Venezuela and the Chavez Legacy

Oh boy, Maduro truly made the mistake of thinking there is still people out there that won't protest him the moment he shows his face.

Man got run out of a small town in Margarita to the sound of pans and a crowd pursuing him and his security detail, screaming obscenities at him. Just amazing.

Judging from photos, some of 2014's marches were larger (and peaceful if not counting state violence), and those weren't Caracas-specific. Though I think it's a good omen that the opposition can still pull something like this 'pre-emptively' rather than as a reaction to something indignating the government did.

People are tired of being pulled around like ganado without making a difference. It's like the opposition is honestly just waiting for a coup to happen.

And here is another one, though with some strong language and narration here.

I've heard stories about it but to see pictures of people eating dogs in the streets just... Huh we need to get rid of this goverment pronto.

I was disappointed by the september 1st protests, but Maduro being panned made me laugh.

Well, I was actually very surprised by it, It may just be my cognitive dissonance wanting to place the blame on someone but I would like to believe that we still haven't got rid of this government because of our terrible opposition leadership, I liked this article a lot.

Sorry to hear Hibiki was bounced.

Anyway, what's up, how is everyone doing today?

edited 13th Sep '16 9:20:03 AM by Tomodachi

Water, at last. I could finally take a shower, I needed it.

It is that bad now? Not even water as a regular thing?

It depends (in Maracaibo it's bad, but easily not the worst). Where I live it's 2-3 days a week of running water, many apartment buildings ration it so that it's about two hour per day. In my case above it lasted for about eight days. Having large water tanks help, but it's not enough.

Maria Corina says the MUD guys haven't met each other ever since January.

It makes me uneasy you know? There's no way of knowing what each side is truly planning. All we hear is the same ambiguous revocatory talk everywhere. But anyone who knows of politics knows that nothing short of a full constituent and at least a considerable amount of military pressure is the only thing that can save us.

Hehe, Maria Corina referring to Venezuela (fittingly) quoted the Divine Comedy. It (wrongly) reminded me of Resident Evil.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

edited 18th Sep '16 8:44:25 PM by The_Masked_Keaton

Saying 'there's no hope' doesn't help, Maria Corina.

You are part of the political power. If there's no hope, work towards creating that hope. Because so far it doesn't look like you are doing that hot a job at it either.

If you can't or don't want to, then just keep your mouth shut instead of raising even more despair.

edited 19th Sep '16 7:29:24 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Maduro revels in support from Zimbabwe, Iran as critics decry failed summit

I wish I could make a joke about that summit but reality is the better one.

Ahhhhh nothing best that seen caudillos praise each other, they have such soft hearts...

I disagree, at least when it comes down to it, Maria Corina is one of the few who is willing to empathize, she is openly saying we should be getting the revocatory date for like yesterday and that alone has gotten her backlash from her own side. She has done more than any person is expected to do from the political point of view. More so with our unilateral opposition that somehow believes the Reds will be stupid enough to peacefully get voted out of power so they can spend the rest of their lives rotting in prison.

because she just complain, yeah we shoud get that date, big fuckng news, she is the same just like she like to screem about it

Politicians aren't Superheroes, well, they can be given the right circunstances, but ultimately each nation is responsible for their own fate. IMO MCM has given more fight from the moral point of view than what's really necessary.

Her approach seems to be getting as many actual results as everybody else's, that is, fucking zero.

Gaffe.

Maduro has announced the creation of a peace prize.

The first winner is... Vladimir Putin.

For all that Kissinger did for the Nobel Peace Prize's reputation... how does everyone else consistently do worse?

Bashar Al-Assad can't wait to receive his inevitable prize.

Not Fidel and Raul, for making a truce with El Imperio? Now why— Oh, wait, because they made a truce with El Imperio.

Rejoice...or not. Venezuela features in another Cracked article.