In case anyone's interested, Venezuela is waging war on its students...

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GEEZER

Monday, February 24, 2014 1:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If you read my post CAREFULLY- something you have a really hard time doing!- you'll see that I didn't say that CNN lied. It was the opposition I was implicating.

"Now, as far as twisted reporting and an example of the media trying to correct past (let's be generous in our characterization) errors, here's another prime example:"

So the media is the opposition?

When you can't even keep your story straight, maybe you need to take a break.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

CHRISISALL

Monday, February 24, 2014 4:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
So the media is the opposition?

To paraquote Jack Burton, What the hell does that mean? huh? The media is the opposition, I don't even know what the hell that means.

1KIKI

Monday, February 24, 2014 11:01 PM

So, this is how i read the situation:

No one had a successful action against Chavez (though they tried) because he was a personally EXTREMELY popular president - especially with the vast majority who were previously dying of poverty.

Venezuela has two ongoing problems - violence, and difficulty getting grocery items conveniently (though there is no actual malnutrition in the country - on the whole, Venezuelans are better nourished than their SA counterparts).

Maduro otoh is not as popular, and so the vultures are circling.

Several foreign rich businessmen are supporting wealthy students at private universities to instigate riots. These men have been associated with US efforts to overthrow Venezuela's DEMOCRATICALLY elected government in the past.

The US government may also be involved in reduced purchases of Venezuelan oil in order to break the economy.

The west is misrepresenting and misreporting the events to make the riots look like a large popular uprising, and to make the government look brutally repressive.

YEP, SAME OLD SHIT.

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
So, this is how i read the situation:

No one had a successful action against Chavez (though they tried) because he was a personally EXTREMELY popular president - especially with the vast majority who were previously dying of poverty.

Venezuela has two ongoing problems - violence, and difficulty getting grocery items conveniently (though there is no actual malnutrition in the country - on the whole, Venezuelans are better nourished than their SA counterparts).

Maduro otoh is not as popular, and so the vultures are circling.

Several foreign rich businessmen are supporting wealthy students at private universities to instigate riots. These men have been associated with US efforts to overthrow Venezuela's DEMOCRATICALLY elected government in the past.

The US government may also be involved in reduced purchases of Venezuelan oil in order to break the economy.

The west is misrepresenting and misreporting the events to make the riots look like a large popular uprising, and to make the government look brutally repressive.

YEP, SAME OLD SHIT.

Yup. That's about it. International capital HATES the idea that anyone but them should benefit from Venezuela's oil.

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:21 AM

And Kiki nails it, dead-bang-square.

Besides, it's not like our black bag boys are even hiding it anymore, mostly cause they're fucking incompetent and inexperienced, thanks to all the REAL black baggers worth a damn bailing out after one of their own (Valerie Plame) was tossed to the wolves for refusing to "cook" her assessments.

Damn shame none of em retired to Venezuela, or this little pocket coup attempt woulda come up short in a hurry.
FYI: That is why the alphabet boys didn't fuck with Greenwald in Rio, cause that's where a *lot* of em retired to, just so ya know.

-F

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, May 3, 2019 8:09 PM

Blackwater founder Erik Prince has a ‘solution’ for Venezuela: send in 5,000 of his mercenaries

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-has
-a-solution-for-venezuela-send-in-5000-of-his-mercenaries

I don't know what to think of Mercs, in my gut I never had much respect for them thought of them more like treason creepy criminal like guns for hire who do stuff for the right price

SIGNYM

Friday, May 3, 2019 11:11 PM

Quote:

So, this is how i read the situation:
No one had a successful action against Chavez (though they tried) because he was a personally EXTREMELY popular president - especially with the vast majority who were previously dying of poverty.
Venezuela has two ongoing problems - violence, and difficulty getting grocery items conveniently (though there is no actual malnutrition in the country - on the whole, Venezuelans are better nourished than their SA counterparts).
Maduro otoh is not as popular, and so the vultures are circling.
Several foreign rich businessmen are supporting wealthy students at private universities to instigate riots. These men have been associated with US efforts to overthrow Venezuela's DEMOCRATICALLY elected government in the past.
The US government may also be involved in reduced purchases of Venezuelan oil in order to break the economy.
The west is misrepresenting and misreporting the events to make the riots look like a large popular uprising, and to make the government look brutally repressive.
YEP, SAME OLD SHIT. - KIK

Yup. That's about it. International capital HATES the idea that anyone but them should benefit from Venezuela's oil.- REAVERBOT

Once upon a time, REAVERBOT was a human being. And then Trump Derangment Syndrome happened.

Just sayin'.

This thread will be linked in the other thread about more recent events, because it shows the continuing story of "regime change" in Venezuela, and how nothing has changed (so far).

Thanks for reaching into the way-back machine, it helps show how situations, and people, evolve or devolve.

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 4:13 PM

War Drums for Venezuela and the Financialization of College Football

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