By Simón Rodríguez Originally published by The New Arab, August 6 Photograph: Fernando Vergara Massive protests have erupted across Venezuela. Repression has left more than two thousand people arrested, many of them forcibly disappeared, hundreds injured and 22 killed in a week. In hundreds of cities, in the poorest barrios, self-convened crowds have taken to the streets in … Continue reading Nicolás Maduro’s fraud foretold
Venezuelanvoices.org Picture: AFP In May, former ultra-right-wing paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso made four appearances before magistrates of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia, in which he admitted his close relationship with Uribista politicians such as former vice-president Francisco Santos, in agreement with whom a bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) was … Continue reading Colombian ultra-right wing paramilitaries created mass graves in Venezuela
By Venezuelanvoices.orgPhoto credit: aporrea.org The struggle against hunger wages was once again put in the spotlight by the brutal aggression by paramilitary thugs against a demonstration by dozens of teachers in Caracas this past January 15th. On this date, National Teachers’ Day, Venezuelan educators celebrate the 1932 creation of their first union, during the Gómez … Continue reading Venezuelan Teachers Struggle Against Regime-Imposed Hunger Wages
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