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Venezuela’s Poor Rebel, Roiling Maduro’s Socialist Strongholds
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 05, 2017 12:21am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Fabiola Zerpa and Andrew Rosati |
| News Date | Monday, July 3, 2017 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In Caracas, the rich and poor are suddenly less divided.
For most of Venezuela’s two-decade socialist experiment, the city’s wealthier, whiter east has been the hotbed of anti-government sentiment. Now, noisy protests are erupting in poorer-but-calmer western neighborhoods that were strongholds for embattled President Nicolas Maduro as crime explodes and medicine and food are scarce and expensive.
Residents in neighborhoods like La Candelaria, blocks from the presidential Miraflores Palace, erect barricades and yell slogans against Maduro’s government, banging pots and pans from inside their homes. They’re increasingly demanding a change in government, infuriated by mismanagement and Maduro’s proposed constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution -- and perhaps seize total control.
“Everyone protests, without differences, because the hunger of the stomach and the hunger for democracy have been united,” said Carlos Julio Rojas, a La Candelaria activist who has been menaced by pro-government militants called colectivos. He said that opposition activists have been joined at protests by government supporters, public employees, housewives and the unemployed. |
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