Tragically, nineteen-year old Jose Oliveros was shot to death yesterday in Venezuela. He was just trying to get to work in the state of Carabobo, but came up on the wrong side those peaceful, unarmed opposition demonstrators we keep hearing about, who shot him in the back three times. Oil Wars has more on the tragedy and Spanish speakers can find video of interviews with his family friends here.
Ok, this might sound cold but: So how’s it playing? Glad you asked! Turns out that unlike that self-defensey non-fatal shooting two weeks ago, the press are all of the sudden reluctant to talk about the political perspective of either the shooter or the victim, out of “respect’ or something.
Reuters at least admits that the demonstration where the shooting occurred was “anti-Chavez”, but hesitates to shed any insight into who may have shot him, only saying that there has been a “spate of campaign violence” lately.
But then there was this story from “citizen journalist” cyber-rag Spero News, which provides you with all of the pertinent details, only in reverse:
See, the problem with “citizen journalism” in this country is that it’s compiled by the same dumbass “citizens” you run into around town every day. And in that sense, they are unnervingly similar to the “regular journalists” who kind of drove us up the wall to begin with.
