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Bacchus4.0

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Mon Mar 7, 2016, 01:56 PM Mar 2016

Venezuela says investigating alleged killing of miners

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-miners-idUSKCN0W813J


Venezuelan authorities said on Sunday they were investigating the alleged killings of a group of miners in the jungle state of Bolivar, following reports they were gruesomely murdered in a fight for control of a gold deposit.

Citing people who reported witnessing the incident, family members and opposition politicians said a gang shot and dismembered with a chainsaw as many as 28 miners on Friday in a battle for the Atenas wildcat mine.

Families have blocked a main street in the nearby town of Tumeremo to seek information about the missing miners.

One man said his son and a friend were nearing the deposit on a motorbike when they were stopped at a checkpoint where he said gang members and men in security forces' uniforms were holding miners captive.

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Venezuela says investigating alleged killing of miners (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Mar 2016 OP
Ah, we'll see then if this gets as much attention as the 43 normalistas in Mexico Marksman_91 Mar 2016 #1
 

Marksman_91

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1. Ah, we'll see then if this gets as much attention as the 43 normalistas in Mexico
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 03:14 PM
Mar 2016

But since this is a supposedly leftist government we're talking about, our resident Marxists will probably prefer not to talk about it.

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