What You Should Know About the… Protests in Venezuela

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What You Should Know About the… Protests in Venezuela
Feb 21, 2014 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/what_you_should_know_about_the_protests_in_venezuela_20140221

Failing to win a mandate from Venezuelans in elections over the last few years, the leaders of the country’s mainstream, U.S.-backed opposition are exploiting discontent among the population in an effort to topple the democratically elected government, sociologist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya writes.

Nazemroaya explains at BoilingFrogsPost:

The same opposition leaders and their foreign supporters are using the cover of the undeniable misgivings about rising crime rates, political corruption, and economic turmoil in Venezuela as a disguise for what is essentially looking like an attempted coup. The socio-economic misgivings of a segment of the population are being used as a pretext to legitimize street action and violence aimed at toppling the government

It is ironic that many of those opposing the Venezuelan government in the name of democracy, equality, and security were once supporters of autocratic and openly corrupt governments before the Chavez era. Memory loss or outright hypocrisy is at play. .............

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1. Translation:

The Venezuelan people are really incapable of finally getting really frustrated and pissed off at an incompetent government due to unnecessary shortages in basic goods and materials; sky-high inflation; an out of control crime rate and rampant political corruption in a country rich in petroleum. These masses just have 'misgivings', and are obviously upset only because of being manipulated by undefined outside shadowy interests who want to legitimize street violence not to put an exclamation point on the rampant discontent by much of the population but only are doing so so the government can be toppled. Fortunately these poor people have a warm, loving protector in Maduro who will prevent them from being so tragically exploited.