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Thor HalvorssenVerified account @ThorHalvorssen 17h17 hours ago
The military in parts of #Venezuela has begun to defect. They are now marching *with* the protesters. Dozens of soldiers are under arrest
Dami @damidude
Anyone keeping up with events in #Venezuela? Military defecting, 37 dead in mass protests, 1500 people detained …
Jim SciuttoVerified account @jimsciutto May 4
Do not miss what's happening in #Venezuela. 35 dead now in protests. President trying to rewrite constitution. A country near collapse.
for quick, peaceful conclusion to unrest
Published May 06, 2017 Fox News
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Death toll in Venezuela protests rises to at least 33
The Trump administration is monitoring Venezuelan instability, and believes there is a strong need to bring weeks of anti-government protests in the country's capital Caracas to a quick and peaceful conclusion.
H.R. McMaster, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, met on Friday with Julio Borges, the president of Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly, about the civil unrest which has been near-daily for five weeks, the White House said on Saturday.
They discussed "the need for the government to adhere to the Venezuelan Constitution, release political prisoners, respect the National Assembly, and hold free and democratic elections," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement to Reuters.
“Some of the acts there have been deplorable and [it's] certainly something that we’re monitoring very closely,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Friday, according to Reuters.
According to the Associated Press, clashes between police and protesters have left 38 dead in the past month.
A 20-year-old Venezuelan protester has died after being shot in the head, authorities said, taking the death toll from a month of anti-government unrest to at least 37.
Hecder Lugo was killed during fighting between demonstrators and security forces in Valencia on Thursday that also injured four others, the local opposition mayor, Enzo Scarano, said in a series of tweets.
The state prosecutor’s office, which keeps an official count of deaths since protests began against the Socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, in early April, confirmed he died after being shot in a protest.
Another 717 people have been injured and 152 are still in jail from the hundreds rounded up in widespread unrest across the country, according to the office’s latest tally.
There has been violence and widespread looting this week in Valencia, a once bustling industrial hub two hours from the capital by road.
In an incident loaded with symbolism, a group of young men destroyed a statue of the late leader Hugo Chávez in the oil-producing Zulia state, according to videos circulating on social media on Friday evening.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: Xcathdra
Off the Top of my head I think I recall reading about media censorship but I'd have to look again to confirm because I could be confusing that with any nation's news currently.
But our own MSM is pure garbage owned by 6 mega corporations who are not interested in informing us about the doings there because it doesn't suit their own interests. That's my take on it anyway.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: Xcathdra
Don't expect to see this on the MSM because they barely cover Venezuela. They're obsessed with politics mostly, fluff BS pieces, hyperbole, and the Middle East/NoKo/Russia.
With millions of people protesting you'd think it would be covered but it isn't. The revolution will not be televised. Did you see their president dancing on state TV during the protests?
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
Failed socialism is not big news, it ran out of wow factor when Mao's reforms left millions dead. A few dead protestors won't cut it when socialist experiments go belly up as expected.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
Failed socialism is not big news, it ran out of wow factor when Mao's reforms left millions dead. A few dead protestors won't cut it when socialist experiments go belly up as expected.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
Failed socialism is not big news, it ran out of wow factor when Mao's reforms left millions dead. A few dead protestors won't cut it when socialist experiments go belly up as expected.
Well Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both spoke highly of Venezuela abd Chavez / Maduro... I wonder if they both like the taste of crow.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
Failed socialism is not big news, it ran out of wow factor when Mao's reforms left millions dead. A few dead protestors won't cut it when socialist experiments go belly up as expected.
Well Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both spoke highly of Venezuela abd Chavez / Maduro... I wonder if they both like the taste of crow.
Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously…They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator,” Sanders wrote in a fundraising email.