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http://www.notiziegeopolitiche.net/ 2 settembre 2016
Corteo di oltre un milione di persone contro il governo Maduro
Almeno un milione di persone sono scese in pazza oggi in Venezuela per protestare contro l’amministrazione Nicolas Maduro, in una realtà che vede una gravissima crisi economica soprattutto a causa del prezzo del petrolio e dell’incapacità di diversificare la produzione (il petrolio rappresenta il 96 per cento delle entrate). I manifestanti hanno lanciato slogan per chiedere la convocazione del referendum per la destituzione di Maduro, le cui firme (un milione e 300mila, cioè 10 volte il necessario) sono già state raccolte e convalidate a giugno, senza che da allora nulla si movesse. Jesus Torrealba, portavoce delle opposizioni riunite nella coalizione “Tavola dell’unità democratica”, ha dichiarato che con la manifestazione di oggi “Abbiamo mostrato al mondo l’importanza del Venezuela che vuole il cambiamento. È una marcia storica e oggi inizia la tappa definitiva di questa lotta. Violenti scontri si sono registrati al termine del corteo tra i manifestanti e la polizia, incidenti che gli organizzatori dicono essere provocati da agitatori infiltrati. Maduro ha parlato di manovre volte ad arrivare ad un colpo di Stato, ma il Venezuela, dove l’inflazione è arrivata al 700 per cento, sta scontando persino la penuria di generi alimentari, la corrente elettrica è razionata, i rifornimenti di viveri sono assaltati e gli uffici pubblici sono aperti tre giorni alla settimana (quattro le scuole). http://www.laht.com/index.asp September 3,2016
Venezuela Government Crackdown on Opposition Intensifies After Successful Protest Rally By Carlos Camacho
Venezuelan law enforcement arrested Friday an opposition elected official, as the crackdown against those seeking to recall embattled President Nicolas Maduro continues.
The “Taking of Caracas” by more than one million people (according to estimates by AP and Reuters) on September 1st asking that Maduro be sacked did nothing to deter a razzia that began over the weekend and which has, according to local NGO Foro Penal, resulted in the arrest of 60 opposition leaders.
The backlash was perhaps unavoidable: Friday morning the mayor of the “Mario Briceno” municipality in Aragua state, Delson Guarate, was apprehended by the SEBIN national intelligence service after several failed capture attempts. Police broke into the mayor’s office and arrested him, fellow opposition politician David Smolansky tweeted.
Maduro had to do something, say analysts, he has been shown up by the opposition, again, after a landslilde defeat in the December 6th legislative elections. His popularity is dropping non-stop, international pressure is mounting and the recall petition against him, instead of going away or dying down, is slowly but inexorably moving forward.
“It was bigger than the one on April 11th 2002,” Leonardo Vivas, an analyst and scholar who has taught at several US universities, including Harvard said.
The 2002 street demonstration was so massive it triggered a chain of events that toppled Chavez for 72 hours; however, the September 1st march was peaceful and Maduro is still sitting in the Miraflores Presidential Palace.
Maduro clearly lost Caracas, a process that began “after the legislative elections,” Vivas said, and has clearly continued. “After this show of force and his increasing international isolation, he must be thinking his next steps through,” the scholar concluded.
The uneventful march rendered Maduro’s narrative claiming an ongoing coup d’etat ineffective, Vivas said: for days the President and his number two man Diosdado Cabello had warned of the opposition readying bombs and hiring snipers to “fill Venezuela with death”, but no such scenarios emerged.
“Yesterday was the moment to prove that, and nothing of the sort happened. They can’t appeal to the ghost of the coup anymore,” said Vivas.
An eventual ousting of Maduro depends on a number of factors, including “the internal temperature of the PSUV”, the ruling party, founded by Maduro’s mentor and predecessor, Hugo Chavez. “But nobody knows what that temperature is. It’s a bit like trying to gauge the internal temperature of the Soviet Communist Party during that era,” the analyst added.
ARAGUA: LAST STRONGHOLD?
As for the arrest of Mayor Guarate: His "crime” seems to have been being the opposition mayor in the one state of Venezuela where “chavismo” still reigns undisputed, Aragua.
Under pro-Maduro governor Tarek El Aissami the opposition has encountered every possible obstacle in that Central Venezuela state, but Diaz says the governor, also a member of the PSUV ruling party, has ambitions.
“The governor is a strong competitor for the scepter inside the PSUV,” is how Diaz describes it. El Aissami is under investigation for drug trafficking in the US at least since 2015, according to The Wall Street Journal- |