{"id":309020,"date":"2017-05-20T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T09:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/striking-video-venezuelan-police-unleash-devastating-water-cannon-on-protesters\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T09:24:52","slug":"striking-video-venezuelan-police-unleash-devastating-water-cannon-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/striking-video-venezuelan-police-unleash-devastating-water-cannon-on-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking Video: Venezuelan Police Unleash Devastating Water Cannon On Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-19\/striking-video-venezuelan-police-unleash-devastating-water-cannon-protesters\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 19, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the protests that have rocked Venezuela over the past few months can teach us anything,\u00a0<em>it\u2019s that the Maduro regime is desperately clinging to power<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/shocking-video-venezuelan-police-unleash-devastating-water-cannon-on-protesters_05172017\">As SHTFplan.com\u2019s Mac Slavo writes,<\/a>\u00a0protests are normal in any country, but when they occur every day for weeks on end, and result in dozens of deaths, it\u2019s obvious that the government is in an unstable position. And as the government grows more desperate, their methods of controlling the population will always become more extreme.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what\u2019s happening in Venezuela, where the police have\u00a0<strong>unleashed a devastating water cannon on protesters<\/strong>, which has been\u00a0<strong>referred to as \u201cLa Ballena,\u201d or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/watch-socialists-turn-whale-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Whale.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/psQRhKjAEI8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You may be wondering how the police in Venezuela could live with themselves after inflicting this kind of carnage on their fellow citizens, week after week. How could they physically defend such an atrocious regime?\u00a0<strong>It turns out that the riot cops in Venezuela are just as desperate and fed-up with the government as everyone else in that country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed eight police officers in Venezuela, and discovered that the police are completely demoralized. Many of them hate the government, but they can\u2019t find work anywhere else.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/riot-police-on-venezuelas-front-lines-seek-a-way-out-1495013403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They\u2019re willing to fight the protesters for a mere $40 a month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne day I will step aside and just walk away, blend into the city,\u201d she said.\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cNo average officers support this government anymore.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>security forces\u2019 once fierce loyalty to Mr. Maduro\u2019s charismatic predecessor Hugo Ch\u00e1vez has largely given way to demoralization, exhaustion and apathy\u00a0<\/strong>amid\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/as-venezuelas-default-risk-rises-battle-heats-up-for-control-of-refiner-citgo-1494759601\">an economic collapse<\/a>\u00a0and endless protests, said eight security officers from different forces and locations in interviews with The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them say they want only to earn a steady wage amid\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/venezuela-is-starving-1493995317\">crippling food shortages<\/a>\u00a0and a decimated private&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/striking-video-venezuelan-police-unleash-devastating-water-cannon-on-protesters.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeMay 19, 2017 If the protests that have rocked Venezuela over the past few months can teach us anything,\u00a0it\u2019s that the Maduro regime is desperately clinging to power.\u00a0 As SHTFplan.com\u2019s Mac Slavo writes,\u00a0protests are normal in any country, but when they occur every day for weeks on end, and result in dozens of deaths, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}