Venezuela's Horrific Prison Riot: Why is Hugo Chávez Silent?

[GCBill]

Uh Oh! Trouble in Paradise! 

hack89 (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-26-11 03:28 PM
Original message
Venezuela's Horrific Prison Riot: Why is Hugo Chávez Silent?
   
Source: Time

Scrambling out of buses, prisoners clad in red charge through crowds of distraught women who are screaming in anger and despair. The wives, mothers and girlfriends are trying to find out if their loved ones are onboard and being evacuated to safety, or if they remain inside what has become of the El Rodeo men's prison in Guatire, outside the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. Troops are trying to regain control of the penitentiary complex, which since June 12 has been the site of brutal prisoner rioting — and which is still in the hands of criminal inmates armed with machine guns, rifles and hand grenades. Prisoners' families, meanwhile, complain soldiers are committing their own atrocities in order to quell the uprising.

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Chávez, meanwhile, has yet to weigh in from Havana, which hardly enhances voter confidence in his increasingly wobbly governance as he prepares for a re-election battle next year. Pundits note that despite Venezuela's social crises and economic mismanagement, the President remains the country's most popular political figure, which is as much a reflection of how incompetent his opposition is. Still, while the National Guard will inevitably win the battle for El Rodeo, the heartbreaking images of carnage and destruction will certainly make better campaign posters for his opponents.

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Hugo's Honeys weigh in:

EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-26-11 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. Venezuela has no problems with instability.
   
Although, the American government has done its best to change that. And there is no mystery, the government has been giving people updates plus there have been phone calls and messages posted to his twitter account.

I can only imagine what a freakout FDR would have caused, when he was out of commission for months at a time.

Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-26-11 05:30 PM
Response to Reply #21
23.  Nice work on your efforts. He's NOT dying. You are wildly overwrought in your "concern"
   
for Venzuela's future.

Where were you on Venezuela when Carlos Andres Perez sent his police, many of whom walked away, left, quit, then his military to fire directly into crowds of protesting Venezuelans?

1989 was the year which was the time of real powder kegs. That was when the people of Venezuela started charting their path AWAY from the right-wing oligarchs which had been keeping the poor invisible and ignored, suffering in silence while the oligarchs spent the country's resources on themselves.

He divided his country? That's a hot one.

Hugo is a GOD! An Immortal! He won't die, he CAN'T die! He will be uniting the masses and spreading his magnificent goodness when the earth is but a cinder circling the red giant that was ol' Sol!

(Did anyone else notice Judi Lynn misspelled Venezuela?)

[JohnnyReb]

1989 was the year which was the time of real powder kegs. That was when the people of Venezuela started charting their path AWAY from the right-wing oligarchs which had been keeping the poor invisible and ignored, suffering in silence while the oligarchs spent the country's resources on themselves.[/color]

...and how is it different when the communist elite do the same? 

[BlueStateSaint]

Ol' Hugo is silent for one basic reason:

He doesn't care.

[dandi]

Ol' Hugo is silent for one basic reason:

He doesn't care.

Can we be sure it isn't because he's at room temperature?

[I_B_Perky]

Can we be sure it isn't because he's at room temperature?

I hope he dies a painful death along with castro. As far as I am concerned they deserve that for all the misery they have caused.

[BlueStateSaint]

Can we be sure it isn't because he's at room temperature?

If he were at room temperature, would he care about the riots?

[dandi]

If he were at room temperature, would he care about the riots?

Probably not.

 

 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-26-11 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. Venezuela has no problems with instability...

Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-26-11 05:30 PM
Response to Reply #21
23.  Nice work on your efforts. He's NOT dying. You are wildly overwrought in your "concern"...

No concern for prisoners living in such horrendous conditions they've been forced to riot for two weeks and are subject to be suppressed by the military?

You whores are slipping.

Oh...wait...

[FlaGator]

EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-26-11 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. Venezuela has no problems with instability.
   
Although, the American government has done its best to change that. And there is no mystery, the government has been giving people updates plus there have been phone calls and messages posted to his twitter account.

I can only imagine what a freakout FDR would have caused, when he was out of commission for months at a time.

She is right, Venezuela has no problems with its instability. It can't get any less stable shy of a coup.

[FiddyBeowulf]

Can we be sure it isn't because he's at room temperature?

He would not be at room temperature, the smell would be awful. I am sure the Cubans would have tossed him into a freezer or at least gutted him and packed his insides with ice.