Ecocide shows lack of ethical grounds for the Venezuelan opposition

by William Mora

When Venezuelan opposition called to create a state of commotion that could allow then to oust the legitimate president Nicolas Maduro, elected by democratic ballot, they always knew that will be casualties and other fatalities, from which they do not repent, on the contrary, they stimulate to go even further.  So far has being 45 days of focal terror on few upper and  middle class neighbourhoods in some Venezuelan cities with a toll of 39 assassinations directly link to road barricade named “guarimbas”  which are under the reach of snipers that prevent anybody to clear the road under their watch. We have to add more than 500 injured people directly linked to the guarimbas and a bigger number of indirect casualties and injured due to circumstances that could never end in such if the political terror tactics imposed upon the population had never started. The scale of material damages caused to private and public property is just beyond acceptable.

As if this was not yet enough the opposition has committed other kind of crime against other living beings, that only sensitive people can understand and denounce it.

To build the blockades and barricades on the streets, the Venezuelan opposition has chop and knock down ornamental trees on the main roads of the cities. Around 5000 trees has being knock down for this only purpose in the last days of focal violence, out of them 200 were considered patrimonial listed trees to be protected and preserved. The opposition actions do not stop there, they has carry out forest fires on emblematic parks only with the purpose of affecting electrical facilities and cut off the electricity to main cities. That happened on Caracas this ending week. Around 300 forestall fire has being count so far, many in national parks and areas of protected fauna and flora with very sensitive ecosystems.  The national park Henri Pitier, Waraira Repano, Chorro del Indio are among some of them attacked.

The level of irrationality of the Venezuelan opposition has considered as a valid tactic to set fire on living dogs and through then on the barricades to act as a deterrence for who ever deer to clean the barricades. The latest move is to use dog as a bomb-carriers, and set the explosive on when the dog is near the police officers. On the following audio you can hear their communications instructing each other to take those criminal actions, this recording was made public the day of today, the speakers are in Spanish and there no English subtitles yet.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-nwIXfbRg&feature=player_embedded )

All this violence has being justify upon the stand that the opposition has much better ethical grounds than the bolivarian revolution to rule Venezuela. The evidences shows the contrary.