Rise of the Anti-Government Flash Mobs: First Ukraine, Now Venezuela | Global Research

Rise of the Anti-Government Flash Mobs: First Ukraine, Now Venezuela | Global Research

The US-supported opposition in the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela is taking its cue from the anti-government protests taking
place across the Atlantic Ocean in Ukraine. Failing to win any of
Venezuela’s elections by earning a popular mandate from the majority of
the population in the last few years, the leaders of the mainstream
opposition are now resorting to colour revolution tactics and a
Ukraine-style disruption strategy. The aim of these opposition leaders
in Venezuela is to manipulate the galvanized anti-government protesters
into creating a political crisis in Caracas. Mainstream opposition
leaders are doing this by instigating the protesters into taking steps
that are geared at toppling the Venezuelan government.

The same opposition leaders and their foreign supporters are using
the cover of the undeniable misgivings about rising crime rates,
political corruption, and economic turmoil in Venezuela as a disguise
for what is essentially looking like an attempted coup. The
socio-economic misgivings of a segment of the population are being used
as a pretext to legitimize street action and violence aimed at toppling
the government

It is ironic that many of those opposing the Venezuelan government in
the name of democracy, equality, and security were once supporters of
autocratic and openly corrupt governments before the Chavez era. Memory
loss or outright hypocrisy is at play. When the same oligarch’s that
form and finance the Venezuelan opposition that is supporting and
instigating the current anti-government protests were in charge of
Venezuela, corruption was widespread, poverty rates were much higher,
inequality was greater, and there was much higher inflation. Nor was
Venezuela even a functioning democracy.