At first I was a bit surprised that the few users here saying to live in Venezuela pretty much all seem to be supporting the protests, as I've read an article quoting numbers that a private market research bureau just released.
According to their survey, not even every fourth Venezuelan (23%) believes the current protests to be wise or that replacing Maduro would even bring positive change. And almost 75% believe that if even Maduro should be replaced, this should be done the "democratic way" - by public vote, not by violent protest from armed groups.
I guess this can be explained by unrepresentative/small sample size. It seems that similar to the Iranian protests a few years ago, the protesters are not representative of the whole population, but usually belong to a more or less specific population group. In Iran for example, the protesters were almost exclusively from relatively wealthy urban (upper) middle class youths. The situation in Venezuela seems to be quite similar.
So considering that video games are probably still too expensive for typical, relatively poor Venezuelan families, I assume that the Venezuelans posting here tend to be from relatively wealthy middle-class families as well, and are thus likely to feel similar to the protesters.
Anyway, I hope this Capriles guy does not come to power. From what I've read, he seems to be a pretty bad politician who would do just about anything to come to power.
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