MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
The Army must decide is they side “with the Constitution or with Maduro”, says Venezuelan opposition
The army in crisis-hit Venezuela has to choose whether it is “with the constitution or with [President Nicolas] Maduro,” opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Tuesday.He made the statement to journalists after Maduro decreed a state of emergency broadening the powers of soldiers and police - and a day before opposition-led marches demanding a referendum to oust the president. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesStill there is the die hard Chavista's who are like the K supporters here. (Blind rats looking for bread crumbs while the house is burning).
May 18th, 2016 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro has no where to go, so this is not going to end well.
That's what you get for electing a dumb leftist bus driver.
The military, eh? Let's have a bit of fun and speculate. How much has Maduro done for the generals while he's been in office? Will it be enough for the generals to give him their support? Or will they listen to their troops, last heard of stealing goats because their barracks had run out of food? I doubt the generals have gone hungry so the welfare of their troops may not be high on their list of priorities. The south american military doesn't have much of a track record for getting involved in politics or government and then meekly handing the reins to civilians. Interesting times ahead. And I wonder if anyone has gone further than wanting to kick him out office? Perhaps, like Rousseff, he'll get to find out what it's like to be impeached. In his case, for totally screwing up the economy. And falsely accusing and imprisoning people.
May 18th, 2016 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commies. lol.
May 18th, 2016 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey Maduro, what does America want with Chavistastan?
We're drowning in Dakota oil.
Don't forget there are 50,000 Cuban troops keeping the others in line in Venezuela. At least there were before Cuba and the U.S. started putting aside their differences.
May 18th, 2016 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Capriles is certainly right -- the army will have to decide whether their loyalty is to the government, or the country. The army was long ago purged of officers not loyal to Chavez, but Chavez is dead -- was their loyalty to the man, or is it to the socialist policies that have destroyed their country?
May 18th, 2016 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why has Venezuela not been suspended from Mercosur?
May 18th, 2016 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“With the country in the grip of hyperinflation, a shrinking economy, rampant crime, corruption, and food and electricity shortages,…”
May 19th, 2016 - 08:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a complete mess. Isn’t Venezuela one of those ‘proper’ republican democracies that hepatitis is always raving on about?
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