The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 46
The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 46
April 2, 2014 Sabina Becker
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Come on out, stupid, Marcelo and the boys are here, showing off the tent we brought
Monaco. Weve already ordered sushi and later were going out partying but were
coming back to go on protesting too much! #OccupyVenezuela? Hardly. Try a bad
glamping trip. #fail[/font]
Up here in the northern hemisphere, people tend to take to the streets when the rich get too greedy and leave nothing to the rest of us. A few windows get broken, the cops round the protesters up and arrest them, and everything goes back to normal within a day or two. And, as Bruce Cockburn memorably sang, the trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
Well, in Venezuela, something very different happens. The trouble with normal there, is that it always gets better, and some who are already very well off dont like that, so they organize some little protests of their own. Here are the youngsters from VTVs Zurda Konducta, explaining how it goes
with a little help from two oppos making a rather revealing phone call:
For those who dont know Spanish, heres the basic gist:
Two youth leaders of the right-wing party Voluntad Popular (Popular Will, headed by Leopoldo López, currently in jail for criminal instigation), Israel Hernández and Javier González, are talking about how to get more kiddies into the street to protest the evils of Maduro & Co. Their method? Cash incentives.
Yes, thats right. They get PAID to protest, illegally block roads (with tents!), and smash things in Venezuela! But only if youre a rich right wing spoiled brat whos already being handed everything in life on a silver plate. If you were poor and you tried this in a middle-class (translation: slightly less than filthy stinking rich, but only slightly) neighborhood, youd get clobbered to death.
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