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I can't believe some people here really got tricked by the reactionary bourgeois media. How many times does it need to happen in order to wake up?
To summarize:
- Yes, capitalism still exists in Venezuela. That is not to doubt the massive improvements by the left-wing government there though, with poverty dropping from 50% to 25% in about 10 years, etc. Anybody on the Internet can type "shit government, they have not established worldwide higher-stage communism yet! Bourgeois capitalism-retaining scum!". Why not go there and establish that? Of course, Venezuela is social democratic, and so is the ruling party.
- Available information suggests that the opposition is responsible for most of the deaths at the protests. Even so, President Maduro has created a commission which is set to investigate any possible violence by government supporters or government forces, and apply justice.
- There is a situation of massive chaos. If you see a 30 second bad video of some police unit appearing to be shooting somewhere, with the camera perfectly set so that you can see only them and not any of the context, while there is obviously an extreme chaotic situation going on around them does this tell anything? No. Anything could be going on there, it doesn't mean that they're "cold blooded murderers". The fact that meanwhile there is a very chaotic and violent situation going there the police almost always restricted themselves to simply watching and defending, and in a few instances simply dissolved the protests, says a lot.
- The violence of opposition supporters even went as far as burning vehicles of state food distribution networks. According to government sources, they damaged millions of dollars' worth of public property.
- Pro-government demonstrations involved millions of people.
- Twitter images were probably not intentionally blocked. According to the government this was simply a technical problem, and it lasted only about 3 days. The right-wing media quickly picked up and blamed the government though.
- There was an Internet outage in a certain city affecting about 600,000 people. It was resolved in about 36 hours and was probably simply a technical problem. However the rightist propagandist media quickly picked up on this, claimed the government blocked it and in some cases even reported about "Venezuelan government completely shutting down the Internet".
Last edited by RedWorker; 11th October 2014 at 18:52.
