Venezuela: Socialists defy ban on Chavez images

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela: Socialists defy ban on Chavez images

Jan Saturday 9th 2016
posted by Morning Star in World


VENEZUELAN socialists vowed on Thursday to oppose the opposition-controlled parliament’s ban on images of late president Hugo Chavez and national liberator Simon Bolivar.

At a rally outside the National Assembly in Plaza Bolivar, hundreds of red-clad government supporters led by ­Caracas Mayor Jorge Rodriguez swore loyalty to Mr Chavez and ­Bolivar.

One protester dressed up as Uncle Sam, pulling the strings of a cut-out of newly elected right-wing National Assembly Speaker Henry Ramos.

President Nicolas Maduro and his new cabinet visited Mr Chavez’s mausoleum, recently transferred to a trust to keep it out of opposition hands, to lend support to the campaign. Chavistas were outraged by order to remove from the assembly portraits of the two former leaders on Wednesday.

“I don’t want to see Chavez or Maduro,” Mr Ramos said. “Take it all to Miraflores” — the presidential palace — “or the trash.”

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c48e-Venezuela-Socialists-defy-ban-on-Chavez-images#.VpCVq-RIhOk

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National Assembly Speaker Henry Ramos.







"I still need someone to pull this finger." [/center]

[Marksman_91]

1. So much butthurt from the Chavista leadership side

They suffered a tremendous loss and they're in denial about it, and instead of addressing the country's problems, they decide they're gonna paint more and more Chavez-fetishing imagery. And then they wonder why they lost the support of the majority. So fucking pathetic. And first-world Marxists like you applauding these actions makes this even more appaling.

[GGJohn]

2. It really chafes your rear that the opposition won an overwhelmingly victory fair and square that

you have to make snarky remarks towards this man.

[Marksman_91]

3. So much BUTTHURT, man.

Same thing probably happened when they were being told that Chavez was "alive and well" by the Chavista leadership, only to have their dreams shattered when the truth finally came out.