" . . . you don't need the media to hear your neighbor's screams."
There is a scandal in the United States, and this one is not about anything the government has done. This one is squarely on the media, which is virtually ignoring what's going on in Venezuela. There, the population is rising up en masse against the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro - the successor to the late anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez.
An on-the-scene blogger named Francisco Toro, writing for the online Caracas Chronicles, excioriates the international news media for its dereliction of duty, making clear that the situation in Caracas has reached the point of a violent meltdown, while the news media dithers:
Dear International Editor:
Listen and understand. The game changed in Venezuela last night.What had been a slow-motion unravelling that had stretched out over many years went kinetic all of a sudden.
What we have this morning is no longer the Venezuela story you thought you understood.
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 Guardsmenshooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street.
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It has to be a Muslim country before the democrats will help. Venezuala is not one.
ReplyDeleteDern, I knew I was missing something. :)
DeleteThat is what happens to a dis-armed population.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how disarmed they are except on paper since there has been an increase in killings. Of course, we knew control wouldn't work.
DeleteBet their people wish now they had 2nd amendment rights
ReplyDeleteVenezuela: Best Gun Control Laws in the World so Violence is Down….not really.
Deletehttp://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/index.php/2013/12/27/venezuela-best-gun-control-laws-in-the-world-so-violence-is-down-not-really/
According to the report of the Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Venezuelan Violence Observatory (SVO), the year 2013 will close with at least 24 thousand seven hundred and sixty-three violent deaths in the country. They estimate that the rate is 79 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants.
They point out that this year, an increase was observed in the killings, especially in the “medium and small” towns. “An increase in cases of resisting arrest was also noted,” the report relates.
Venezuala’s gun laws are the dream of every Gun Control Activist: One gun per lifetime, mag capacity, fixed number of ammunition a year, background checks with psychological examinations, no reloading of ammunition, gun confiscation at any time without due process or reason, etc. And I forgot, there has been no legal firearm sales for almost 2 years after the importation of firearms for civilian use was shut down and very few gun stores that existed were ordered to shut down.