Maduro jeered by crowd, as protests intensify in Venezuela

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[quote]Angry Venezuelans threw objects at President Nicolas Maduro during a rally on Tuesday, as protests mount against the unpopular leftist leader amid a brutal economic crisis and what critics say is his lurch into dictatorship.

State television footage showed a crowd mobbing the vehicle that Maduro was standing on as he waved goodbye at the end of a military event in San Felix, in the south-eastern state of Bolivar. Amid the commotion, people threw objects at Maduro, who was wearing a traditional Venezuelan suit and a yellow-blue-red presidential sash, while his bodyguards scrambled.

The state broadcaster then halted transmission.[/quote]

Source: [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN17D2F3?il=0[/url]

Video taken by a spectator:

[media]https://twitter.com/VVperiodistas/status/851951031055503361[/media]

From the official broadcast:

[media]https://twitter.com/rociosanmiguel/status/851930935444602881[/media]

So yeah, Nicolas Maduro nearly got Nicolae Ceaușescu'd. This is in San Felix, which was a Chavista stronghold in the state of Bolivar, and there are spontaneous protests propping up even in so called "no-go zones" like Catia, Petare, Guarenas. It's amazing to think that Maduro was really so clueless as to think that was not gonna happen to him now, but I'm afraid of him retaliating with violence.

[Gorgus]

[QUOTE=Big Bang;52092966]It's amazing to think that Maduro was really so clueless as to think that was not gonna happen to him now, but I'm afraid of him retaliating with violence.[/QUOTE]

Do you think he's going to pull an Assad? I certainly hope he won't.

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[QUOTE=Gorgus;52092983]Do you think he's going to pull an Assad? I certainly hope hee won't.[/QUOTE]

Historically, every dictator in Venezuela has stopped short from shooting at a crowd before leaving. There's something called the "Plan Avila", which is a military contingency plan to seize Caracas in case of civil unrest, it involves declaring martial law and mobilizing thousands of soldiers to violently quell any opposition, but this is something that is at odds with the Chavismo ideology, seeing how they rose [I]precisely[/I] due to this Plan Avila being implemented by Carlos Andres Perez in the nineties.

I believe that the second he sends the army to fire against civilian crowds, he's going to be forced out of the country within the week, well, if he manages to live that long. People have already been killed in protests by the police, but there haven't been any large scale killings.