Venezuelan Police Unleash Tear-Gas, Rubber Bullets Amid Violent Anti-Government Protests
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By Tyler Durden
The conflagration that is the collapse of a socilaist utopia continues to escalate in Venezuela today. With morgues overflowing, medicines running out, and apocalyptic scenes playing out across the nation, Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas today – at the behest of the opposition – demanding a recall referendum to end Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's socialist rule. The troubled nations leader was not happy and security forces fired tear gas and shut subway stations to block the thousands of protesters.
Over the last two weeks, several provinces have hosted scenes of looting in pharmacies, shopping malls, supermarkets, and food delivery trucks. In several markets, shouts of “we are hungry!” echoed. On April 27, the Venezuelan Chamber of Food (Cavidea) reported that the country’s food producers only had 15 days left of inventory.
PanamPost adds that lootings are becoming an increasingly common occurrence in Venezuela, as the country’s food shortage resulted in yet another reported incident of violence in a supermarket — this time in the Luvebras Automarket located in the La Florida Province of Caracas.
Venezuelans lost control this week when offered small portions
Videos posted to social media showed desperate people falling over each other trying to get bags of rice. One user claimed the looting occurred because it is difficult to get cereal, and so people “broke down the doors and damaged infrastructure.”
And now, as Reuters reports, in the third opposition rally in a week, several thousand protesters descended on downtown Caracas, witnesses said, planning to march to the national election board's headquarters…
But National Guard soldiers and police cordoned off the square where they planned to meet, so protesters milled instead in nearby streets waving flags and chanting anti-Maduro slogans.
Adultos mayores rompieron cordón policial en la Av.Libertador.pic.twitter.com/qIdiBO5GtW
— RCTV.net (@RCTVenlinea) May 18, 2016
Security forces used tear gas to control about 100 protesters in one street, witnesses said.
“They're scared. Venezuelans are tired, hungry,” said demonstrator Alfredo Gonzalez, 76, who wore a scarf over his mouth and said he had been sprayed with pepper gas.
An anti-Maduro demonstration Wednesday also turned violent, with troops using tear gas to quell stone-throwing protesters and an officer pepper-spraying opposition leader Henrique Capriles.
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Beyond the opposition's formal protest campaign, spontaneous street protests and looting are becoming more common around Venezuela amid worsening food shortages, frequent power and water cuts, and inflation that is the highest in the world.
During the weekend, Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency, widening his powers to sidestep the legislature, intervene in the economy and control the streets, because of what he called U.S. and domestic plots against him.
Protester Jose Alirio, 48, said he had been a supporter of Chavez but was angry at Maduro. “The bread shops are empty,” said Alirio, a bus conductor. “I'm close to robbing. This man has to fix things or he should …read more
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