In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern,
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
Thank you Fausta for making possible for many to see what happens when democratic institutions collapse and fundamentalists views take over.
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. 🙂
thanks for the tweet, Madcap!