Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after latest bout of unrest

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:58am EDT

Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after latest bout of unrest

Venezuelan security forces have arrested at least 400 people after the latest bout of looting and food riots in the crisis-hit OPEC member country, local officials said on Wednesday.

Violence engulfed the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana on Tuesday as looters swarmed over dozens of shops and security forces struggled to maintain control.

There were unconfirmed reports on social media of several deaths in Cumana, the capital of Sucre state, and an opposition legislator from the zone said one man was shot dead.

But regional governor Luis Acuna from the ruling Socialist Party said the reported deaths were unrelated to the looting.

"There were only 400 people arrested and the deaths were not linked to the looting," he told a local TV station, calling the looters vandals encouraged by right-wing politicians.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-violence-idUSKCN0Z11WW

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1. What's happening now is a large-scale albeit slower version of El Caracazo

But of course, the useful idiots in this site aren't going to acknowledge that because it would mean that the Chavista regime was worse than a right-wing president's, so they obviously aren't going to accept it as reality.