MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Two more dead in Venezuelan streets as protests continue
The government funded 'colectivos' were instructed to put an end to protestors' barricades A Venezuelan soldier and a motor cyclist were killed in a standoff with opposition demonstrators who had set up a barricade along an avenue of Caracas, the vice president of the ruling Socialist Party said on Thursday.
Demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro have for weeks been staging rallies and setting up barricades, leading to clashes with security forces and government supporters. At least 20 have been killed.
Troops were called in to the neighborhood of Los Ruices in eastern Caracas and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse several hundred demonstrators who had set up a barrier along a well-trafficked principal avenue.
“We have learned that a motorcycle driver was killed by a sniper,” said Diosdado Cabello in an unrelated press conference at the National Assembly. “And a member of the National Guard was also killed in the same place by a sniper.”
The mayor of the Caracas municipality of Sucre, where the events took place, said via his Twitter account that a member of the National Guard had died.
Officials did not respond to requests for information on how the soldier died and additional details on the incident.
Maduro on Wednesday called on pro-government organizations known as “colectivos,” which opposition leaders describe as paramilitary groups, to break apart barricades that protesters have set up in primarily affluent neighborhoods.
Those demonstrations have brought Venezuela's worst unrest in a decade.
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Read all commentsthis place is going down hill fast,
Mar 07th, 2014 - 08:27 pm 0it could well be the Libya of south America.
If you can, watch the interview with Maduro on CNN. The man is bonkers. And he looks terrified.
Mar 07th, 2014 - 10:21 pm 0The Venezuela of Maduro: Plenty of Circus, but No Bread - http://panampost.com/hana-fischer/2014/03/07/the-venezuela-of-maduro-plenty-of-circus-but-no-bread/
Mar 07th, 2014 - 11:18 pm 0Well worth a read.
meanwhile Maduro has blood on his hands and fear in his belly.
Ramirez, the puppet master, the President of PDVSA, the Vice-Minister for the Economy, the Cabinet Minister for Energy and Petroleum and the proven owner multi-million dollar bank accounts in, wait for it,,yes the 'Evil Empire' the USA.
Now he is the real power mad despot. He is the criminal. The world should be looking very closely at this man.
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