The real face of Daniel Ceballos | CRIME |Axisoflogic.com

L-R Leopoldo Lopez, former mayor of the Chacao municipality of Caracas, participant in the 2002 coup d'état & founder of Voluntad Popular political party; Daniel Ceballos, former mayor of San Cristobal; and Enzo Scarano, former mayor of San Diego.

Lopez was mayor of the Chacao municpality of Caracas from 2000- 2008 and was then banned from holding public office of any kind by the Comptroller General for embezzlement of PDVSA funds in 1998 to found Primero Justicia and then again in 2006 for embezzling milions of bolívares of his muncipality's budget. Later he left Primero Justicia to found the Voluntud Popular party in January, 2011. He should be eligible to stand for office again later this year depending on the outcome of the criminal charges against him. He is currently in prison without bail, awaiting trial for his leading role in the violent attacks that began here in February.

Ceballos and Scarano have been adjudicated by the courts and found guilty of inciting-to-riot and other related crimes after they refused to obey a court order to deploy their local police and stop the violent attacks in their mayoralities. Ceballos and Scarano received 12 month and 10 month sentences respectively. Human Rights Watch and the corporate media in Venezuela, the US and Europe are calling for the release of all 3, claiming they are victims of repression by the state.

Daniel Ceballos was the mayor of the city of San Cristobal in Venezuela's Tachira State on the Colombian border until last week. San Cristobal is where the assault on the socialist government and Venezuelan democracy began on February 12, 2014 and then spread to terror cells already planted across the country in a coup plan hatched in Washington.

Ceballos not only refused to obey a court order to deploy his police and stop the violence in his precinct but also supported the mobs materially and logistically. As a result, the courts stripped him of his office as mayor and ordered his arrest for inciting-to-riot and other related crimes. He received due process in the courts and now sits in prison with a 12 month sentence. Considering the death and destruction he caused, in our view his sentence should have been 12 years, not 12 months. This video shows him speaking (Spanish) in full support of the weeks-long assault in San Cristobal mixed with clips of the attacks and destruction he supported while in office. Meanwhile Human Rights Watch and the international media pitted against Venezuela call for his release saying he is a victim of repression of "peaceful student protests."

(2 more videos of the attacks on the National Guard in Altamira follow this one)

- Les Blough in Venezuela

Rioters Return to Altamira on March 2. The National Guard responds with tear gas. Where's the "police brutality and repression of peaceful student protests" claimed by Human Rights Watch and the international media? (See our first eye witness account and photo essay of the February 28 attack on the National Guard in Altamira)

And a short video of the first attack on the National Guard in Altamira on February 27. The "cracks" that you hear are not gunshots. They are either the firing of teargas projectiles or Molotov cocktails exploding.