Venezuela's Maduro jeered, dozens detained: activists

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Sat Sep 3, 2016 3:42pm EDT

Venezuela's Maduro jeered, dozens detained: activists

By Andrew Cawthorne | CARACAS

Venezuelan authorities have arrested more than 30 people on Margarita island for heckling President Nicolas Maduro, activists said on Saturday, in what appeared to be a rare public confrontation with the unpopular leader.

Videos published by activists, purportedly from the Margarita locality of Villa Rosa on Friday night, show scores of people banging pots and pans and jeering the socialist president during a visit to inspect state housing projects.

The display of anger followed a vast march in Caracas on Thursday that opposition leaders say has emboldened Maduro's foes after 17 years of socialist rule in the OPEC nation of 30 million people.

After Maduro left Villa Rosa, a rundown area known in the past as a pro-government stronghold, intelligence agents moved in, opposition and rights campaigners said.

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[Hortensis]

1. Nice to hear. And nearly a million people came out Thurssday in

Caracas alone, in support of a recall referendum, and he didn't put that one down.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Several videos of Maduro getting chased out of town here

http://www.maduradas.com/lo-corrieron-cacerolearon-y-acorralaron-a-maduro-en-margarita-3-videos-que-te-impactaran/

[Marksman_91]

3. What's incredible is that the Villa Rosa district where this happened used to be chavista

Even those who loved Chavez are tired of Maduro's ass. I don't understand how he just doesn't quit. He's dragging the country to ruin, and the most dignified thing he could do is recognize that he's too incompetent and/or corrupt to manage it, as seen after 3 years of his presidency.