😦 Sorrowful news of not news …meanwhile the unjustifiable actions of a hostile government against innocent people, civilians, students, HUMANS that are only fighting with whatever they have and however they can for their RIGHTS, their land, their DREAMS, their FUTURE !!! … how is this not important to the high institutions that defend human rights and the governments around the world? Have we lost our compassion, our common sense, our love for one another? Where is our sense of humanity? Since when killing and terrorizing innocent people is normal? Since when it is normal to see governments destroying their nations?Are all these atrocities become way too normal? or is easier just to ignore the pain and cries for help of our own kind?
San Cristobal on Tuesday night
Dear International Editor:
Listen and understand. The game changed in Venezuela last night. What had been a slow-motion unravelling that had stretched out over many years went kinetic all of a sudden.
What we have this morning is no longer the Venezuela story you thought you understood.
Throughout last night, 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’s just…
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