Countries in Latin America still fighting

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/world/americas/venezuela-protests/index.html

With the abundance of resources, goods, and human labors, extractive policies, high prices, and government corruption is high throughout Latin America. What makes the government corrupt is not so much their policies, but their dismissal and repression of the community.

In Venezuela, 31 demonstrators have died and 420 are injured. The main grievances from the protesters are crime and high prices. This is similar to the pre-world cup protests in Brazil. President of Venezuela Nicholas Mudaro say that the protesters are the trouble-makers. He tweeted, "you clearly want confrontation more than you want peace."

From a public diplomacy perspective, shaming your citizens for trying to practice their democracy is not the best image to give off. He justifies his statements by implying that protestors in the U.S. would be confronted with police force too if they tried to overthrow the president. However, the president of the united states would publicly dismiss the grievances of his own citizens non-chalantly. President Maduro has shown the world that he is careless with his words and his people.

Since public diplomacy is a form of a manipulation and propaganda, Maduro could have at least pretended that he cared.