Well according to Maduro, the plotters plotted in the US of A. Last I heard this morning he arrested 6 of the most loud demonstrators. So we're getting the blame....again.
We were in Caracas in '76. There was a bit of Anti American graffiti I saw back then. They had armed military walking around in downtown Caracas. We had the son of a friend in our group. He had long hair and shorts on. We walked out of a shop and several soldiers had him at gunpoint and were yelling at him. A friendly shopkeeper began yelling at the soldiers while we hustled the kid into his store. It seems that long hair on men and wearing shorts in the city proper was frowned on.
We had lunch at the military base and there were two huge monuments on the parade grounds. They were covered with names of those who died in their civil war of independence. There were a lot of American names on those monuments. It seems to never fail that those we help with our blood and treasure manage to screw us in some way after awhile.
