Venezuela detains 58 foreigners on suspicion of inciting unrest

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela detains 58 foreigners on suspicion of inciting unrest
May 03,2014

CARACAS, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan authorities have arrested 58 foreigners suspected of inciting unrest and violence during recent anti-government protests, the country's interior and justice minister said here Friday.

Miguel Rodriguez Torres told a press conference that the suspects had connections with extreme right-wing groups that launched a wave of violent protests starting in February that have left 41 people dead and hundreds injured.

"So far we have 58 foreign detainees ... almost all of them implicated in the use of weapons," said Rodriguez, adding it was usual that such anti-government movements involved recruiting mercenaries.

Some of the suspects have ties to former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, said Rodriguez, accusing Uribe of being involved in a meticulous plan to spark the unrest and bring down President Nicolas Maduro.

More:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=216209

[Judi Lynn]

1. Venezuela: Alleged plan to provoke protests

Venezuela: Alleged plan to provoke protests
Associated Press
Posted on May 2, 2014 at 10:03 PM
Updated today at 10:06 PM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government said Friday that it has arrested 58 foreigners, including an American, on suspicion of inciting violent street protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres denounced what he called a plot to promote unrest aimed at overthrowing the government and said that among those detained was a man identified as Todd Michael Leininger, who he said had with him two pistols, two assault rifles, military uniforms and a U.S. passport.

"What was this man doing with those armaments at a guarimba (barricade) in San Cristobal," said Rodriguez Torres about Leininger, 32. San Cristobal is a city in southwest Venezuela.

Among the other foreigners arrested were Colombians, a Spaniard and an Arab, Rodriguez Torres said.

More:
http://www.khou.com/news/world/257667001.html

[Flatulo]

4. Interesting that you're passing along an AP article. Aren't they part of the vast conspiracy

against the Chavez/Maduro regimes?

Apparently not when it fits the narrative, eh?

[kristopher]

5. Does planning in a corporate boardroom qualify as conspiring?

Do you imagine that the oil companies and similar entities have total control of the press?


http://www.economichitman.com

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081

[Mnemosyne]

2. k&r nt

[Marksman_91]

6. So even though top government officials have been caught blatantly lying before...

... we're supposed to accept what they say without a grain of salt? Especially when they don't provide any definitive proof to support their claims? Just wondering, what happened to the supposed prominent opposition figure that Maduro claimed wanted to assassinate Leopoldo Lopez that the dimwit said existed back when Lopez turned himself in? I mean, it's already been more than 2 months, and still not a single name has been said. Obviously they're just talking out of their asses to distract people from the country's actual problems, such as the shamefully small 30% increase of the minimum wage which is not even close to being enough for people to be able to cover weekly groceries. Expect to see an inflation rate boom soon.

[COLGATE4]

7. Univision reported Thursday

night that the Maduro government is trumpeting that they have uncovered a plot by foreign agents (including the US and Mexico's former President Vicente Fox) to assassinate him. It's a miracle Maduro is still alive, I tells ya.

[RobertEarl]

8. I get this feeling, coldgate

That given half a chance, you'd try to overthrow Maduro. Amirite?

[COLGATE4]

9. Nope. I think the Venezuelan people will probably do

it sooner or later, assuming Diosdado doesn't stage a coup first.

[Judi Lynn]

10. And one of the powers at Univision is Gustavo Cisneros, Cuban-Venezuelan exile

who is also the "fishing buddy" of former U.S, President, and CIA head, George H. W. Bush, who also huddled in Puerto Rico, at the resort owned by Cuban "exile" sugar moguls, Pepe and Alfi Fanjul, the moment the armed kidnapping of Hugo Chavez collapsed, due to the will of the Venezuelan PEOPLE.

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[joshcryer]

11. Cisneros, hoster of the coupsters, and Carter:

No wonder he still has his license... cronyism abounds.

[Judi Lynn]

12. Thank god I got the last picture of Cisneros and my mother, I hope, and burned it.

Slimy little creep will stoop to anything.

Cisneros does have a very LONG lasting 'friendship' going back a long time with #42.

[joshcryer]

13. Carter considers him a good friend.

It's no wonder they were allowed to keep their license. Despite, I repeat, unlike RCTV, they actually hosted the coupsters in their own studios. They actually directly participated in the coup.