After Maduro's "easy win" on May 20, a new Constitution to ban opposition parties in Venezuela
Venezuela’s Maduro set to abolish voting rights and other freedoms, Colombian president saysBY ANDRÉS OPPENHEIMER
April 26, 2018 05:30 PM
It’s hard to know what will happen next in Venezuela, but what Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told me in an interview this week should raise alarm bells throughout the hemisphere.
Santos said during a visit to Miami that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s hand-picked Constituent Assembly is drafting a new constitution that would be made public after Venezuela’s May 20 presidential elections. The new charter would officially turn Venezuela into a Cuban-style dictatorship, he said.
Maduro, already a de facto dictator, is running for re-election for another five-year term. He has prohibited top opposition leaders from running against him, banned international election observers and refused to allow an independent electoral tribunal.
The United States, European Union and all major Latin American countries — including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia — have said that they won’t accept the results of Maduro’s sham election.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article209925289.html
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... the vile right wing fascists are only spreading propaganda! (Maduro)
... Venezuela is the land of plenty! There is no want! Everyone is happy! (Maduro)
... "Venezuelans don't want imperialism. They want to sing llanero and dance joropo! The president of Colombia cannot sing like me!" (Maduro)
... "I will smash the heads of the imperialists and their AN lackeys! (Diosdado Cabello)
... "Venezuelans have gotten soft. Revolution requires sacrifice! The people want sacrifice!" (Delcy Rodriguez)
... "Chavismo will never leave power! Not under any circumstance! Socialism forever!" (Delcy Rodriguez)
and "exiles" and Venezuelan oligarchs turned out to celebrate themselves and to attack Hugo Chavez!
This article ran in the Sun-Sentinel:
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
March 28, 2004
Venezuelans, Cubans demand democracy in their homelands at Miami march
Former opposition leaders Carlos Fernandez, at center with raised
thumb, and Carlos Ortega, in a white Venezuela T-shirt, move to
the front of the protest march as it heads east on Calle Ocho, Miami.
The two men helped lead a national strike in their homeland.
Marchers in Little Havana demanded international help and denounced
the governments in Venezuela and Cuba as “serious threats” to Latin
America.
By Sandra Hernandez
Staff Writer
Miami -- Calling for greater international attention to the political crisis in their homeland, former Venezuelan opposition leaders Carlos Fernandez and Carlos Ortega marched together Saturday for the first time since both men fled their country.
"We are marching here because this is the only option we have since we can't be in Venezuela, but we want people to know we are with them," said Fernandez, former head of Venezuela's largest business chamber, surrounded by flags and placards as he led the protest down Little Havana's Calle Ocho. "Being together again today is huge for us, but beyond being able to march again with Carlos, I think this will send a message that our fight is not over."
Fernandez and Ortega left Venezuela in 2003 after helping lead a two-month national strike that paralyzed the country's economy, including the oil sector, but brought few concessions from President Hugo Chávez's government. Ortega, former head of the country's largest labor group, sought political asylum in Costa Rica a year ago; Fernandez now lives in Weston.
Organized by Cuban and Venezuelan leaders, the march called for an end to human rights abuses and advocated greater democracy in both countries, according to organizers like Luis Prieto of Todos Por Venezuela, or All for Venezuela, an opposition group with members in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
"We are here to denounce two governments that pose a serious threat to Latin America," Prieto said.
More:
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/venezuela/march.htm
They are still stupid, greedy asses, after all these years.
So glad you mentioned this festival of clowns. It proves they've been stinking up South Florida a very long time. DU'ers here got a good laugh from that chain of fools.
BY EDUARD FREISLER
As Liliana picks lice from the tangled, thick hair of her boyfriend, Patricio, while they sit together on the sidewalk of a Caracas street, she’s also multi-tasking, keeping a watchful eye on her “family.” When a 10-year-old girl named Danianyeliz kneels down to drink water from a puddle, Liliana reproaches her, urging her to have a sip from a juice bottle they’ve just found in a garbage bag.
At 16, Liliana has become the mother figure for a gang of Venezuelan children and young adults called the Chacao, named after the neighborhood they’ve claimed as their territory. The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela. Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes. The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat.
Liliana has a quick, wide smile and goes by the nickname Caramelo. She takes charge of each day for the group, deciding how much food her “family” will consume and how much they will stash away for another day. She settles conflicts that flare up and gives a hug, a kiss or a pat on the back as needed.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article206950449.html
iViva la revolucion! Chavismo for another win!
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So glad you've noted all things are not as they attempt to seem.
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I know it seems hard to believe, ( 
) but sometimes they have even "hidden" themselves in this forum!
