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Caught On Tape: Caracas Mayor, Who Live-Tweets His Arrest, Detained In His Office By Maduro Police
Three hours ago, when the NY Fed trading desk was patting itself on the back for another day without hitches or major glitches in the "market" (except for that HFT-snafu in the USDCAD of course), one person was live-tweeting his arrest. The person is Antonio Ledezma, who is not only the mayor of Caracas but the leader of Venezuela's, and around 5:20 pm local time, he was taken to the intelligence service’s headquarters in Caracas after the local police broke into his office and arrested him.
Mi oficina pretende ser allanada en este momento por varios policias del régimen, torre Exa, el Rosal.
— Antonio Ledezma (@alcaldeledezma) February 19, 2015
The moment of the arrest when over a dozen "intelligence police" agents stormed the mayor's office was captured on video.
Así sacaron al alcalde @alcaldeledezma de su oficina exclusivo @NoticiasRCN pic.twitter.com/kbsXnwmBK7
— Carmen A. Rengifo (@CarmenAndreaRG) February 19, 2015
Officers fired in the air and hit Ledezma before taking him away without a warrant, according to Congressman Richard Blanco of Ledezma’s Alianza Bravo Pueblo party, who was present when police arrived, to reporter.
This is latest in a long series of arrests by the embattled and desperate leader of Venezuela, whose nation as we warned in November, was crumpled in a smoldering heap of record-wide CDS driven by plunging oil prices, and whose default is now just a matter of time.
Bloomberg adds that Caracas has seen sporadic street protests this month as opposition-affiliated students try to commemorate last year’s rallies against President Nicolas Maduro, which left 43 people dead. Maduro is seeking to distract voters from economic problems ahead of congressional elections expected later this year, Diego Moya-Ocampos, a London-based political analyst at consultancy IHS Inc, said in a telephone interview.
“It’s clear that the government is no longer tolerating anything that could generate a situation of protests like last year,” Dimitris Pantoulas, an independent political analyst, said by telephone from Caracas.
Hence the increasingly more aggressive "pre-crime" crackdowns on any potentially threatening opposition figures.
As for Maduro, just like Turkey's own prime minister, the soon to be overthrown leader served up the usual rhetoric an hour after Ledezma's arrest, when in a televised address he talked about meeting Fidel Castro in Cuba on Tuesday and criticized what he called an “economic war” against his government, without mentioning the arrest of the mayor of the country’s capital. In recent speeches, he has called Ledezma a “vampire” who seeks to overthrow the government.
Maduro will continue raising pressure on the opposition this year to shift the political debate away from shortages and 69 percent inflation, said Moya-Ocampos.
“This is part of the government’s brutal crackdown to neutralize the opposition ahead of elections,” he said.
Ledezma, who began his political career in the corn-producing heartland in central Venezuela in early 1970s, has criticized Maduro for his handling of the economy and the detention of Lopez, who is jailed at the Ramo Verde military prison outside the capital. Ruling party lawmaker Julio Chavez earlier in the day called for Ledezma and former opposition lawmaker Maria Corina Machado to be jailed, saying that they “should be in Ramo Verde accompanying Leopoldo Lopez” for fomenting a coup.
For now, such sporadic episodes of utter banana republicanism are relegated to the fringes of the developing world, and especially the oil exporters, where the existing - often authoritarian - rulers are rapidly losing control with every passing day that oil trades below their breakeven cost. Should the oil plunge resume, the only silver lining is that the true comedic genius of Maduro will be on public display every single day as he desperately tries to distract from the utter socialist collapse of his country, much to the terror of his fellow countrymen.
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lol "Toilet Paper" hoarding is a capital offense.
So the mayor was the guy who robbed the French pensioner of the gold bars, huh?
Probably would have been a better charge than just hauling his ass off.
Makes one want to go thorough security at the airport just to feel that safe warm embrace of Mother PJ ,,, that or have Joey put his hands on your shoulders and whisper sweet somethings in your ears after he forced you guys into the wigs and pencil skirts ... or am I off track, here?
I thought not.
Pencil Skirts. Nice touch Knuks.
Wouldn't surprise me one bit to see that country under martial law within days as their economic systems begin to fail and their banking system implodes.
Days.
Maduro is doomed. When a leader goes after moderate oppostion with a vengeance all of the oppostion becomes radicalized.
oh yeah...I'm sure he's real "doomed"...just like the last commie douche bag was "doomed" by the sheeple before cancer finally ate his scumbag ass up. Since when are commie scumbag psychopaths doomed in this world? How are the Castros and the Jung Il's doing these days, ay? The entire U.N. is a hive of commie scum psychopaths.
Doomed, are they?
They can't be doomed when even the United States of America is run by a sick and twisted, Marxist, treasonous, disgusting piece of degenerate filth like obama.
And guess what...the next shitbag who the sheep-tards will elect isn't going to do a fucking thing at all to reduce the ranks of the sick and twisted commie scumbags of this world either.
It ain't gonna happen. Cuz, ya see...they're all really just in it together...they just play different parts in the grand psycho game of fucking everyone over. They've got it down to a fine science.
Save America , so what are you trying to say.
Civil war is long overdue for this socialist paradise.
Honestly, i havent yet figure out which is worse:
a) robbed by jew bankers
b) robbed by ignorant thugs
Opinions are welcomed...
Black swan.
"Wouldn't surprise me one bit to see that country under martial law within days as their economic systems begin to fail and their banking system implodes.
Days."
I think jailing Ledezma might qualify as the beginning of the formal unravelling of the internal structure.
I expect that the next unfortunate step will be that one or more political prisoners will expire in military prison or dissapear en route to military prison. Likely the government will deny it even arrested certain people, blame foreign groups, terrorists and/or criminals for the disappearances, etc... IMHO, sadly: a classic machiavellian/communist purge has begun.
I expect that by July it will be apparent that Maduro can no longer hold office/leadership role in Venezuela without martial law and increasingly violent suppression.
Venezuela is broke and broken.
IF God takes pity on Venezueala it's people will find the strength to depose, prosecute, exile/condemn and execute the entire cabal -domestic and foreign- that has so callously plundered and ruined the nation.
Maduro should remember what happened to the Ceausescus' in Romania when the natives got restless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsRQP7TifME
Not that politicians can't muck things up on their own, but the CIA is there helping.
You mean currency?
How many swat team members can you cram in an elevator?
Is this a riddle, or a rhetorical question?
can we get these cops to visit the whitehouse I would even help payem.
You can be sure if a modern day guillotining did occur the tweets would be global. Now that would break my resolution and I would get an account.
Miffed
All you want if the car is three floors up when the doors open.
They're bankrupt and still able to afford elections? Who pays for the flyers, campaign posters and buttons? Is that from Lagarde's petty cash?
"Officers fired in the air and hit Ledezma before taking him away without a warrant"
Read that a couple of times and got this: Yes, because he was hovering in mid-air above the police at the time of his arrest.
Don't trust the cops. They lie worse than anyone.
Well they're doing better than the two New York city beat cops who fired multiple shots directly at a perp but only hit pedestrians. Maybe the NYC cops should try shooting straight up in the air also to see if that helps their accuracy.
A lotta tall buildings in some parts of NYC.
The ass-clowns shoot into the air and there will be as many dead people above the street as on it.
The answer is to disarm these assholes almost entirely.
Watch the move 'Heat' to see what cops think of civilians that happen to be on the street when they decide to confront a hand full of 'perps'. Dozens of people are casually ignored while the 'peace officers' unload rounds like it's the last hours in a war zone... This what many cops think is a measured response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc
Comming soon, to towns and cities near all of us.
“It’s clear that the government is no longer tolerating anything that could generate a situation of protests like last year,”
-Brian Williams in 2016
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ron-paul-good-news-that-secessio...
Ron Paul: “Good News” That Secession Is Happening“The good news is it’s gonna happen. It’s happening.”
Former Republican presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul says secession is happening and it’s “good news.” Paul later predicted the states would stop listening to federal laws.
"I still remember the day I westled Maduro to the ground and arrested him in front of his own security force"
-Brian Williams in 2016
C'mon...let's all sing together
Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana....
Daylight come and we wanna go home.
DAAYYOOOO!!
You'll be singing that with a Mexican accent in the not-to-distant future in the US...
Maduro clearly recognized the CIA threat, and acted appropriately.
Who do you think put him in power to begin with?
I give up. Who?
The "Chaveztas"?
Guilty of opposition.
To serve and protect, bitchez.
Maduro is such a pathetic little tyrant. The ignoramus can't do anything right, but somehow he feels like he's the best guy for the job. What a moron. These guys will try everything to hold on to power. Eventually, someone has to drag them out by the ear.
Are you stepping up?
Or do you expect someone else to do the job for you?
?So I take it Maduro got no ayuda from Chinos o Rusos?
So the United States has destroyed most of Northern Africa, Some of Eastern Europe, and The people are against the United States leadership.
When are retired leaders going to start showing their salt? I'm so disappointed with the leadership of this country.
I love my country, but I can't stand it's leaders.
my classmate's sister-in-law makes $74 every hour on the internet . She has been out of work for eight months but last month her income was $12560 just working on the internet for a few hours. Get the facts... www.globe-report.com
One_ Hundred , bung hole lickers.
The technology for ordering your crack rocks online has finally been perfected, I see.
Bullshit. She made it on her back, it was only $20 and she had to swallow.
The tweet heard round the world.
Like watching jackals eat other jackals.
The banksters need to repay us.
Every government on the planet is filled with members of the Micawber Party. They are simply holding on without any plan for actually fixing stuff in the hopes that something will just turn up eventually.
Nothing is getting fixed anywhere, but new crises push the old ones off the front page for a while. Yet still they fester in the darkness.
Forget the MSM; when it comes to Venezuela, Zero Hedge acts as the perfect disinformation agent, one that has a veneer of "outsider" legitimacy.
Mind you, this is not a repost from Reuters, or the ridiculous er, sovereign man. One of the Tylers wrote this post himself, quoting a straight-up propaganda piece from Bloomberg and some tweets from the arrested man.
It is very interesting that nowhere in Tyler's writing or in the Bloomberg propaganda piece are the reasons for Ledezma's arrest mentioned. Oh no, we cannot do that. That poor, innocent, freedom fighter must be getting arrested just for being in the opposition, right?
Tyler quotes a man who is more than just an impartial "Caracas-based consultant", and then writes: "Hence the increasingly more aggressive "pre-crime" crackdowns on any potentially threatening opposition figures"
Wrong, jackass! Get it right; this is a post-crime apprehension.
I bet Tyler Durden and 99% of people reading this have no clue what Operación Jericó is.
I guess in your opinion that Maduro is going a great job and we should emulate his policies here in the US?
I've been at a rally where people cheered for Maduro and want his policies implemented here with all due haste.
Some of the Trotskyites that come to see him and rave have the perfect little moustashes.
Some of the deep communist jewish and latino 'reformers' that are associated with the fringes of the De Blasio administration in NYC would love to be able to force businessmen they don't like to sell their products at below cost and to throw their opponents in military prison without charges...
I was at Hostos in the Bronx NYC in a professioanl capacity on Sept 23rd, 2014 and saw and heard:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/8/nicolas-maduro-venezuelan...
The vicious racism, deficiency of education, and blind ideological fervor displayed at that location on that date by the Venezuelan delegation and the attendent audience was appalling and frightening.
Throxx of Vron, you guessed wrong. I don't wear labels and do not carry ideological baggage. I am more concerned with the truth of things, and as far as what is going on in Venezuela, we are getting some really bad propaganda, and very little in the way of facts.
I might post up later about what is really going on. You can believe me on this: the truth is way more interesting than the fictions we are being fed.
it's funny, you know. There is one article on ZH about neocolonialism where ZH basically admits how colonialism exploited 3rd world countires yet in another article on ZH it gloats about the plight of Venetzuela, a country that thwe US tried several times to colonize in the last decade.
I guess irony IS lost on the ZH readers.
in US this would be impossible.
The us cops kill you at sight and do not bother to arrest you.
Very good propaganda piece, Tyler. Who contracted you to publish the article? Exactly.
No one should be surprised by Maduro's actions.
Few people would deny that he is a socialist and what he's doing now is what socialists always resort to when the going gets tough and they wreck the economy (which they always do): send in the fascist jackboots to arrest opponents and shut them up. His predecessor Chavez was not much different.
Obola also has his own private armies of thugs: Dept of Fatherland Scurity, FBI, militarised LE and the IRS. Britain has the Met Police and HMR&C (Inland Revenue and HM Customs) who all increasingly ignore the Rule of Law. Even the socialist BBC has its own army of thugs to extract the annual TV licence fee/tax from people who don't pay, by intimidation, threats and blatant harassment.
It goes on. We are in a gathering fascist/corporatist society. The mass surveillance of citizens is one way The State tries to know everything about everybody. The anti-liberty laws passed by .govs are peddled as being for "our" safety but in reality are to protect "them" from us, thereby keeping themselves in power and control.
Meanwhile, not one bankster has been prosecuted for outright criminal fraud which continues unabated, for which there is copious evidence.
Only when the masses wake up will reality hit them in the face.