CARACAS (Reuters) – Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday to press for an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s rule.
In probably the biggest mass demonstration against the ruling socialists in more than a decade, protesters streamed into Caracas from the Amazon jungle to the western Andes.
The opposition Democratic Unity coalition estimated at least 1 million people took part in the rallies to demand a recall referendum against Maduro and decry the deep economic crisis.
“We are going to bring down Maduro!” said Naty Gutierrez, 53, whose 75-mile (120 km) drive from Maracay into Caracas took three times longer than usual due to soldiers’ roadblocks.
“We are going to defeat hunger, crime, inflation and corruption. They’ve done nothing in 17 years. Their time is finished,” she said, surrounded by thousands of people waving banners and national flags at one gathering point. MORE
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Behold your future America if you continue down this socialist road. These frogs were smart enough to to jump out of the pot of water just before they were cooked. They’re too late. Venezuela is in full boil now.
Mas’ papele’s de crappo, por favor
I don’t care how hard you Commies try. You can’t extinguish the human spirit.
Trump should jump all over this. Odinga and Hitlery have not lifted an allah damn finger to help these people just five hours away from us. These brown people living under a tyranical, murderous regime, are eating tree bark and plastic, and drinking water from puddles in the gutter. There is no food, medicine, electric, clean water, soap, you name it.
They are ignoring these real “refugees” that also happen to be Latinos. They dont seem to rate even a mention in the lame media. Yet odinga and Hitlery are telling us we need to import savages from Syria that are 10,000 miles away from us while we ignore our neighbors.
Trump should promise to send our Latino brothers food and medicine and weapons to kill Maduro and his helpers. Point out how the rats dont give a damn about brown people as long as they are living under a fellow murderous tyrant they happen to admire.
Children are starving.
Many of the opposition leaders will end up missing, just like the last group of leaders. Socialism will make them equally dead, no more no less.
Kill two bird with one stone. Eat the socialists.
The problem is that Venezuelans still believe in sSocialism. They just think Maduro is doing it wrong. The opposition believes they can do a better job of Socialism. They don’t understand that Socialism is the problem. They need to be educated about small government.