Well, here some more info from both the BBC and CNN.
First: here's info in the hotbed of the protests: San Cristobal.
San Cristobal: The birthplace of Venezuela's protestsSome interesting Tidbits:
Among the San Cristobal protesters, nobody denies that the ultimate objective now is to force deep changes in the government, maybe even topple it.
But nobody seems to know how to achieve it, other than by "resisting".
"We have to be patient. This won't be a struggle of days. The Venezuelan who believes we will get rid of Maduro with these protests is delusional," said Pedro Pablo Quitero, a 60-year old university teacher who sympathises with the protesters.
As usual the "US is plotting against us"
And Jonathan Garcia, a local MP with the ruling United Socialist Party, told the BBC it was all part of a right-wing conspiracy aimed at creating chaos and violence to justify a foreign intervention.
"But we won't give them the excuse they're looking for by removing the protesters by force, like you would do in any other country in the world," said Mr Garcia.
"We know they have the cameras, the videos to try to convince the world that the unarmed people of Venezuela are being violently repressed by a tyrannical government in order to justify an US intervention," he added.
And finally:
That might explain why, despite all the discontent, San Cristobal remains pretty calm during the day - and there have not been reports of large violent clashes lately.
However, after nightfall the situation changes.
The protesters have accused the government of employing armed groups of civilians that routinely harass or attack them under the cover of night, and they insist that is why they need the barricades.
But the authorities imply that the clashes are a result of disgruntled neighbours trying to set themselves free of the restrictions imposed by unwelcomed protesters.
It is difficult to tell how long the situation will go on, but there's one slogan common to almost all the barricades: "He who tires, loses."
Here is something interesting, Picture #6 was taken in Altamira, here in Caracas (a customer of ours has their head office near there). Apparently the protesters stay in their barricades and the police throws tear gas at them.
This morning, the barricades I noticed on Wednesday were mostly gone. There were more cars on the street as well, not like in a normal day. but definitely more than on Wednesday.
And Nicky is still throwing a temper tantrum, with Panama,
he just expelled 4 diplomats, (including the ambassador, of course). If all the boasting that we're making money selling oil to the Chinese is true. I expect him to backtrack soon.Because he just cut off the fastest route to China. So maybe the Evil Mandarin Empire will let him know that he just messed with the wrong Latin American "brother" country.
Now this is rich, CNN's (yes gringos, the same CNN he threatened to expel from the country) Christiane Amanpour has an
exclusive interview with Nicky.
Nope, nothing like the '88 riots, more like the usual student protests we had in the '70s and '80s. Just that it's not contained in the Universities' grounds, it's on the street.
