Venezuela Crisis Live Updates: Clashes Erupt After Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising
• Clashes between anti-government protesters and law enforcement officers erupted in Caracas on Tuesday after the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, appeared alongside soldiers at a military base and called for the population to rise up against the president, Nicolás Maduro.
• Mr. Guaidó has urged the Venezuela military to join his side since he declared himself interim president more than three months ago. But it was a new step for him to make the declaration with men in uniform by his side. Still, it is unclear how much of the military supports him.
• The Trump administration, which has backed Mr. Guaidó since he first declared himself interim president in January, expressed immediate support for his latest move. President Trump tweeted, "The United States stands with the People of Venezuela and their Freedom!"
• Video and photos showed at least one instance where an armored vehicle rammed protesters. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured.
See also: Venezuela's Guaidó accused of coup attempt by government
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:24AM (8 children)
Late-stage Socialism at work.
Saddest thing about it, the guy who is trying to replace him is a "Socialist" as well. It's like you need to be next level retarded to get off at Socialism Central, and get right back on the same train to nowhere.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:54AM (6 children)
Or... oil interest:
Feb 2019 Be Wary of American Interest in Venezuela [columbia.edu]
Feb 2019 John Bolton: “Big difference” if “US oil companies invest in & produce oil in Venezuela” [priceofoil.org]
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.. and maybe the next (proxy?) cold war (let's hope it stays at "maybe" and "cold"):
March 2019 - Russia acknowledges presence of troops in Venezuela [theguardian.com]
Apr 2019 - China’s PLA Troops in Venezuela Is Game Changer [foreignpolicy.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by loonycyborg on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:22AM (1 child)
If not for threat of nuclear annihilation this could easily escalate into world war. US is too proud to stop their government changing operation and Russia and China don't feel too subservient anymore.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:31AM
FTFY.
Seems they feel hungry lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:43AM
This is something of a tautology, but modding c0lo "informative" is almost by definition redundant. Post on, paduwan!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 01 2019, @11:14AM (2 children)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @12:48PM (1 child)
And why is that?
No declaration of "do as we are telling you, or else..." from the Russians or the Chinese,
Plenty [pbs.org] from [politico.com] the US [forbes.com] bully [vox.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:04AM
There are other ways to harm than bullying, such as material support for a tyrant.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:08PM
Right, because the CIA and the US have absolutely nothing to do with this, just like they've never ever ever ever done anything foul in Latin America, no sir.
Who the fuck upmodded you?!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:32AM (2 children)
And our thoughts & prayers are with them. 100% and that's coming from BOTH SIDES. Often referred to as, bipartisan.
"To @jguaido, the National Assembly and all the freedom-loving people of Venezuela who are taking to the streets today in #operacionlibertad—Estamos con ustedes! We are with you! America will stand with you until freedom & democracy are restored. Vayan con dios! #FreeVenezuela" VP Pence.
"Today Venezuela dawns with the air of freedom! We stand with the Venezuelan people and interim president @jguaido in these decisive hours as they restore their democracy. #VivaVenezuelaLibre #OperaciónLibertad" Donna Shalala.
"The Russians & Cubans who are in Caracas to save Maduro must step back & let Venezuelans decide their own future." Dick Durbin.
"Maduro is killing and starving his people. He is denying them healtcare. ...... Venezuela has essentially been in the dark, and we are at the point that Venezuela is nothing short of a failed state." Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
"Liberty & freedom is never easy. But it is always worth it. #Venezuela." Little Marco Rubio.
Our Country is known as United States. Of America. And frankly, we're not so united. On many things, we're not. But, we're totally and completely united on this one. Go Juanny Boy!!!!
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:57AM (1 child)
Your current signature (#FREEVUVUZUELA [soylentnews.org]) earned you a +Funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:38AM
Nice to see that hashtag being dug out of its 2010 grave.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Informative) by Pav on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:10AM (1 child)
An overthrow of the Venzuelan government is supported in a bi-partisan way, and across the board in mainstream media. For another take check out The Grayzone Project [youtube.com] or The Real News [youtube.com]. The reporters from these chanels have been on the ground for months in Venezuela and have come to conclusions very different from the accepted narrative.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday May 01 2019, @10:41AM
> An overthrow of the Venzuelan government is supported in a bi-partisan way, and across the board in mainstream media.
a major sign something is not quite right.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday May 01 2019, @10:49AM (21 children)
So, the people of Venezuela have to pick between an increasingly panicked and authoritarian left (but I repeat myself) and a Guaido' whose only legitimacy comes from a rule in Venezuelan law that says the president of the assembly gets in charge in case of trouble, acclamated by an ideologically opposite foreign power? Poor guys.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:16PM (10 children)
lol no, barely left but for mororicans and the like who know shit about CENTURIES of economic, political and military colonialism and imperialism yeah, "left"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:29PM (8 children)
I would mark your post redundant but sadly the message still hasn't sunk in to that NPC's response matrix. Seems like its cycle is set to agitate, I wonder what the spin cycle will look like.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:10PM (7 children)
Give me 10 minutes in a room alone with him and a few yards of razor wire and we'll find out. Probably like that one fatality Kabal does in MK...9, I think?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:46PM (6 children)
You propose a non-violent means of communication that just happens to use razor wire, right? Or are you resorting to your first resort [soylentnews.org]?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:29PM (5 children)
I wanna see how long he can spin without throwing up, and if I can do that ting Kung Lao does only without the razor hat. What's wrong with you? It's for SCIENCE (TM)!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:30PM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @09:11PM (3 children)
AC wanted to know what Bot's spin cycle looked like. I remembered Kabal and Kung Lao have moves that make the opponent spin at several thousand RPM. These, if you are not aware, are not actual people. So yes, that was a joke from the beginning. Why is it you authoritarian types don't actually have a sense of humor? That's the one commonality I notice about all of you: you're basically permanently constipated.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 13 2019, @01:21PM (2 children)
To answer your question, for authoritarians, humor is merely another tool for expressing one's group identity. Further, everything runs through the authoritarian filter. Normal humor, since it doesn't express the right things then becomes a threat to the worldview and is marginalized. All that makes them quite unfunny to everyone else who hasn't bought into the package.
What I find interesting here is how it is my fault that your sense of humor involves razor wire and blindly accusing others of being authoritarian types. It's almost like you ran out of credible things to say and only then, desperately clung to humor to continue the assault.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:42AM (1 child)
...okay, I guess that sort of comment *is* darkly funny, but you never do anything else. And it's not really my kind of humor; I never got my yuks laughing at the disadvantaged or disabled. But keep on keepin' on; you're nothing if not consistent in the overall tenor (and signal-to-noise ratio...) of your posts.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 14 2019, @09:48PM
Try reading my posts sometime.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:12PM
Are there any real leftists anywhere in the world? I'm starting to think they're a subspecies of unicorn.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:11PM (9 children)
Go to Hell, you fucking ghoul. You wouldn't know "left wing" if it ripped out all the diodes down your left side and force-fed you them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:30AM (5 children)
Nobody accused Venezuela of being non-left until the shit hit the fan. Our own most prominent Socialist, Bernie Sanders, was praising Venezuela on August 5th, 2011. (last paragraph at http://archive.is/gsqr7) [archive.is] and just 11 days ago (see https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/on-venezuela-bernie-sanders-proves-socialisms-choking-immorality [washingtonexaminer.com] for that) refused to call for Nicolas Maduro to step down.
It is authoritarian to ban guns. This was done by the National Socialists, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and by Venezuela. Socialists all around the world, including here in the USA, want to ban guns. This stops opposition. It's hard to fight for your freedom when you have weak weapons.
Socialists of all kinds, from watered-down democrats to full extremist commies, start off with nice-sounding promises. At first, only a few productive people (particularly business owners) are hurt. In the end the socialists run out of other people's money, discover that humans won't work for free, and have to turn extremely violent.
It is fundamentally authoritarian to proclaim severe limitations on the free exchange of ideas and goods. Price floors, price ceilings, control of media, control of education, control of medicine, and so many other parts of socialist systems are very obviously authoritarian.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:12AM (4 children)
Authoritarianism isn't the province of the right or left exclusively. And if you think a bunch of people calling themselves "socialist" actually makes them that, well, I give you the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea. You're really reaching, and still failing to grasp.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:36AM (1 child)
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was authoritarian right. Francisco Franco Bahamonde was authoritarian right.
That's about it. Dozens upon dozens of famous dictators have all been leftist. As they teach medical students: when you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. Practically speaking, the authoritarian right does not exist. It's a fantasy of the leftist mind. The non-authoritarian left is also pretty exotic, and I can't even come up with an example for that one. It may be impossible, probably because "from each according to his ability" only comes from the barrel of a gun.
"Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea" is a fine reminder that "Peoples'" signifies negation. Normally we should believe one claiming to be socialist. In every case I'm aware of, they are either socialist or communist.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:30PM
Sounds to me like "authoritarian right" is just poorly organized then, LOL.
But no, seriously: don't conflate the economic left-right axis with the social left-right axis. They're orthogonal to one another, and for very good reason. Social authoritarians can work in either economic extreme, because both extremes are impossible to live sanely under.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:34PM (1 child)
Is that backpedaling I hear?
Are they supposed to not be socialist? Do tell!
So No True Socialist would do these terrible things. Unfortunately, there's a lot of fake socialists in the world, and it's awful hard to tell the fake ones apart from the real ones.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @09:08PM
No, Hallow, I've said for a long time that authoritarianism can fall anywhere along the economic left/right axis. You, of course, have selective vision and a poor memory.
No True Socialist (TM) is also a strawman. Some socialists would, and their placement on the on authoritarian/freedom axis doesn't change their placement on the economic left/economic right axis. So some true socialists do, some don't, some true capitalists do, and some don't.
You really suck at this. A child could see what you're trying (and failing) to pull.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:01PM (2 children)
I sense you took it a bit personally. In fact I don't care about common people being commies, or the other kind of socialists, the natsoc. You pick one ideal, you follow it without silencing your conscience, alright with me. Venezuela just replayed the same old authoritarian crash and burn. Maybe, by floating on oil, they can resist the clear imperialist attempt by the US.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:43AM (1 child)
I don't want to hear a word about ideology or conscience from someone who follows a hardline Catholic worldview. You people are goddamn insane.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:49PM
> who follows a hardline Catholic worldview.
Hey, thanks, but adulation seems out of place in this context.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @12:51PM
This is exactly the model situation why I ceased to believe in deceitful liberalism and fake democracy. There is no good inside those people, nor is wisdom.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:28PM (2 children)
You can vote your way in to socialism. You'll have to shoot your way out.
Trouble is, the socialists know this. They bad guns. Venezuela has done exactly that, just a few years back, preparing for exactly this fight.
It's normal in history. It was done by the National Socialist party, and by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Here now, in the USA, we have a Socialists trying to ban guns. It's wholly predictable, and we know what the results would be if they succeed.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:32AM
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/05/luis-valdes/msnbcs-venezuela-reporter-illustrates-reason-for-2nd-amendment-rights/ [thetruthaboutguns.com]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:12AM
They bad guns. We good them. U.S.A.!!!!