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RIOTS---ANOTHER LIVE REPORT FROM CARACAS!

ANOTHER LIVE REPORT, FROM A COLOMBIAN REPORTER IN CARACAS, WORKING FOR RADIO CARACOL, COLOMBIA.
RIOTS---ANOTHER LIVE REPORT FROM CARACAS!!! (english)
J. 10:38am Sat Apr 13 '02 (Modified on 12:06pm Sat Apr 13 '02)
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PRO-CHAVEZ PROTESTERS ARE BATTLING POLICE IN CARACAS RIGHT NOW!!!

ANOTHER LIVE REPORT, FROM A COLOMBIAN REPORTER IN CARACAS, WORKING FOR RADIO CARACOL, COLOMBIA.

STREETS ARE IN CHAOS. FIRES ARE BEING LIT. BARRICADES ARE BEING ERECTED. PROTESTERS SAY THIS IS COUP D'ETAT, A GOLPE, A POWER GRAB. THEY SAY REPORTERS AND CITIZENS ARE BEING ATTACKED BY THE POLICE. SOME HAVE BEEN KILLED, BUT NO NUMBERS REPORTED. EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX. RUMOURS CIRCULATE ABOUT SIMILAR ENFRENTAMIENTOS (CONFRONTATIONS, CLASHES) IN THE CAPITALS OF OTHER STATES IN VENEZUELA.

THE SOUNDS OF ANGRY PROTESTERS COULD BE HEARD CLEARLY, AS WELL AS EXPLOSIONS (GUNSHOTS PERHAPS, OR THE FIRING OF GAS GRENADES). THE STREETS ARE FULL OF TEAR GAS. THERE IS LOOTING.

PROTESTERS ARE SAID TO BE SUPPORTERS OF CHAVEZ, PROTESTING THE NEW REGIME, WHICH HAS NO DEMOCRATIC BASIS, WAS NOT ELECTED, NOR IS IT EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL, GIVEN CHAVEZ'S RESIGNATION.

PROTESTERS WERE EXTREMELY ANGRY, DENOUNCING THE BRUTALITY OF THE POLICE AND OF THE REGIME. THEY SPOKE WELL OF CHAVEZ, WHO THEY SAID WAS A MAN OF THE PEOPLE, FORCED OUT BY THE RICH.

WHERE ARE CNN, MSNBC. THEY SEEM TO BE DRONING ON AND ON ABOUT COLLIN POWELL. THE MIDDLE EAST IS IMPORTANT. BUT LIVE RIOTS IN CARACAS SHOULD BE NEWS, AND SHOULD ALSO BE REPORTED LIVE ON ANGLOPHONE MEDIA!!!
 
 

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