Venezuela: chaos and thuggery take the place of the pretty revolution

From my first glance at the title of such piece of news, it came to my mind the case of the first 18 days of the Egyptian revolution, while witnessing a lot of aggression and human rights violations from the security police and the thuggery actions performed by the prisoners that was released intentionally at that time. Just like the situation in Venezuela right now. The pretty revolution, as it was named by Hugo Chávez, had come to witness a lot of aggressiveness during these last days in Venezuela. Among others, the 222- years-old beauty queen was shot dead and people are terrified at their home putting shields on the windows to protect them from the bullets. Despite the fact that the Human Rights Watch accused the security of excessive and unlawful actions against the peaceful demonstrators, but the situation is always escalating with more killing, beating and jailing by the security. While in fact, all the demonstration at the different cities all over Venezuela were arose as a result of the increase of the uncontrolled crime to such a huge percentage along with the oppression leaded by the government against its people.

Written by,
Youssef Mekawy

(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/venezuela-protests-thuggery-pretty-revolution)