Violence begets violence. What civil war will look like in Venezuela
'They all deserve to die': Caracas militants vow to take up arms
It was quiet in the dank basement in northwest Caracas, where dozens of young men and women sat on the floor and assembled their weapons. They poured asphalt, gasoline and paint into beer and pop bottles, tying knots in strips of fabric to fashion wicks.
Molotov cocktails are cheap and easy to make. Whether they're doing the job is at the core of a bitter debate in Venezuela. After months of relentless demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro, many militants are frustrated. The crew in the basement talked about it in hushed voices — they didn't want anyone in the middle-class neighborhood to find them out. It was clear, though, that many had reached their limit.
The security forces they're up against, the riot-helmeted troops shooting tear-gas canisters and water cannon and bullets? "They all deserve to die," one of the bomb makers said flatly, dripping petrol into a jar.
The call to arms coming from some in the resistance may be the initial stirrings of the kind of urban guerrilla movement the country hasn't seen in half a century. It's too early to tell if they'll actually follow through on their threats, but the bold talk is a troubling sign for mainstream opposition leaders who have issued instructions — pleas, recently — for peaceful rallies and marches.
Those calls increasingly fall on deaf ears. Masked activists hurl their homemade bombs, rocks, jars filled with feces, anything they can get their hands on. They've stormed office buildings, shattered store windows and blocked roads.
"We do not know exactly how to control them, and we are scared that they can get out of hand and damage our fight," said National Assembly Deputy Angel Alvarado, a longtime foe of Maduro and his predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chavez. "These radical boys are a danger."
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The Chavistas don't think twice about setting their goons (GNB, colectivos) out to wreak havoc upon the rest of Venezuela. How did they think it was going to end? The losers in all of this will be the poor, who will see their entire towns engulfed in flames, see their loved ones "necklaced" for being a colectivo, and possibly fleeing Venezuela for their lives... only because Chavez/Maduro/The Cubans clung to the dream of a(nother) Marxist paradise on Uncle Sam's doorstep.
It is the poor who always suffer.