Venezuela interior minister sacked after clashes

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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Venezuela-interior-minister-sacked-after-clashes

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro abruptly replaced his interior minister on Friday, weeks after violent clashes in Caracas which left five people dead.

Defense minister Carmen Melendez was named as Miguel Rodriguez Torres' replacement.

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The outgoing interior minister had been saddled with the task of tackling Venezuela's soaring crime rate, which has made the country one of the most violent in the world, according to the United Nations.

Torres Rodriguez's dismissal comes just a few weeks after a clash in Caracas between police and activists from groups loyal to late president Hugo Chavez which left five people dead.

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1. Guess this confirms then that Venezuela is actually run by violent colectivos

Rodriguez-Torres got sacked after one major colectivo called el 5 De Marzo threatened to march to Miraflores palace if RT wasn't replaced. Not surprising, though. All the Chavista big-heads always gave signs that they themselves stemmed from the same rotten patch of weed that Venezuela's street thugs come from, and everyone knows they are all involved in the activities of those criminal gangs. It's the reason why Robert Serra was murdered in the first place: it wasn't some dumb-founded right-wing conspiracy perpetrated by Uribe paras, it was the thugs that Serra got involved with whom he likely owed LOTS of money to. I wouldn't be surprised if they all belonged to some armed colectivo and had something to do with that Odreman guy who was killed in a clash with government police forces. Maduro and co. must be shitting their pants now that they know that these monsters are not afraid to go after high-ranking politicians themselves, as demonstrated by Serra's murder. Wonder how the Chavista useful idiots will try to spin this. Rodriguez-Torres must be doing everything he can now to get out of dodge. He knows he sure as hell ain't same in Venezuela anymore now that he's no longer a Minister and doesn't have Maduro's back. It's kind of amusing how Chavismo is actually collapsing from within. I just hope enough of them get killed by one another with as little civilian casualties as possible. Maduro is doing everything he can to appease the colectivos because they're the unofficial armed branch that they work with to terrorize the general population. If the Colectivos decide to turn against them, then the PSUV essentially has no armed backing since even the military is involved with those gangs.

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2. Chavistas have created their own Frankenstein's

monster with the violent armed colectivos who are now flexing their muscles. Chavez believed he could control them and have his own mini-S.A. to 'protect the Bolivarian Revolution'. What has now happened is that these criminals realize that the State is no longer in any position to challenge, much less control them and are now showing Maduro that they will do whatever they feel like doing. DimSuccessor must be studying travel brochures to see where he's going to go into exile.

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3. Yep, the paramilitaries won this battle. Police were arrested and the minister sacked n/t