The Guardian contemptuously (and falsely) reports that 500 or 600 Maduro supporters have turned outside the presidential palace. They either do not know how to count or are relying on liars as will become apparent below. Thousands (NOT hundreds) of people take to the streets in show of solidarity with Venezuelan gov’t
Patricia Torres
A crowd of about 500 or 600 Maduro supporters has gathered outside the presidential palace in Caracas.
One of them is 50-year-old Elsa Aguilar, who lives in Jardines de El Valle, a working class area in west Caracas. She is a member of the Bolivarian Militia – a group set up under Hugo Chávez, in which civilians receive military training.
Elsa Aguilar
I’ve been here since 6.30am. As soon as I heard the news, I took action and came here to Miraflores to fight for my country against these disasters who want to bring in the US, through their lackeys, here in Venezuela. We’re well-organised and we know what to do in moments like this.
Julian Rivero, is a 63-year-old retired former worker with the Misión Barrio Adentro, part of the parallel health system Hugo Chávez built with the help of Cuba. He lives in Valles del Tuy, a commuter town about 40 min southeast from Caracas.
Julian Rivero
Rivero carried a bag of mangos, which he said would keep him going through the day.
I hitchhiked down here because I don’t have the money for the fare. I brought my breakfast, lunch and dinner with me because I’m going to stay and defend the revolution.
I lived through the Venezuela before [Chávez] and I can say that the benefits for the people are much better now.
He had nothing but scorn for the opposition.
That lot want there to be deaths to create chaos in the country, but we don’t want that. We want peace. They are breaking Venezuela.
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) – Thousands of Chavistas took to the streets of Caracas today in a show of solidarity with the Venezuelan government as they face an opposition-led coup.
The photos showed scores of people attending a rally in response to opposition leader Juan Guaido’s call for people to support the military defectors seeking to overthrow the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
teleSURteleSU This is RT footage. The power of their coverage is that they let the cameras do the talking
See this from Russ Fort
Check
out how they have framed it, and compare it to Cambridge Dictionary
and, well, what everyone else means by ‘Uprising’. Without
splitting hairs, bear in mind also that the use of ‘But’ as the
lead-in, implies that something previously had been established
contrary to the Venezuelan government’s assessment – but this
was not and is not the case!
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