The MFM have been covering the unrest in Ukraine pretty well, but pretty much ignoring the similar violence going on much closer to home in Venezuela.
Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.
People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street.
Of course, Venezuela is “problematic” for the MFM because they cheered when the Communist Regime came to power and were rooting for it to succeed. Hugo Chavez wasn’t much different than their hero, Barack Obama, because he was going to address income inequality and lead his country to a bright social-democratic future. Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte and other celebrities traveled to Caracas to do their best Walter Duranty on Chavez’s regime. When Chavez shut down the opposition press, the left cheered and wished Obama could do the same to FoxNews and Rush Limbaugh. Democrat politicians adored Chavez. The MFM mourned him when he passed, and ignored his legacy of power-grabbing, shutting down opposition, and leaving his oil-rich country with rampant power outages and shortages of basic commodities.
The end result of these regimes is always the same… deprivation, oppression, violence, and death. And yet humans always insist on giving it another go.
It’s easy for them to cover the violence in the Ukraine; they weren’t rooting for the Ukrainian Government to succeed and show that communism can work if there’s enough money and “the right people” are in charge of it.
It seems that Leftism almost devolves into Thuggery.
Communism is class envy. I have nothing, so give it to me. Or make the ones that have money as miserable as I am.
theren is a slight difference between the Ukraine and Venezuela. In the former the resistence is to be a western nation and keep Putin from resurrecting the old Soviet Union. Maduro in Venezuela has the goal of fulfilling Chavez’s plan to extend his brand, 21st Century Socialism, and ALBA (Alianza Boliviarana para las Americas) throughout Latin America. In El Salvador we wre in the midst of a campaign for second round of presidential elections. Venezuela gave $40 miilion dollars to the communist FMLN, which has said it wants to enter into union with Cuba and Venezuela.
First word is “There,” sorry for the typo which escaped me.
I think the MFM is rayciss. Obviously, the plight of the brown people is being ignored as they focus on the white people. ;/
What would Sean Penn and Harry Belafonte like to see our President do to help relieve the plight of the people of Venezuela?
Seriously, who is the bad guy in this mess and what forces of evil need to be averted in order for State Socialism/Communism succeed in Venezuela?
What is the Progressive roadmap for curing what ails Venezuela.
Maduro has embraced the Communist Manifesto.
Since the MSM is essentially ignoring what is happening in Venezuela, it would appear that the Progressive/liberal/Democrat/socialist/communists are not particularly anxious about the fundamental transformation of Venezuela under the Communist Manifesto and the escalating bloodbath as the takers go full bore into destroying the people who grow and maintain the economy.
Hello, Cuba.
I have been watch Fox News and there has not been much coverage there either. There are a lot of hot spots in this world right now. Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, China-Japan dispute, etc. But I would like to see the Hollywood elites and other who supported Chavez squirm in their chairs when asked why they think that the socialist government has apparently collapsed.
“they cheered when the Communist Regime came to power…[and] When Chavez shut down the opposition press…”
Which proved once again that the American Left is evil to the core: Five hundred years from now, the Left will still cheer every new leftist thug, and (while crossing its fingers behind its back) tell us that this time it will be different.
These evils do not happen in spite of socialism’s true aspirations. They happen directly because of them.
At first, I thought that was a picture of Iraq.
How did we get into that war again?
Ukraine is an interesting situation. Before Yanukovych got in power, Timoshenko was attempting to establish Ukraine as something of a Western buffer state, and she was working to reduce Russia’s strangle-hold on the Siberian oil, which the Russian’s have been using as leverage against Europe for years. So she got arrested on charges of corruption and has been rotting in prison.
Ukraine faces two dangers: if the pro-Russians win, Ukraine will become a Russian puppet, with Putin and his successors calling the shots. If the pro-Westerners win, Ukraine runs the risk of becoming a muppet state, a country that bows to the wishes of a financial backer in return for aid. Witness our tendency to finance dictators until they start losing control, at which point we remove the dictators in question and replace them with a regime that we think will be more tractable.
Ukraine seems about to be resolved. Venezuela desrves more of our attention. it is in our backyard so to speak. Thanks to Chavez, when he was alive, Iran has become an ally of Venezuela. For the past few years Iranians have been mining uranium. Since 1989 islamist terrorists have been setting up cells. If you think the 33 in the U.S. is cause for worry, how many terrorists have been trained in Latin Americaa. Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Argentina are all allied. Jewish synogogues in Argentina have closed and 90% of the Jewish population of Venezuela have abandoned the country due to antisemitism. The university students of Venezuela needs our support.
Roberto, I’m going to assume that you have genuine concern for the people of Venezuela. But have you noticed that every country we’ve occupied as of late starts getting aid from us… and that aid seems to be all that’s keeping the country going… and the aid keeps coming as long as the government does what’s in our best interests…
A few months ago, I would said “sure, let’s help Venezuela.” But now, I have the feeling it would just turn into the latest muppet (yes, I mean muppet) state victim of our neocolonialist empire building.
Sean
Whose empire would you rather live in? Chavez’s or he U.S.A.? I am concerned for Venezuela, for various reasons. Personally I have an uncle by marriage who lives there, and thanks to the austerity of Chavez and now Maduro, supermarkets were nationalized but the shelves are empty. Even toilet paper is unavailable. Secondly, Maduro wants to continue empire building in Latin America, (already he has Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Nicaragua) with the Dominican Republic being a client of ALBA. I am a retired person living in El Salvador with my Salvadorian family. We are in the process of electing president for the next five years. Woth all the scarcity in Venezuela, Maduro sent $40 million to the FMLN, for their campaign against the right. The candidate, a sitting VP, has called Venezuela’s Socialismo XXI is the light that illuminate all of South America, Central America, and the Carribean. He intends to deliver El Salvador to Venezuela.
Let me take you back a few years to Iran. If we had helped the protesters to overthrow Ahmajinidad and the radical imans, so that they could form a democratic government, there would be no reason to worry and have talks about Iran developing a nuclear warhead. The jihadist wouldn’t have a safe haven to school terrorists to send into Iraq, Afganistan, and Syria. Who knows, maybe the Arab Spring might never have happened and if freedom loving Egyptians had won they might be ruling their country. They would be free countries, who would have been allies of the U.S. not colonists, as the Castros and Maduro, want in Latin America. Thanks to the feckless foreign policy of that socialist, closeted Muslim, named Barak Hussein Obama, we’ve lost the opportunity for peace in the Middle East and we are reaping the bitter fruits of it. So again I ask; in whose empire do you prefer to live in? Chavez/Maduro’s or the U.S.A.?