Bad News from Venezuela by Macleod Alan;

Author:Macleod, Alan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

Other academic opinions

Between these two extremes there was a range of academic opinions. Buxton (2014) characterized the demonstrations as violent actions carried out by light-skinned students from elitist institutions who were defending the ancien regime and their own privilege. Furthermore, she claims a section of the student movement in Venezuela is deeply embedded with Washington. Student leader Yon Goicoechea was awarded the Cato Institute’s US$500,000 Milton Friedman Prize for advancing liberty for his role in organizing previous anti-government demonstrations and was a member of Leopoldo Lopez’s political party. Ellner (2014a) noted that provoking violence and blaming it on the enemy is a “time-worn tactic” of the opposition, using it, for instance, during the coup of 2002 (as discussed in Chapter 2). He stated that the protesters actions were “terrorism”, cataloging the long list of attacks against civilians, such as the destruction of the Caracas Metro and 90 Metro buses with hundreds of passengers attacked, the complete demolition of a campus of the military school UNEFA and attacks on the Housing Ministry, state-owned food distributors and 162 Cuban doctors (Ibid). However, McCoy (2014) noted that the government was far from blameless and was guilty of fomenting a polarized situation where there was no room for middle ground. Smilde (2014) went further, claiming that it was the “wild” government repression of the protesters that greatly increased their size and engulfed the country in chaos.

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