Social networks are up against Chavez

Take care, we'll kill." The controversy in Latin America are among the supporters of Hugo Chávez has moved online. It began with an initiative to mobilize people around the world on the streets to protest against the Bolivarian leader lenguaraz Sept. 4. The threatening message was received in one of the sites 'online' who are spreading such mobilization, under the name Nomaschavez.org.
Meanwhile, Venezuela's Attorney General Luisa Ortega said last Friday that some people look for "any reason to manifest and create chaos" and that "those behaviors fit perfectly into the crime of civil rebellion, for which local law provides for sentences of 12 to 24 years in prison. "I wish that those who rise up in hostility against the Government constituted, should know what are the consequences," said Ortega. These statements were made by the Attorney General to refer to "violent events in the march" held last August 22 by the opposition against the Organic Law of Education.

The call to an international outcry was created in Facebook just a week ago, by Alejandro Gutierrez, 28, a Colombian who claims to be "apolitical." The couple created a website entitled 'No more Chavez, inviting all who would join peacefully in a repudiation of Chavez. Within hours, the site received the support of thousands of people and various groups. It also created a dozen other sites under the same name in the social network and also on Twitter. The call is now more than 235,000 members and are organizing rallies in major cities worldwide.
Objective: 'Unmasking Chavez'.
"Wake up and rise against the dictatorship of Chávez" promote web sites, and ask people to come close to meeting places with white shirts and peace, to ask for values like "respect, dignity, democracy, the right to live in peace, freedom of press, among others. "We are the sum of individuals, not constitute a movement with a command directive, therefore the success of this protest depends on the individual leadership that everyone can achieve in their hometown, they clarify the promoters.

Critical messages and threats against the initiative but are multiplied by Sergio Prieto, one of the organizers Colombians residing in Florida, do not feel intimidated. "Moreover, pushes us to go harder. We want to expose Chavez and realize that things are doing in Venezuela where there is no freedom of expression. Chavez talks Yankee intervention, but he is one of the more interventionist have been known. Now you want your program 'Alo Presidente' to expand the border of Colombia. "

The concentrations will be in major Latin American cities from countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador and Peru, while in Europe have been confirmed in Spain, France, Holland and Italy. The United States expects to move in Boston, Chicago, Miami, Cincinnati, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Orlando, Houston, Atlanta, Utah and New Jersey. "We have received emails up to Tokyo to make progress repudiation," says Prieto. The main and initial protest will be in Bogota, "permits are being processed, but with or without permission we will go out," says Prieto.
Nomaschavez.org also part of the new communications phenomenon. The Facebook page was created on Monday 24 August and so far has 235,198 members and has received nearly 7,000 messages. "This came from Miami to Colombia. We are the generation of the Internet and organize it with Alejandro Gutierrez, a childhood friend with whom I went to college. Chat with me every day. On Monday, 24 were chatting and I said why not create a group 'No more Chavez, because we are tired of your anti-Colombian, "says Prieto.

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