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<h1 id="reader-title">Maduro Hopes US Saved from
Opposition-Style Fascist Hate<br>
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<div id="reader-estimated-time">August 22, 2017<br>
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<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has deplored the
major damage caused to the country during months of
opposition violence, comparing the right-wing protesters
to the white supremacist rioters who rampaged across
Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12.</p>
<p>Speaking at a press conference at the Miraflores
Presidential Palace in Caracas, the head of state
deplored how the “fascist groups” attacked people based
on their observable ethnic characteristics, comparing it
to the recent riots that rocked Charlottesville.</p>
<p>“When I see the images from Charlottesville, I say, 'I
hope the people of the United States will be saved from
fascist hate',” he said. “Because in Venezuela, 29
people were set on fire only because they were perceived
to be Chavistas, or because of the color of their skin –
like mine, mestizo – Black, or by their social position
of seeming to be poor.”</p>
<p>Maduro accused the foreign-backed elements of
attempting to advance a seditious plan to defeat the
Bolivarian Revolution and roll back the gains achieved
by the people of Venezuela, especially those that
benefited the most marginalized.</p>
<p>"In the four months of violence, of human damage, with
more than 100 dead, more than 2,000 injured and ...
material damage ... hospitals, schools, libraries, urban
living centers were attacked," the president said.</p>
<p>“More than 500 buses were burnt, the most modern in the
system. More than 30 large shops, which are administered
by the CLAP (Local Food Production and Provision
Committees), were looted and burnt,” he added, in
reference to the country's low-income food distribution
program.</p>
<p>“Four million families were affected by these burnings,
the national electric service was affected and
attacked,” he said.</p>
<p>Maduro also noted the hypocrisy of global media outlets
that have remained silent about the well-documented and
widely-reported hate crimes committed by the opposition.</p>
<p>“Of course, since it was the right and the
anti-Chavistas that did it, they kept it quiet,” he
noted.</p>
<p>“If it had been reversed – the hypothesis would have
been negated – because we do not set human beings on
fire, we don’t injure people.”</p>
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