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In reply to the discussion: Protests continue after Venezuelan diplomatic win [View all]Judi Lynn
(164,122 posts)had been throwing fits in the street to express their seething hatred for the previous people's elected President, Hugo Chavez.
They invited the students to talk, arranged a formal meeting place, they appeared, then they all flounced off, unwilling to go through with it.
It could be they realized they had nothing they could say which would advance them. All they had was their contempt for the poor, and their overriding desire to please their oligarch minders, and get lots of face time on tv and the papers.
These tubes are happy as clams getting theatrical, or, in some cases, getting to terrorize and harm the poor for free. A little of that sure as hell goes a long way, doesn't it?
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Students hold a demonstration in front of the Government Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition protesters demand that the government reveal more about the health of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez. Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images


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