ABBA NETWORK

The “23 de Enero”, emblematic date the fall of Marcos Perez Jimenez, the last dictatorship in Venezuela defeated 52 years ago, was celebrated today by some against President Hugo Chávez and others for in Caracas. Each side vied to show higher turnout among their ranks, but television cameras showed the mass rallies paths, both Chavez and the opposition, the final decision rests with the protesters.

The best way to measure participation in each gear is engaged, no matter the ideological color to which it belongs, and see the differences on each side. In Caracas is not as difficult to reach a conclusion for the reader. The opposition in attendance outnumbered the ruling-three to one, if you compare the two performances on the street.
If opponents said it took between 350,000 to 500,000 protesters as the panoramic views of the ruling say they outscored the opposition with a vengeance. However, the official television cameras showed footage always closed and never along the avenues of its travel.

The Venezuelan capital was divided into two extremes with very marked. On one side, west of the city was a territory of the officer, whose departure from the Flag and New Granada came to the central Plaza OLeary of Silence, about 3 to 5 miles.
The opposition, however, ordered his journey from Las Mercedes and Plaza Venezuela to lead on Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Chacao, Altamira, Parque del Este, La California, Los Ruices and end up in the vial (round) of Petare. That adds a distance of 17 kilometers.

Opponents took several slogans, including the main “Chavez Ponchao tas” in the language game of baseball means “you’re defeated.” The second, conceived by filmmaker Thaelman Urguelles says the blame of the child “showing the president in diapers and getting rid of the responsibility of the energy crisis.
The opposition was large and well nourished. The eleven games that bring together the officers of the unit also called the march of the student movement and the civil sector. They had every reason to protest: currency devaluation, bank intervention, expropriation of supermarkets and shops, rationing of electricity and water, and insecurity.

Instead Chavez participants are public servants who were forced to attend the official launch with the “blackmail of not paying the salary if they were not going to fly”. Hundreds of officers took buses to the demonstration activists Chavez.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel in his uniform from red cap said “the engine of 23 January was the PCV and the oligarchy took over democracy. We can not allow the same thing happen again. ”
Minister of Public Works and Housing, Diosdado Cabello, said “We are on the street saying Chavez, our commander that this is the power of the people. In the parliamentary elections of September 26 and win “.

An hour and a half before finishing the walk, as at 12 noon sectors The California and Los Ruices Avenue Francisco de Miranda, 300 meters from the roundabout Petare, already crowded with opposition demonstrators.
The metropolitan mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, “the opposition unity is above all. United we will move forward. We see a positive change in spite of government benefits.

The former governor of Miranda, Enrique Mendoza, predicted that the next 26 d September, the date of parliamentary elections “we will succeed.”

At Plaza Altamira opposition demonstrator said, “nothing in this country works. Let’s throw out the votes Chavez. This government has failed at everything. ”

Enrique Mora said he was going to mark the death of Spanish Maritza Ron, who was gunned down in the Plaza Altamira for demonstrating against Chavez last 5 years.

Before closing the walk in the rotunda of Petare, Carlos Ocariz, mayor of Sucre, the former stronghold until Chavez in 2008 snatched the opposition said the opposition demonstration was spontaneous. “There were no buses or blackmail to come as Chavismo.