Interesting read
There’s a political battle for control over state power in Venezuela. It’s going on in the background of what the government claims to be an economic war to undermine it, and it is led on the backs of people who suffer from hardship and shortages (which, interestingly enough, increased after the opposition, who were backed by large businesses, and lost municipal elections). The government claims this economic war has been going on for some time, and it offers the government the best excuse to repress and stigmatize workers going on strike for their rights, too. Maduro claims he is a “workers’ president,” but has proven he can behave just like any capitalist boss when it comes to their demands.
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The political opposition has already been exposed for working to cause economic crisis, mainly in electricity, which would help the opposition make a better case against the government. The population is caught in the middle.
The last wave of protests have had student anti-government groups at the front lines. Some of these students have ties with conservative-founded organisations in the United States, or with their “capitalist revolutionaries” from CANVAS, known for its strategies to use anti-government discontent in other countries for the benefit of US interests. The fact that the Libertarian Koch-brothers funded CATO Institute is backing the Venezuelan student movement and other US trained “economic experts” is no secret, and a recently leaked document shows that CANVAS, known for overthrowing regimes in the interest of the United States, are deeply involved in Venezuela too.
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Conservative CATO has rewarded a student opposition leader for leading protests back in 2007 against the non-renewal of the public broadcast license of Radio Caracas Televisions (RCTV), and against the constitutional reform in 2007. Yon Goicoechea, the students leader back in 2007, has received a $500,000 award from the U.S. libertarian NGO. They called it the “Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.” “Goicoechea was chosen because he is “a passionate opponent of the erosion of human and civil rights under the government of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez,” according to the Cato Institute website. Quite relevant, the awarded student was not among those anti-authoritarian anarchist students attacked by Chavistas back then.
The Cato Institute, which was founded in 1977, ....
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CANVAS’ ties with Strafor, a private intelligence company in the US, have been already exposed by Wikileaks. Strafor and CANVAS have been working on their McRevolution in Venezuela for many years: “I talked to Meredith about the upcoming visit by Canvas to the U.S. The leader — Srdja Popovic — is interested in following up on George’s invitation from 2008 to come and talk to Stratfor about their work.”
“They are currently very active in Venezuela and would like to share details of what they are doing there with us. They also want to give us a run down of their “McRevolution” strategy, which is a fascinating topic in and of itself. Meredith has instructed me to ask you how we can best arrange for visit. We would have to cover their air-fare and hotel stay… I am guessing about $1,300 in total (two tickets for $600 each and $100 for hotel room),” as this it can be read here. Of course, this McRevolution can actually help the government get stronger and escape real criticism and discontent from the working people for the slow pace of the Bolivarian revolution.
More: http://revolution-news.com/venezuela-mcrevolution-attempts-regime-change/
See also these media manipulation pictures
Constructing the Anti-Government “Protests” in Venezuela Through Deceiption
You won’t read much about that in the mainstream foreign media.
Instead, we’ll hear about opposition grievances of all kinds, and we’ll get photographs, too, circulated on Twitter and sometimes picked up by big news outlets like CNN. Here are some brutal cops, with nice woolly caps and fur collars to guard against the 24°C Caracas weather, I assume.
pictures in link:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/constructing-anti-government-protests-venezuela-deceiption/
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Even more from another link:
http://drdawgsblawg.ca/2014/02/constructing-venezuela-protests-a-photo-gallery.shtml
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