Lol oh lol ABC! Venezuela Election is a High Stakes Affair for Local Vigilante Groups
written by @ruedareport
Latin America correspondent for @UnivisionNews covering #drugwar, politics and culture
The article is worth a sardonic read.
Venezuela Election is a High Stakes Affair for Local Vigilante Groups
By MARTIN MARKOVITS and MANUEL RUEDA (@ruedareport)
March. 27, 2013
Members of the Victor Polay Campos colectivo await for Chavez?s casket to arrive in Caracas'23 de Enero Neighborhood on March 15, 2013. The Polay Campos Colectivo is one of twenty vigilante groups that patrols this Caracas neighborhood with guns and long range weapons. (Martin Markovits/Freelance)
In the Caracas barrio of 23 de Enero, a coalition of armed vigilante groups serves as the de facto security force. It also helps run social welfare programs for a neighborhood overrun by drug dealing.
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There are more than 20 autonomous colectivos in Caracas, and they're mostly centered in 23 de Enero, a community of makeshift shacks and public housing projects that is home to about 100,000 people. Their arsenal of weapons includes AK-47s, handguns and homemade grenades.
These Marxist-leaning groups are firm supporters of Venezuela's current socialist government, and over the past decade, have organized massive voter turnout campaigns that helped Chávez to comfortably win a majority of votes in the areas under their control. On April 14th, they will engage in another such campaign, and every member of the colectivos will be required to bring ten residents to the polls.
"We support Nicolas Maduro, whom we have known since he was a kid. He was a member of revolutionary groups just like ours. We are going to do whatever it takes to win the 10 million votes (that the government is aiming for in this election)," said Lisandro "Mao" Perez, director of colectivo Guerrilla Pedagogica.
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http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ABC_Univision/venezuela-election-high-stakes-affair-local-vigilante-groups/story?id=18822407#.UVNFzxzXh8E
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ABC checks for Commies even under their coffeemaker, the bathroom sinks! And commies with guns lol fighitng drug traffickers.
I was laughing so hard when I read it and this thread is just making me laugh more
poses in front of a mural of one of his heroes, Ernesto "Che" Guevara"
Priceless, I tell you, priceless!
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in neighborhoods or next to schools!!! The inhumanity of it! Oh shit... they run health clinics... THAT is absolutely unforgivable. Bloody commies, who the hell do they think the are???
RW press is certifiably insane. This article just confirms it once more
PS. I dont need to use a sarcasm smilie, do I?
that Venezuela's former President (later impeached, and imprisoned) Carlos Andres Perez ordered his police, many of whom quit their jobs immediately, walking off and away from their employment, and then ordered his military to mow down what eventually became over 3,000 protesting Venezuelans in the street, even going into their neighborhoods in military tanks to get more of them? Venzuelans turned a corner psychologically during that time, naming this filthy blood feast "El Caracazo" massacre.
Yet, did we hear a peep from the good old boys at the U.S. corporate media outlets? HELL, NO. Carlos Andres Perez was a dear friend of the U.S. government, and beloved by George H. W. Bush.
Has our own corporate media EVER breathed a word to the U.S. public about the Nazi racist Youth Movement shock troopers in Bolivia, men who go into indigenous neighborhoods carrying clubs and beat the holy hell out of poor Bolivian people? OF COURSE NOT. They attack them on the street, they kill them, sometimes, they always at least end up spitting on them, assaulting even the indigenous women, calling them all filthy names, going out of their way as a matter of practice to let them know how much they are hated in their OWN country, where they were not even allowed to walk on the sidewalks until after a revolution in 1953.
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