[news] Venezuela: Between Ballots and Bullets

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Venezuela’s democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup...Violent street demonstrations by privileged middle and upper middle class university students have led to major street battles in and around the center of Caracas. More seriously, the former Minister of Defense, General Raul Isaias Baduel, who resigned in July, has made explicit calls for a military coup in a November 5th press conference which he convoked exclusively for the right and far-right mass media and political parties...

  


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