Maduro security forces round up Venezuelans involved in protests in 'operation knock-knock'

Nothing to see here, just a democratic country at work.

He lost. He knows it. The opposition knows it. His neighbors know it.

This is desperation.

We will see if it works or not.

Right-wing coup sympathizers should be shown no quarter and be fully held accountable for their despicable behaviour.

If there is proof of their violent actions, I'm good with them being prosecuted using a disconnected, fair, judge.

OTOH, if there isn't any proof of any violence - they were just walking and yelling, then they need to be left alone and this is police abuse of power.

Only the people of Venezuela will be able to solve their President problem. I look forward to reading about Maduro "fleeing the country" soon, so the people of Venezuela can have fair, open, elections, without govt tampering.

its simple just install american puppet and from that very second Venezuela will be "example of democracy"...

Let's remember, we saw everything play out the same way last time, including the eventual admission that the accusations of rigging and proof thereof had been baseless.

Maduro lost this elections, he did also lost the previous elections. He and his cabinet are thieves, murderer communists and we, Venezuelans, don't want Communism. We don't want Maduro. I hope no other country ever goes through the nighmare we are going through. We need international help to out those thieves

JJEToday 08:08 am JST

Right-wing coup sympathizers should be shown no quarter and be fully held accountable for their despicable behaviour.

Should they be FSB'd if their socks are the wrong color?

Using violence to overthrow an elected government should not and will not be tolerated - in Venezuela or other places.

Harsh penalties for neo-fascist thugs who engage or attempt to engage in that derisive behaviour, whether successful or not is the only appropriate, decent response.

Apologists will claim that demonstrating against a stolen election is violence but that doesn't make it so.

More than 2,000 detentions were just for protesting.

Thankfully we don't have to address the concerns of those who say there will be no invasion before invading.

There has been violent thuggery, attacks on police and mass destruction of property already reported - these aren't some innocent people holding up signs. This is organized, foreign financed chaos on a brutal scale designed to destabilize the country.

There has been a stolen election already reported. This isn't an election that will pass muster with people that aren't sheep.

Just because the NATO smoke blowers blow it out of their trumpet about 'stolen elections', doesn't make it true.

They lied the time before that. And the time before that. And the time before that. They have a history of deception on this matter that is unparalleled.

Maduro needs to show the vote counting ballots. What is he hiding?

Certain commentators who dream about all things NATO will ignore the fact that there are lots of non-NATO countries demanding the receipts.

Two members of the military have been killed, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Yes, these are 'peaceful protestors'. The paragraph before this lists some of the violent, criminal behaviour these 'peaceful protestors' have been up to. Shocking stuff.

Venezuelans continue to suffer because flukes of nature occurring over millions of years created oil and gas, and those resources have been used by corrupt leaders for generations to enrich themselves and their most loyal followers while ignoring those not part of the regime. It's long passed time to shift out of the fossil era and find alternatives to burning huge amounts of oil and gas that don't further enrich corrupt politicians and do not heavily pollute the environment. Not surprising the usual anti-democracy posters are pointing at the US - certainly not a pure neutral in this situation but ignoring Russia and China's involvement in Venezuela, and other places where oil and gas are found.