Here is one for the skeptics on both sides: The pictures below show a jeep (left) with a person on top shooting at the opposition march. The one on the right shows a gunman in gray (in the middle) who in videos is seen shooting at least twelve times to the opossition march on Januray 19th. where 1 person died and 29 were injured. This jeep was even protected by the local (pro-Chavez) police.


To the pro-Chavez skeptics: Today the police identified the man on the left as Rafael Simon Navas Carrasco, a leader of the pro-Chavez “Bolivarian Circles” who has a criminal record. The man on top of the jeep is Joel Andres Montoya, a local chavista activist according to the police, who also has a record and is known as “Garlic Lollipop”. The driver and owner of the jeep is Rafael David Castillo, who also has a criminal record but the police did not say if he was a Chavista or not.
To the opposition skeptics (including myself!): The Attorney General’s office has actually ordered the capture of all three men, who have now dissapeared. Note that there has been 48 people dead and 804 injured in marches and demonstrations during the last year. Of these, three shooters caught on video firing at the opposition march are in jail*. One man is in jail for the deaths in Plaza Altamira on Dec. 6th.(caught by the local municipal police that day) and now these three are sought by the police. Tha’s it! Thus, it is significant that these three are being sought by the police at the request of the Attorney General’s office, at least it is a change in attitude.
*Note that these three, one an MVR City Councilman and the other two workers for the that city, when initially jailed, were freed by a judge, despite the video showing their guilt, but the Venezuelan Supreme Court ordered them captured and demoted the judge for her behavior. She was hired the next day as a lawyer by the pro-Chavez Mayor of the Libertador District of Caracas, where the three worked.

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