In order to refute the regime´s claims and troll campaign that qualified this incident as fake news, I had to collect different video accounts to try to rebuild the events through different angles.
Denouncing Brutality
A “People´s Guard” points his gun to the head of Marvinia Jimenez, a disabled, unarmed woman who was peacefully protesting the autocratic and inept regime of Nicolas Maduro. She points at the heart in her dress, trying to bring reason to the officer. Seconds later, Marvinia was pushed down to the asphalt, while a female officer sat on her, repeatedly beating her sadistically with her helmet in the head.
Marvinia was then taken into custody and charged of aggression. The government denied all involvement, said the guards were not using lethal weapons in a demonstration and blamed Marvinia of the incident.
We all saw what happened, and how it did, in Youtube.
Fear of a heart, that´s what I call this image.
2017, Again.
Besides retweeting and reposting the occurring events during the protests in Venezuela during Feb of 2014, it was needed to confront those who because their ideologies were not speaking up their held flagship principles. Hollywood figures, regional leaders, all stood silent while people were massacred in the streets of Venezuela. Is not that they didn’t care, it did just not worked to their agendas. This was hypocritical at best. Dismissals of inf as fake news had to be debunked but then used as a communication instrument.
This effort was far from individual. A lot of people of all walks in life came together to produce this campaigns. Some did the research, someone else wrote them, some designed them, some translated them in five languages, and all of us posted this to the wind ina truly collective and burning spirit. I cannot credit myself alone for this work. I really don’t know who did what except that I gave the content a visual approach. It was FUENTEOVEJUNA.
Populism
Protests started again in 2017. The regime was even more prepared and militarily strengthened. People were crushed after four months of straight, day to day streets protests. Students were massacred with shots to the head at a rate of two to four per day. At the end, the people were even betrayed by some of the main opposition leaders, leaving them orphaned, bleeding, disorganized and alone. Today people search for food in trash cans, die in hospitals or in cues for food without the most essential medicine, are born in the ground, or are extorted and killed by organized gangs backed by the government as their own parallel social control forces. To say dystopia falls short of what the Chavista regime of Nicolas Maduro has achieved, by the destruction of a once beautiful, paradisiac, warm and tropical country.
In today´s world, the left and the right are just words. Leaders around the world have taken notice of the methods of populism and have taken advantage of the decaying conditions of the corrupted status quo. The axis today, more than dwindle between a one-dimensional line of left and right, is more dangerously hanging from an axis of autocracy or essential freedoms. Violence and ignorance fuel the flames of division, and some elites are more than willing to participate to take advantage. History will not judge us lightly as we look as bystanders.
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