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  • Chavistas: Venezuelan street toughs: Helping "revolution" or crushing dissent?

    04/05/2002 1:37:21 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 21 replies · 722+ views
    yahoo.com ^ | April 5, 2002 | By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, AP
    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. Chavez...