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What’s Going On In Venezuela?

Friday, February 21, 2014 7:43
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by Arjun Walia

venezI want to start off this article by saying that I have very minimal knowledge about the situation in Venezuela. I do know that these were peaceful protests, turned violent. I wanted to share a video (posted below) that might shed light on the situation.

On February 12, 2014, thousands, if not millions of young students peacefully protested against the Venezuelan government. We’ve seen it all over the world, governments do not represent the decisions of its people. People (mostly youngsters) took to the streets in more than 100 cities across the nation of 29 million. They represented peace and non-violence, but the government and pro-government groups were armed with tear-gas, rubber bullets and more.

Why do governments use force to disassemble a peaceful demonstration? What are they so afraid of? News stations in Venezuela are currently down, websites are censored and protesters are being harmed. Again, we are seeing a clear demonstration of the abuse of fundamental human rights, one of them being the freedom of assembly and the other being freedom of expression.

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Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/02/whats-going-on-in-venezuela/

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