Protester shot and killed during anti-government rally in Venezuela. Maduro paints the protesters as - Polidicks

[quote](Reuters) - One person was killed during standoffs at the end of an anti-government rally in Caracas on Wednesday, witnesses said, escalating the worst bout of unrest in Venezuela since protests against President Nicolas Maduro's April 2013 election. A Reuters cameraman and a photographer heard shots and saw one protester had fallen to the ground. The man was then carried away dead, the witnesses said, apparently shot in the head. With both pro- and anti-government demonstrations underway in the city, neither the identity of the man nor the gunman were immediately clear. But National Assembly head Diosdado Cabello said he was a government supporter. "He's a comrade assassinated by the right-wing fascist hordes," he said in a speech. The fatality came at the end of rival demonstrations to support and denounce Maduro's government after several weeks of opposition street protests.[/quote] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/us-venezuela-protests-idUSBREA1B1K220140212[/url] [quote]Maduro, a 51-year-old former bus driver and union activist who has pinned his presidency on maintaining the legacy of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, says right-wing "fascists" are seeking to destabilize his government and topple him. "A Nazi-fascist current has emerged again in Venezuela, they want to lead our nation to violence and chaos," Maduro told pro-government demonstrators clad in the red colors of the ruling Socialist Party at their rally.[/quote] lol

What was the other country to recently paint protesters as evil facists? Started with a U and ended with Kraine...

Apparently venezuelan news webpages are apparently down so that nobody knows about this kind of stuff, huh [editline]asd[/editline] the only ones that are up are the gov's

Oh yeah here's a live video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCYcA1AlWZ0[/media] I think people on Twitter are saying the government blocked that TV channel, which is why they're streaming on YouTube.

[QUOTE=draugur;43888652]What was the other country to recently paint protesters as evil facists? Started with a U and ended with Kraine...[/QUOTE] I've noticed that, throughout history, almost every Western nation with a socialist government has tried to paint the opposition as fascists.

[QUOTE=Explosions;43888775]I've noticed that, throughout history, almost every Western nation with a socialist government has tried to paint the opposition as fascists.[/QUOTE] Despite being almost indistinguishable from fascists and in many cases being fascists (Korea, China, the Soviet Union's Russo-supremacist policies in Asia, etc).

[QUOTE=draugur;43888652]What was the other country to recently paint protesters as evil facists? Started with a U and ended with Kraine...[/QUOTE] Every one paints something they don't like as "savage" "tyrannical" or "fascist"

I learned of this through the internet. Our television channels are censored, the only one reporting on what happened got literally taken down (it was an international channel so you could only see it through cable and satellite). the newspapers don't have any paper (because of currency control) and whatever little coverage that does happen in public media gets quickly censored through "cadenas", mandatory broadcasts usually of mostly propagandist content that last a couple of hours and that all broadcasters are forced to transmit under threat of fines. i feel like things are gonna collapse, a couple of months from now. also, to clarify, it was a student march. 5 students died on the marches, 1 "tupamaro", which is a paramilitary group, died, and the government is mourning him instead of the 5 dead students.

[QUOTE]Maduro, a 51-year-old [B]former bus driver[/B] and union activist who has pinned his presidency on maintaining the legacy of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez[/QUOTE] that's kinda cool, too bad Venezuela isn't a well of nation though.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;43890873]that's kinda cool, too bad Venezuela isn't a well of nation though.[/QUOTE] This is the sort of bullshit that maintains these regimes: "It's ok as long as its done by/for more sympathetic figures!"

Wow, shit is really hitting the fan over there. I wish them all the best (as little as that does).

just an update, another dead student, apparently it was one of the guys that helped carry the first student to the hospital and was shot 4 hours later in Chacao, couple of municipalities away from the first shooting. around 10 students are in jail and they're not letting nor family nor their lawyers talk to them. tensions are rising but this looks like it's going to be a long week.

Still remember when Chavez died there were a lot of people saying the government was p awesome

[QUOTE=smurfy;43892158]Still remember when Chavez died there were a lot of people saying the government was p awesome[/QUOTE] the dangers of populism and the cult of personality. too many people that don't believe the words, they just like the way they sound.

[quote]"A Nazi-fascist current has emerged again in Venezuela, they want to lead our nation to violence and chaos," Maduro told pro-government demonstrators clad in the red colors of the ruling Socialist Party at their rally.[/quote] Maduro pretty much has no right to say any of those things. He's practically doing all of that himself.

[QUOTE=draugur;43888652]What was the other country to recently paint protesters as evil facists? Started with a U and ended with Kraine...[/QUOTE] It's a standard smear tactic, commonly (but not exclusively) used by socialist and communist regimes. It was one of the many Soviet propaganda claims made against the Hungarian patriots in their abortive '56 revolution, iirc. (When they weren't busy claiming that there was no revolution, honest)