at Caracas demonstration

Published August 08, 2015/
EFE

The Venezuelan opposition alliance, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD, admitted that the demonstration it called for Saturday in Caracas was poorly attended, but said it has no doubts about winning the legislative elections next December.

The march scheduled for Caracas and in all 24 of the state capitals around the country "against hunger, against crime, for freedom, for unity," finally attracted several dozen people in a single street of the Venezuelan capital.

Asked what happened, MUD Executive Secretary Jesus Torrealba told reporters that the demonstration was reduced to a "meeting of activists."

"This is a meeting of activists, of militants. The great mass of citizens are standing in line" at stores to find products that have become very scarce in regular establishments but are available at inflated prices from informal vendors," Torrealba said.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/08/08/venezuelan-opposition-admits-scant-attendance-at-caracas-demonstration/

(Fox "News" took this article from the Spanish right-wing news service, EFE.)