2014 Venezuelan protests event
also: Gramenaba riots, riots, Garimba Riots, Salida, La Cita, protests, street protests, rioters, events of 2017
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Leopoldo Lopezperson · 10Maria Corina Machadoperson · 5Nicolás Maduroperson · 4United Statescountry · 4University of the Andesorganization · 2Voluntad Popularorganization · 1Henrique Caprilesperson · 1Henry Falconperson · 1Sumateorganization · 1Strategic Plan for Venezuelabook · 1George H.W. Bushperson · 1Antonio Vecchianaperson · 1USAIDorganization · 1Washington, D.C.place · 1Colombiacountry · 1Primero Justiciaorganization · 1
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USAID funded
2014 Venezuelan protests documented
“Another journalist noted that the protests kicked off just weeks after the leaked document revealed that Washington, through the USAID, was actively backing a plot to create crisis situations in the street of Venezuela with the aim of facil…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 50:52
Maria Corina Machado carried_out_attack
2014 Venezuelan protests documented
“at the university campus. In the early weeks of 2014, the Venezuelan opposition figures charged with directing the U.S.-backed scheme sprang into action. On January 23rd, a right-wing opposition lawmaker by the name of Maria Karina Makedo, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 52:53
Leopoldo Lopez carried_out_attack
2014 Venezuelan protests documented
“She reportedly attended the USAID summit in Colombia, according to news articles. Officially launched Salida, S-A-L-I-D-A, meaning exit, protest campaign alongside Leopoldo Lopez, who was co-founder of Caprales' U.S.-funded…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 53:22
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because they were doing so poorly. Yet, despite their failure to garner popular support, Lopez and Vecchio demonstrated an uncanny ability to create chaos in exactly the right times. Valendad's popular presence in Venezuela's streets reache…
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riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…
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An internal fight for the future of Venezuela's opposition was underway. The battle formally erupted in the early days of 2014, roughly a month after Maduro's summit with the opposition. So what they're trying to do is anybody that wants to…
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activists rushed the University of the Andes campus and set up roadblocks on a nearby thoroughway, paralyzing traffic and obstructing access to main regional hospitals. Again, sounds very familiar.…
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One journalist described it as this, quote, the students have no visible demands and they have no mass support. Instead of holding a protest with a point, their actions consist entirely of piling petro-soaked timbers and tires on the main r…
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by sparking anarchy in the streets. Specifically that, quote, whenever possible, violence should cause death or injuries, unquote. That was in the report. The document also stated that the conspirators intent to amplify images of the artifi…
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at the university campus. In the early weeks of 2014, the Venezuelan opposition figures charged with directing the U.S.-backed scheme sprang into action. On January 23rd, a right-wing opposition lawmaker by the name of Maria Karina Makedo, …
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She reportedly attended the USAID summit in Colombia, according to news articles. Officially launched Salida, S-A-L-I-D-A, meaning exit, protest campaign alongside Leopoldo Lopez, who was co-founder of Caprales' U.S.-funded…
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political party. With middle class students acting as their shock troops, Lopez and Makedo aimed to sabotage the dialogue between the opposition, moderate opposition, and Maduro, and to isolate Maduro, ultimately forcing his exit from the p…
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declaring, quote, we must create chaos in the streets, unquote, until Maduro is ousted. The chaos took the form of riots, and they were called Garimba Riots, Venezuelan slang for the massive street barricades erected by the students that pr…
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Throughout the early weeks of 2014, Garimbaros vandalized universities, government buildings, residents, ransacked public transportation hubs, barricaded major highways, and assaulted shipping trucks transporting gas and food. As her effort…
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The U.S. officials invested in Samate because they considered it to be highly effective, well-organized opposition. In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush even hosted Makedo for a friendly meeting and photo op in the White House Oval Office…
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were in direct competition for the gilded throne of Venezuela's most hardline U.S.-backed opposition. Lopez's movement of glory arrived on February 12th when he delivered an impassioned speech directing his followers to march to the office …
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represented a genuinely violent foreign-backed insurrection that made the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot look like the Macy's Day parade. Venezuelan government quickly issued arrest warrants for Lopez and detained him on February 18th. Salid…
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leaving behind billions of dollars in property damage, at least three dead and hundreds wounded. Though the prolonged terror campaign failed to topple Maduro, it succeeded in polarizing the public, thus sidelining any moderate opposition fi…
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Venezuela faced an extraordinary political impasse. Though Maduro was not constitutionally up for re-election until the following year, Lopez seized upon the turmoil to call for a fresh round of street protests, this time with this expresse…
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presidential elections in 2017, Lopez proposed in a January prison dispatch, directing his supporters to engage in electoral rebellion. His stormtroopers went back on the streets. Throughout the spring and summer of 2017, rioters paralyzed …
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Food distribution centers, vandalized public infrastructure, physically assaulted opponents in the streets. Though the riots would eventually die down, the events of 2017 marked a turning point in Venezuela's political crisis. From that poi…