The people are taking things into their own hands - what they will wind up doing is another story entirely but it seems that there are a lot of people who want a return to more stable capitalism and a stronger economy. From the Los Angeles Times:
Crowds surge into the streets to demand recall of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro
There are easily over 100,000 people in that photo and there were three streets that were crowded. More:
Nthing was going to stop Nelson Rivas from joining the Taking Caracas demonstration on Thursday — not his wheelchair, not the six-mile distance over uneven pavement, not the whiffs of tear gas, not the ominous threats of arrests from President Nicolas Maduro.
“I came to demand that the recall election take place according to the constitution,” said Rivas, 35. “Whatever your point of view, the condition of the country is the worst.”
Rivas took his place in the ranks that filled Francisco de Miranda Avenue, one of three main streets in the capital brimming with thousands and thousands of protesters, mostly dressed in white. Surrounding him were people carrying posters reading “No more socialism,” “Maduro Out,” and “Venezuela wants a recall.”
The pendulum is swinging back - socialism does not work. Eventually, you run out of other people's money. Some more:
At its peak in 2008, the left held the presidencies of eight of the 10 most populous countries in South and Central America. But those regimes have lost popularity as steep drops in commodity prices badly damaged their economies and left less money to spend on the poor.
Candidates from the right recently won the presidencies of Argentina and Peru, and just this week, Dilma Rousseff was permanently ousted from the presidency in Brazil in an impeachment trial engineered by opponents from the right who now control the government.
But nowhere in Latin America has the rise and fall of the left been as dramatic as in Venezuela, a country that has been on the brink of collapse for the last several months.
Estimates put the crowds at 500,000.
Now that is the people speaking loud and clear. Venezuela has just under 30 million people. This means that one out of sixty of the total population showed up for this march - that is an astounding number for a nation that is 1.3 times the size of our own State of Texas (which has a population of 26.96 million - a few million less than Ve. at 29.275 million).
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