Since a week ago, Venezuela has been facing a series of protests because of Maduro's government. The inflation, the insecurity and the lack of basic products are pretty much the things that has been affecting the people in such a rate that they decided to rebel.
Maduro’s government on Monday gave three US Embassy officials 48 hours to leave the country, charging that the Obama administration is siding with opposition protesters, accusation that the U.S. government has denied. The three expelled officials — Breeann Marie McCusker, Jeffrey Gordon Elsen and Kristofer Lee Clark — all enjoyed the rank of second secretary, and two of them were vice consuls.
In Washington, the State Department said it hadn’t received any formal notification of the expulsions. It also said reports that the U.S. is helping to organise protests are ‘‘baseless and false’’ and called on the Venezuelan government to engage the opposition in ‘‘meaningful dialogue.’’
Another problem with this protests is the media blockade made by the government. More than 1,000 students, who have spent the past week on the streets alternating between peaceful protests by day and battles with police at night, marched on Monday to Venezuela’s telecommunications regulator to demand it lift all restrictions on the news media’s coverage of the unfolding political crisis.
Police repelled the activists with tear gas and rubber bullets but there were no reports of serious injuries.
Several journalists have been harassed and detained in the past week. Colombia’s news channel NTN24 was taken off cable television while covering protests that ended in a battle between student demonstrators and security forces backed by armed pro-government militias.
Three people were killed during those clashes last week, two students and a pro-government demonstrator.
Taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFS6cP9auDc
I'm not exactly a Maduro's fan, and I may not be Venezuelan but I bet people over there must be really having a hard time living under this kind of government.
If a president can't even guarantee the basic resources of it's people, like sugar, oil, flour, he's definitely doing something VERY wrong. People has their reasons to rebel and to make their voice to be heard, to ply for a solution to a really worrying issue. Even the infrastructure is quite deteriorated, as it is seen in Venezuela's capital, Caracas:
Taken from: http://youtu.be/7MNtp2NAcJY
So, if people's got that right, why should a government be so afraid, so tyrannic that they even decided to take away that right, blocking all the media? Is Maduro so blind that he actually thinks the venezuelan people are opposing because of a U.S. conspiracy? Can't he see it's his own fault by depriving the people he's supposed to help of everything? By destroying the country he's supposed to build?
As I said, I may not be venezuelan, but I certainly can't agree with a president that thinks he can do whatever he wants with his people and assumes there will be no consequences. That being said, I'm kinda glad that venezuelan people are standing up against that kind of mistreat. Even if the constitution says that a referendum to revoke Maduro from power can only be made two years from now, they must not keep quiet all that time. Sometimes, revolution is the only way to make a country snap out of it and start making things right, therefore, I actually wish the best of luck to Venezuela right now.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/9734789/Venezuela-tense-ahead-of-dueling-demonstrations
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