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VIDEO Chavez celebrates 11th anniversary by firing tear gas at peaceful demonstrators: 15 Minutes on Latin America

In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern,

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Globovision video report of the demonstration, where Caracas’s Metropolitan Police fired tear gas, water cannon, and rubber bullets at students who were demonstrating for civil rights:

The gutsy woman reporter was in the middle of the whole thing and even continued to report after she and her cameraman donned gas masks.

As I explained in yesterday’s podcast, the students were heading to the National Assembly to demand the right of freedom of speech.

Chavez’s other celebrations included a large rally of his red-shirted followers, and a military parade.

Related reading:
Venezuelan police break up anti-Chavez protest

Venezuelan Engineers’ Association warns against serious energy crisis

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3 Responses to “VIDEO Chavez celebrates 11th anniversary by firing tear gas at peaceful demonstrators: 15 Minutes on Latin America”

  1. Ana Lydia Longo Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 11:59 am

    Thank you Fausta for making possible for many to see what happens when democratic institutions collapse and fundamentalists views take over.

  2. Madcap Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    Interesting that I could not understand the words that were being spoken by that one student, but his passion communicated quite clearly. Sad that a recent poll shows that 36% of Americans have a good opinion of socialism.

    Thank you for your work in informing people of what is going on. I gave this a Tweet. :-)

  3. Fausta Says:
    February 6th, 2010 at 10:33 am

    thanks for the tweet, Madcap!