Venezuela's poor join protests as turmoil grips Chávez's revolution

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27. That is weird. But certainly explains the anomaly. Looks like civil war in Caracas, maybe all over?

Half and half - that's how all these things are lining up in many places now. Still, if it's true that unarmed people are being gunned down, that's pretty much it for legitimacy.

Although this may be closer to the way things are done in SA, this wild west kind of stuff, so I can't say it's unexpected or it hasn't happened before. I have to admit to not having anything but a passing inerest in SA, just people I know from there, who give me their take.

In a democracy, this should not be happening. I keep on looking at our homegrown crop of wingnuts, and I'm sure they'd love something like this to happen here. They want the downfall of civil society.

In fact, the way they are preparing themselves, they have a lot invested in it. And itchy trigger fingers.