It is starting to fall apart - the citizens staged a huge protest on September 1st. Maduro tried to mingle with a crowd of people on the 2nd and was chased by people banging on pots and pans. Here is another report on the Thursday demonstration with some more information and links:
From Breitbart:
Venezuela: Police, Chavista Gangs Attack Million-Strong Crowd Protesting Socialism
Faced with what the opposition is calling, “the largest mobilization of people in the political history of Venezuela,” the nation’s socialist government is using violent police tactics, roving Chavista gangs, and “secret police” arrests of prominent dissidents to attempt to silence dissent.
On Thursday, the opposition organized a protest in the nation’s capital dubbed, “the Caracas Takeover,” attracting between 950,000 and 1.1 million people, according to organizers. The Venezuelan government claims a paltry 30,000, a claim images of the protest make difficult to believe. The Caracas Takeover was a collection of largely peaceful protesters, seen in videos chanting slogans like “Venezuela is hungry” and singing the national anthem on social media.
“We either come out to march or we will die of hunger. We are no longer afraid of the government,” Ana Gonzalez, a protester, told AFP. Due to socialist mismanagement and strict import controls, Venezuela is on the verge of a famine, with most supermarkets severely understocked and up to 90 percent of families unable to secure food for their children on a regular basis.
And the Venezuelan government?
The government began to use police force to crack down on the protest at least a day in advance. The Bolivarian National Guard rounded up international journalists it could not trust to be favorable to President Nicolás Maduro — including reporters from Al Jazeera, Le Monde, The Miami Herald, and the Committee to Protect Journalists — and accused them of violating immigration laws, deporting them immediately.
And:
Reports and video from the outskirts of Caracas show colectivos, armed Chavista gangs the government uses to threaten the opposition, hurling stones at the buses and attacking protesters before they could get to Caracas.
And to think that Venezuela was once the most advanced economy in the whole South American continent. My only prayer is that they get someone decent in office and not another Maduro clone.
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