Venezuelans use people power to attack Chavez
By Phil Gunson in Caracas, from The Independent (London) Burning barricades erected by opposition protesters blocked streets and motorways in many parts of the Venezuelan capital yesterday, as...
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Eyewitness report: Santa Rosa de Lima Uprising
The detail you don’t get from a newspaper, you get from a blog. The following eye-witness report is gripping in its detailed description of the incongruous atmosphere gripping...
Report from the scene
A Caracas high school teacher writes in: I have several students living in Terrazas del Avila (far northeast Caracas.) According to them, the ones shooting into buildings last...
Venezuelans use people power to attack Chavez
By Phil Gunson in Caracas, from The Independent (London) Burning barricades erected by opposition protesters blocked streets and motorways in many parts of the Venezuelan capital yesterday, as...
118 political detainees at least and counting...
Speaking for the Coordinadora Democratica, Luis Manuel Esculpi said there are 70 political detainees in Caracas and at least 30 more in Anzoategui State. El Universal reports 18...
Just to give a taste to foreign readers...
As to the degree of the craziness gripping Venezuela, chew on this for a bit. There are now repeated reports of DISIP (i.e. Chavez controlled State security police)...
118 political detainees at least and counting...
Speaking for the Coordinadora Democratica, Luis Manuel Esculpi said there are 70 political detainees in Caracas and at least 30 more in Anzoategui State. El Universal reports 18...
Call for eye-witness statements
If you’ve been out in the streets of Caracas today and want to share what you saw, I encourage you to write an eye-witness statement and email it...
Eyewitness report...
Author’s name withheld to protect the cadid was just in altamira. man is that a ridiculous scene. it’s basically a mixed crowd of popular class teenage hoodlums along...
Just to give a taste to foreign readers...
As to the degree of the craziness gripping Venezuela, chew on this for a bit. There are now repeated reports of DISIP (i.e. Chavez controlled State security police)...
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