Venezuela sin Chávez: The Nicolas Maduro Thread

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God bless the people of Venezuela.

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God bless the people of Venezuela.

With this kind of rhetoric all over twitter, they're going to need it.

• ∞ @Malalalalaloong 6m
  Estás muertes, este sufrimiento, y todas las ciudades destruidas, no serán en vano. #ElQueSeCansaPierde #NicolasTeQuedanPocosDias
  

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• ¿Sabías que? @sabiastuque_ 6m
  En la historia nadie que se haya rendido consiguió el éxito. #ElQueSeCansaPierde
  

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• GABY ARELLANO @GabyarellanoM13 13m
  ¡Mañana retomamos las calles! Nos vemos en la Av. Venezuela en El Rosal en #Caracas 11AM #ElQueSeCansaPierde
  

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• Guillermo Ibañez @shalom2003 14m
  #ElQueSeCansaPierde Gracias @liliantintori por el valor demostrado al igual que otras mujeres que luchan dia a dia pic.twitter.com/tPy6m5BSas
  

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• Leopoldo López @leopoldolopez 16m
  Acompañemos mañana #27Feb a los estudiantes 11am en la Av. Venezuela del Rosal. Esta lucha es de todos! #ElQueSeCansaPierde /LT
  

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• Alejandra Arellano @ale_arellano 18m
  Que bella ����"@SContrerasB: Con su bombona de oxígeno le dijo a todos #ElquesecansaPIERDE "@porlagoma: Ella marchó pic.twitter.com/3YqvRr1QnZ"
  

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Marco Rubio is posting his support:

Marco Rubio @marcorubio Feb 25
If u have any doubt @NicolasMaduro is tyrant & a killer, here are the faces of some of his victims. pic.twitter.com/GwGnVkDeOy #ResistenciaVzla

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The advertisements call for peaceful demonstrations. It looks like there are those who would do otherwise. This is starting to spiral. In the Ukraine, the EU pressed for restraint in the response to protests. Who is pressing for that in Venezuela? The external voices seem very muted.

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The advertisements call for peaceful demonstrations. It looks like there are those who would do otherwise. This is starting to spiral. In the Ukraine, the EU pressed for restraint in the response to protests. Who is pressing for that in Venezuela? The external voices seem very muted.

Maduro's trying to promote a Conference on Peace today, promoting the #madurohombredepaz hashtag, while he lets Cuba send weapons and troops to help him.



These are alleged Cuban arms.



People are blocking the roads out of Caracas so people can't go to the beach for Carnaval.

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Wow, that was fantastic.

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And now Putin joins in...

Russian spy ship docked in Havana

Neither Cuban authorities nor state media have mentioned the ship's visit, unlike on previous tours by Russian warships.

The former Soviet Union was Cuba's sponsor state through three decades of Cold War. After a period of some distancing under former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, the countries renewed their political, economic and military cooperation.

The ship is reportedly armed with 30mm guns and anti-aircraft missiles.

Its visit comes as isolated Havana's current economic and political patron, Venezuela, is facing unprecedented violent protests against President Nicolas Maduro's government.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-spy-sh...5TY3cAUS_QtDMD

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I listened to this yesterday but watching it was even better. He was well-prepared for that speech and hit a home run.

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It's interesting to watch which of these images gets circulated the most by actual Venezuelans. Right now, there are about 100 new tweets per minute with the hashtag #ElQueSeCansaPierde

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This is a funny pancarta.

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Here's a video showing what it's like. I can't tell if the explosions are tear gas being shot, or if they're firing rifles into the apartments. It sounds like guns, but I don't know what tear gas sounds like.

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This video clearly shows the police in cahoots with vigilantes destroying property.

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The Atlantic put together a great collection of photos of the protests. http://m.theatlantic.com/infocus/201...rotest/100689/