Maduro threatens protesters in Venezuela
The protests in Caracas continue in spite of the US media’s best attempts to ignore them. Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, threatened to remove the protesters by force from a park which has been their rallying point according to Reuters;
“I’m giving the Chuckys, the killers, just a few hours,” Maduro said, using the name of a murderous child-doll in a horror film to describe anti-government demonstrators who have made the normally genteel 1940s square a base of operations.
“If they don’t retreat, I’m going to liberate those spaces with the security forces,” Maduro added. “They have a few hours to go home … Chuckys, get ready, we’re coming for you.”
Students and other protesters have been using the square, in the pro-opposition Chacao district of Caracas, as a rallying point since a wave of protests started to gather steam in mid-February.
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On Friday night, for example, security forces used water cannon and teargas in a battle against protesters using stones and petrol bombs, Reuters witnesses said.
At least a dozen people were arrested, and the noise of the fighting echoed across east Caracas for several hours.
Of course, standing in the shadow of Hugo Chavez, Maduro sees the conspiratorial mechanization of the evil US government coming to get him.
In a speech at a military rally, Maduro also alleged that right-wingers in the State Department and Pentagon were recommending extreme measures against the Venezuela government, including economic sanctions and even his assassination.
“President (Barack) Obama, if this message reaches you, you should know that it would be the worst mistake of your life to sign the authorization of the assassination of President Nicolas Maduro,” he said in a high-octane speech recalling his predecessor Hugo Chavez’s spats with the United States.
Yeah, fat chance that the Obama Administration would interfere with a communist regime in that region. Meanwhile the American Far-Left is trying to dissuade Americans that the opposition in Venezuela in anyway resembles their own failed “Occupy” movement of a few years ago.
Category: Foreign Policy
Commie dictator? Check
Use outside governments, being against you, as the boogeyman? Check
Threatening to do heroic things against those that you claim have made plans to kill you? Check
The reason to do all of this is to take focus away from your failures and have everyone look at the shiny object? Check
US media ignoring it all? Check
I guess he’s got all the bases covered to do whatever he wants
Old Trooper – succinctly and well put. Now that you described Obama, what do you think of Maduro?
You caught that less than veiled reference, eh?
Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then…
“alleged that right-wingers in the State Department and Pentagon were recommending extreme measures against the Venezuela government” I almost fell out of my chair at the thought of “right-wingers” at State. There hasn’t been a right-winger at State since 1945.
Roger in Republic, yea, so that “glared” at you as well eh? Right wingers? In our administration? Get real and read a newspaper once in a while Maduro! Or since you are also a Commie, you could call Putin and ask him what he thinks of the “right-wingers” in The State Department and the Pentagon.