Last we talked, of course, Venezuelans were protesting president Nicolas Maduro's government for over a week – seemingly over the problems of shortages, inflation, insecurity, the lack of opportunities.
Allegedly, Maduro's government has now blocked social media.
International news outlets have been attacked, and as of typing this, at least 5 people have been killed; one of the most recent was opposition supporter (and beauty queen), Genesis Carmona, who was shot by people riding by on motorcycles.
Thousands of Venezuelans are still in the streets protesting.
The footage and pictures coming from this, are very very intense.
And it's going to be interesting to see what does happen; and as things keep developing I will, of course, keep you up to date.
The other international news I want to blog about – I've been blogging about it all week – is Ukraine. The situation continues to get worse and worse, and worse (especially if you've been keeping up with the news, or the live stream link that I've been including). There are many more deaths. As of typing this, 70 people have been killed. That number coming from medic with the opposition; and the AP notes it has not been verified right now.
Protesters have been capturing policemen.
There is now video footage of what looks to be policemen sniping at protesters.
And this is followed by footage of the actual protesters being hit, so you know that it's live ammo and not something else.
The protesters were fighting back with bricks, Molotov cocktails.
There have been reports of small arm fire.
A lot of what I know is happening on the ground, are coming from the people actually there, and non-American sites.
Lol, I typed that because when you go to many American sites, this is what you see:
This is literally CNN.com right now; 'cause who in mainstream media cares about people being murdered in the streets? Those people aren't Americans, you know who's an American? The $19 billion app.
And, on FOXNEWS.com, you don't really care about that, Obama didn't cause that, we're worried about the "government in the newsroom"!
On MSNDC.com, we care what Chris Christie is going to say.
Venezuela and Ukraine aren't even in the top ten things!
I thought for a second maybe HLN was covering it. I was like, "Oh, they're going to sensationalize it!", but then I remembered they're the missing-white-girl/trying-to-use-YouTubers-to-have-some-sort-of-relevance-in-this-day-of-age channel.
And then, ABC, lol, actually ABC News was reporting on it – it was their number one story.
And this is just me venting on it. Genuinely, I hate blogging about stuff like this, because there's no twist to it, or silver lining, or happy thing. But the fact that the other guys with actual journalism degrees don't, or they at least wait until they know that they can make it sexy in some way, that's the reason why I do, that's the reason I will continue. Why? Because I think that it's more important that more people know about this than Facebook acquiring WhatsApp.
I think that's where I want to actually end this article. All that typed, I'd love to know your thoughts too.
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