Venezuela protests: Hugo Chavez's childhood home set on fire as violence clashes continue
Source: The Independent
The childhood home of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has been set on fire, according to an opposition legislator, as protests against the socialist government continue to rage.
The house, located in the western city of Barinas, was set alight along with several other government buildings by protesters. Demonstrators have also destroyed at least five statues of Mr Chavez during the on-going protests.
"It is pretty symbolic that the citizens are venting their frustrations on the author of the Bolivarian revolution," said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas.
Protesters in Barinas - known as the cradle of Chavez's revolution - also clashed with national guardsmen, while businesses were shuttered and roads were blocked with fire-filled barricades.
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WellDarn
(255 posts)Heck, why not quote the CEO of United Fruit, or maybe Pinochet, or heck, why not Elliot Abrams?
Zorro
(15,756 posts)WellDarn
(255 posts)Incited by people who have ZERO concern for the very real plight of the people of Venezuela and TOTAL concern for the enrichment of global corporations.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Time to kick Maduro out.
EX500rider
(10,891 posts)....for the enrichment of global corporations."
Did you really write that with a straight face?! lol
Maybe it's because they have the highest inflation in the world, and Caracas is the murder capital of the world and they can't find food or medicine and their government is becoming more authoritarian by the day...?
harun
(11,348 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Hugo Chavez is STILL dead....
No doubt poisoning the worms.
Since when is ruining your country something to be celebrated?
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Murder is fine when supporting a failed leader. Lots of fake socialists out there who care less about the actual results, and are just looking to hurt people as part of some violent revolutionary fantasy.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Through starvation and murder. Maduro is the same sort of person, just with far less intelligence.
harun
(11,348 posts)EX500rider
(10,891 posts)Headed to 1,500% inflation, no food, no medicine, murder capital of the world....yes, bang up job Maduro is doing there.
Or are those his good leadership qualities?
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)And for all sorts of things too, including the violation of human rights and abuse of security forces led by the regime. Ah, but when it happens in a country governed by a right-wing regime, then you shout it all over with a megaphone.
Face it, Chavismo is on its deathbed, and UI's like you keep looking more and more foolish as you try to defend still to this point.
harun
(11,348 posts)If you worship tangible things and lottery economics then yes, Chavez so mean and scary, he took someones toy away!
If you are on the side of a more equal economic system, then he had some successes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_government#Cooperatives_and_economic_democratization
melm00se
(4,998 posts)<snip>
Official statistics show that infant and maternal mortality rates in 2016 were substantially higher than in previous years. The infant mortality rate for the first five months of 2016 was 18.61 deaths per 1,00045 percent higher than the 2013 figure.
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The maternal mortality rate for the first five months of 2016 was 130.70 deaths for every 100,000 births, 79 percent higher than the rate reported for 2009, the most recent year for which such data is available.
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For more than a decade, the government has expanded and abused its powers to regulate media and has worked aggressively to reduce the number of dissenting media outlets. Existing laws grant the government power to suspend or revoke concessions to private media if convenient for the interests of the nation, allow for arbitrary suspension of websites for the vaguely defined offense of incitement, and criminalize expression of disrespect for high government officials. While some newspapers, websites, and radio stations criticize the government, fear of reprisals has made self-censorship a serious problem.
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The Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons, a human rights group, reported that 6,663 people died in prisons between 1999 and 2015. As of July, average overcrowding of 210 percent plagued Venezuelan prisons, according to the Observatory.
EX500rider
(10,891 posts)Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)Don't you know that communist worshipers don't need such silly things like food or medicine or private property or human rights? Those are capitalist inventions!
Judi Lynn
(160,662 posts)Zorro
(15,756 posts)Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)Response to Zorro (Original post)
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Bradical79
(4,490 posts)People arrested when seeking food, government sipporters and agents murdering protesters in the streets, the beatings and starvation... Chavez and Maduro took over from capitalists and managed to make things as bad as humanly possible. When it comes to economics and wealth, both were very stupid and extremely corrupt. Now it has all blown up, and Venezuela is a failed state. They've murdered their own people, and have realized a worst case scenario.