Venezuelan Socialist Mayor Shot Dead in Drive-By Shooting

[eridani]

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelan-Socialist-Mayor-Shot-Dead-in-Drive-By-Shooting-20160401-0015.htmlA

Venezuelan mayor has been shot dead outside of his home in the municipality of La Ceiba, in the northwestern province of Trujillo, by assailants firing out of a passing car.

Fellow PSUV members expressed their sorrow over the death.

“In a terrible way today comrade Marcos Tulio Carrillo, mayor of La Ceiba in the state of Trujillo, was assassinated,” Jose Vielma Mora, governor of the state of Tachira, where two police officers were killed by anti-government protesters earlier this week, wrote on his Twitter account.
“Another worthy revolutionary has despicably fallen,” wrote PSUV lawmaker Hugbel Roa on his Twitter account. “My comrade and friend Tulio Carrillo, I will never forget you.”

Former West Caracas Mayor Freddy Bernal took to his Twitter account to condemn the “heinous murder” and say “no to impunity.”

The killing of Tulio Carrillo comes as Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly passed the controversial Amnesty Law earlier this week.

Venezuela’s opposition claims the bill is designed to for so-called “political prisoners,” such as jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, imprisoned over charges of public incitement of violence.

But leftist lawmakers argue that the law will serve to protect perpetrators of various crimes, as the bill’s scope ranges from misdemeanor charges to acts of political dissent involving explosives and firearms.

[Marksman_91]

1. "The US/CIA/opposition are behind this" is what Maduro will say n/t

[COLGATE4]

2. Please don't forget the 'oligarchs' nt

[eridani]

3. And he's wrong? You are cheerleading for government by assassination, then? n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. Right-wingers don't believe in moral actions.

Who has always benefited for the psychotic murders of leftists throughout the Americas? Only the fascists. It's more than a trend, more than coincidence every time.

[Marksman_91]

6. What have I said that makes me right-winger exactly?

As far as I know, you can be more left-leaning than right-leaning and still recognize that Chavismo is not at all socialism and more a total kleptocracy run by a bunch of narcs who let the criminal element in the country become the undisputed power on the streets.

[Marksman_91]

5. How does me making fun of Maduro's stupidity equate to advocating for political assassinations? N/t

[eridani]

7. The amyor was not assassinated because of Maduro's stupidity n/t

[Judi Lynn]

8. They have a way of attempting to connect everything to Chavez or Maduro, oddly. n/t