CELIA FARBER
Many Things Can Be True At Once
This morning, breaking news from Venezuela includes what appears to be police and military joining the (far as I can tell) people-led anti-Maduro protests, even removing their uniforms and bulletproof vests. Some are reporting that Maduro has fled the Miraflores Presidential Palace.
Those of us who still detest a central bank funded criminal, murderous hoax known as “socialism” are therefore, temporarily, happy. But not so fast. (I’ll get to it.)..
They got too sloppy with this steal—you’ll see details below from Thor Halvorssen, of HRF (Human Rights Foundation) who I actually worked for in 2007 for about a year. HRF focuses its human rights watches on abuses in the Americas, and is a unicorn among Human Rights groups for being “anti-communist.” [Halvorssen’s father is Norwegian, his mother Venezuelan.]