Anti-Chavez Venezuelan General fights like a boss:
One of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s most outspoken critics has become the latest rally cry for opposition protesters after engaging in an armed standoff with security forces Sunday.
Retired army Gen. Angel Vivas sported a flak jacket, assault rifle and handgun as he defiantly addressed dozens of neighbours from the balcony of his home in eastern Caracas.
“I’m not going to surrender,” the 57-year-old Vivas yelled to a crowd of cheering followers.
Supporters rushed to Vivas’s defence after he announced to his 100,000-plus followers on Twitter that a group of “Cuban and Venezuelan henchmen” had come looking for him. The officers withdrew after the crowd built barricades outside Vivas’s house. Vivas’s lawyer said they didn’t have an arrest order.
Maduro on Saturday ordered Vivas’s arrest for allegedly encouraging students to stretch wire across streets where they’ve set up barricades in recent weeks. The president blames the apparent booby trap for the death of a government supporter who raced into a barricade on a motorcycle.
Vivas, one of the government’s fiercest critics in the frequently vicious world of Venezuelan social media, rose to prominence in 2007 when he resigned as head of the Defence Ministry’s engineering department rather than order his subalterns to swear to the Cuban-inspired oath “Fatherland, socialism or death.”
The standoff Sunday occurred after hundreds of grandparents danced and paraded their way to the presidential palace to express support for Maduro, who is struggling to contain a wave of anti-government protests that have left at least 10 people dead and more than 100 injured.
Speaking at the rally, Maduro invited sectors of the opposition as well religious and labour leaders to participate in a meeting Wednesday to discuss ways to restore calm in Venezuela.
He also said he hoped that the opposition’s two-time presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, governor of Miranda state, attends a meeting Monday with local authorities to discuss ways to reduce crime, one of the main drivers of the protests.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/angel-vivas-retired-venezuelan-general-resists-arrest-1.2548864
The only thing the CBC got wrong is that in Venezuela they don’t say fatherland, they say “motherland” or “madre patria,” just like the Russians. It’s the Germans that say fatherland or “vaterland.”
As for his tactical rifle, I doubt the average Venezuelan can legally own one of those, so perhaps this was a privilege he got during his days in the military.
This man reminds me of Spartacus, the last episode of the series is named “Victory” even though his army is defeated. Spartacus’ Victory is dying a free man.
This is what the gun haters don’t understand, they think life is worth living even if you have to live as a slave.
We know better.
Our enemies accuse Jefferson of being racist for saying “no freemen shall be debarred of arms,” and their alternative is to make all men equally unarmed. Yet to us that is making all of us slaves. In a free country, we have a choice, we can choose to be armed and proactive or unarmed and reactive.
We can choose the individual security of a firearm or the uncertainty of being unarmed.
I choose guns because I refuse to live like a slave. I refuse to call any man my Dominus. I am the Master of my life, and no slave shall convince me to share his bonds of submission.
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Gregory Smith