The Devil's Excrement

Women are certainly the heroes/heroines of this battle. Here one stands in  front of a tank with soldiers and a sign that says “Damm the soldier that attacks its people” Simon Bolivar.

(more new photos by Oscar inside Pictures)

Poster hoping a cuban plane will be taken away                       “escualidos” what Chavez called the opposition are attacking! The third one says: Hugo: this is not a march this is a line to beat the shit out of you

Peace and Yes on the referendum    People bring anything to the marches to attempt to exorcise Chavez!

As suggested in my morning note, despite having a permit, the march was not allowed to go through. Instead, a large barrier was placed between the objective, Los Proceres, and the marchers. A number of opposition leaders negotiated with the military authorities that a commitee would be allowed to go forward to Los Proceres to present a floral arrangement to the Los Proceres monument. As they were going through, and supposedly because the National Guard believed more people might go through, the march was gassed with tear gas.  The march was absolutely peaceful and everyone was gassed withouyt discrimination. The tragicomic note of the day was provided by the large number of women (see below) who brought panties and hung them in the barbed wire, some of them signed or threw them at the guardsmen. The symbolism is that the military are cowards. People also brought corn and threw it at the Guardsmen, as if feeding “chickens”.

Panties on barbed wire        Barbed wire and panties blocking the way, note people protecting themselves from the tear gas

(More new photos in the Pictures section on your left)

The Government keeps denying that there are enviromental damages due to the handling of the oil industry by inexperienced people. Even the irresponsible Minister of the Enviroment dismissed the accidents as “normal”, how she can live with herself is hard to figure. The President of PDVSA said correctly the number of accidents is “normal”, what he did not say is that it is the same number of accidents despite the fact that 90% of the oil industry is shutdown. This is criminal, but what else is new!. Below a whole bunch of pictures sent in by Guadalupe, using the old Chinese proverb: A picture is worth more than 1,000 words! (Or is it ten thousand?)

fire plumes

oil spills

Chavez, Diosdado, Ranegl we wait for you in Hell      Chavez I wait for you first in The Hague

Clear Directions                                           Plaque in meritocracy square

True protest:Without drinks I leave the country       He really works his protest

Poster outside the meeting of subway workers…

Patriotic Monkey                                       Elections Now! as the homeless waits for a solution……

(More new photos in the Pictures section on your left)

For those that want to stereotype our rebellion, BR stands for Bandera Roja, definitely the political party that stands at the furthest left of the political spectrum in Venezuela. Nearby this guy has the US and Venezuelan flags on the same pole. Go Figure!

  Nice skeleton with tear gas cannisters.  The multiheaded monster

“the hairy one leave up to me” in reference to a well-kown Chavista Deputy   Cuba and Venezuela are a favorite topic

Calling Gral. Carneiro a thief for confiscating his truck    Pretty patriotic face

T-shirt with all anti-cChavez slogans, love it!!

On Dec. 6 three people were killed and 29 injured in Plaza Francia where the dissident military meet. One gunman was caught and confessed on TV, but the Technical Police (CIPCC) has said taht there were at least two shooters, but no investigation has been made of who the other gunman was. Well, after 32 days yesterday  the technical police finally went to the site of the shootings to do the planimetry for the investiagtion. Comapre that to the speed with which the planimetry was done for last week’s murders of two Government supporters. Such is justice in Venezuela today.

(Pictures of the Plaza Francia planimetry sent in BY Oscar Sabater)

Let’s be positive: Dancing group in march                                 Is he old enough to protest?

(More pictures by Oscar Sabater and myself inside the Pictures section on your left)