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Teen Killed During Protests In Venezuela

The 14-year old died during a protest over the country’s growing economic crisis.

A 14-year-old-boy, identified as Kluiver Roa, was killed on Tuesday during clashes between protestors and the government in the city of San Cristobal over Venezuela’s increasing economic troubles.

“Roa died amid violent clashes between protesters and police near the home of Tachira’s ruling party governor after a police officer shot at the ground […] though it was unclear whether he had died from a bullet wound,” Colonel Ramon Cabezas, head of citizen security for the state of Tachira, said, Reuters reported.

Roa died of his injuries on the way to the hospital, San Cristobal Human Rights Commission President Jose Vicente Garcia told the Associated Press, which reported Roa’s wounds as being caused by a gunshot wound.

Six [6] students have been killed by the Venezuelan National Police in the last week.

This video from the protest shows the teenager laying on the ground. The crowd begins advancing on the police in the area, before officers begin firing rounds and setting off gas canisters.

Read the full article about the lastest protests in Venezuela.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/t...gc#.xx8PXjbm51

Mellark

Not again.

I remember I was "perched" to the election thread.

alfonso12

Such a sad situation. So glad I got out of the country more than 6 years ago.

6 Apple St

Oh wow.

Wait @ Venezuela being one of the richest countries wow

Tropez

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Oh wow.

Wait @ Venezuela being one of the richest countries wow

Venezuela has a lot of oil and other natural resources. The country has major potential to be even greater.

fabbriche

Why are most of former Spanish colonies politiccally unstable, lots of corruption, and high crime rate? I know because my country is one.

Cz!

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Originally posted by fabbriche

Why are most of former Spanish colonies politiccally unstable, lots of corruption, and high crime rate? I know because my country is one.

French, Belgian, Portuguese, Italian and German colonies aren't any better...

fabbriche

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Originally posted by Cz!

French, Belgian, Portuguese, Italian and German colonies aren't any better...

5 out of the 10 countries with the highest crime rate in the world are from Latin America. My country has the highest crime rate in Southeast Asia. Former Spanish colonies seem to be the most violent countries.

Tropez

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Why are most of former Spanish colonies politiccally unstable, lots of corruption, and high crime rate? I know because my country is one.

It has to do with the fact that the Spanish and Portuguese had an exploitative style of colonization, while the British had a style where the colonies had to raise themselves. Which is why Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand grew so wealthy. They also had a white majority that remained in the country, while in the Spanish ones many came and went, and those who stayed didn't have the same mentality like the British colonists. Its more complicated, but this is a topic discussed in a history course I had.

So really the Spanish colonies were not self-sufficient, and when they gained independence many were run by military. They also didn't remain united, expect Brazil which was many colonies.

Cz!

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Originally posted by fabbriche

5 out of the 10 countries with the highest crime rate in the world are from Latin America. My country has the highest crime rate in Southeast Asia. Former Spanish colonies seem to be the most violent countries.

You may be right. Ironically enough, Spain has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.

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OPPOSITION CALLS FOR PROTESTS ON JAN 23TH

Venezuela’s Top Opposition Leader Calls for Antigovernment Demonstrations

CARACAS, Venezuela— Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, called for antigovernment demonstrations Wednesday, boosting the likelihood of a new wave of protests as economic conditions worsen and social tensions rise in Latin America’s largest oil exporter.

Mr. Capriles’s call for street protests is a major political development because the 42-year-old former presidential candidate is widely seen as the most conciliatory of Venezuela’s opposition leaders. Last year, he distanced himself from violent protests that sought to oust President Nicolás Maduro, the successor to late populist Hugo Chávez.

More than 40 people died in street clashes between protesters and state security agents from February to May last year. At the time, Mr. Capriles’s reluctance to back the protest movement divided the opposition and the protests eventually fizzled out amid a state crackdown and allegations of rights abuses.

But now, with the country facing growing hardships due to an economic recession and plummeting crude prices, the state governor says the time has come for the opposition to unite and take to the streets.

http://interamericansecuritywatch.co...emonstrations/

VIDEO: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e...s-absence_news

Dynamo

Socialism ha misery

Sal de ahi con tu familia jety.

Su-Barbie-A

Zzz, the opposition is a joke, all of them are a joke.
Our politicians are not organized, just look at Leopoldo and his messiah complex that only gave him a nice place in jail because he thought everyone was going to save him.

I think the only way out would be a meteorite that lands on this country.

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Why are most of former Spanish colonies politiccally unstable, lots of corruption, and high crime rate? I know because my country is one.

That's colonization, they came here, exploited us and stopped us from progressing.
Columbus discovered our country before North America was discovered yet look at us being years and years behind USA and Canada.

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Dynamo

hooky

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Originally posted by Tropez

It has to do with the fact that the Spanish and Portuguese had an exploitative style of colonization, while the British had a style where the colonies had to raise themselves. Which is why Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand grew so wealthy. They also had a white majority that remained in the country, while in the Spanish ones many came and went, and those who stayed didn't have the same mentality like the British colonists. Its more complicated, but this is a topic discussed in a history course I had.

So really the Spanish colonies were not self-sufficient, and when they gained independence many were run by military. They also didn't remain united, expect Brazil which was many colonies.

Well they started being exploitative in the late 18th century. We Americans weren't having any of that though.

That might explain why South Africa and especially India are more poor than the four big former colonies.

Lexiel

I wish I could flee this ****ing prison, nothing will change, socialist monsters will continue running this country to the ground while their pockets swell up with Switzerland accounts and families in the country have the spend up to 8 hours a day in line to buy a single chicken, tuna, butter, oil and flour to feed their children.

**** this ****.

Outlaws

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Originally posted by Lexiel

I wish I could flee this ****ing prison, nothing will change, socialist monsters will continue running this country to the ground while their pockets swell up with Switzerland accounts and families in the country have the spend up to 8 hours a day in line to buy a single chicken, tuna, butter, oil and flour to feed their children.

**** this ****.

Grimes

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