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Zorro

(15,722 posts)
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 08:13 PM Apr 2017

Two die in Venezuela protests

Source: AFP

Two people were killed in Venezuela on Monday in renewed violence, raising the death toll in three weeks of massive demonstrations against leftwing President Nicolas Maduro to 23, officials said.

Several others were seriously injured and "between life and death," said public defender Tarek William Saab.

The latest casualties come on a day anti-Maduro demonstrators blocked major roads in the South American nation.

Two government trucks in eastern Caracas were set alight on a freeway by masked protesters who poured oil on the road. Police nearby did not immediately intervene, AFP journalists saw.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-protesters-vow-block-roadways-161425835.html

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Two die in Venezuela protests (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2017 OP
They were CIA provacateurs... Archae Apr 2017 #1
Its only going to get worse, with the "private army" of Maduro doing the dirty work now 7962 Apr 2017 #2
 

7962

(11,841 posts)
2. Its only going to get worse, with the "private army" of Maduro doing the dirty work now
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:52 PM
Apr 2017

The failed "revolution" continues.
The country swirls farther down the toilet
And the DU Defenders have disappeared from sight..........

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