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Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

Chavistas: Venezuelan street toughs: Helping "revolution" or crushing dissent?***CARACAS, Venezuela - From her bed in a Caracas military hospital, the wiry, chain-smoking prisoner vowed to continue a hunger strike and risk becoming the first death in Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's "revolution." "Comandante" Lina Ron, who considers herself a modern version of "Tania," a woman who fought alongside Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, says she is a willing martyr for Chavez's cause. She was arrested after leading a violent pro-Chavez counter-protest against demonstrating university students. Thousands follow her lead in Venezuela and they have increasingly quashed dissent, breaking up anti-government protests, intimidating journalists and alarming the president's critics.***

1 posted on 05/05/2003 4:37:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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2 posted on 05/05/2003 5:08:02 AM PDT by Free the USA (Stooge for the Rich)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This guy is also about to crack down on private newsmedia. He's incensed at the coverage his regime gets on the privat TV news. The BBC TV did a "story" on this today where they essentially carried water for Chavez, basically blasted the private media for attacking him, and egged him on to clamp down.
3 posted on 05/05/2003 5:10:01 AM PDT by zook
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