Venezuelan president warns rivals: 'Did you see what happened in Turkey?'

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Source: Reuters

Venezuelan president warns rivals: 'Did you see what happened in Turkey?'

Reuters in Caracas
Friday 19 August 2016 19.01 BST

Nicolás Maduro has said the purge Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has meted out on rivals after a failed coup would look like child’s play compared with the action he would take if Venezuela’s opposition tried something similar.

“Did you see what happened in Turkey?” said Maduro, in a televised public event on Thursday evening. “Erdoğan will seem like a nursing baby compared to what the Bolivarian revolution will do if the right wing steps over the line with a coup.”

After an abortive military coup in July, Erdoğan’s government detained, suspended or placed under investigation more than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and education.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-warns-rivals-turkey-coup-ergodan

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1. what happened in turkey? people have plenty of food despite political turmoil, Mr. Maduro nt

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2. And Chavismo's #2 has called for all gov ministries to fire anyone who signed against Maduro

For the Recall Referendum, I mean. Cabello literally is calling for people to be fired simply because they want to vote against their political party. Some "democracy", eh?