Venezuela's Maduro gives ultimatum to Caracas protesters
Source: Reuters
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro warned protesters in Caracas on Saturday to clear a square they have made their stronghold, or face eviction by security forces.
Plaza Altamira, in upscale east Caracas, has been a focus of anti-government protests and violence during six weeks of unrest around Venezuela that has killed 28 people.
"I'm giving the Chuckys, the killers, just a few hours," Maduro said, using the name of a murderous child-doll in a horror film to describe anti-government demonstrators who have made the normally genteel 1940s square a base of operations.
"If they don't retreat, I'm going to liberate those spaces with the security forces," Maduro added. "They have a few hours to go home ... Chuckys, get ready, we're coming for you."
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"liberal" in your assessment. We've been treated to charges of "authoritarianism" by the Obama administration, even when it wasn't true. But, you defend this crackdown just because Maduro hates the US?
I guess the problem with actually being a liberal, and playing one on the internet is you have to remain consistent even if you don't like the players (protestors). 
Diosdado Cabello, his old, dear friend from way back in his Army days, but Diosdado isn't as fond of Cuba and wanted to pull away from them, keeping more of the oil for Venezuelans and limiting their influence over the nation, and he's said as much in the past. The Cubans had the chemotherapy, so Diosdado was pushed aside for the simple-minded and easily manipulated Maduro (witness him fondling the Puerto Rican flag, rhapsodizing about how wonderful it is, thinking it's the Cuban flag)....
Que hermosa esa bandera.... 
Raul Castro NEEDS that oil, and he exercises a lot of control over Maduro. He tells Maduro what to do as often as not, which is part of the reason why VZ has gotten so fucked up so fast.
Maduro is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and can do no wrong!
It's all the fault of the "Chuckys," the CIA and all the conspirators here in the US!
or the one that brought the advent of Mao in China and the Bolsheviks in Russia.
Have any of you lived under a dictatorship? I have, and whether it comes from the Right or Left, they all have some things in common. They elect themselves for life and they end up repressing the media and their country's people. That's why they all fail in the end.
Chavez wanted to become another Castro and so does Maduro, except that Maduro doesn't have what it takes to keep Venezuela under his power. Putin would love Russia to return to the Soviet Union of his old KGB days. What amazes me is how many here who are so quick to bash the US at every turn, take up for this bunch of dictator wannabes.
[div class="excerpt"]Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[7] Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large multinational American corporations that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba.[7][8] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his anti-Communist secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people.[9][10] For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States.[11]
Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's government, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled the island with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally Rafael Trujillo held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in Oliveira Salazar's Portugal, where he lived until dying of a heart attack on August 6, 1973, near Marbella, Spain.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
Venezuela
Following the fall of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958, Venezuelan politics were dominated by the Third Way Christian democratic COPEI and the center-left social democratic Democratic Action (AD) parties; this two-party system was formalized by the puntofijismo arrangement. Economic crises in the 1980s and 1990s led to a political crisis which saw hundreds dead in the Caracazo riots of 1989, two attempted coups in 1992, and impeachment of President Carlos Andrés Pérez for corruption in 1993. A collapse in confidence in the existing parties saw the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez, who had led the first of the 1992 coup attempts, and the launch of a "Bolivarian Revolution", beginning with a 1999 Constituent Assembly to write a new Constitution of Venezuela.
The opposition's attempts to unseat Chávez included the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt, the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, and the Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004, all of which failed. Chávez was re-elected in December 2006, but suffered a significant defeat in 2007 with the narrow rejection of the Venezuelan constitutional referendum, 2007, which had offered two packages of constitutional reforms aimed at deepening the Bolivarian Revolution.
There are currently two major blocs of political parties in Venezuela: the incumbent leftist bloc United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), its major allies Fatherland for All (PPT) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), and the opposition bloc grouped into the electoral coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática. This includes A New Era (UNT) together with allied parties Project Venezuela, Justice First, Movement for Socialism (MAS) and others. Hugo Chávez, the central figure of the Venezuelan political landscape since his election to the Presidency in 1998 as a political outsider, died in office in early 2013, and was succeeded by Nicolás Maduro (initially as interim President, before narrowly winning the Venezuelan presidential election, 2013).
The Venezuelan president is elected by a vote, with direct and universal suffrage, and is both head of state and head of government. The term of office is six years, and (as of 15 February 2009) a president may be re-elected an unlimited number of times. The president appoints the vice president and decides the size and composition of the cabinet and makes appointments to it with the involvement of the legislature. The president can ask the legislature to reconsider portions of laws he finds objectionable, but a simple parliamentary majority can override these objections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Government_and_politics
