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October 25, 2017 By Fausta

Venezuela: Capriles quits opposition coalition

BBC: Venezuela opposition leader quits as coalition rift widens

Venezuela’s opposition has taken a hit after one of its leading members announced he was leaving the coalition.

Henrique Capriles, an ex-presidential candidate, said the move was in protest at the decision by four newly elected opposition governors to pledge allegiance to the constituent assembly.

The Roundtable for Democracy (MUD) regards the assembly as illegitimate.

Well, that was faster than expected.

Four elected opposition governors caved in to the ANC yesterday, making everyone with common sense, a memory, and the ability to feel shame, look foolish.

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April 10, 2017 By Fausta

Venezuela: Capriles barred from public office for 15 years

which means he can’t be a candidate next year, either,

Venezuela’s Top Opposition Leader Barred From Holding Office.

This shouldn’t come as a much of a surprise, since,

President Nicolás Maduro and his mentor and predecessor Hugo Chávez have barred dozens of popular opposition politicians for minor or trumped-up offenses in the past decade to help hold on to power, say international rights groups and constitutional experts. Dozens more have been jailed without trial or are on the run.

El Aissami had to do with it,

The move against Mr. Capriles comes after Vice President Tareck El Aissami blasted him on Thursday for leading antigovernment protests that led to clashes between police and demonstrators earlier that day. Mr. El Aissami called the protesters terrorists and compared them to coup plotters who briefly overthrew Mr. Chávez 15 years ago.

Venezuela Socialists’ election strategy? Block adversaries

A nearly identical maneuver was used ten years ago to halt the rise of former mayor Leopoldo Lopez, who in polls remains one of the most influential opposition leaders despite being jailed three years ago for his role in anti-government protests.

López is still in jail.

Street protests continue, but

No TV stations in the country carried the vast protests, with Globovision — the 24 hour news station — showing Argentina Falkland/Malvinas Islands history.

Capriles was tear-gassed today

Take 20 seconds to watch the video in this tweet. It shows a calm, colected Henrique Capriles walking down the street when suddenly, for no apparent reason, a tear gas canister is shot straight at his group.

That’s the dynamic at work in this week’s protests in Caracas. It really is perverse.

2.00 pm Henrique Capriles en Las Mercedes pic.twitter.com/bq13oU0Eu2

— Adriana Núñez R. (@Adriananunezr) April 10, 2017

Brazil and the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) called on Monday for elections to restore full democracy in Venezuela.

Food crisis, violence prompt spike in Venezuelan asylum seekers in Canada. The number of asylum claims from Venezuela more than doubled last year from the year before as people struggle to find food and medicine in a tanking economy.

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Filed Under: Communism, Fausta's blog, Venezuela Tagged With: Henrique Capriles Randoski, Tarek El Aissami

November 10, 2016 By Fausta

Venezuela: The official oppo’s 6 points

The so-called opposition says Dialogue Must Address 6 Points on Friday, in a long and meandering way,

The governor of the central state of Miranda, who spoke as “leader of the MUD” at a press conference, said that the first of the coalition’s requests is for a “humanitarian channel” to be established so that other Latin American nations may send containers of food and medicine to the country to alleviate scarcity in those areas.

“What are we expecting on Friday, gentlemen of the government? Pick up the telephone, open up a humanitarian channel in Venezuela immediately, in the next few hours,” he said.

Capriles also said that on Nov. 11, when the second meeting among the participants in the dialogue process is to be held, including representatives from the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, and The Vatican, it will be announced when “general elections” will be held.

“There’s no way that there will be economic change in Venezuela while these same people remain in the government. These people have no way to change, they believe that they are fantastic, that they are making better decisions. They are defending their model, so they’re not going to change,” he added.

The MUD leader said, however, that the prospective general elections do not nullify the demand for a referendum to revoke Maduro’s mandate since such a plebiscite could lead to other elections.

He also said that, taking into account that the terms of two of the five members of the National Election Council will lapse on Dec. 4, MUD hopes that new election officials will be agreed to within the dialogue framework prior to that date.

He also called for “respect” for the National Assembly, where the opposition holds a majority, given that the decisions the chamber has taken have been annulled by the Supreme Court, which MUD accuses of rubber-stamping the government’s decisions.

The other two points MUD is insisting on have to do with releasing people it considers to be political prisoners and incorporating the defense minister, Gen. Vladimir Padrino Lopez, into the dialogue process “as the top representative of the armed forces” to guarantee that the agreements are complied with.

Good luck with that.

Over at Caracas Chronicles, Francisco Toro doesn’t have a clue as to What will President Trump mean for Venezuela?

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May 18, 2016 By Fausta

Venezuela: Opposition will not obey state of emergency

As mentioned earlier, Nicolás Maduro declared a three-month state of emergency broadening the scope of an economic emergency decree in effect since January that was set to expire last Saturday.

Yesterday the National Assembly voted to reject Maduro’s decree.

The opposition is defiant and is now calling on the military:
Venezuela’s opposition calls for defiance against state of emergency

Venezuela’s opposition has come out in open defiance of the government of President Nicolás Maduro, telling its supporters to ignore the state of emergency decreed over the weekend. “If Maduro wants to apply the decree, then he should start bringing out the tanks. We’re not going to accept it, and I am calling on the country to take no notice of the decree. I am saying this to the armed forces, for whom the moment of truth is coming… We don’t want a military solution, but this is unacceptable,” said leading opposition figure Hector Capriles [sic], the governor of the state of Miranda, on Tuesday.

Venezuelan opposition tells military that it’s time to choose (emphasis added),

The BBC reported Wednesday that opposition leader Henrique Capriles accused Maduro of “putting himself above the constitution” by imposing emergency powers on the oil-rich nation. “I tell the armed forces: The hour of truth is coming, to decide whether you are with the constitution or with Maduro,” Capriles said.

The Financial Times believes The international community, including China, can play a useful role, but that doesn’t mean Maduro will listen. Richard Fernandez writes about the crisis:

Even the phrase “falling apart” fails to convey the scale of destruction that has befallen the country. To capture a sense of it one must turn to the vivid prose ofNicholas Casey of the New York Times complemented by the accompanying gruesome photographs. He describes hospitals that are places where patients lie in rotting mattresses or in pools of their own blood. Where doctors amputate the limbs of patients because they have no antibiotics to treat simple infections. Where doctors and nurses take turns operating respirators by hand — the machinery sometimes broken and without power anyway — until they simply collapse from exhaustion and helplessly watch their patients die.

Yet this same scene is one which Nicolas Maduro — like Corbyn and Sirota 3 years earlier — still has the effrontery to view with satisfaction: “I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one”.  In this phrase all is clear.

THE ANDREW KLAVAN ROUNDUP:
Andrew Klavan talked about Venezuela in yesterday’s podcast. Here are a few articles he mentioned:
Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals

What’s Socialism, Dad?Venezuela provides a lesson to anyone tempted to feel the Bern.

Glenn Reynolds: Don’t be a sucker for socialism

BONUS Tweet,

Bernie introduced by Danny Glover in Carson, California. pic.twitter.com/aGK4CDzYa4

— Michael C Moynihan (@mcmoynihan) May 18, 2016

BLAST from the past:
Hugo Chavez to Finance Danny Glover Movies

AND don’t miss:
Venezuela Implodes

UPDATE,
Linked to by the excellent Diplomad. Thank you!

Linked too by GeorgiaPol. Thank you!



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May 12, 2016 By Fausta

Venezuela: Capriles pepper-sprayed

Venezuela’s opposition marched to National Electoral Council in support of the petition to remove Nicolás Maduro from office. They were met by the National Police with tear gas, rubber pellets and drones:
Venezuela’s National Guard has clashed with opposition demonstrators who were marching on the headquarters of the country’s election commission.

Venezuelan police fire tear gas at opposition figure Capriles in Caracas

Venezuelan police used tear gas twice against opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles as he was trying to participate in a march to the National Election Council in downtown Caracas, the access to which was blocked by officers.Capriles, who is also governor of Miranda state, was affected by tear gas sprayed at him by a Bolivarian National Police officer as he was trying to negotiate passage for the protesters into the downtown area.
. . .
The demonstration was intended to pressure the CNE to move to the second phase of organizing a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro.

From Vanessa Neumann‘s FB post,

Let me see if it posts bigger this time. This is Caracas today. These are hungry Venezuelans protesting that their children are dying from lack of food and medicine. That they have not enough water or electricity. This is a country with more oil than Saudi Arabia. And the government has stolen all the money and now they bottleneck peaceful protesters and threaten them with bombs (I know: I have friends in the crowd). Or haul them to prison and torture them. Are you still thrilled with your Bolivarian Revolution all you buddies of the late Hugo Chávez: Oliver Stone, Naomi Campbell, Sean Penn and the editors of The Guardian newspaper? Is this what you wanted all you idiot celebrity apologists? Are these the human rights you had in mind for us? Your silence is deafening. Stand up and be counted. Admit your mistakes and turn on the oppressors you once so vehemently supported and used your media power to enable. Why don’t you go make a documentary about this, Oliver Stone?

Yesterday’s post:
Venezuela: Tanks, helicopters, 4 dead

More headlines:
Electoral authority delays in Venezuela to increase protest risks as opposition marches to push for recall referendum

Venezuela: Countless Wounded after 5,000 Loot Supermarket. At Least Two Dead in Maracay following Rumors of Hard-to-Find Products

Looters Target Food Distribution as Shortages Increase

Related:
The problem for the regime is not how to replace Maduro but with what.

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April 23, 2015 By Fausta

Venezuela: Maduro negotiated for Hezbollah training camps in Venezuela

A new book by Emili Blasco, Bumerán Chávez: Los fraudes que llevaron al colapso de Venezuela claims that Nicolas Maduro negotiated with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for Hezbollah training camps in Venezuela.

The article, Nicolás Maduro negoció con Hizbolá la presencia de sus milicianos en Venezuela
Se entrevistó con su líder Nasralá para hablar de narcotráfico, blanqueo de dinero, suministro de armas y entrega de pasaportes
(Nicolás Maduro negotiated with Hezbollah its militia’s presence in Venezuela
He discussed with its leader Nasrallah drug trafficking, money laundering, supplying weapons and passports), by Blasco, the book’s author and Washington, D.C. correspondent for Spanish daily ABC, explains that the meeting, orchestrated by Hugo Chavez, took place in Damascus in 2007 when Maduro was Foreign Minister.

La cita en Damasco fue probablemente resultado de las conversaciones mantenidas en enero de 2007 por Chávez y el presidente iraní, Mahmud Ahmadineyad, que significaron un salto en la cooperación de Venezuela con los intereses del radicalismo islámico. En marzo de ese año entró en servicio un vuelo semanal entre Caracas y Teherán, con escala en una base militar de Damasco, lo que puso el Caribe más rápidamente al alcance de Hizbolá.

[my translation] The appointment in Damascus likely came about from January, 2007, conversations between Chavez and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which bounced up cooperation between Venezuela and Islamic state interests. On March that year, direct flights started between Caracas and Teheran, with a stop at a military base in Damascus, which placed the Caribbean at Hezbollah’s closer reach.

(h/t HACER)

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In other Venezuelan news, the government is using posters of opposition leader Henrique Capriles for target practice at the Universidad Nacional Experimental de la Seguridad military college.

Estas fotos fueron tomadas en la UNES de Catia y dada su gravedad las hago de conocimiento público pic.twitter.com/JoH29h1d4y

— Henrique Capriles R. (@hcapriles) April 22, 2015

UPDATE
Linked to by Frontpage. Thank you!

[Post corrected for misspelling]

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September 24, 2013 By Fausta

Maduro goes to China

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro went to China, signing over oil exploration and gold mining rights in exchange for foreign currency,

President Maduro told his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that the main goal of his trip was to further consolidate and expand the strategic partnership between the two countries that late President Hugo Chávez began with Chinese leaders. Chávez died in March after 14 years in power.

The two leaders signed 12 agreements on Sunday, including ones related to a finance fund deal, education, and a joint development between Chinese state-owned oil producer Sinopec and Venezuela’s national oil company. They also signed a cooperation and exchange agreement between China’s space flight administration and Venezuela’s science and innovation ministry relating to remote satellites. No details were given on any of the agreements.

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro met with China’s President Xi Jinping over the weekend in Beijing and said that China had granted Venezuela another $5 billion credit line

The $5 billion will be invested in the country, through a credit from the China Development Bank (BDC) for the financing of strategic projects in the field of health, science road, transport, technology, industry, electricity and mining, which will improve the quality of life of the Venezuelans.

“With this Bank funding we will develop also the Las Cristinas mine. All for the benefit of our beloved people,” wrote Maduro about the long delayed gold mining project.

Maduro tweeted his trip. He also retweeted this, fromForeign Minister Elías Jaua,

El Sistema Integral de Protección Ciudadana (videovigilancia) acordado con China, tendrá su primera aplicación en el Mcpio.Sucre de Miranda!

— Elias Jaua (@JauaMiranda) September 23, 2013

Translation: “The Integrated Citizen Protection System (video surveillance) signed with China will have its first installation in the municipality of Sucre in the state of Miranda!”

It so happens that the governor of Miranda is Henrique Capriles, opposition leader.

Here’s looking at you, kid!

More on Maduro’s Chinese deal at Caracas Chronicles.


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September 17, 2013 By Fausta

Venezuela: Capriles in Miami, FL

Venezuelan opposition leader Capriles delivers message of confidence in Miami

The event took place amid growing criticism that Capriles had wasted an opportunity in the days following the April election, when many of the millions of Venezuelans who voted for him were willing to take to the streets to protest and he asked them to stay home.

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