Venezuela: With feces bullets against the police?

The protests in Venezuela are escalating. For days, young opponents of the government have been throwing bags and bottles filled with feces, excrement and urine at soldiers and police officers of the National Guard, who in turn are trying to push the demonstrators back with tear gas.

Bombas de excremento contra policías in Venezuela

For weeks people in Venezuela have been taking to the streets against the government. They are demonstrating against the catastrophic supply situation, the suppression of freedom of the press and freedom of expression and for free elections. The government has been cracking down on the mass demonstrations since the beginning of April. More than three dozen people have already died. Oppositionists are now calling for their very own resistance on social networks: "To the march of shit". As already mentioned, containers are filled with excrement, which are then thrown at the police and army. «Cocktails Puputov» is the name for it. If she #puputovs In the end, it can bring about social change is questionable, but at least small successes can be noted.

According to media reports, the "stink bombs" were used for the first time last weekend in Los Teques, the capital of the state of Miranda, not far from the capital Caracas. They did not fail to have an effect: A group of security forces made up of officers from the National Guard and the Federal Police then withdrew. Supposedly several had to throw up. Although it is not entirely clear whether and to what extent the reports on the social networks are correct, the idea of ​​the stinky cocktails has spread. Pressure is growing on Maduro from many quarters as civil war could threaten. The dead are mostly supporters of the opposition. But security forces and supporters of the socialists were also killed. The opposition calls on the military to break with Maduro. The demonstrators see Venezuela under the socialists on the way to dictatorship – they are demanding quick new elections and the release of prisoners. Maduro, in turn, accuses the opposition of preparing a coup with the help of President Donald Trump's US government.