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A lot of people have died in Kiev this week. We know that because the media has been showing us the dramatic images of fires and clashes. The Washington Post has two articles about the Ukraine on it’s front page today, including the lead article. Same thing on the New York Times. But, you know what’s not on the front page of either? The riots in Venezuela which are just as dramatic and violent. The riots in Venezuela began when the main opponent of the current regime, Leopoldo Lopez, was arrested and tossed in jail on charges of murder, terrorism and arson. The murder and terrorism charges have been dropped<\/a>, but Lopez remains in jail. The riots in Venezuela have claimed lives, including a Venezuelan beauty queen<\/a>, in a country jam-packed with beauties, 22-year-old Genesis Carmona. But, the media is reluctant to cover it. I wonder if it’s because it’s only a bunch of brown people.<\/p>\n

The blogger, Francisco Toro, a Venezuelan ex-patriot at Caracas Chronicles<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n

Throughout last night [Wednesday-Thursday], panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting. People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street. And that\u2019s just what came out in real time, over Twitter and YouTube, before any real investigation is carried out. Online media is next, a city of 645,000 inhabitants has been taken off the internet amid mounting repression, and this blog itself has been the object of a Facebook \u201cblock\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

What we saw were not \u201cstreet clashes\u201d, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Armed thugs are roaming the streets suppressing opposition to a thuggish regime. Sounds like the stuff that the liberals in this country could get vocal about, doesn’t it? I mean, that’s what liberals like to claim about themselves – they’re human rights activists, right? But they’re strangely silent now. Three US diplomats have been expelled from Venezuela, because the government claims that the Great Satan is behind the protests in an attempt to get a regime change. As if this president has the cojones<\/em> to sponsor a regime change anywhere. But, the US is to blame for anything in that part of the world.<\/p>\n

A CNN news crew was relieved of their cameras and broadcast equipment at gun point by a group of secret police on motorcycles;<\/p>\n