Support for Venezuela's Maduro drops to 37 percent: report

[Zorro]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's approval rating dropped to 37 percent in April, according to a new poll quoted in a local newspaper on Monday.

Support for the former bus driver turned president was down from 46.8 percent in February according to a survey by pollster Datanalisis, the El Universal daily reported, without providing a comparative figure for March.

As a policy, Datanalisis, one of the country's best-known public opinion groups, does not publish the results of its surveys or confirm the veracity of media reports about them.

Maduro narrowly won election in 2013 following the death of socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Since then he has faced criticism over economic problems including annualized inflation approaching 60 percent and nagging shortages of staple goods.

http://news.yahoo.com/support-venezuelas-maduro-drops-37-percent-report-151741039--sector.html

[MADem]

1. Oooooooooh noooooooooooo!!!! Say it ain't so!!!

Cue the excuses:

--The CIA's fault!! Yeah, that's the ticket!!! They're hiding the toilet paper in an undisclosed location!!!

--Datanalisis always liked Diosdado best!

--A jailed opposition leader is using MIND CONTROL on the people!!!

--ABM caused it!! ABM!!! (ABM=Anybody But Maduro)....

--Those aren't students, they're secret agents!!

I guess the question needs to be asked... "How's that 'rule by decree' authority working out for ya, Nicky? Not too good? You got six more months to play emperor, you'd better get off the dime...!"

[Marksman_91]

4. There's been nearly 3000 arrests (almost all without warrants) since the protests started in Feb.

Most of them took place during peaceful protests, and some of 'em involved the PNB/National Guard simply breaking into residential complexes and apartment buildings and taking away people by force, in the best way that would make the Stasi proud.

I really wonder how the CIA was able to recruit nearly 3000 agents.

[MADem]

5. Yes...and seed those agents throughout the GNB!! nt

[Marksman_91]

2. And as if it couldn't get any worse for the Dimwit...

some of the rebels from the 1992 coup attempt went out to protest before the vice-presidency demanding their rights (whatever that means):

http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140505/rebeldes-del-4f-y-27n-de-1992-protestan-por-sus-derechos

[Bacchus4.0]

3. I can't believe its that high actually n/t