Black-clad agents from the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, Sebin, were seen smashing their way inside. They carried guns and a picture of the 19-year-old law student they had come to arrest. López was bundled into a vehicle as panicked relatives looked on.“Neighbours came out to try and protect her but they pointed their weapons at them and took the girl,” said the witness, asking to remain anonymous for fear of suffering a similar fate.
Keep your rifle by your side. It's the only thing that keeps you free. Our politicians aren't any better than theirs.
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IIRC, there are a lot of guns in Venezuela. Voluntary turn-ins of guns was not successful. The regime solved it by control of ammunition.
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were foster parents for Chesa (Che-South America) Boudin after his parents were imprisoned for a bank robbery cum murder that was supposed to raise funds for the Revo. After graduating from Yale, Chesa took the backpacking tour of Latin America. Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin Americ , is an interesting read.
One way in which Chesa’s backpacking experience differed from that of the run-of-the-mill backpacker is that within 24 hours of arriving in Caracas, he was invited to Miraflores, Venezuela’s equivalent of our White House. He spent a year as a translator for Hugo Chavez. He also got a book out his year in Miraflores. The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions-100 Answers.
(5) ls the current government communist?
Chesa correctly pointed out that Hugo was his own man, though he conveniently ignored the Hugo quote claiming that if Fidel were President of the World, problems would get solved right quick.
Chesa went on:
Nonetheless, some sectors of the opposition in Venezuela denounce the Chávez government as communist. Domestically, this rhetoric serves to scare the people, particularly the middle classes, who fear that their political power and modest economic gains will be lost.
Actually, those fears became truth: everyone became poor (per capita income is about half of what it used to be), and the opposition lost all political power, in spite of wining 2/3 of the seats in the 2015 National Assembly elections, and winning the 2024 Presidential election by about a 70-30 margin.
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