Debate: Do Venezuelan Protests Reflect Popular Discontent, or the Old Qualms of a Divided Elite?

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1. If you read the transcript you will find

a significant difference, one story from someone who actually lives in Venezuela and that Of Lovato who does not. I have friends in Venezuela and their description of the situation matches 100% that of MARGARITA LÓPEZ MAYA, who does live in Venezuela.

I am not sure what makes Lovato an expert when he doesn't live there, and I have to question Democracy Now who continues to interview people about the Venezuelan situation who seem to have some connection with the Venezuelan regime.

200,000 people have been killed since Chavez took power from the hands of armed thugs who he called their "Bolivarian Militia", these are people taken out of jails and former gerrilleros. The 200,000 people killed were from robberies, and shootings between gangs, also this is an "official" number, it is unknown how many people have been killed and not reported. The shootings go on in the barrios, some of the people killed there are buried/burned and noone reclaims them, it is a fact of daily life in the Barrios.

I believe that it was last December, a former Miss Venezuela who lived in Miami decide to go to Venezuela on vacation with her husband and five-year-old daughter, they were robbed by a small gang of 15 to 18 year olds, they killed her and her husband and shot the little girl on the leg. This happens every day, the thugs in motorcycles stop by your car, in day light, in traffic where hundreds of people can see them, they ask for your wallet, your cell phone, and whatever they can spot inside the car, if you don't give them what they want they shoot you, get off the bike, open the doors and take what they were asking for, like nothing happened...well, this is the Venezuela that Chavez created and that Maduro wants to perpetuate with "enhancements".

Here you can read about it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537411/Miss-Venezuela-husband-shot-dead-daughter-laid-rest-amid-emotional-chaotic-scenes-hundreds-turn-mourn-brutal-murders.html


If you go on youtube find the videos where you see thugs on motorcycles, which were provided by the government, shooting at people, burning cars, shooting at the buildings, vandalizing, beating up students...Maduro and Diosdado Cabello publicly announced they had given orders to the "Colectivos" and "Tupamaros" to "put out the fire" on the student protests.

There is no food, no medicines, no free media...Lovato takes as an argument the fact that the protests are happening in selected sectors in Caracas, and Margarita Lopez Maya explains well the reason, but that doesn't mean that the barrios have not joined the protests, they have, but because of logistics the marches have to be carried out in specific areas, this is information that Lovato cannot provide because it is easy to be a socialist when you live in the USA and you don't have to worry about rationing of food, water, electricity while you see your supposed leaders do the opposite of their rhetoric.

They claim to hate the "Empire" (USA), but they all have investments here, they come to visit the "Empire" every year and spend the dollars of which they only have unlimited access.

The cubanization of Venezuela is a fact, and the Venezuelan people don't want it, and I have a hard time understanding why the USA seems so detached from all that is happening in South America, and the conflict in Venezuela. It does make one wonder. South America is falling through the USA fingers, like water, more "socialists" are being elected to office (Chile), and all these pseudo socialists are following a common plan which is to enrich themselves while oppressing their respective countries by Cuban orders; Cuba is becoming a major player in the World, they are the new "Conquistadores", and the USA is sitting idle while this happens.

I may sound like a scratched album (for those old enough to understand what that means), but I urge everyone to go to youtube and find out about the riches of the Chavez family, to Google Diosdado Cabello's house in the "Coutry Club" in Caracas, which is one of the wealthiest areas in that city, and see how the "socialists" live, it is all lies, all they want is to keep hold of power for them to continue to rob the country. The Chavez family's fortune is estimated at $1.9 billion...all of Chavez relatives held offices while he was president, and they may still do...is it coincidence that a very poor family accumulates that fortune in 15 years without corruption practices? Please...and while preaching that "Being Rich is bad" like Chavez used to say in his speeches?

Find out for yourself, the Venezuelan regime is being controlled by Cuba, and the Castro brothers are very smart, they know how to pull the strings, they know how to keep the USA at a distance, and they have known all along that as long as Venezuela provides the precious oil to the USA, our government will be kept at bay. They have also bought many of the South American "leaders", and that is the reason for their silence.

Democracy Now has lost all credibility as far as I am concerned, not that my opinion matters to them, but it is disappointing that a "news" group that I used to respect has uncovered their real selves and I have to wonder if they have any connection with the Venezuelan regime, I hope that the Young Turks would continue their investigation as they did with their show on "This Is Why We NEED Independent Media".

It is very hard to know who to believe nowadays, it is very frustrating that those you think are searching for the truth suddenly show their true colors.

Never believe first hand what people tell you, do your research, things don't seem to ever be what we think they are. As I said, I have friends and family who are living every day the real situation in Venezuela, I keep in contact with them every day, and the story is not how Democracy Now wants you to think that it is, and I have to wonder what other lies have they reported on just to keep their agenda, which at this time I don't know what it is.