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Venezuelan Majority Takes to the Streets, Coup Plotters Hide

By Al Giordano
A Narco News Breaking News Editorial
12-11-2

These are the hours of immediate history.

As in Eastern Europe 13 years ago, the final defeat of dictatorial power in Venezuela came last night at the doors of its "control rooms" - the TV stations.

On Monday night, the Venezuelan majority - unwilling to allow an upper-class economic coup d'etat that poses dishonestly as a "strike" to unseat its democratically elected government - took to the streets on a scale only seen once before in the nation's modern history; as they had last April, when they turned back a military coup d'etat.

By early Tuesday morning the masses had every Commercial TV station in the nation surrounded. Their weapons were nonviolent and theatrical: pots, pans, fireworks and thousands of defiant but smiling faces.

Only at one TV installation in one of the outlying provinces - in Maracay State - did the public actually invade the facilities of a station that uses the public airwaves. Everywhere else, including at all the national TV stations in Caracas, immense restraint has been shown by the masses protesting outside of them.

The bluff of the former ruling class and its media - that their top-down imposed sabotage of the Venezuelan economy and oil industry of the past week is somehow a popular "strike" - has been called. The "strike leaders," including corrupt oil union boss Carlos Ortega, have, in recent hours, disappeared from public view, abandoning their own supporters among the upper classes.

To make sure the coup plotters don't flee the country, the neighbors of Simón Bolívar International Airport near Caracas have surrounded the airport as well.

The coup supporters, including the rogue ex-military officials from April's attack on democracy who in recent days have called unsuccessfully for military coup, promptly abandoned Plaza Altamira last night, their physical base: the public stage they had occupied continuously for the past few weeks.

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The sanitation trolls have been busy and some articles have disappeared. Nevertheless, I could find more, but the links I've already posted here should suffice to show that the situation in Venezuela is much different than what we are being fed by our mainstream media.