Saturday, June 02, 2007

Students, Venezuelan Police Stand Off at UCAB

From Spanish Pundit we learn:


This is an alert. Please, if you value freedom, repost this alert: Venezuelan Government has kidnapped the students inside the University. No one can enter or exit -from the above link-:A police barrier of the Military Police is forbidding the students of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) as they wanted to demonstrate in front of the National Parliament. The Military Police has said that the students should wait till a MPs Commission who will receive a document. In this moments there are more gruops of students who are getting to the area in support of the rest.The students have announced they will demonstrate today at 11 in the La India Sq. to march till the Parliament. Major Bernal has announced them they do not have any permission to do that, but they have answered they will concentrate themselves just the same in the pavements without having the traffic interrupted. Globovisión has informed just now that Chávez’s supporters have just now began to get to the place and they have even set up some tents, from where they want to call on others to defend the revolution. But the students have begun to march whatever the menaces and protests and the advices from the Major about being forbidden.

And now get a load of what Chavez is saying:

Speaking during an event Thursday with the visiting leader of Vietnam's communist party, Mr. Chavez said “international rightist, extreme-rightist and fascist movements are attacking Venezuela from everywhere — from Europe, the United States, Brasilia.”
He targeted Brazil's Senate for approving a motion earlier in the day including a call for Mr. Chavez to reopen the channel.
“Nobody should interfere,” Mr. Chavez said, accusing lawmakers in Brazil of “repeating like a parrot what is said in Washington.”
“To those representatives of the Brazilian right, I say that it is much, much, much more probable that the Portuguese empire will again install itself in Brasilia than that the Venezuelan government will return the expired [broadcast] concession to the Venezuelan oligarchy,” Mr. Chavez said.

Ah, yes, the old anyone-who-doesn't-support-socialism-is-a-fascist. I have been called a fascist for not supporting national health insurance in the USA.

Hat tip to Gateway Pundit.

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