Politics

Bridgegate Redux: the Government shuts down access to Caracas

Without even a pretense of a reason other than to preven people protesting, chavismo is effectively shutting down all the main routes into Caracas. El que es un bebé de pecho no es Erdoğan, sino Chris Christie.

Francisco Toro

Without even a pretense of a reason other than to preven people protesting, chavismo is effectively shutting down all the main routes into Caracas.

Twitter is awash right now with images like:

There are more and more reports of soldiers stopping and harassing people en route to the protest:

Or plain old preventing buses from taking the road to Caracas:

As soldiers block the access points, impromptu little rallies sprout up at the choke-points:


But here’t the mood people are in: if you shut down the highway, we’ll just walk.

And Sebastian de la Nuez closes in resonant form:

Today, there’s a gigantic, 18 kilometer queue to acquire not sugar but freedom.

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