Who is responsible for the violence in Venezuela? | ROAR Magazine

Who is responsible for the violence in Venezuela? | ROAR Magazine:

 Much of the debate surrounding the ongoing protests in Venezuela centers on the deadly violence that has gripped the country in the past two weeks. Who is responsible? According to our count, 11 people have lost their lives so far. The international media would have us believe that all are the result of police repression carried out in the name of the Socialist government. But while this is deplorably true in some cases, the situation is not as black-and-white as many make it out to be. More than half of the victims are government supporters or bystanders, and there is ample evidence that violent elements in the opposition were directly involved in most of these cases, including (#1) the gruesome decapitation of a motorcyclist who ran into barbed wire lined up at neck level by anti-government protesters. Those responsible were acting on a tweet from a retired general suggesting how to fend off “hordes of motorized criminals”:

 

 

While the international media
focuses mostly on state repression, the deadly violence of the
right-wing opposition goes almost entirely unmentioned.