2013 Video Shows Leopoldo Lopez Strategizing for Maduro’s Ouster with Miami-Venezuelans

[Judi Lynn]

2013 Video Shows Leopoldo Lopez Strategizing for Maduro’s Ouster with Miami-Venezuelans

By Z.C. Dutka

Santa Elena de Uairen, November 18th, 2014. (venezuelanalysis.com)- In a 31 October event held in El Doral, Florida, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez presented to supporters in attendance the need to remove president Nicolas Maduro from power before his term is up.

“If ... there is no democracy in Venezuela, our response is that we must advance in the exit of the government,” said Lopez from the Miami restaurant El Arepazo. “We are absolutely convinced that Maduro must exit sooner rather than later.”

The term “the exit” became the notorious hashtag (#LaSalida) associated with the sometimes violent barricade protests calling for Maduro’s ouster which lasted from February to June of 2014 and resulted in the deaths of 43 people.

A video from the event was posted to Youtube on 3 November, 2013 by the media director of the Foundation for Politically Persecuted Venezuelans Abroad (VEPPEX, for its initials in Spanish).
Caracas newspaper Ultimas Noticias recently put the video into the spotlight in a special investigative report.

The footage begins with Lopez awarding VEPPEX president Jose Antonio Colina a medal for his work in supposedly defending human rights, on behalf of Lopez’s own political party, Popular Will.

Colina is wanted in Venezuela for ties to the coup d’état attempted against Hugo Chavez in 2002. The former Venezuelan sub-lieutenant and alumnus of the United States Air Force Academy is also charged with placing bombs in different buildings in Caracas in 2003, including the consular offices of Colombia and Spain.

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[Bacchus4.0]

1. Alot of people want that idiot Maduro to leave, more on what Lopez said in Miami

The opposition leader mentioned five constitutional methods for removing a leader from office; resignation, public referendum, amendment, reform and lastly, Constituent Assembly. He insisted that each of these methods rely only upon massive popular movements so, while citing scarcity and insecurity as isolated issues, he said his vision is to “weave the discontent together, with a conductive wire” to inspire mass protests under one banner.