dagblog - Comments for "Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes"

What Is Really Going On In

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:30:30 +0000

In reply to Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes

What Is Really Going On In Venezuela?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37999.htm

When is it considered

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:15:16 +0000

In reply to Venezuela opposition leader

When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the US government says it is. Not surprisingly, that's not the way Latin American governments generally see it.

Meanwhile, López is taunting Maduro on Twitter after the government made the mistake of threatening to arrest him: "Don't you have the guts to arrest me?" he tweeted on 14 February:

I guess he got his answer.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/venezuela-protests-...

In Venezuela, the revolution

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:23:30 +0000

In reply to Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes

In Venezuela, the revolution will not be televised by NTN24
Colombian-based cable news network NTN24 was pulled off the air in Venezuela after broadcasting coverage of anti-government protests.

By David Trifunov, Global Post, February 18, 2014

[....] dueling broadcasts inside and outside Venezuela are portraying vastly different situations: Inside Venezuela, TV sets portray massive support for the government; outside, the country's young people look angry at the state and appear to be clashing violently with its supporters.

Venezuelan authorities have pulled the plug on Colombia’s 24-hour cable news network after it aired coverage of anti-government protests happening across the border.

Venezuela's telecommunications regulator, CONATEL, ordered cable providers to drop NTN24 last week. That rule will remain in effect as long as the network continues what the government considers "its efforts to actively support destabilization" of Venezuela, CONATEL Director William Castillo said Tuesday.

NTN24 CEO Claudia Gurisatti called it “censorship of free press, an affront to citizens’ right to be informed and an attack on freedom of expression," El Universal reported.

She pledged to bring the matter to “all the organizations that advocate freedom of expression and human rights.” [....]

Venezuela opposition leader

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:17:39 +0000

In reply to Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes

Venezuela opposition leader surrenders, protesters flood streets
By Eyanir Chinea and Jorge Silva in CARACAS, Reuters, Feb 18, 2014 6:05pm EST

Venezuelan security forces arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on Tuesday on charges of fomenting unrest that has killed at least four people, bringing tens of thousands of angry supporters onto the streets of Caracas.

Crowds of white-clad protesters stood in the way of the vehicle carrying the 42-year-old Harvard-educated economist after he made a defiant speech, said an emotional farewell to his family, and gave himself up to soldiers.

The vehicle eventually reached a military base.

Opposition leaders hope Lopez's arrest will galvanize street demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro, though there is no immediate sign the protests will topple the socialist leader.

"I am handing myself over to an unfair justice system," the protest leader told supporters, standing on a platform next to a statue of Cuban poet and independence hero Jose Marti [....]

One man?s trash is another

artappraiser — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 03:53:30 +0000

In reply to Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes

One man’s trash is another man’s…trash
Audrey M. Dacosta, Caracas Chronicles, 10 hours ago

Heres a piece of news that got buried under the week’s turmoil - the San Josecito dumping ground has been ablaze since the beginning of February (yet again) causing the collapse of solid waste collection in the city of San Cristobal and 10 other municipalities (yet again). Meanwhile, Vielma Mora, the state’s Governor seems to have his hands full with the recent student protests, and has basically ignored the issue, and the mayors – feeling abandoned – have threatened to take the matter in to their own hands.

Solid waste management is considered the biggest environmental concern in Venezuela. The problem is far from recent, and has only gotten worse with the collapse of old and inefficent dumping sites. Some of these sites were never planned and were chosen without care for infrastructure or sanitation requirements. The few landfills that were actually planned sometimes function with the minimum requirements. Many times they even lack the landfill liner that prevents leachate to reach groundwater or other bodies of water [....]

6 Dramatic Pictures From The

artappraiser — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 03:38:35 +0000

In reply to Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes

6 Dramatic Pictures From The Crazy Student Protests In Venezuela — And The Story Behind Them
By Zack Beauchamp, Think Progress, Feb. 15, 2014

In defiance of President Nicholas Maduro’s ban on public protest, Venezeulans gathered around the country on Friday to protest creeping authoritarianism, devastating inflation, and skyrocketing crime. Dozens of students remain in jail after the third day of mass demonstrations, and the government (despite its denials) has blocked access to Twitter photos, which the opposition had been using to disseminate images of demonstrations. Three protestors have been killed to date, and the growing unrest may well amount to a crisis of legitimacy for the late Hugo Chavez’ successor.

How did it come to this? [....]

Recent Violence in

artappraiser — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 03:37:16 +0000

In reply to Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after clashes

Recent Violence in Venezuela
Press Statement
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
February 15, 2014

The United States is deeply concerned by rising tensions and violence surrounding this week's protests in Venezuela. Our condolences go to the families of those killed as a result of this tragic violence.

We are particularly alarmed by reports that the Venezuelan government has arrested or detained scores of anti-government protestors and issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. These actions have a chilling effect on citizens' rights to express their grievances peacefully.

We join the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, and others in condemning this senseless violence. We call on the Venezuelan government to provide the political space necessary for meaningful dialogue with the Venezuelan people and to release detained protestors. We urge all parties to work to restore calm and refrain from violence.

Freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly are universal human rights. They are essential to a functioning democracy, and the Venezuelan government has an obligation to protect these fundamental freedoms and the safety of its citizens.