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Venezuela preparing huge # vamospal23<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23vamospal23&src=hash> march to defend against opposition destabilisation revolution plans * *BarriotvBarriotv *@ *Barrio_TV* <https://twitter.com/Barrio_TV> historical context January 23, 1958 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPODHnScXSA&feature=youtu.be&a ------------------------------------------------- Visit the blog of the January 23rd Parish in Caracas where tomorrow rally will end up coming from the 4 points in the city. [image: EL23.NET] <http://el23net.blogspot.com/> http://el23net.blogspot.com/ SONS OF 23 <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TbTpVB6B9QY/TgD5uV8o4EI/AAAAAAAAGXo/6IYEjuxBLJA/s1600/Diptico+por+los+m%25C3%25A1rtires+del+23+de+Enero.jpg> Omar Pinto, Sergio Rodriguez, Cheo Pirela, Luis Matute, Ramon Antonio Alvarez, Carlos Vielma, Javier Arias, Jairo Emilio Diaz, Yuri Villegas, Carlos Hernandez Anzola, Williams Villamizar, Marisol Valera, Nelson Pacin, Amado González, Carlos Dorante, Eriberto Eguirrola Jose Vicente Ochoa, Ali Gomez Garcia, Alexis Gonzalez Revette, Lenni Diego Santana. All of these names are stamped very particular: are children of Jan. 23. Those who are gone, who gave their lives by going after struggles for change an unjust and corrupt society still embraces us. And we could name many others. Make a long list of martyrs, men born to be planted in these broad areas of commitment and solidarity for the one and the other, by all. Today, January 23, Caracas neighborhood, neighborhood martyrs, pays honor to his children, who are gone, but who have joined us in the fight. Honor and Glory to the fallen! José Roberto Duque<http://www.facebook.com/JoseRobertoDuque> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5qFPadNV05A/SrJc__iDN9I/AAAAAAAADjA/9_tOSB9S0nU/s1600-h/DSC05162_preview.jpg> Posted by Gustavo Borges<http://www.blogger.com/profile/04562767598784149163> <http://www.blogger.com/profile/04562767598784149163>at 8:58<http://el23deenerogalerias.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html> <http://el23deenerogalerias.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html>No comment: <http://el23deenerogalerias.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html#comment-form> on January 23<http://el23deenerogalerias.blogspot.com/2009/09/el-23-de-enero.html> The"Punto Fijo Democracy With the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on January 23, 1958, a new era in the history of Venezuela began that some have labeled the Punto Fijo Democracy. This term refers to the pact signed between three political parties Democratic Action (AD in Spanish), the Political Electoral Independent Organization Committee (COPEI) and the Democratic Republican Union (URD) on October 31, 1958, to guarantee the stability of democracy, through the egalitarian participation of these parties in the executive cabinet of the government in power. The Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) was excluded from this pact, along with other leftist groups, despite their arduous fight against the military dictatorship. In practice, this pact set the basis for a bipartisan system that greatly restricted all economic and political power to the elites associated to the AD and COPEI parties. The presidents of this era were: Wolfgang Larrazábal (1958-1959), Edgar Sanabria (1959), Rómulo Betancourt (1959-1964), Raúl Leoni (1964-1969), Rafael Caldera (1969-1974), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1974-1979), Luis Herrera Campins (1979-1984), Jaime Lusinchi (1984-1989), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989-1993), Octavio Lepage (1993), Ramón José Velásquez (1993-1994) and Rafael Caldera (1994-1999). The years of representative democracy in Venezuela were governed by the Constitution of 1961. Nevertheless, it can be said that democracy during those years was only intended for a certain elite sector of the population. Not only were serious human rights violations committed during these governments such as the selective and systematic disappearance and torture of citizens but they also guaranteed a policy of managing petroleum income for the benefit of just a few national technocratic sectors and transnational interests. In this fashion, in a country where petroleum income represented most of the national income, the Venezuelan population was left abandoned in basic areas such as health, nutrition and education, leaving a large percentage of them in poverty. This situation, along with overall corruption and the application of neoliberal policies in the late 80s and early 90splacing the weight of the macroeconomic recovery measures on the weakest sectorscontributed to creating a state of general discontentment and dissatisfaction within the people. The popular uprisings of February 27-28, 1989 (the Caracazo); the military actions of February 4 and November 27, 1992; and the democratic election of citizen Hugo Rafael Chávez on December 6, 1998, were part of a process of upheaval and social change in the waning years of the Punto Fijo democracy. http://venezuela-us.org/historia-2/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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